Feel sorry?
Not buying it, more like feeling superior and like patting one’s own back.
Over and over the protestants here are disputed with Scripture and writings of first, second and third generation Christians and still we have to see this garbage.
Again you cop out. AGAIN.
What say you when ALL of Christianity is accused of pagan roots? ALL of it, the Virgin Birth, the Death, the Resurrection. ALL of it linked to these similar tales from pagan religions.
Oh, that’s right, nothing. Because is doesn’t fit into the broken record that is the general responses to anything Catholic. Pope? Pagan Sacraments? Pagan Apostolic Succession? Whatever. Not in Scripture
And Catholics are accused of not thinking or having been brainwashed.
The sanctimony and self righteousness all while bashing and bleating about the Church.
By something new, I mean do any of the protestants here ever respond to anything directly? No, it is always the same thing.
Sorry, CB. Just had my fill.
It’s no cop out Jvette. I’ll just leave you with this. You mention the generations after the apostles as a source of information for beliefs. I’ll point you to the decedents of Noah as an example. Nimrod was the great grandson of Noah. Noah followed God and was chosen as the only person with his family to save from total destruction. Two generations later Noah was the most evil man in the world and started the Babylonian empire which is even used as an example of the total opposition to God at the end of the world.
If you think that quoting the generations after the apostles passed impresses anyone I would suggest you look at how far man can fall from true worship and belief in the example of Noah and Nimrod in just two generations. Why do you think Paul commended the Bereans for “searching the scripture daily to see if these things are true” even with things Paul was teaching? Relying on those “oral traditions” the RCC likes to promote as truth is not only dangerous but it is deadly. Not only doesn’t the CC advise to “search the scriptures daily to see if these things are true” it actually for many, many years kept the scriptures out of the hands of the lay people. It was when the printing press was invented that they could no longer maintain that control and the dissemination of the word of God brought to light the deceit they had been perpetrating all those years was brought to light.
Catholics like to point to the length of time the CC has been in existence and try to claim that Protestants must think that there were no true Christians until Luther. I would simply, once again, point to the example of Noah. He and his family were the only family true to God in the entire world at that time. The false claim of Catholics that they were the only Christians since the apostles is belied by the example of Noah and his family.