Dear #Protestants
Before the New Testament was written, how did the early Church know which teachings were truly from Christ—and who had the authority to settle disputes?
You’ll say: “They had the apostles.”
Yes—but after the apostles? When false teachers arose, rival gospels circulated, and heresies spread?
You’ll say: “They had the Scriptures.”
Which ones? The canon wasn’t defined until the 4th century—by the Catholic Church.
So here’s the question:
If you trust the Church to give you the right Bible, why do you not trust her to teach it rightly?
You cannot have the canon without the Church that preserved, discerned, and defined it.
To reject her authority while clinging to her canon is not Sola Scriptura.
It’s Sola Pirata.
@JohnAndersonAC@MelanieLatest Where was all this outrage by the Jewish community after Lidt Café, Bali, Bataclan, Berlin truck attack, Charlie Hebdo etc ?
@JohnAndersonAC Honest question: if you helped oversee the policy settings that lifted intake and shifted it toward new source countries (China/India rising by 2006), why act shocked at the downstream cultural/religious changes (Other religions 3.5→5.6%, Christianity 70.9→63.9%)?
@clearreason@LCpl_X@DineshDSouza Folks like you want us to ignore it, in fact you wont even honestly engage with out points. You just cry racist. YOU are the progressive, intersectional, dishonest actor here.
@JondTrill@alde_jr@Protestia The old “Catholic dungeons” myth history as imagined by people who think Dan Brown was a documentary.
Torture chambers were run by states, not popes with flaming torches skulking underground.
If you’re going to attack the Church, at least use actual history, not Halloween lore
@3catturds@RodRuiz14 @stinklebrink @Meldougherty77 Yes, grace is a gift, never earned. But it’s a gift that must be received, lived, and persevered in.
The Catholic position could be summed up as:
We are saved by grace, through faith formed by love, manifested in good works.
Faith opens the door...charity keeps it open.
@3catturds@RodRuiz14 @stinklebrink @Meldougherty77 You stopped reading too soon. Ephesians 2:8–10 says we are saved by grace through faith and then immediately adds that we are “created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
Grace saves us. Faith receives it. Works manifest it
@ericmetaxas You cant stop it. The elites have lied for far too long and we are all waking up - regardless of how much you desperately wish, and want it to stop.