The Catholic Church says that Christ promised his Holy Spirit to guide the Church into ALL TRUTH. That is, the teaching magisterium (The bishops, in union with the Pope). All the writings of the early Church Fathers echo this. There was never any dissent.
Now, 1600 years later, along come the protestants, who want to make up their own religions. They claim that what Christ MEANT was that he was sending his Spirit to guide ALL BELIEVERS into all truth. And yet, we have thousands of different factions all claiming that their interpretation of the Bible is the correct one and new factions starting up daily when someone doesn't like a particular doctrine and wants to start his own church.
Q: Can all this confusion possibly be authored by the Holy Spirit?
http://www.catholic.com/library/trinity....
2006-07-21 10:26:06 · 7 answers · asked by Shaun T 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Scriptures say something to the effect that "God is not the author of confusion" and therefore the answer would be no.
2006-07-21 10:32:28 · answer #1 · answered by KDdid 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Truth is truth, it's when men try to iterject their own is when it becomes clouded and ceases to be true.
There are all kinds of Catholic denominations and factions as well, does that mean that all Catholics are wrong? Probably not.
There are various different denominations because there are many different "styles" of worship and questions of irrelevance such as when the rapture will take place or where to place emphasis on the gifts of the Spirit. It's when people place undo emphasis on an aspect of their relationship to God that ugly factions arise. This is usually a result of something that glorifies man and takes the glory away from God.
Most Bible believing churches are not apposed to one another, they see each other as brothers in Christ with questions that will remain until we see Him face to face. It's when you usurp the authority of God and place men in His stead that you seperate yourselves from the truth and the truth is not in you.
2006-07-21 17:36:08 · answer #2 · answered by foxray43 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church is misleading millions of people and teaching them false doctrine . Matthew 23:9 They call their priests father . They also believe that it is okay to lie if it will further "their" religion . Exodus 20:16 , Colossians 3:9 , Ephesians 4:15
2006-07-21 17:35:04 · answer #3 · answered by robinhoodcb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can give just about any book to a bunch of different people and you will hear a bunch of interpretations. It only shows the book was written by man. If it were of some higher power there would be much more agreements about it, don't you think? I think if a supreme power was going to write a book to communicate with people he would make it unmistakable, where no room for interpretation would be needed, or if it was everyone who read it would agree on it, that would truly be a sign from god.
2006-07-21 17:31:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Spirit truly guides you in all truth.
http://www.yahweh.com/NAME/theName2.html
May Yahweh bless your understanding
2006-07-21 17:37:02 · answer #5 · answered by YUHATEME 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the holy spirit is a person who is the second coming of Jesus. he is described in the gospels and the book of Revelation and Jesus said he is sending the spirit of truth in his name and also he said he will give him his new name.
2006-07-21 17:31:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
1Corinthians 14:33
God is not the author of confusion...
2006-07-21 17:35:55 · answer #7 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋