Probaly the Best Joke Ever--Sola Scriptura?biblical?: But the difference is this, something you fail to grasp: The Roman Catholic Church has ONE set of teachings. So we are not in the same position as "Protestants" (noting herein that you used the word first )

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Re: Sola Scriptura?biblical?

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RobHom;4281260]I said: But the difference is this, something you fail to grasp: The Roman Catholic Church has ONE set of teachings. So we are not in the same position as "Protestants" (noting herein that you used the word first )

Many Protestant churches also have "ONE set of teachings" also.

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And if there was a grain of truth in what you say or imply, then abortion clinics and divorce lawyers would be bankrupt and out of business. Again you try to point the failures of individual Catholics to be the failures of the Church as a whole.

What i see you and others try to do is make it seem that the Catholic church is one unified whole. The reality is thats its not. It has just as much diversity as Protestant churches.

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You have no ultimate "authority". You have only your opinions, and among "protestants" there are more opinions than fleas. I have never seen a societal group so at odds with itself. You people make us look like the iron bulwark of steadfastness!!

What does your authority do for you? Think of interpetations of Scriptures. Your authority has essentially done nothing to give you "one set of interpretation" for a verses and passages of the Scriptures.

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You people, aka "Protestants" do NOT believe in the Bible. You believe in your individual "BK, hold the pickles, can I have fries with that" theologies. It is your churches embracing gay marriage, looking the other way and even justifying divorces and doing so by saying there is no biblical prohibition to divorce. Some of you rail and rant about drinking liquor....but what and who do you find at the drive up window at the liquor store? Who are the "backsliders" that your preachers rail about all the time? Why is that your preachers always have to preach to ones emotions to get them to accept God?

No doubt there are diifferences of opinions and beliefs about these things among Christians. We also have many in our churches who claim to believe in Christ but in reality do not. This should be expected since there will always be "tares among the wheat".

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How many Protestants support abortion, even if not openly??? How many "elected officials" in Congress are not Catholic? The vast majority are "Protestant"....this being the case: Why is not abortion outlawed?? Hmmmmm?

Should we not expect this from protestantism since it is supposedly fragmented anyway?

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I think you have lived a very sheltered provincial life.

I think not. One can easily with the net access the core beliefs of churches and see what they believe.

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If this was the case, what is the "excuse" for the split? Personality conflicts? No....severe doctrinal disputes and differences in "opinions". Were it otherwise.... there would not be the many thousands of different protestant religions/denominations/groups etc. There would be one or two.

Most splits that i'm aware of are due to church growth.
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You lack a great deal of understanding about how the Catholic Church works. We do not have "hit squads" dressed in black who go out and serve excommunication notices to individuals who do not do this or that. They automatically excommunicate themselves. If they continue to receive sacraments, then they are committing grave mortal sins.

Has this happened to Catholic politians who support abortion?

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How many of your brothers and sisters work in abortion clinics, doctors offices, pharmacies and hospitals where abortions are conducted or work where drugs (abortifactants) are dispensed? How many of your brothers and sisters (protestants) do all the wrongs that you decry then go and sit piously in church and holler "Amen" when the preacher wants an Amen? How many blow their horns on the issue in social situations siding with which ever side they are talking to?

i'm sure this happens for a number of reasons.

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My "friend" you have a black and evil bent to you.

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You constantly attempt to place blame on others and attempt to judge all by the actions of the few. People who do this kind of erroneous action are not of Christ. To claim that one is, is to shame oneself. I take no delight in this subject or my rejoinder to you. But your threw the rock, so I am willing to return it. My one greatest failure as a Christian....is my unwillingness to repeatedly turn the other cheek.

It seems you don't want to look at the problems in your church that claims to be led by the HS and to be unified. I don't blame but if we want the truth then these issues must be discussed.

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Your line, theory and position are foul, and I address them as such.