Dear non-denominational Christian friend:

Please don't take offense, but take this seriously.

If you insist on being saved strictly by Christ alone, with no men in the mix needed other than Christ, then why do you insist on being part of a "Bible-based church"?

The infallible, God-breathed #Bible itself was penned by fallible, sinful men, not Jesus. The leatherbound collection of scriptures in your hand is not Jesus (it came off a printing press!), yet you call it (rightly) the Word of God, a title referring to Jesus -- the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.

So if you believe God can use mere men to write the Bible -- and that he used other men to compile it, to tell us which books comprise it, to tell us that the collection is infallible, and to preserve it through the centuries -- then how can you say we do not need men? Especially when you have human teachers in your churches.

You don't really believe what you're saying.

You just feel compelled to say, "Catholic bad."

Because you have to.