Then you are not a Christian if you think His written word is corrupt.We can suggest that everyone has an agenda, but if we are going to have faith then we must accept what we are given. We don’t discover truth by starting with nothing and then constructing what we think to be true. We start with certain givens which we accept. The scriptures are given for the Christian faith and are to be accepted. Catholicism professes the inspiration of the whole of the scriptures, including the Gospel of John.
Nonetheless true. Unless you want to say “all roads lead to Rome”, absolutely no pun intended, and say that all religions lead to God.I am a believing and practicing Christian – Catholic to be exactly!!!
I have to say, it’s VERY sad, intolerant and radical to say that other religions and ways to god are false!
Michael
Paul never met Jesus and I don’t really trust that the gospels are completely accurate. I have not studied this enough, but I think that the gospels were partially based on Paul’s theology that said that faith is the only way to get to heaven and they implanted that into the gospels as quotes from Jesus. Hey, you never know, maybe I will write my thesis on it.
Furthermore, what of the passages in the writings of Matthew and Paul? Or…did those come after the “other gospels” and “had an agenda”?
All the gospels had an agenda, nor does it matter when it was written. However if you take that view am I correct in guessing that you are not Catholic?
With all due respect, you should study a subject before you pontificate on it to other people. Coming to Christians, claiming that Jesus never said something, and when they quote relevant sources simply dismissing it with, “Oh that wasn’t written by those guys,” without demonstration, then admitting you did not study the subject…well, that is arrogance.
Paul Certainly did met Christ
Then you are not a Christian and your ideas on what Christianity teaches must therefore be taken with the same value as any third party. Thus when someone asks for the Christian interpretation your voice is irrelevent.
Now we can see that the words of the priests you mentioned earlier really didn’t mean anything, nor does the question of the place of Christ. The big issue for you is your own arrogance; your own opinion that you can determine which scriptures are true and which are not. You seem to think that you can determine which verses actually came from the mouth of Jesus and which are acceptable. All on the basis of your own opinion.
Paul did meet Christ on the road to Damascus, and Christ changed his life.
After that encounter, Paul determined to preach Christ and Him crucified as the only way of salvation-- which does not conflict, in any way, with Christ’s own teaching that “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me.”Conflicting ideas in the Catholic church as to whether Jesus is the only way? Maybe some people will change the official teaching of the Catholic church to include all religions?
How much do you actually know about the Catholic Church and what the Church claims to be? No one can change the official teaching of the Church, in matters of faith and morals.
And what, pray tell, do you base that assumption on? Your own say-so?
There can be no change. The faith is not up for democratic vote as you and prettylarge may think. The fact remains that Christ is the only way. We hope for salvation of others but there is no gaurantee. That is the way it is.
Have you got the authority in the Catholic church to say there can be no change?
Maybe it will be the pope and then you will have to believe it, or else you would be going against the church and committing a mortal sin.
…except the pope. He is infallible, and what he says goes.
