Personal interpretation of Scripture always makes me laugh a little. You protties sure have it tough.
While you have a point about his interpretation being a bit off the mark, do you not also read Scripture and analyze it for content/meaning or do you just accept what others 'up-chain" tell you it means?
Hmm, I don't see where the account of God pouring out His wrath upon mankind's sins borne in Jesus' body on the Tree is hilarious. Explain it to me, please. And why are you scoffing at a Protestant's meditation on it?
1. Protestants are indeed allowed to personally interpret the Bible. THAT is PROBABLY why there are 30,000-40,000 DIFFERENT Protestant denominations. PROTESTANTS say that they have 40,000+ denominations. (Google)
2. To me it is SAD that their Christianity is so fractured, both by denomination AND interpretation of Scripture. VERY SAD.
I always thought that Jesus would want us to be united in His love.
3. The defrocked and excommunicated FATHER Martin Luther is no role model. Having a denomination named after him is no honor, IMHO.
There already IS a group of people who interpret the Bible for us. They have been doing so for almost 2000 years. They emanate from the Vatican.
Vatican Hill has always been there. It just happened to be where St. Peter was killed--CRUCIFIED upside down, his choice.
Church tradition has it that St. Paul asked Peter to come to Rome to help with conversions. The Romans didn't believe all that much in what St. Paul was saying about Jesus because Paul hadn't known Jesus as an Apostle, so he sent for Peter. THAT did the job.
ROME became the "home" of the VICAR of Christ and the horrible death of St. Peter happened on Vatican Hill.
4. Another the thing Protestants DON'T believe in is APOSTOLIC TRADITION.
Apostolic Tradition: Thus Paul tells the Corinthians, "I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you" (1 Cor. 11:2), and he commands the Thessalonians, "So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter." (2 Thess. 2:15).
5. Protestants AREN'T "protesting" anymore, are they? Yet their NAME continues on as to the ROOT of their "tradition" a la defrocked and excommunicated FATHER Martin Luther.
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I sure as heck won't mock, pity or excoriate the Protestants. I ESPECIALLY won't JUDGE them. That is our good Lord's purview.
Jesus loves us no matter what we do. That is HIS blessing to us. All we have to do is say: YES, LORD.
Any questions?
Do you think it pleases our Savior when we mock the beliefs of other Christians?
As a Roman Catholic who is appalled when our beliefs are attacked on FR by non-Catholics, it shames me to see another Catholic make such remarks.
Personal interpretation of Scripture always makes me laugh a little. You protties sure have it tough.
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As Paul said; Be like the Bereans and check back with the church hierarchy. So using your logic, why read the Bible if you have no idea what it’s saying to you? Sounds like a good excuse for the Caths to justify not spending time in God’s word. All you need to do is read what the fallible church leaders think it means. Christianity by Catholic Cliff notes
It's the Catholics who never know if they are saved before they die. True born again Holly Spirit filled Christians rest assured in Christ.
Apparently with nothing of worth to write, you felt compelled to write anyway. Another clanging cymbal.
I'll bet you don't own a bible...