I understand the love Catholics have for their church, and will defend it at any cost, however The adherence to the Scriptures are the test by which God’s people are identified, not a name or a group (my church included).
I hear a lot about the Catholics being 2000 years old, but that doesn’t guaranty its fidelity to Christ. If we want to go by the age, then we should go back to the Israel that rejected our Lord. It sounds ridiculous, but check it out.
- Israel is older than the Catholic Church.
- They too were also founded by Jesus himself.
John 5:46-47 - “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?” Jesus was that cloud leading them, also the fire by night, Jesus founded Israel, just like he did, the Apostolic Church.
However, that same Church he founded turned against Him when
He came to his own. And they received Him not, because of their “traditions”, which men made under what they thought was the inspiration of God for the good of the church. They made the commandments of God (His Word, the Scriptures) void.
Jesus said:
Mark 7:13 “Making the
Word of God of none effect through your
tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”
And ultimately they crucified Him, and persecuted the “heretics” that were destroying the “tradition” by simply preaching the Word of God found in the Scriptures.
There’s a lesson to be learned there, and Jesus states it in plain simple language. God’s people are identified for their following the Word of God, not their church’s age or traditions.
Luke 8:21 - “And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the Word of God, and do it.” (not them that hear the traditions of rabbis because the church is old)
Men’s traditions, for as good as they may appear don’t have God backing their word. And adding or taking from Jesus’ Word is breaking his commandments.
Matthew 15:9 - “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
Tradition is not what’s translated into what we know as Bible. A compilation of Books is what the word Bible means. But in these books is recorded the story of God dealings with humanity, and what God himself has spoken, therefore the Scriptures are the Word of God, making it the ultimate Authority in matters of Faith, salvation, and to determine who God’s people are.
The saints are “they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14:12
God has magnified the Scriptures above everything, even the psalmist under the inspiration of the Spirit says:
Psalm 138:2 - “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy
truth: for
Thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy name.”
If there was no man alive and all you had was the Word of God, that alone is sufficient to understand the providences of God. No tradition added to it.
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I mean,…I’m just sayin…? 
