[DariusBane]

“Jones first heard Keating, the founder of Catholic Answers, at a debate on whether the origins of the Christian church were Protestant or Catholic.”

Ummm neither... Stupid premise. Jesus was neither Catholic nor Protestant.

[NYer]

Stupid premise. Jesus was neither Catholic nor Protestant.

Jesus was a Jew. He established one church - the Catholic Church. Only the Catholic Church can trace its heritage all the way back to its founder, Jesus Christ.

[AnAmericanMother]

A more felicitous phrasing might be: "Were the origins of the Church as Catholics describe them, or as Protestants describe them?"

The problem with the general Protestant view is that they posit that the Apostles had everything right, then at some point (usually having to do with the Emperor Constantine) everything changed and became wrong, then over a thousand years later a group of Europeans suddenly realized that it was all wrong and fixed it.

Aside from the fact that history doesn't work like that, the written record contradicts that view.

[presently no screen name]

Jesus was neither Catholic nor Protestant.

True. He exposed the 'religious' for what they were about, their rules, their traditions, what 'they' thought was right/wrong.

Being a Christian is following Christ through HIS WORD and having a personal relationship with HIM! It's ALL ABOUT JESUS! And HE gave us the HOLY SPIRIT as our Teacher - He equipped us w/the supernatural gifts of the HS, His power and His authority to do the works HE did (and greater works!). Greater is He who is in me, than he who is in the world.