If Bible is the truely the final authority as the protestants claimed ...?

Question

why are the pastors each setting their own church and the closest they go is by affiliations?

Why can't they simply be united ? If they cannot even agree among themselves, who can believe in what they preach?

BUT on the contrary, Catholic Church has been in existence for 2000 yrs since Christ handed His divine authority of feed my lamb, feed my sheep to Peter as the 1st pope.

This is the list of popes from Saint Peter right down to Pope Benedict XVI. Without which, we could never trace the catholic church history which is started by Christ himself and b4 his death he pass the authority to feed his sheeps to Peter.

Thus Catholic Church is not MAN-MADE but established by Christ and he himself states that he will be the Church till the end of time.

To rebuke by saying that the Church which Christ refers to is nothing but his believers are misleading. We need the guidance of the Church to tell us what is right and what is wrong.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes

Answer 1

Right on.

Answer 2

Every church is a local autonomy, and there is an organized structure within the local church, which includes deacons and bishops or elders (pastors) who are to lead, teach and shepherd the sheep. I Timothy 3:1-15. There is also authority given to the church to exercise discipline and dismiss people who choose to live in sin. I Corinthians 5:11-12

As for this Catholic church it is only a fake and it has never been a Christians church because it killed so many true Christians during the dark ages and God has always been able to preserve His Word even during those persecutions.

Answer 3

No, you are wrong in the details to your question. The Catholic Church did not exist before 327AD when it was instituted under Constantine.

Whay you seem to be calling Protestant are the American Christians who really started from the revivalist movement. They wanted to one up the Pope by claiming to go back to the "Old Time Religion" from before the time of the Catholics.
Unfortunately for them they are basing it all on a bible that was created by the Catholics.

Even if they use the King James Bible it was created for the English Catholic Church (Anglican Church)

Answer 4

To say the Catholic Church has not changed since the times of Christ is the same as saying the Bible is the Final authority - and the first pope was Constantine, not Peter. No where is Peter refered to as the Pope. Apostle- yes, even prophet - yes, but never pope.

But atleast Catholics are willing to change when their doctrine becomes outdated and admits when they are wrong.

Answer 5

The problem is that there are so many issues that are debated in the Bible.

When I read the Bible, I don't see anywhere where God tells us to pray to Mary or confessing our sins to a priest, regardless of how long the Roman Catholic church has been in existence, that is their teaching and I cannot agree that.

I grew up in the Church of England and mastered all their teachings and my conclusion was that they dwell too much on tradition and do not readily embrace that the gospel is to be preached in all its entirety and that we are to receive Jesus as Lord and saviour otherwise Jesus suffered in vain if the full gopsel is not preached and that our good works cannot save us.

And then of course you have the pentecostal, evangelical and many other churches who do not agreee e.g. on the issue of water baptism, prosperity, homosexuality and many other matters.

They cannot all be in unity when there are issues they disagree with, you have to read God's word and take it as it is, if you find a church that agrees with what you interprete the Bible to mean, fellowship with them, but as for the churches being in unity, I don't think that will happen.

Answer 6

The Protestant church is a breakaway from the Catholic church caused by the actions of the leaders of the church and the states to which the church is tied. If the leaders of the Catholic church had behaved as God intended then the church wouldn't have fragmented.

Answer 7

I understand what you are saying about the different churchs, however, I do not believe in the Catholic church or that it was the first church or that Peter was the 1st Pope.

I have studied the Catholic history and almost became one myself however there were just too many things about the religion that are man made.

It's fine if you like the Catholic church, but, not all of us are 'unschooled' in the history.

God Bless!!

Answer 8

Where in the Bible does it say that peter was the first pope? In the early times, nobody could agree on which religion was the true and which was false. So, the people who believed that the religion of the catholics was the best grouped together and tried to convince everyone else that their religion was the best.

Answer 9

Anybody can take any book and make it suite their agenda. So don't listen to churches; follow the book.

Uh ......the Catholic Church changes it's creed with every new Pope.

There is a Purgatory.......no, no more Purgatory. Oh? Where did it go?

There is the "Limbo" place for all the little kiddies.......nope. 86 the Limbo place.....oh ok.......well uh.....where'd they go then? And uh......how did they get there?

Priests can't be gay.......oh yeah, well they can be....but they just can't tell anybody. Birth control.....no birth control......abortion NO!.....ok, well sometimes.

The Catholics believe such and such......no they don't that's the ROMAN Catholics.....they are different.

ppffftt.......Catholics aren't doing much better than the Protestants.

Answer 10

Unfortunately the Roman church was founded on the belief that Peter was the rock on which Christ would build his church. As the Bible says, he wasn't. 1Corinthians10:3; ' ... and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.'

Answer 11

Yes but catholics are 50% tradition.
And how can Peter be the first pope when there is no reference to him ever being in Rome?