the Catholic Church has oral traditions to back up their claims, and also history.
the first Bible-fundies are just fall-away Catholics, and that's the beginning of their existence. in short, their leaders are just rebels who stole the Catholic Church's Bible, tearing the books that don't appeal to them and call the remaining books to be "only God's words", which they are now using against the Church.
anyway, so what makes those Bible-fundies think they're in the right and everybody else are in the wrong? is their incomplete version of the original Bible enough to show that everybody is wrong except the Bible-fundies? isn't that ridiculous?
2007-08-09 22:24:05 · 16 answers · asked by Perceptive 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and please don't quote the Bible. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you can think for yourselfs and therefore give answer according to what you're thinking.
2007-08-09 22:38:11 · update #1
Yep.
Read history and you will understand. All the bible fundamentalists are descendants of lapsed Catholics whose ancestors were punished for being heretics. They left Europe and went to the Americas (or Britain or Scandinavia or Germany or... ) to escape the persecution that came about from trying to leave the one 'true' church, just as there were wars between the Orthodox and Catholic churches when the Catholic church became heretics in the eyes of the Orthodox.
The Bible thumpers feel they are right, usually because they have singled out a specific part of the bible to believe in, while claiming the whole bible is god's word, and yet ignoring most of what is in it.
Very simple to do when you are a heretic.
2007-08-09 22:26:34 · answer #1 · answered by whatotherway 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
I don't know what fundies are... never heard of the term. Oh, I guess you mean fundamentalists.
Well, I do appreciate the fact that the Original Gospel is still read in Catholic churches... that's a good thing. Although I'm afraid that all Christians have a tendency to favor the Pauline Gospel over the Original Kingdom Gospel. There is a difference you know.
2007-08-09 22:36:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Their "Incomplete" version of the Old Testament was determined by looking at the Hebrew Tanach rather than the Septuagint OT. The Protestant Reformers believed, in part, that the people that God had originally given the Old Testament to were best equipped to determine exactly what belonged in it.
And in my experience, the ONLY thing that all people have in common is exactly as you say--"I'm right and anyone who disagrees with me is wrong."
2007-08-09 22:33:22 · answer #3 · answered by SDW 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What makes Catholics think they are right and everyone else is wrong? It's the exact same mentality, just with different rartionalizations. Arrogance, mostly.
That and remains of the old resentments born of the Reformation. You can't say that the RCC didn't bring the Reformation on itself...corruption was at an all-time high. There was a reason it was called "The Dark Ages".
2007-08-09 22:32:04 · answer #4 · answered by Scott M 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
false accusations I don't think so .... have you ever tried proving things for your self I don't think so ....are you able to understand the truth I don't think so.... will you rot in hell for being catholic well I don't know... good luck.. try reading your bible and ask questions or just continue to stick your head in the sand and hope some catholic priest doesn't see you bending over.
2016-05-18 21:09:45 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bottom line is because people believe what they want to believe.
Why does any religion believe something different from every other religion?
You can be as diplomatic as you want to be but if you have faith in one thing and believe you are right, then you do think that every one who believes different is wrong or "misguided" and there are no two ways about it.
2007-08-10 00:45:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well how about: Why does the Catholic Church think they've got the only right theology and everyone else is wrong?
You know you do post a lot of these Pot-Calling-the-Kettle-Black questions.
2007-08-10 01:33:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't know how to answer your questions. I want to offer you some simple logic formula. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ - even in the Law of Moses is said: the Lord is our God - the Bible is the Word of God. I don't think myself to be more wise than God. So, all the right answers comes from the Bible and who devises what comes to his mind from somewhere else is not right. Would you accept my advice: determine for yourself what are you searching for. May be it will help you to come closer to the truth.
2007-08-09 23:28:39 · answer #8 · answered by georsh50 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That's not true. When the Catholics claimed to be the universal body of believers they simply left out other groups of believers that didn't adhere to their doctrine and way of life and classified them in the same category with Jews.
2007-08-09 22:29:23 · answer #9 · answered by Who's got my back? 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't think their wrong, they just put too much on tradition and histroy and not enough on the Living God and relationship with Him.
2007-08-09 22:32:49 · answer #10 · answered by capitalctu 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋