@BEROMOHO@ShadyCrossing@farmingandJesus None of them rejected the Catholic view on Mary, Trinity, Water Baptism, Infant Baptism, Eucharist. Find me one that fits your church.
@BEROMOHO@ShadyCrossing@farmingandJesus Every church before the 1500’s would have utterly rejected your views. Even Martin Luther accepted many things you now reject.
@BEROMOHO@ShadyCrossing@farmingandJesus What has he done that is officially against cannon? Not that I care for the guys personal opinions but his personal opinion has no weight on the Catholic Church lol.
@BEROMOHO@ShadyCrossing@farmingandJesus They are out of a state of grace and very likely ignorant. The Church’s stance doesn’t change. It’s still against abortion. And how do you expect the Catholic Church to enforce who/what you voted for? Are you fundamentally stupid?
@BEROMOHO@ShadyCrossing@farmingandJesus Unfortunately, I think it’s funny Protestants think rock concerts are worship. And you cannot find 1 example of a church that worships the way that you do now, before the year 1500.
It’s the roughly 40,000 Protestant denominations/parishes. The exact number fluctuates and isn’t the point; don’t get hung up on the figure.
The point is that Protestants are not a unified body. They do not agree with each other on Scripture. Some baptize infants, others reject it. Some hold a symbolic view of the Eucharist, others reject any real presence, and many don’t practice the Eucharist at all. The vast majority do not agree on core theological points or biblical interpretation.
That directly contradicts what Jesus and the New Testament say about the Church. Jesus prayed that His followers would be one (John 17:20–23). Paul calls the Church the pillar and foundation of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15) and warns against divisions. The apostles treated the Church as a visible, authoritative body that could settle disputes (Acts 15).
So you’re left with two options:
1. Jesus was right, and there is one Church that is unified in faith.
2. Protestants are right, and Jesus was wrong about the Church He founded.
Which is it?
“Whore of Babylon” is a 16th-century Protestant slogan, not an apostolic identification.
Revelation 17 describes a city on seven hills that persecutes the saints and is drunk with their blood. In the first century that was pagan Rome under the emperors. The early Church was the one being killed, not the one doing the killing. The same Church that was fed to the lions later preserved the New Testament you claim to follow and recognized its canon.
Applying the image to the Catholic Church requires ignoring the first three centuries of Christian history, the fact that the Church existed and suffered long before any “papal system,” and the reality that Protestant groups have spent 500 years calling each other the whore or the antichrist whenever it suited them. It’s a polemic that only works after you’ve already decided the historic Church is the enemy.
You’re not reading Revelation. You’re reading a later Protestant grudge back into it and calling the result “looking it up.” The Church Christ founded is still here. The communities that broke from it in the 1500s are still fragmenting. That pattern hasn’t changed.