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How do Christians justify not being catholic?
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How do Christians justify not being catholic?
What the title says. Didn't Jesus pretty explicitly state that
Quote:And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
and wouldn't that entail that only the Roman church is the the rightful successor of Jesus? I'm just interested in the rationale of evangelical/protestant Christians behind rejecting this claim.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#2
RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
it's a metaphor

k I'll go now sorry
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#3
RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
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.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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#4
RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
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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#5
RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
Easy, Protestants just interpret "church" differently.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot

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#6
RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
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?
"Thou shalt follow the guy who manages to kill everyone else."
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#8
RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
Quote:man had ruined what Jesus had established.

Um, I read the book.  Jesus didn't establish shit.
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#9
RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
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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#10
RE: How do Christians justify not being catholic?
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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