Sure. Keep believing that if it makes you feel better. Your church still some issues like Mariolatry, Indulgences... you know, some extra-biblical stuff like that to deal with.
If your church could just stick to what Jesus taught, then you all would be okay. It's all the other man-made offal that your church adds that causes the issues.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Sure. Keep believing that if it makes you feel better. Your church still some issues like Mariolatry, Indulgences... you know, some extra-biblical stuff like that to deal with.
If you believe in sola, then you are already treading on non Biblical ground. If you believe in self-derived doctrines, then you have traveled far beyond Christianity and are proscribed as Acts clearly shows.
If your church could just stick to what Jesus taught, then you all would be okay. It's all the other man-made offal that your church adds that causes the issues.
We believe that the Apostles taught the Faith as taught to them by Christ. It is the aberration of the Reformation and the subsequent efforts that have deflected erstwhile Christians from actual Christianity.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Many thanks from us and our 21 pound turkey. I would extend the same wishes to you, sir.
The indictment of Catholicism by non-Catholics is that we love and worship God imperfectly by the standards of the Reformation. Where the non-Catholics see the Church's excesses we Catholics see the deficiencies in their forms of Protestantism. Most notable are the lack of Beatitude, Love, Worship, Miracles, and Celebration. Absent these Christianity is not a gift, but a gray, humorless, loveless existence to be endured while our souls face to black.
Wouldn't we all better serve God by concentrating on what we share?