“Denominations don’t matter. Doctrine does.”
This is a doctrine… it’s just totally unbiblical. Man made tradition…
It declares that belonging to the Church Christ established is morally irrelevant, while believing the correct doctrines is morally significant.
But WHO gets to make that determination?
Christ gave His Apostles the authority to BIND AND LOOSE (Matt. 16:19; 18:18).
Christ commanded Christians to LISTEN TO THE CHURCH (Matt. 18:17).
Christ declared, “He who hears you hears ME, and he who rejects you rejects ME” (Luke 10:16).
Paul identifies the CHURCH as THE PILLAR AND BULWARK OF TRUTH (1 Tim. 3:15).
Yet somehow, the authority of that very Church is rendered irrelevant?
ECCLESIOLOGY IS DOCTRINE!
The authority of the Church is DOCTRINE.
The visible unity of the Church is DOCTRINE.
The obligation to obey legitimate ecclesiastical authority is DOCTRINE.
The sinfulness of schism is DOCTRINE.
And here’s the extraordinary theological arrogance concealed in this seemingly innocent statement:
He has replaced the authority of the Church with Himself.
The Apostles settled doctrinal disputes through the authority of the Church (Acts 15), not by declaring ecclesial authority irrelevant and leaving everyone to determine doctrine for themselves.
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They did the thing! 😂😂😂
When you’ve supposedly made a DEVASTATING argument against Catholicism, but the moment someone asks what denomination you belong to, suddenly denominations don’t matter!
Apparently, we’re supposed to scrutinize 2,000 years of Catholic doctrine, history, and biblical interpretation, but YOUR theological tradition is conveniently exempt from scrutiny?
You get to attack Catholicism, but nobody gets to examine the theological assumptions behind YOUR interpretation of Scripture?
And when asked which Christian tradition actually teaches what you believe, the answer is:
“I don’t get caught up in denominations.” 😂
How convenient!
That’s not an argument. That’s special pleading.
They did the thing.
-when you've made a prescient, or devaststing point against some aspect of catholicism and they ask after your denomination so they can attack some aspect of it- rather than confront the cognitive dissonance/programming that prevents them from acknowledging their church's error.
Phillip: "if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest be baptised"
👇This mid- "baptist detected 🤣"
Every catholic professes this! But they think this is “owning the Catholics” because they are crazy people
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I like Desantis and think he is a good leader… make America Florida is a great campaign.
But Desantis being a good leader essentially makes him unelectable. America would rather a corpse run the country than a competent leader… we would rather a community organizer than a governor, we would rather a reality TV star than a politically stable senator..
DeSantis wins elections.
DeSantis sets up his Republican successors to win elections.
What is the problem here?
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This is a PERFECT example of why so many Protestants don’t actually READ Scripture. They read their theology INTO Scripture, often missing the very point the biblical author is making.
This fellow actually quotes Judges 5:24 to argue that JAEL, not Mary, is the most blessed among women.
ARE YOU SERIOUS? 😂😂😂
Judges 5:24:
“Most blessed of women be Jael.”
Luke 1:42:
“BLESSED ARE YOU AMONG WOMEN, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!”
Luke 1:48:
“Henceforth ALL GENERATIONS WILL CALL ME BLESSED.”
LUKE IS ECHOING THE VERY OLD TESTAMENT LANGUAGE YOU’RE USING TO ATTACK MARY!
And the parallels are extraordinary.
JAEL drives a tent peg through the head of Sisera, the enemy oppressing Israel.
MARY, through her Son, participates in the ultimate victory over the ancient Serpent, whose head is crushed by Christ.
Judges 5 gives us the SONG OF DEBORAH, celebrating God’s victory over the mighty through the humble.
Luke 1 gives us the MAGNIFICAT, Mary’s great hymn celebrating God casting down the mighty and exalting the humble!
Luke’s account also echoes Hannah’s song in 1 Samuel 2.
DO YOU SEE WHAT SCRIPTURE IS DOING?
The Old Testament establishes patterns that find their greater fulfillment in the New.
Jesus is the GREATER ADAM, the GREATER MOSES, the GREATER DAVID.
Mary is the GREATER EVE, and in Catholic typological interpretation, the GREATER JAEL and GREATER JUDITH.
THIS IS BIBLICAL TYPOLOGY!
But when you approach Scripture determined to disprove Catholicism, you can become so fixated on finding an objection that you completely miss the connections Scripture itself invites you to recognize.
You see Jael called blessed and immediately conclude:
“AHA! MARY ISN’T SPECIAL!”
Meanwhile, Luke is using strikingly similar language to describe Mary, whose Son accomplishes a victory infinitely greater than Jael’s!
YOU’RE SO BUSY READING ANTI-CATHOLICISM INTO THE TEXT THAT YOU’RE NOT READING WHAT’S ACTUALLY THERE.
And THAT is the difference between exegesis and eisegesis.
Exegesis asks, “What is Scripture revealing?”
Eisegesis asks, “How can I make this passage support what I’ve already decided to believe?”
The irony is magnificent. 😂
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It must be EXHAUSTING being so utterly incapable of following a basic logical argument.
Let’s review this astonishing exercise in stupidity:
God gave us His Son.
Mary’s Son is Jesus.
Jesus is GOD.
MARY gave us her Son
THEREFORE… MARY IS GOD?!
AND THAT’S BLASPHEMY?!
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
The conclusion doesn’t REMOTELY follow from the premises!
At this point, the problem isn’t even biblical interpretation. It’s the inability to reason.
And suddenly, the historical concern about private interpretation of Scripture makes a LOT more sense.
Pope Benedict XV said “Mary offered her Son”
The Bible says “God gave his Son” John 3:16
In saying Mary gave her Son, they replace God with Mary. This is blasphemy
This is what happens when you believe men over God. Begin in error; end in destruction.
Thank you @needGod_net
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There are 35 factual errors in this one article…
It’s quite astonishing…
This demonstrates a woefully lacking understanding of the events that led up to and occurred after Luther’s posting of his 95 Theses. He never intended to split away from Rome. Rome split away from him. And the fault lines that caused the resulting earthquake were already in place long before Luther was born. Fault lines Rome created.
Article: ⬇️
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Homosexuality isn’t a sin
Female priests are good
ENERGY.
Most of these Catholics are so superficially educated. Written scripture was not widely available at the time. Most people were illiterate and couldn't read anyway. Of course they're going to use oral tradition. This is such a rudimentary argument. Get out of kindergarten guys.
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