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@robbswallace @MrCasey62 According to what authority? Your private discernment?

@MrCasey62 There is truth in Catholicism, but also false doctrine. That is the problem.

Scott Hahn: “I read the Bible many times, studied theology & Greek, went to seminary & was ordained a Presbyterian pastor. I continued studying Scripture, but everything just kept coming up Catholic. It was the only thing that made sense of everything I was finding in Scripture.”

@Younos2025 @MrCasey62 Its not the object of the study that is different. Its the student that is different.

@MrCasey62 I don’t know what Bible he’s studying but it’s not the same as mine.

@TheGeneral_0 @GretchenInOK Its an emotion-driven sector. Imagine that presentation to a room full of accountants.

Why does Randy Weingarten, the President of the Teachers Union act and sound like a deranged lunatic?

@Catholic_bro My Bishop forbids it. Doesn't stop a lot of folks, however.

What’s your honest opinion on hand-holding during the Our Father?

@JBONAMASSA Experience has me answering "tragic gig"...namely the lessons of how to not have another tragic gig...

What is more valuable for your growth as a musician or performer? A great gig or an absolutely tragic one?

@HwsEleutheroi @BishopJaxi By what authority do you offer these personal opinions? Your fake doctorate?

Anyone want to make a small wager this fellow hasn't ever taken even a few minutes to look at any of the in-depth, long-published Protestant works on every single one of these texts? I know I have published pages and pages on almost all of them, and I can guarantee you, this fellow is incapable of even engaging that material, let alone refuting it. So again, he is an engagement miner: all he wants is the clicks, he hasn't the slightest concern for accuracy and truthfulness. Shameful.

Why do Protestants always add "alone" to Ephesians 2:8-9 and completely skip verse 10? Why do they ignore Galatians 5:6, where Paul says what counts is faith WORKING through love? Why do they ignore Romans 2:6-7, where Paul says God will render to each one according to his WORKS, and eternal life to those who persevere in doing good? Why do they ignore 1 Corinthians 13:2, where Paul says faith without love is nothing? Why do they ignore Philippians 2:12, where Paul says to WORK out your salvation with fear and trembling? Why do they ignore James 2:24, the only place the phrase "faith alone" appears in Scripture, where it says we are justified by WORKS and not by faith alone? It is amusing that the people who claim the Bible is their ultimate authority have to add words, skip verses, and ignore entire passages to make their theology work.

@BishopJaxi @MelvinGeor86858 @HwsEleutheroi But...but...but...

"He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking[a] and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury." Romans 2:6-8 You clearly do not understand Scripture, preach a false gospel, and won't be taken seriously.

@PartBaptist1689 The Protestant Canon? You mean the British and Foreign Bible Society? I guess I missed the "bind and loose" authority given that institution.

The protestant cannon is more catholic than the Catholic cannon.

@DefiantLs I'm ready for women to call-out these men for trivializing the experiences women have. Its man-splaining on an epic level...

This is a trans woman who uses menstrual pads. Lmao.

@JoshuaTCharles They just can't seem to grasp that writings must be read and discerned, and there must be a final arbiter of those discernment, and that it is not up to the individual to self-authorize their individual discernment.

There is much to say about each of these points, which either proceed from protestant assumptions nowhere in Church history, and/or misrepresent the Catholic position. But one thing that is absolutely false is the first point. As someone blessed to be in their writings almost every day for almost 9 years now, I have found astounding unanimity among the Fathers on many different subjects, and even small details of Scriptural interpretation (to say nothing of their unanimity on the Church—more below). But even on this, when one Father observes something different than another in Scripture, virtually every time, this isn’t a contradiction, but equally Catholic, and in accordance with the “Rule of Faith.” Protestants often automatically present this as a contradiction, but Catholics don’t, and have never seen it that way. For example, our answer to the question “Was the Rock Christ, St. Peter, or Peter’s Confession?” is simply “Yes,” because each aspect symphonically reinforces the others. And beyond even that, all the Fathers agreed that the Catholic Church had authority from God to issue binding definitions on the faith, and that such definitions could only issue from the successors of the Apostles, the bishops (with virtual unanimity about a superior authority of some kind in the bishop of Rome). They believed this because they knew they were not inspired, or infallible, as individual men. But they knew the Church was indeed infallible, and had authority from Christ to teach the whole world ONE and the SAME faith. They always and everywhere speak of the Church as having ONE teaching, ONE government, ONE worship, ONE canon law, ONE faith, etc. Protestants cannot make this claim for themselves, and have never been able to. So even if they got things wrong—which many of them admitted they could—the Fathers knew the Church would not. They knew that when a theological issue was resolved, it would ONLY be resolved within THAT Church. Not by a heretical sect who had long since left it; or by a schismatic group that stood aloof from it. I hope this shows why attempts such as those below by this protestant fellow are superficial at best, if not outright false.

@David_wthebeard I won't accept your abridged version authorized by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1825....

99% of roman catholics on here.

@SenWarren God woman, how do you get any votes at all?

Spiking fuel prices from Trump’s war was the nail in the coffin for twice-bankrupted Spirit airline. FWIW, JetBlue merger failed because a judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan, said the deal was illegal. Republicans are desperate to shift blame from higher costs hitting families.

@JBONAMASSA There's no argument to it.

Arguably, 1970's

@BishopJaxi @MrCasey62 He tells everyone all they need to know with "judgement"...

“Anyone who claims to be Christ’s voice on earth isn’t a Christian.” Christ: “The one who hears you hears me.” Luke 10:16 So according to the gospel of Chad, the Apostles weren’t Christians. Peak Protestantism.

@YourCalvinist @PP5261 Further down in 1446 "...loss of Grace". Mortal sin is a choice (willfully intent). That choice removes one from a state of grace. Its like standing in a building, and choosing to step outside. The building is not destroyed, it is refused. The idea of "destroy" is your strawman.

@8TrackMindTulsa @PP5261 Mortal sin removes you from a state of grace. You then must be restored to recover the grace of justification. 1446: “The sacrament of Penance offers a new possibility to convert and to recover the grace of justification.”

Mortal vs Venial Sins: What Do Roman Catholics Believe?

@YourCalvinist @PP5261 And you get "destroys grace" from that...how? "It turns man away from God" - reject, decline, refuse. Charity is a response to Grace; Grace is provided by God. We cannot destroy what God offers, we can, however, refuse it.

@PP5261 @8TrackMindTulsa In your own catechism it uses the word destroy, here is the source 1855 Mortal sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God's law; it turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude, by preferring an inferior good to him.

@GeorgeWept I'm feelin' it...

Frightening.😬

@gonefishin1948 They're not Churches. They're auditoriums, which are closed when there's no show going on.

Why are Protestant, Evangelical and Non-Denominational Churches closed 6 days a week?

@PastorKuyaDaddy @3Gt21 @BishopJaxi You're avoiding the question. Ink shapes on paper only have meaning when they are read and discerned by a human being. That discernment - your self-authorized personal interpretations opposed to the Church established by Jesus. That's the question here...

Flawed premise. Even the translator of the Latin Vulgate did not recognize those books as Scripture. The real question is: if Rome had the authority and knowledge through unwritten tradition to “determine” or “define” Canon, why did they wait till 1546 to do so? Seems like that would be something that could have been done in the Second Century. If they had already done so, why did they have to do it a second time?

The Roman mind cannot fathom a “final authority” which is not human. In their view, Scripture can’t stand on its own. It NEEDS some human authority above it. That is why they fail to understand and continue to mischaracterize Sola Scriptura.