Well, that was your first mistake - asking GotQuestions.org.
Apparently their CEO, S. Michael Houdmann, is a graduate of Calvary Theological Seminary. That would make him a OSAS, SS, dispensationalist evangelical. Those folks tend to think Rome is Babylon and the pope is the Antichrist. Not only that, they’re eagerly waiting the pre-trib rapture, so they’re likely to treat Israeli Jews with a lot more respect than Catholics. It looks like they showed you their fangs and then tried to backpedal a bit.
I believe they are dispensationalist (ugh, even worse).Well, that was your first mistake - asking GotQuestions.org.
You should have asked me your question instead. The answer is, “I finally found the Church that provides the fullness of Christian truth.”
It seems someone over there is reading Catholic forums. Maybe searching for the Truth.You should have asked me your question instead. The answer is, “I finally found the Church that provides the fullness of Christian truth.”
This is a much more balanced answer. Good for them.
Well, someone’s head is probably rolling over there. Interesting that they have someone moderating this forum to catch the post! I guess even for them, one has to be careful on how they answer and post things on the internet because you never know where it might end up! The worst part of the original answer was the Hitler comment which is so over the top and insulting to even try and be credible.
What would the “average” (if there is one) Protestant think about such a response? Nod his head in agreement or shake his head in wonderment of the intensity of the hatred spewed? Does the average Protestant think Catholics should have a fair hearing or chance to defend and respond or the conviction is already cast in stone…I have read the responses of Catholics to allegations of being non-biblical yet I have not seen any response so poor that to a Protestant it appears laughable. The responses have been pretty solid with biblical support although Catholic interpretations varies from Protestant ones.
The response by Got questions is not the average Protestant. This is more of a fundamentalist site which as you see rather anti-Catholic. It would be unfair to view this site and those like it as the average Protestant and they do not speak for all Protestantism at all. I am sure they have rather shrill responses to a number of Protestant groups as well who they would consider as unbiblical, especially mainline denominations.
In a word, yes, I think they do. From the introduction to their “Catholic Questions” page:
IOW, “it doesn’t matter what the Catholic Church actually teaches, we know what they really believe in practice, and it’s wrong.”
I noticed that when I type “Catholic Answers” into Google, their site shows up at the top. But it is a sponsored link. They pay for the placement as an ad. The real Catholic Answers site shows up just underneath their ad!
Thank you SoMissCatholic. I had no inclination to look at the site myself. If that is what they really think, I truly feel sorry for anyone going to them to learn about Holy Mother Church. This proves beyond a doubt they have no credibility when it comes to Catholicism. It smacks of arrogance and spiritual immaturity, especially since they want to tell us what we believe. Maybe we should throw out our Creeds and have got questions.com write us a new one, since they know us so much better than we know ourselves.
Since the Inquisition was, by definition, a Church-run court, that’s a pretty outrageous statement itself. If you’re talking about the Spanish Inquisition, which is the best known (and deadliest) Inquisition, then you’re partly right–the SI was set up at the urging of the Spanish government and run by the Spanish Church under government supervision. But it’s still not correct to say that the Church wasn’t responsible at all. And the medieval inquisitions and the Roman Inquisition were totally the Church’s responsibility.
True. Some Catholic bishops did, but certainly not the Church as a whole.
Pius XII was one of the most active and successful (non-violent) opponents of the Nazi movement, despite the bad rap that he gets today from secularists/liberals who want to attack and discredit the Church. Jewish historians credit him with saving up to 860,000 from death at the hands of the Axis. The links I provided in my direct response to the original GotQuestions email have more information.
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I doubt that. More likely, someone who reads this forum and is sympathetic to them probably pointed out to them that their answer was being talked about here, and it was reflecting on them poorly.
Isn’t that the same sort of thing, a different side of the same coin. sympathetic people most likely volunteers that reviews other Christian forums like CAF and then report back to Got Answers?I doubt that. More likely, someone who reads this forum and is sympathetic to them probably pointed out to them that their answer was being talked about here, and it was reflecting on them poorly.
Not really, I don’t think. In one case, the folks are actively pinging other sites, and in the other, they just happen to get a tip from someone.
Again, you’re making the same assumption – that folks are sitting out there, acting virtually like ‘spies’. There’s no basis for that assumption!sympathetic people most likely volunteers that reviews other Christian forums like CAF and then report back to Got Answers?