Catholics, will you ever?

Question

let Protestants convince you that for 1500 years everyone was wrong and followed a 'false' gospel?

Some of you understood...

About every hour on here, another ridiculous question and/or answer is poted by a non-Catholic who insists that Catholics follow a false gospel, that Catholics believe in salvation by works, that Catholics worship the poe, etc etc etc. They would have everyone believe that until the reformation, no one knew the true gospel. Does that help?

Hey BOB - try re reading the question please.

Adoptive Father..LOL! You're awesome.

Exactly, Everydaycatholic. Thank you

Answer 1

Sorry, did you say something? It's hard to hear over the clacking of my prayer beads. I can only stay a minute, I am off to church to worship the Pope. There's a sale on indulgences, gonna be a madhouse.

Answer 2

Not likely.

However, I will listen to their arguments. Protestants will have to convince me about the authenticity of the bible. Since the Catholic Church had been wrong for 1500 years the Protestants would have to justify using an erroneous bible canonized way back in the 300s through sacred Catholic tradition. If the Catholic Church has been wrong the whole time, then the bible would be wrong too. So with that reasoning the doctrine of Sola Scriptura used by Protestants would be wrong too.

The Mormons would be closer to the truth since they believe that the true gospel was lost shortly after the apostles died, thus the great apostasy. So everyone had been getting things wrong until the 1820s when Joseph Smith had his first vision.

To believe in the validity of Protestantism one would have to believe in the validity of Catholicism. Like if or not, Protestantism started because of politics and the question of authority. If Catholicism is wrong than the only other valid form of Christianity would be Mormonism. However, Mormons should not use the New Testament either because it was Catholic tradition through the guidance of the Holy Spirit that canonized the book.

Whatever the case may be I believe God will lead people to where they need to be. For me I believe all Christian groups have an element of the truth.

Answer 3

Catholicism is a religion of truth. If there was any reason to believe that there were "false gospels" then there is a chance. The gospels followed by Catholics are the original texts, unchanged since the book was compiled in 382 AD at the council of Rome. Protestants on the other hand follow a bible that was edited by Martin Luther to suit his teachings. Explain logically why Martin Luther's editted bible is the true gospel when those as originally written should be taken as false?

Answer 4

No, because to believe that falsifies Christianity entirely.

"And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Matthew 16:18 KJV)

Jesus either:

1. Predicted the future accurately
2. Predicted the future, but was mistaken about that future
3. Lied about the future.

Both two and three - if true - prove Christianity false, since no God made flesh could either lie or err. Ergo, either there was a valid form of Christianity subsisting in the Catholic church for 1500 years, or Christianity itself is entirely false.

Answer 5

The rightness of Catholicism is not found in the fact that it has been around for nearly 2,000 years. Hinduism, Buddhism, and other religions have been around far longer than Catholicism, but they do not have the truth that jesus Christ is the Son of God.

The rightness of the Catholic faith can be seen that the catholic faith is a truly Biblical faith that has kept true to Scripture AND Sacred Tradition that was passed down from the Apostles, but not part of the Bible. Other Christian faiths ignore Sacred Tradition.

Answer 6

Which one of the conflicting 30,000+ Protestant splits are you speaking of?
Some say that everybody was wrong until their particular group sprung up300 yrs ago,200yrs ago, 100 yrs ago or last year,etc
We have the consistencyof Christian Tradition on the Catholic side.

Answer 7

No the "Protties" will never convince me. I was raised in a prottie church BUT taught by a Catholic dad and grandma. I would come home from church on Sundays and they would ask what did they teach today and ask what I thought it meant and what the church said it meant and then they would give me the proper interpretations

Answer 8

So, Catholics are "supposed" to let Protestants convince them that for 1500 years everyone (except the Catholics) were wrong and followed a 'false Gospel'? or, Catholics should be convinced from Protestants that they (Catholics) are wrong and it's the Catholics who are following a "false Gospel"?

And, what exactly is a "false Gospel" anyway?

I am confused. (what else is new)?

Answer 9

It does seem ridiculous doesn't it, but many of them will point to revisionist history and say that the early church was not Catholic, ignoring the early church fathers. Either way, it would seem like God left us without a true church for quite some time, even if it's not 1500 years.

Answer 10

Nope. Nor that Constantine "invented the Catholic Church".

It all boils down to one thing: Authority. There are those who accept it, and those who reject it. Everything else they come up with to toss at us, or invent for themselves, is just window-dressing to deflect the real issue they have with the Church.

Answer 11

Gosh, for real? And no one said anything? I feel so stupid. We had to wait 1500 years for the Protestants to wake us up from our make-believe. Wow. Poor Jesus. He gave the faith to the apostles and it got all screwed up. Thank God for the enlightenment of the protties who can't agree on doctrine but all claim to be right.