For all you "all-knowing Protestants"?

Question

Protestants: You do not believe that the pope and/or the Catholic Church has any special authority (i.e. infallibility) when it comes to declaring doctrine. You say that the pope is just a man. This is fine; I can buy your argument.

Here's the problem: you use in your arguments against Catholics---the Bible. I believe it is the divine and inspired word of God, and that it is an extraordinarily useful tool in getting closer to Jesus Christ. But here's what I don't understand. The New Testament was compiled by leaders of the CATHOLIC CHURCH at the Council of Constantinople around 400 A.D. If you believe any book in the New Testament, then you believe in the authority of the CATHOLIC CHURCH. If the Church was infallible then, what has changed now? Nothing.

It is a great hypocrisy to one minute quote from the New Testament and another say the Church has no special authority on earth. What say you to that?

Answer 1

Good Question although slightly slanted......

All scripture is inspired....God can get his message ac cross and use anyone he pleases to do so.......

Do I believe that the Protestants have the unerring truth...NO

Do I believe that the Catholics have the absolute unerring truth...NO

But I think both have enough truth to be able for you to get an accurate knowledge of what
God wants you to know...Salvation is through the Holy Spirit.

Answer 2

I agree with you in part. It's when the Catholic church starting persecuting and killing millions of believers who were not Catholics that tainted their denomination. And this is not a blanket condemnation of the Catholic Church for we all know that it just take a few bad leaders, just a few imbecile's at the top that taint the whole church. And that is most unfortunate.

I myself am protestant and have met many Catholics who have Jesus Christ in their lives and are empowered by His Holy Spirit. So I do not condemn them in any way.

But to say these men were Catholic diminishes God's role in the matter. For Protestants believe it was God that allowed those men to make that choice. Therefore it is a divine work of God and not from man. Take care now and God bless you.

Answer 3

All I know is that there is only one name given among men by which we must be saved, and that is the name of Jesus. Not the name of the Pope, or the name of any given protestant leader. Isn't that all that really matters? Let us not argue about what church is the right church, for when we do we are tearing the body of Christ apart. God Bless.

In Jesus Name

Answer 4

Matthew 28:18
Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Answer 5

What has changed? Since 400 A.D. there have been many more unbiblical traditions added into the Catholic Church Teachings. I will list a few of them.
* Beginning of the exaltation of Mary, the term "Mother of God" first applied to her by the Council of Ephesus 431
* Priests began to dress differently from laymen 500
* Extreme Unction 526
* The doctrine of Purgatory, established by Gregory I 593
* Latin used in prayer and worship, imposed by Gregory I 600
* Prayer directed to Mary, dead saints and angels, about 600
* Title of pope, or universal bishop, given to Boniface III 607
* Kissing the pope's foot, began with pope Constantine 709
* Worship of the cross, images and relics, authorized in 786
* Holy water, mixed with a pinch of salt and blessed by a priest 850
* Canonization of dead saints, first by pope John XV 995
* The Mass, developed gradually as a sacrifice, attendance made obligatory in the 11th century
* Celibacy of the priesthood, decreed by pope Gregory VII (Hildebrand) 1079
* The Rosary, mechanical praying with beads, invented by Peter the Hermit 1090
* Sale of Indulgences 1190
* Transubstantiation, proclaimed by pope Innocent III 1215
* Auricular Confession of sins to a priest instead of to
God, instituted by pope Innocent III, in Lateran Council 1215
* Bible forbidden to laymen, placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Council of Valencia 1229
* Purgatory proclaimed a dogma by Council of Florence 1439
* The doctrine of Seven Sacraments affirmed 1439
* Tradition declared of equal authority with the Bible by the Council of Trent 1545
* Apocryphal books added to the Bible by the Council of Trent 1546
* Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, proclaimed by pope Pius IX 1854
* Syllabus of Errors, proclaimed by pope Pitts IX, and ratified by the Vatican Council; condemned freedom of religion,conscience, speech, press, and scientific discoveries which are disapproved by the Roman Church; asserted the pope's temporal authority over all civil rulers 1864
* Infallibility of the pope in matters of faith and morals, proclaimed by the Vatican Council 1870
* Public Schools condemned by pope Pius XI 1930
* Assumption of the Virgin Mary (bodily ascension into heaven shortly after her death), proclaimed by pope Pius XII 1950
* Mary proclaimed Mother of the Church, by pope Paul VI 1965

Answer 6

Um typical arrogant Catholic retoric?

Answer 7

I did not use the Bible. I used ME. I listen to and answer to God.
The Pope is not God.

Answer 8

In other words, zauberflote44, they all have no real answers of any substance.

Answer 9

God bless you, man!

Answer 10

You just made the case for my atheism.

atheist