Your resorting to calling me a liar tells me that your argument has failed.
You degrade Scripture by saying that Christ no longer has disciples as portrayed by Scripture, that the disciples Jesus had when He walked the earth are substantially different from the disciples He has now.
Jesus connected directly with people. He called for people to be in personal relationship with Him. He engaged people directly. He said that He, personally, is the way and the truth and the life. Pretty much the only people that He condemned were the religious leaders, who insisted that people can only connect with God through the dominant religious establishment. You, Vlad, seem to have more in common with the Pharisees and their cabal than with Jesus and His friends.
Jesus, while He walked the earth, was a Protestant, protesting loudly against the religious establishment that injected itself between God and people.
You wrote:
“Your resorting to calling me a liar tells me that your argument has failed.”
Nope. I called you a liar because you lied about what I said. This is easy to prove. Here is the lie you told:
“Your faith in Jesus is defective, Vlad, that you believe He only works within your church bureaucracy.”
I do NOT believe that nor could you possibly deduce that I do based on anything I have ever said, written, or thought. Ever. It was a lie, a pure fabrication.
“You degrade Scripture by saying that Christ no longer has disciples as portrayed by Scripture, that the disciples Jesus had when He walked the earth are substantially different from the disciples He has now.”
That isn’t what I said. I just said you’re not one of them. And you’re not. And you never will be as a Protestant. Christ did not send a sect. He sent the Church.
“Jesus connected directly with people. He called for people to be in personal relationship with Him. He engaged people directly.”
Yes, and then He ascended into Heaven and sent the Church. The Church does what Christ did (again, John 20:19-23). You keep avoiding that verse.
“He said that He, personally, is the way and the truth and the life.”
Did He or did He not send the Church to the ends of the earth? It is amazing to me how your Protestants can’t think logically. Christ and the Church are not opposed to one another nor could they ever be. You keep trying to divide Christ from His body. You’re the one degrading scripture.
“Pretty much the only people that He condemned were the religious leaders, who insisted that people can only connect with God through the dominant religious establishment.”
No. He condemned them for their hypocrisy. He also condemned them for their man-made traditions. Protestantism is a man-made tradition.
“You, Vlad, seem to have more in common with the Pharisees and their cabal than with Jesus and His friends.”
And you’re still a liar. It always amazes me how quickly Protestants resort to lying and calling people pharisees.
“Jesus, while He walked the earth, was a Protestant, protesting loudly against the religious establishment that injected itself between God and people.”
No. Jesus was a Jew. He opposed sin and heresy. Protestantism is mired in sinful beginnings and is heretical in beliefs. And none of tha will stop you from lying again now will it?