re: Why do Protestant Christians try to use the Bible against the Catholic Church?

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Yes, but you also believe Mary is Jesus 2.0

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That's a made up thing not in the Bible. My arguments are based in scripture.

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He sounds more like a solo than a sola kind of guy, if you know what I mean..

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1. Your tone
2. Your unChristian-like way of speaking
3. Your generalizations of others
4. You seem militant
5. You don’t seem to possess love in your heart for being “saved”
6. You are a Buckeyes fan

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LSUMANINVA quote: 1. Your tone 2. Your unChristian-like way of speaking 3. Your generalizations of others 4. You seem militant 5. You don’t seem to possess love in your heart for being “saved”

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You’re too close minded and ignorant to have a discussion with, carry on my wayward idiot.

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Carl carries with him a memory that many if not most Protestants have forgotten, the old ancestral memory of having once been Catholic, before the events of the sixteenth century. He carries within himself this memory of Protestants’ true home and family, understanding that Protestants as such are in essence Catholics-in-exile whose Catholic ancestors in the sixteenth century made the painful decision to live in exile from the Catholic Church until she had sufficiently reformed, never intending to be or form a permanently separate body or group of bodies. This is what Protestant fathers used to teach to their children. But memories are feeble and naturally fade and grow dull with the passing of the centuries. Eventually Protestant fathers no longer taught this to their children, and these children grew up not even knowing that they were in exile. They came to think that schism from the Church was normal, because they no longer retained even the concept of schism from the Church.

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They came to believe that the Church Christ founded was not a visible institution, was not even visible at all, even though some still used the term ‘visible Church.’6 For many, if not most, the Church is an entirely spiritual entity to which one is fully united by a merely spiritual act of faith, such as a sinner’s prayer. These descendants of the earlier Protestants have completely forgotten that they were separated from anything. And without this memory, there no longer stirs within them any longing for the conclusion of the Catholic Church’s reformation so that they can be reunited to her. Instead, understandably, their discovery of the Catholic Church’s claim to be the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church Christ founded arouses in them some degree of resentment and offense.

For them, the question “How would Protestants know when to return?” makes no sense, because they have forgotten that they were waiting to return to anything.

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