Biblically illiterate.
I’m Catholic because it’s true...
Without the Church Jesus founded, we wouldn’t have the New Testament. It’s a simple historical fact.
I thought about making this an ecumenical thread to avoid comments such as yours, but couldn’t because of the different religions mentioned. For your information, Catholica do know the Bible. I lead two Bible studies amounting to about five hours in class each week.
I have to agree.
Indeed, you are.
So all those Protestants were Biblically illiterate? Interesting. I personally know 6 former Protestant ministers who’ve become Catholics. None of them were Biblically illiterate.
Now, every single Protestant I have ever known has been unable to answer this question: Using scripture alone show that Matthew wrote a gospel and that it is inspired. Why is it that all of you supposed Bible scholars can’t answer that question?
Maybe you should listen to the tapes of the former Presbyterian minister, Scot Hahn. He became the first in a landslide of Protestant ministers who have since converted to Catholicism.
This is a good one to begin with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrQN8LHYg5g
This is true most protestants are completely biblically illiterate. I really didn't understand the Bible until I re-entered the Catholic Church and read it in context and with a historical perspective.
**Biblically illiterate.**
Nomatter one’s age or how little, or how much, scripture one retains to memory, the ability to rightly divide it for teaching, for edification, and for instruction in righteousness is the bottomline. That ability is what the devil seeks to derail at every turn. The Apostle Paul testified that Satan is transformed into an ‘angel of light’, and that the devil’s ministers transformed into ‘ministers of righteousness’.
Paul was among the elite in scriptural study, yet because of his spiritually blinded eyes, he could not see that the Lord Jesus was indeed the Christ until the Lord himself literally blinded him. Paul went on to be the most effective witness because he could talk to the most scripturally educated person or the ‘average joe’. The willingness to obey God is what brings the end result.
One of my wife’s friends from childhood, a very vain person, became RC in her late 20’s “because of the grandure and elegant rituals, the statues to Mary and others seem so religious. And the looooonnngg tradition”. She wasn’t draw by conviction of sin, she was draw by the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.
The more one is indoctrinated, the tougher the willingness to change their position; whether from good to bad doctrine, or bad to good. The lesser educated are easier to teach, with similar results; good to bad, bad to good.
Some folks, thoroughly trained in aircraft piloting, still kill themselves by making a deadly error in judgment. Those unacquainted with the instrument panel of, say, a aircraft capable of flying in instrument weather conditions, can be taught by anyone that may even appear to be an expert. Therein lies the folly. Many, with almost infinite range of biblical knowledge (from a little to a lot) claim to know the Lord. The Lord is going to say to many, “I never knew you”.