Anyone ever have this happen?

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OneTrueCathApos said:
Not to be so off topic here, but I noticed your signature of Luther. Tell me, how can 1500 years of Christianity be wrong when one man can TRY and come in to TRY to reform the Catholic church and fails at doing so? If Luther was doing God’s work, God doesn’t fail, therefore he wasn’t doing God’s work. This man, who decides FOR HIMSELF, he doesn’t “agree” with the Catholic church and causes a terrible division in the church obviously started by Jesus Christ. Why on earth would you follow him? I mean, what gall of this man to do such a thing. If you yourself are protesting the CC, what is it exactly are YOU protesting? :coffeeread:
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I will answer your question (why I don’t know) if you answer this question. If Saint Paul, who penned the New Testment book of First Timothy, walked into a Catholic church, year 1350 and the priest was reading his letter to Timothy, would he understand what the priest was reading?
 
In 1 Timothy attention is given to correct doctrine and church organization.
Plus warnings against false doctrines. False teachers.
1 Timothy 6:20-21 is a solemn warning against heretical teachers.
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Heriarcical (which is supported by the Church organization in Acts) and Congregational (which is little more than mob rule)
 
CWBetts said:
Heriarcical (which is supported by the Church organization in Acts) and Congregational (which is little more than mob rule)
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Ohhhh CW I knew you were smart… and now we have the proof:thumbsup:

SD
 
Jon_Hus said:
Another interesting aspect of the JW religion, one is not apparent to even those who belong to it,is just how much of the organizational doctrine it shares the the Roman Church. While the theology is 180 degrees apart they are organized on a similar boilerplate and share many techniques in theory. One good example is the “top down” heiarchy of the organization, another is the absolute belief that their religion and membership in the same is the only way to God. As well as faith and works (although the works are different, they are works just the same), their leadership having a direct line of communication with God and their unwillingness to engage in any kind of academic conversation with those who hold different views.
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By no means am I an expert on the topic of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and I don’t apologize for that. There is however an exemplifying aspect of Protestantism called Sola scriptura, which the Catholic Encyclopedia describes as a principal that “proclaims the canonical Scriptures, especially the New Testament, to be the only infallible source and rule of faith and practice, and asserts the right of private interpretation of the same, in distinction from the Roman Catholic view, which declares the Bible and tradition to be co-ordinate sources and rule of faith, and makes tradition, especially the decrees of popes and councils, the only legitimate and infallible interpreter of the Bible.” It seems to me that erroneous, unguided private interpretation of the Bible alone is what led Jehovah’s Witnesses into their many theological mistakes; thus, in my humble opinion making it more similar to Protestantism than Catholicism.
 
Jon_Hus said:
I will answer your question (why I don’t know) if you answer this question. If Saint Paul, who penned the New Testment book of First Timothy, walked into a Catholic church, year 1350 and the priest was reading his letter to Timothy, would he understand what the priest was reading?
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Just answer my simple question please, or can you?
 
Jon_Hus said:
The only thing the JWs have in common with Protestants is that they are not Roman Catholic…and…The Watch Tower religion is not part of Protestantism as many here claim.
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Isn’t that precisely what defines a Christian denomination as Protestant? This is courtesy of MSN Encarta:

“The term Protestantism was given to the movement after the second Diet of Speyer (1529), an imperial assembly at which the Roman Catholic majority withdrew the tolerance granted to Lutherans at the first diet three years earlier. A protest was signed by six Lutheran princes and the leaders of 14 free cities of Germany, and Lutherans in general became known as Protestants. The term Protestant has gradually been attached to all Christian churches that are not Roman Catholic or part of the Orthodox or other Eastern Christian traditions. Protestants constitute about one-fifth of all affiliated Christians (emphasis mine).” encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761555703/Protestantism.html
 
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