Was the Holy Ghost working through Catholic priests when there was no Protestant sect ?

Answer 1

The Holy Ghost works in different ways. Each believer is a temple of the Holy Ghost, but the apostles and their successors (the priests) were given a special authority when Jesus breathed on them and said "Receive ye the Holy Ghost" and bestowed on them the power to forgive sins in His name.

Therefore, even though all priests are sinners, they still retain the authority given them by Christ to give absolution, communion and perform exorcisms and other rites. So in that sense, the power of the Holy Ghost IS always with them.

Many protestants claim that before the "reformation" there was some kind of remnant that always existed within the corrupt Catholic Church. This supposed remnant taught things like "sola scriptura" and justification by faith alone but were squelched by the Catholic majority until the 1600's when Luther came along.

If this is true (which it's not) how can they support such a belief? You can't find proof for it in Scripture, and I thought Protestants only believe what the Bible says.

Answer 2

consistent with observations of the extra virulently anti-Catholic Protestants, the ten rules are as follows: a million) The Catholic is often incorrect; the Protestant is often precise. even whilst the Protestant is incorrect, incorrect, or illogical. 2) Catholicism is so evil, this is ok to lie approximately it. 3) The Bible is Protestant aspects. 4) only the Bible may be utilized in debates with Protestants, through fact historic previous, good judgment, and Apostolic custom disprove Protestantism. 5) whilst some thing undesirable has happened in Christian historic previous, it became Rome's fault. 6) If this is no longer explicity taught in the Bible, this is opposite to the Bible. 7) brush aside all Catholic claims as "propaganda". through fact Catholics are continually incorrect (even whilst they're precise), the information are on no account on their component -- through fact they are in a position to't be! 8) All statements which might solid doubt on the legitimacy of the Catholic Church, in the event that they have been authentic, are authentic. 9) continually take Scripture actually, till the literal interpretation helps a Catholic doctrine. 10) The Early Church became no longer the "Roman" Catholic Church. The "Roman" Catholic Church have been given began on the Council that condemned your popular heresy. of course, new rules could sometime come to easy, LOL. . .

Answer 3

The Holy Ghost basically works exclusively through the one true Church, which is the Holy Catholic Church. Protestantism came around over 1500 years after the fact. Are you trying to tell us that people in those first 1500 years of Christianity couldn't be saved because there was no Protestantism. NO! The Catholic Church is the church that Christ Himself established in Matthew 16:18-19 through Peter and He will always be with His Church. The way that Christ is with His Church is NOT through spirit as many Protestants claim, that is the duty of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is with us always in His real form, which is flesh and blood. He is with us through the Holy Eucharist (Holy Communion) when we true Christians feed on the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ as instituted by Jesus Himself in all of the Gospels, most notably John chapter 6.

Protestantism is the reason why there is no unity in Christianity. The Bible, most notably the Epistles, explain in explicit detail that we must be ONE, and that those who form sects are anathema. Protestantism is the reason for the utter chaos we see today in Christianity, through the thousands upon thousands of belief systems and theologies. Christ didn't desire there to be 36,000 churches who all differed on simple matters of doctrine, but ONE CATHOLIC and APOSTOLIC Church. One church in unity of doctrine.

Answer 4

The Holy Spirit still works thru the Catholic Church and her priests and the Pope. Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. Peter was in charge of Jesus's church (the Catholic Church) and that Spirit has been passed down to all the Popes since Saint Peter

Answer 5

From the ascension of Jesus on ward the Holy Spirit is available to all. Although we are the temple of the Holy Spirit but we have no garantee of it depending on the lives in which we live. If you are dead in mortal sin your relationship to God has been severed until it can be reconciled

Answer 6

In some of them. He will judge us for the light we have recieved, if they rejected principles from the bible, then no. If they lived by the light from the bible they recieved, then yes, they had the Holy Ghost. Romans 8:14

THUMBS DOWN: Whats up with the thumbs down? What I said is a requirement for everybody, not only Catholics.

TO AUDAX: Well there was a remnant that preserved that teaching, ever heard of the Waldenses? The bible predicted that your church would rise, look up Thyatira in Revelation. Did you know that the name Thyatira means "Savor of Labor"? And that church is followed by Sardis, meaning "That which remains", hmmm, a group of faithful people that remain. Can someone say the Reformation?

Answer 7

"Holy Ghost" works not only through priests but also through any person.

Answer 8

Why would the Holy Ghost work through a Pagan priest? Catholics dont follow the bible, they added and removed from it. Tisk Tisk.

Answer 9

No - especially once Indulgencies were sold.

No - once the Protestants started destroying churches, gospels and other religious instruments.

Answer 10

Some.