"Bible Christian" Who does this better fit: Protestants or Catholics?

[Palladio]

Protestants are better trained than Catholics as children. You never hear of Catholics having Sunday school, do you?
Not saying that Catholics aren’t exposed to scripture, just that Protestants are more immersed in it at an earlier age.
Still though, unless you have faith in God and believe what He taught throughout the ages, no amount of bible study can make you a “Bible Christian”.

Very short sighted: Catholics in the States used to go to Catholic school, colleges, and universities. I went to Mass six days a week, sometimes twice (being an altar boy): perfectly common. We were immersed in the Bible, directly and indirectly, the former especially at Confirmation. We had religious instruction in word and deed and also for grades.

But we don’t worship the Bible, which does not happen to appear in the creed, and which did not drop whole from the sky. We don’t pretend to being able to fathom the Bible (first of all, it is written in languages most of us, most Protestants, don’t know) and thus to pronounce upon it, but instead rely on the church which produced it in the first place, the RCC, to guide our understanding. From it we hear three or more readings a week, and a homily on these. We turn to it for reasons that are obvious, but to others for reasons equally so.

 

[Palladio]

Prove that the church from Rome is the “pilar of truth”

Pilar is a Spanish woman’s name.

Prove to me you can spell, think, and read Greek and Hebrew and Latin.

Then you just might be able to pontificate, even in those short bursts of nonsense you prefer.

Meanwhile, please give it a rest.

 

[mrs_abbott]

Pilar is a Spanish woman’s name.

Prove to me you can spell, think, and read Greek and Hebrew and Latin.

Then you just might be able to pontificate, even in those short bursts of nonsense you prefer.

Meanwhile, please give it a rest.

He didn’t mean anything harsh by it. He’s simply asking.

 

[HailMary]

It fits anyone whom seeks the truth that is in Christ and Christ alone!

Poor people who never had access to a bible!!!

Let alone that could read it and have leisure to study it!

Poor people indeed.

 

[mrs_abbott]

Very short sighted: Catholics in the States used to go to Catholic school, colleges, and universities. I went to Mass six days a week, sometimes twice (being an altar boy): perfectly common. We were immersed in the Bible, directly and indirectly, the former especially at Confirmation. We had religious instruction in word and deed and also for grades.

But we don’t worship the Bible, which does not happen to appear in the creed, and which did not drop whole from the sky. We don’t pretend to being able to fathom the Bible (first of all, it is written in languages most of us, most Protestants, don’t know) and thus to pronounce upon it, but instead rely on the church which produced it in the first place, the RCC, to guide our understanding. From it we hear three or more readings a week, and a homily on these. We turn to it for reasons that are obvious, but to others for reasons equally so.

Thank you for that. Also, we decided to drop the CCD/Sunday school debate because it sidetracked the thread.

 

[Palladio]

He didn’t mean anything harsh by it. He’s simply asking.

Sorry, Mrs. Abbott: he meant everything harsh by it. The tone taken is like that visited on me by two other species of nonsense peddlers: Muslims and atheists.

 

[Palladio]

Thank you for that. Also, we decided to drop the CCD/Sunday school debate because it sidetracked the thread.

CCD is on the whole a misfortune from every story I’ve heard about it: poorly taught by adults far from expert in the first place. I would make no grand claims for it. I would for the Catholic school education I got, which may not be what it once was, but which was part of living the fullness of Christianity.

 

[myfavoritmartin]

Martin? Do you even know what year the Catholic Church was started??? It doesn’t appear you do.

About a century or two after ignatius!

 

[donnyblake]

How about 33 AD…it was even called Catholic about 105 AD. We’re praying HARD for you brother. “Walk toward the LIGHT”.

 

[myfavoritmartin]

Pilar is a Spanish woman’s name.

Prove to me you can spell, think, and read Greek and Hebrew and Latin.

Then you just might be able to pontificate, even in those short bursts of nonsense you prefer.

Meanwhile, please give it a rest.

Pontificate is that what I am attempting?
Pope Martin, has a nice sound eh?

 

[myfavoritmartin]

How about 33 AD…it was even called Catholic about 105 AD. We’re praying HARD for you brother. “Walk toward the LIGHT”.

I can’t I have to wait up for ya’ll

 

[HailMary]

About a century or two after ignatius!

Incorrect buddy. Maybe all those reading comprehension classes you took didn’t help, but I suggest doing some honest research and figuring out why you keep lying to yourself.

 

[myfavoritmartin]

How about 33 AD…it was even called Catholic about 105 AD. We’re praying HARD for you brother. “Walk toward the LIGHT”.

donny you can no more prove the primacy of peter than i can paul!

 

[Palladio]

How about 33 AD…it was even called Catholic about 105 AD. We’re praying HARD for you brother. “Walk toward the LIGHT”.

I’ll pray, too: who will do the fasting for this sort of demoniac?

 

[myfavoritmartin]

Incorrect buddy. Maybe all those reading comprehension classes you took didn’t help, but I suggest doing some honest research and figuring out why you keep lying to yourself.

Lying is not a nature of one whom is born again.
** 13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, [d] God made you [e] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.**

 

[myfavoritmartin]

I’ll pray, too: who will do the fasting for this sort of demoniac?

EXCUSE ME? Demoniac?

 

[HailMary]

donny you can no more prove the primacy of peter than i can paul!

Yeah, St. Paul wasn’t given the Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, it was not “St. Paul and the apostles…” almost every time throughout Scripture, and Jesus did not talk to St. Paul or any other Apostle alone and give him the task of, “feeding” and “tending” His Sheep.

If Jesus is the Shepherd and we are His flock, why would He (Christ) delegate that work of a Shepard to someone else? Think about that and we’d all LOVE to hear your reply.

 

[Palladio]

EXCUSE ME? Demoniac?

You can read, if you cannot spell, after all.
You just cannot read the Bible.
Yes, you are in the grip of something bigger than you: arrogance and ignorance combined.
And you are loving it.
Calm yourself and be still.

 

[Isa_Almisry]

It fits anyone whom seeks the truth that is in Christ and Christ alone!

So I guess we can toss the Bible out. I mean, you did say Christ alone. After all, Uzzah, He is the Word of God.

Seen Jesus lately? Hmmmm. So I guess you’ll have to get Him some place else. I mean the Bible was put together and copied by those silly people think they meet Him in His Body, the Church, where they take and eat His Body. You wouldn’t trust them now, would you.

They believe silly things like the words of St Basil “This Jesus which we saw has passed into the sacraments of the Church.”

I know your thoughts on the Eucharist. I’m betting you reject all the others except baptism. You do accept baptism, no? But probably just water, not the baptism into Jesus’ death, after all His Body, that’s just a metaphor, and I guess the Resurrection of His Body just a nice story.

And I’m afraid the earliest copy of the NT (John) is not the autograph, but one a couple decades later. So unless you can dig up the originals, can’t take what those fools have copied.

Perhaps you’ve had a vision on your way to Damascus, which makes all this superfluous. Although St. Paul thoght it important (actually told) to seek out the Church in the person of Hananiah in Damascus and then present himself in Jerusalem. But then you’re better than him, he believed he was eating Christ’s Body.

 

[Isa_Almisry]

I’m not insinuating anything. I was outright stating that the two beliefs are the same regarding a book being the final authority.