Mary and the recent Papal teaching

[Charlie24]

Protestants try to build their churches on their interpretation of written text, this is not the Church Jesus founded. These are human churches, with human doctrines, they had nothing to with the Bible, and have no authority to interpret it.

Jesus founded an Apostolic Church, with Apostolic Government. These were the Preachers and qualified interpreters of Scripture that interpreted Truth and sound doctrine from Scripture, along with determining the Canon itself.



The Church is more than what's written in scripture, it is not confined to scripture, or confined further to the fallible opinions of men.

Ask why your interpretation is of greater authority, who are you to interpret scripture? That is the important question.

We have a different foundation.

Ours is built on the very words of God through the Master Church builder, the great Apostle Paul.

We don't assume any succession as that is the assumption of the RCC.

The letters John wrote to the Churches were addressed to the "angel" the individual pastors of those Churches.

They were organized by the words of Christ directly to the pastors.

We follow the Scripture to "study to show ourselves approved of God" and searching the Scriptures to ensure the truth.

Yes, we have many problems with the emphasis being placed on certain areas of the Scripture and not the whole Word of God.

Whether we stand of fall, we for the most part are standing alone on the Word of God.

 

[Walter]

We have a different foundation.

Ours is built on the very words of God through the Master Church builder, the great Apostle Paul.

We don't assume any succession as that is the assumption of the RCC.

The letters John wrote to the Churches were addressed to the "angel" the individual pastors of those Churches.

They were organized by the words of Christ directly to the pastors.

We follow the Scripture to "study to show ourselves approved of God" and searching the Scriptures to ensure the truth.

Yes, we have many problems with the emphasis being placed on certain areas of the Scripture and not the whole Word of God.

Whether we stand of fall, we for the most part are standing alone on the Word of God.

Your foundation is 'scripture alone'. That is why there is countless evangelical denominations and more added every year
And, as much as I love scripture, I know that scripture tells me that's not correct. 1 Timothy 3:15 says the pillar and foundation of truth is the Church! As a Baptist, I had to admit, at least on this point, that I was wrong.

 

[Charlie24]

Your foundation is 'scripture alone'. That is why there is countless evangelical denominations and more added every year
And, as much as I love scripture, I know that scripture tells me that's not correct. 1 Timothy 3:15 says the pillar and foundation of truth is the Church! As a Baptist, I had to admit, at least on this point, that I was wrong.

This post from you is the clearest point I can find as to why you're a Catholic and I'm a Baptist.

 

[Walter]

This post from you is the clearest point I can find as to why you're a Catholic and I'm a Baptist.

So you are saying I Timothy 3:15 is incorrect. Interesting. You see, Charlie, the problem of why there are so many doctrinal splits and interpretations among evangelicals always bothered me. If two pastors, who seemed to live upright, holy lives, taught divergent doctrines and each claimed his teaching was from the Holy Spirit, how could this be? I knew the Holy Spirit could not teach two different doctrines at the same time. Could this ever be resolved? Baptists have resolved this problem by splitting. New Baptist denominations are born as a result of differences over biblical interpretation.

And, please don't start with Baptists are not a denomination. Even on the BB in the Baptists Only forums there's one that lists various Baptists 'denominations'. I know of no intellectually honest Baptist that wouldn't admit that the SBC and the ABC aren't two different denominations.

 

[Charlie24]

So you are saying I Timothy 3:15 is incorrect. Interesting. You see, Charlie, the problem of why there are so many doctrinal splits and interpretations among evangelicals always bothered me. If two pastors, who seemed to live upright, holy lives, taught divergent doctrines and each claimed his teaching was from the Holy Spirit, how could this be? I knew the Holy Spirit could not teach two different doctrines at the same time. Could this ever be resolved? Baptists have resolved this problem by splitting. New Baptist denominations are born as a result of differences over biblical interpretation.

And, please don't start with Baptists are not a denomination. Even on the BB in the Baptists Only forums there's one that lists various Baptists 'denominations'. I know of no intellectually honest Baptist that wouldn't admit that the SBC and the ABC aren't two different denominations.

No, it was Walter that said that, not me.

Paul never described the Church you teach. That Church you have so much faith in is a work of the traditions of men.

The Church you claim is nowhere in Scripture to be found.