The Virgin of the Protestants

[Ricardo_Gomez]

The culmination of Christendom is found in Revelation where it talks about a virgin bride ready to take the vow in the wedding of the lamb. “Love your spouse as God loves his church/bride/virgin,” reads the scripture.

And that is what Christians have done: love and defend their faith/virgin/church. The magnitude of this love is so great that most of the protestant brothers rely on little or no fundament at all to defend/love their faith. As opposed to the Catholic Church, where our truth is so divine that it could be found any where we look for it.

In history, for example, the fact that as the civilation was expanding and growing in intellect, it was the Catholic Church who was influencing the masses to practice a norm of moral values as dictated by Sacred Scripture. Augustin of Hippo, and Thomas Aquinas contributed to the development of human intellect through philosophy using the Catholic doctrine as a vehicle to understand and teach the word of God.

 

[bengal_fan]

and then the church gained power and began to use its influence to oppress those who disagreed with it. especially muslims and jews. look especially how the church’s doctrine of serving in the military and self-defense changed as it got “in bed” with the government. what started as the belief to never raise a weapon in self-defense or defense at all changed into the allowance of “just war” and then to self defense. then, the idea of self defense changed and was perverted into labeling the defense of “Christianity” as self defense and a just reason for war.

sorry, but history just shows that we are all screwed up… including the catholic church. thank God we don’t have to be perfect (or even claim infallibility) to be used by God. i believe the catholic church has been, is, and will continue to be used by God just as any church which claims Christ as God incarnate will.

 

[Ricardo_Gomez]

Why would the church survive the fall of the Roman Empire, if it was not such a good doctrine?

 

[AnAtheist]

Why would the church survive the fall of the Roman Empire, if it was not such a good doctrine?

And what fall might that be? The fall of West-Rome during the Migration Period? The fall of East-Rome 1204 during the 4th crusade? The fall of the *Sacrum Romanum Imperium *1806?
Throughout history there was always a New Rome, in a sense the Roman Empire never really died.