Nobody ‘fled from here’, Old Scholar.
We’re all here, praying for you and others like you, to be drawn to truth.
The fact is, Old Scholar, that your ‘cut-and-paste’ quotes contain so much ‘wrong’ information’ that it would take days (and countless posts) to correct that wrong information. And you would then need to at least check out what we have said rather than simply dismissing it out of hand. And to speak to you personally (and I hope charitably), I have noted that in the time frames etc. in which you have ‘replied’ to posts on other threads in which posters attempt to help you by giving information on Catholic teaching, it does not appear that you follow their links to sources, or ‘read’ information given you. Speaking for myself, if I have been given sufficient indication that I am not going to be ‘heard’ by someone, then I move from speaking the truth in ‘words’ (or electronic messages) and focus more on preaching the truth of Catholicism through prayer to the Holy Spirit. May He intercede for you and guide you to truth.
In fact, on other threads others have attempted to address your ‘scattershot’ attacks piece by piece. But you have ignored them and continue to cut-and-paste the same-old, same-old. (You have been given information, documentation, and offers dozens of times on other threads and posts, to which you have never responded). Instead, you keep on posting over and over your unsupported (you have been asked dozens of times to provide **factual documentation **to support your cut-and-paste claims but have never done so) allegations.
Now other people here may have more time than I and will be willing to engage you yet again in continuing to give the Catholic truth which refutes the monstrous misinformation you have posted. May God assist them in their endeavor. I will continue to pray for you, and if so be it that as this thread (or those others go on) and the Holy Spirit guides me, I may join in as He guides me.
Perhaps He is attempting to guide you as well but in a different direction than you think He is. Are you so sure of your information (and if so, why? What is the authority and the documentation behind those claims–that is, beyond the website from which you took them) that you would bet your soul that the truth is **not ** in the Catholic Church? Have you thoroughly studied the Catholic perspective and striven to imagine what it might mean if it really is right? Because you know, most if not all of the Catholics who are regularly on this forum and consider themselves to be strong in their faith have done just that–we have studied not just our ‘own’ Church but the Protestant faiths as well, and have found the claims of Catholicism true–not just because it is ‘what we were taught’, but because it is what we have ‘reasoned’ even when given ‘opposing’ information (protestantism).
May Christ and His angels and saints guard and guide you to the fullness of faith.
But they are not based in scripture. They are based in the teachings of Jesus, which preceeded the Holy Writings, and from which the HOly writings were derived. It was not the writings that were claimed to be complete (on the contrary, they testify otherwise),but the Teachings because "but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. " Mark 4:34
