Posted on 07/14/2017 5:45:59 PM PDT by marshmallow
“The Catholic Church has a total of 24 Churches, in two Rites, Latin and Eastern. The Latin Rite, also known as Roman, has over 1 BILLION members, with the Eastern Churches having about 20 million members. They are ALL in communion with the Pope.”
The Catholic Church has hundreds of millions of “members” that do not participate in any church service all year, yet you count them. This is easily demonstrated. They are not in communion with the pope.
The members who attend have thousands of beliefs that contradict what the church teaches. Daniel1212 has repeatedly demonstrated this through actual polling results. These members are far from communing with the pope.
Ping to 101
Polling? Polling? Like Hillary by 30 points!?!
So, what if only 700 million Catholics are actually practicing?
Would you say similar percentages of non-Catholic Christians exist? How about those who attend mega-churches, like Joel Osteen, Paula White, Joyce Meyer,Rick Warren, TD Jakes, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland? Do those count?
The point still exists, despite your distraction. If you ask anybody who the head of the Catholic Church is, they will tell you the Pope. And they know he lives in Rome (actually Vatican City, which is surrounded by Rome).
One, holy, catholic, and apostolic. Pretty straightforward.
Do not accuse any poster of slander in the Religion Forum or anywhere else on Free Republic.
I don’t count the Harry Potter books
biblegateway.com is my go to site for versions of the bible. It does include versions with 73 books.
You get credit for responding, but unfortunately you don’t prove any of the initial three matters were ever taught or believed before 100 ad.
Listing Bible verses does not prove the sacramental system of earned merit/grace existed. No verse you posted teaches such a system. Nor is it taught, exhorted, modeled, or reported.
“Irenaeus of Lyon in 180 AD”
Too late.
“The rest of your time-worn slanders are just that, slanders. They have been refuted endlessly.”
They are facts you can’t refute and have not refuted.
One would think you would have “endless” material to draw upon in an attempt.
Can you actually demonstrate - using facts, evidence, and logic - that *an Apostle* believed, taught, or encouraged other Christians to believe these three simple matters??
All are pagan and were incorporated into Romanism much, much later. Then Romans such as you and your sources attempt to read them back into Scripture.
Unfortunately for your claims, there is no evidence from 100ad or before that any of that is Christian.
They were afraid someone might read the first eleven chapters of Genesis.
That pesky ol’ Bible did get in the way, anyhow, so what would be the point in exposing people to the Truth?
Don’t try and throw this back on Protestant denominations supposedly failing to arrive at some sort of continuity. I gave you very simple items to look at. If you can’t read the one, and view the other without understanding either, then I can’t help that. That’s on you.
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