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Catholics: Don't let your guard down and allow non-denominational Evangelical Christians (or even other Catholics!) to persuade you into thinking we are all on the same path because we all follow Christ and believe in His Word -- as if we are merely different brands of the same product.

We are not the same.

If we were the same, they would not wholeheartedly reject the source and summit of the Faith -- the Eucharist -- even believing Eucharistic adoration is idolatry.

If we were the same, they would not reject the basics of the Faith, like the answer to sin: sacramental baptism and confession.

If we were the same, they would not reject Saint Paul's explicit command to hold fast to oral Tradition.

Recognize that their foundational beliefs come straight from the Protestant heresy. Yes, Protestantism is a serious and dangerous heresy.

Indulging in false ecumenism is to perpetuate a lie, and it serves neither the truth nor your non-Catholic friends. And it's a scandalous example to fellow Catholics, with the potential to weaken their faith.

Catholics must speak the truth in love.

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Joe The Bad 5mo ago

I agree with you that all Christians are not on the same path but pope Francis didn’t. He said even other religions are on the same path.

"All religions are paths to God. I will use an analogy, they are like different languages that express the divine.”

- Pope Francis

The COG Catholic 5mo ago

You are correct. He was wrong, not speaking as a good Catholic there.

May God have mercy on his soul.

PaddleManJoe 5mo ago

Ya'll could stop tying yourself into logical pretezels if you got rid of the Inerrancy of the Pope.

The COG Catholic 5mo ago

What do you think the inerrancy of the pope means?

PaddleManJoe 5mo ago

He can do no wrong. His word is law.

Lew☦️ 5mo ago

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PaddleManJoe 5mo ago

Dang Protestants denounced as heretics. 1521 Diet of Worms all over again!

The COG Catholic 5mo ago

Because the anti-biblical "Bible alone" theory is self-refuting, practicing it gives rise to countless heresies.

Without the Church over the course of 2k years issuing dogmas that act as doctrinal boundaries, one ends up not knowing with confidence even the fundamental truths of Christianity.

We wouldn't know what the NT Scriptures were without the Church, or whether they were even God-breathed.

So that alone (i.e., sola scriptura) is what makes Protestantism a tragic and dangerous heresy.

PaddleManJoe 5mo ago

Well I actually agree with you in part. Your definition of the problem is spot on. Christians who reject all Christian tradition are reinventing the wheel. Its like reinventing math each time you build an airplane. Your understanding never grows, you stay a caveman. The Charismatic Evangelicals reject all tradition and are in a constant state of reinvention as a result.

However there is another extreme, great institutions can build up their own independent inertia and stray from the truth over time. This was what Martin Luther's "reformation" was all about. He found that some of the Church's long standing traditions were in direct conflict with the scriptures. He wanted a great ecumentical council where he could debate to make his case and hopefully reform the Church from the inside. He got the Diet of Worms instead, the rest is history, the Great Schism that followed is the fault of the Roman Catholics.

So yes Sola Scriptura, Scripture is the ultimate authority. Longstanding institutional knowledge is necessary for interpreting the Bible, but it can stray from the truth of the Bible, which is what Luther was trying to fix.