You are dealing with certain posters who do not even represent modern RC teaching, thus they are hardly worthy responding to, and who have been refuted time and time again, by the grace of God.
Contrast them with one of the converts they like to invoke as if such supports them: http://www.thecatholicthing.org/2015/11/05/the-joys-and-burdens-of-being-both-evangelical-and-catholic.
Tao’s post is sophomoric. Of course, its God’s word but he sent forth his disciples to “Go forth and teach..” This is to teach ONE truth, for ALL times, not the nonsense that is Protestantism. Hillaire Belloc, the renowned British essayist put it best in his book “The Great Heresies,’ namely that unlike other heresies, Protestantism “spawned a cluster of heresies.”
Catholic Church Fathers (those early theologians) spent the better part of some 300 years sorting out hundreds of written texts and fragments before they assembled the canonical texts. This was a full ELEVEN CENTURIES before the heresy of Protestantism washed ashore and itself fell on fallow ground that it sprouted thousands of sects of hybrid varieties from the likes of Billy Graham’s vapid interpretation of scripture to the deadly Jim Jones and comical Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Many of them like wild mushrooms have withered away. Bible Christianity today is for low-information Christians like the Joel Osteens and Grahams and Schullers and corner street pastors of First United, First Baptist, First Emmanuel, First Methodist and every other type of First nonsense.
During those centuries several heresies were settled by the Catholic Church.
Does the Bible state it is the sole or final authority of Christianity? NO. In fact, Christ said that the Church is to resolve disputes among Christians, not Scripture as recorded by Matthew 18:17: “And if he will not hear them: tell the Church. And if he will not hear the Church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.â€
This explains the conversion of Dr. A. David Anders, who was born, raised and educated, as an Evangelical Protestant and studied Wheaton College. He set out deliberately to show why Catholicism was wrong. He ended up a Catholic convert. He brilliantly essays the belief in the Eucharist in these compelling terms. “By the time I finished my Ph.D., I had completely revised my understanding of the Catholic Church. I saw that her sacramental doctrine, her view of salvation, her veneration of Mary and the saints, and her claims to authority were all grounded in Scripture, in the oldest traditions, and in the plain teaching of Christ and the apostles.”
When America’s pre-eminent Lutheran theologian Rev. Neuhaus converted to Catholicism he said, “I have long believed that the Roman Catholic Church is the fullest expression of the church of Christ through time.â€
Outside of Catholicism from the Moonies to Jehovah’s Witnesses, all brands of Christianity is more than heretical, it is a veritable freak show of so-called Christianity on display.