The venom in your tongue (understand typing) makes you exactly what you criticize.
No venom intended, only speaking what the appearances were, in my opinion. If your short posts were not ‘jabs’ at Catholicism, please explain what you’re posting in the future, to avoid any confusion.
As I explained, I converted to Catholicism and believe the Catholic Church to be the one Church Christ built. I saw those points, you used, listed against the Catholic Church when I was a Protestant, and since my conversion, by Protestants who denied the Catholic Church in many respects.
As men (understand human race) we are unable to properly keep the covenant with our Lord. He did it for us.
As men we are unable to understand the Word of God without the help of the Holy Spirit.
We all have evidence of the Holy Spirit, by who we profess to be Lord. Christ promised that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, would lead the authoritative men He chose and appointed over His Church. This was not spoken to the multitudes.
Read Nehemiah, chapter 8, and see how it was customary for ‘men’ to understand the scriptures.
We can see evidence of everyone applying those scriptures to themselves, by the many interpretations of scriptures.
Not everywhere that scriptures say ‘Word of God’ does it refer to scriptures, but also to the spoken word.
It was God the Son who corrected what men were practicing in God’s name. It was God the Son who made a new covenant with men because there is not one man that is able to keep it.
It was God the Son that build a Church, and chose and appointed authoritative men over His Church with specific instructions that were different when He addressed the multitudes. Paul told us the ‘pillar and ground of truth was the Church’ and ‘that the manifold wisdom of God may be made known through the Church’. He did not refer everyone to scriptures to find ‘truth’ for themselves, nor did He speak of scriptures being ‘sufficient’ by themselves.
So, He did lift the yoke of man from us and took it upon Himself.
The yoke of the Old was removed and we were given the New, through Him. It does not remove us from obligations that He taught us, through the multitudes, or what He commanded the authoritative men of the Church to teach us. I’m sure you’ve read that the Church is the body of Christ, of which He is the head. Christ did not have many Churches. He prayed for us to be one, as He and the Father were one. Paul explained ‘one’ by telling us to be of the same mind and judgment, and to avoid divisions.
And now if you would be so kind and define my “agenda”?
Only you know your agenda. I have already pointed out what your posts, and lack of responses to posts directed to your attention, seemed to say, in my opinion.
