So the weird thing is the Catholic church is essentially the original Christian church, at least officially in terms of an organization, yet deviated over the years (and almost from the start) from the Bible with its own various (and I would argue, wack) stuff (this post is full of where it came from I'd say, by the way).
What do Catholics consider "Catholic"? Why are they willing to accept random and destructive deviations added along the way like this? Why do modern Catholics accept the modern state of the religion as anything like acceptable when it deviates from the Bible in such significant areas?
(I'm not being rhetorical, I'm actually curious if people want to offer views on this stuff.)
Here’s the thing. Christ left a Church not a book and put his Apostles in charge of spreading his Word. Only later did the Church compile an official Bible from various writings. So when you ask what about all of these things that aren’t in the Bible imagine the early Christians before the Bible? Were they not real Christians?
The amazing thing about the Catholic Church is it’s still here even with all of our truly awful leaders. It still officially teaches the truth even with all of its sinful clergy.
Martin Luther would be proud. He experienced excommunication himself, in exchange for finding the truth!
Maybe his hatred toward the Jews wasn’t so off the cuff, after all… especially given how their rejection of Jesus back in his day is very much the same as today.
So the weird thing is the Catholic church is essentially the original Christian church, at least officially in terms of an organization, yet deviated over the years (and almost from the start) from the Bible with its own various (and I would argue, wack) stuff (this post is full of where it came from I'd say, by the way).
What do Catholics consider "Catholic"? Why are they willing to accept random and destructive deviations added along the way like this? Why do modern Catholics accept the modern state of the religion as anything like acceptable when it deviates from the Bible in such significant areas?
(I'm not being rhetorical, I'm actually curious if people want to offer views on this stuff.)
Here’s the thing. Christ left a Church not a book and put his Apostles in charge of spreading his Word. Only later did the Church compile an official Bible from various writings. So when you ask what about all of these things that aren’t in the Bible imagine the early Christians before the Bible? Were they not real Christians?
The amazing thing about the Catholic Church is it’s still here even with all of our truly awful leaders. It still officially teaches the truth even with all of its sinful clergy.
Martin Luther would be proud. He experienced excommunication himself, in exchange for finding the truth!
Maybe his hatred toward the Jews wasn’t so off the cuff, after all… especially given how their rejection of Jesus back in his day is very much the same as today.