It is amazing; they come up with their dogma first then try to justify it against the Bible whereas Christians get their dogma from the Bible.
My dad was reared Catholic and his parents freaked out on him when he bought a Bible; and it was a Catholic Bible!
2007-11-14 02:22:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the bible shines light on darkness
they want you to read church doctrine not the bible
2007-11-14 02:30:13 · answer #1 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
The basic tenet of the Catholic religion is that Christ established Peter as the first pope and all religious laws and rules after that are justified by this appointment. They only strive to find scripture to go with it because so many people don't understand that the whole setup of their church is not dependent on the Bible, which they set up anyway in the 4th century. I find it interesting, though, that you call the "Christians" beliefs dogma. As you can see from the dictionary definition of dogma: 1. A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a church. That would imply that those "Christian" Christians set up their churches the same way the "Catholic" Christians set up theirs and then look for Bible verses to support themselves. And if you don't believe that, look at how many different churches there are!
And look at Chris above who uses scripture to justify his beliefs.
2007-11-14 10:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes...esp. since their encyclopedia often does not even do that, but justifies stuff quoting Plato or Catholics who followed Plato or other pre-Christian pagans. Countless entries have no Bible verse quoted or referred to, nor Bible writers at all.
And Protestants are hung up on Greek philosophy and post Bible creeds also.
Debbie
2007-11-14 11:39:59 · answer #3 · answered by debbiepittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow. Isn't it amazing, then, how all those Early Christians were made part of the Body of Christ, filled with the Holy Ghost, changed the world for Christ...WITHOUT A CANON OF HOLY SCRIPTURE!?!?
Since there was no complete "Bible" (canonized by the Ekklesia Kathholikos, by the way) for the first 400 years of Christendom...just HOW did they do it?
Or, do you really think that St. Paul and the Apostolic Fathers ran around on missionary journeys with neat little "red letter edition", Leather Bound King Jimmy Bibles in their knapsacks?
Get a grip and learn some history.
2007-11-14 10:32:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
yeah, I won't say I agree with everything the Catholic Church does or did, but I feel I have the ability to work to change what I find wrong.
Everyone makes mistakes, we learn and move on.
2007-11-14 10:29:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋