TRUTH is vitriol to those who God'S Word is NOT their final authority as they embrace 'man's word' and bow at the altar of deception/'man made teachings' catholicsm, mormonism, islam.
Not surprised you are looking for 'intellectual' inquiry. Catholicsm produces 'worldly' creatures....satan's easily deceived. When speaking about JESUS it is ALL about SPIRITUAL and HIS WORD is SPIRITUALLY discerned. It's no wonder catholics and mormons are so mislead....they have no idea what to 'look for'.
give it their own interpretation accompanied by a sing-a-long and they have found “it”
Catholics, Mormons, Muslims have NO IDEA what they found - its easier to mock than believe which takes squashing their PRIDE. Those who refuse to believe The HOLY SPIRIT is The Teacher is easy fodder for 'man' to deceive them. Their choice and they own it as they embrace deception from man.
You get the drift.
Wrong..I didn't get the drift ... I GOT THE TRUTH. Catholics got the dribble.
God's WORD IS THE FINAL Authority.
You logic is circular. God’s word is the final authority. True. But He gave this authority to teach His truth only to Peter and his apostles. “Whatsoever thou shall bound on earth shall be bond in Heaven.” This is what the early Church fathers accepted, believed, and practice as an unbroken line of succession to Peter- the early Popes and saints.
Of course all this goes over the heads of low-information Christain Protestants who think their local Foursquare Church Paster gets it right. The Mormons and Jehovah’s witness thought so too. As did Tammy Faye Baker, Jimmy Swaggart; David Koresh, Jim Jones, Rev. Jeremiah Wright; Rev. Sharpton; Rev. Moon; and the rest of the wild mushrooms that have sprung around the great Mustard Tree. Many of these denominations have had evolving doctrine, and broken apart into dozens of different sects. This is why no serious theological scholar holds onto any single Protestant denomination.
Easy to establish a Protestant faith? Get your self some good speaking lessons; throw some rock’n background music, even better get yourself a pretty wife, don’t say anything to upset your congregation, plant a cross in the front yard, surround it with some inviting foliage, and have vapid and meaningless ‘Sunday Services” by shouting out verses from Scripture, and viola, we have a new Protestant religion.