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RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
April 21, 2015 at 2:04 pm
it's a metaphor
k I'll go now sorry
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RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
April 21, 2015 at 2:04 pm
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I think it's at least somewhat due to the fact that the Catholic church then started pulling shit out of their asses that Jesus never said and wasn't part of the Bible (eg Purgatory, indulgences, the entire structure of the church with the popes/cardinals/bishops, etc). And many thought the catholic church no longer was the rock upon which Jesus built his church.
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RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
April 21, 2015 at 2:08 pm
There was a long battle between Rome and Constantinople for church supremacy. I wonder when all that happy horseshit was written?
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RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
April 21, 2015 at 2:08 pm
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Easy, Protestants just interpret "church" differently.
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RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
April 21, 2015 at 2:56 pm
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Well, I think you could either claim that it's due to Martin Luther and John Calvin or you could claim that the church's corruption made the
Protestant Reformation inevitable. I would probably go with the latter and say that no matter what scripture said, it was inevitable that Christians would leave. Christians believe in the corrupt nature of man, so I don't think it would be too hard to theologically justify that man had ruined what Jesus had established.
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RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
April 21, 2015 at 2:57 pm
"Thou shalt follow the guy who manages to kill everyone else."
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RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
April 21, 2015 at 4:39 pm
The answer is simple if you read Greek.
Jesus said to Pete: "...you are Petros ( masculine, a large piece of rock) and upon this Petra
( feminine, a huge rock like Gibraltar), I will build My church... Two different words are used.
Pete had just stated that Jesus is the Christ.
Upon that information /statement Jesus would build His church.
Christianity predates Catholicism.
Catholicism is a subversion of Christianity.
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RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
April 21, 2015 at 5:13 pm
It's because some Christians thought the Catholic church became corrupt and decided to create another church and similar reasons for every denomination eventually arose - I don't think it is relevant. It's like asking Christians why they are Christians.
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