RE: "All have sinned," says Paul, so what about the Immaculate Conception of Mary?
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We must ask what the Catholic Church teaches, not what the text says.
And this is why Protestants will never see eye to eye with the Catholic church. Scripture, the word of God is above all. And we're taught in Scripture...We are to follow God, not man.
It's fascinating really, how such division all comes from that fact. Catholics put the church above all, while Protestant put the bible above all.
And I'm not sure that will ever change. All we can do really, is pray for each other I guess lol
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Hello @kingdombible. Peace and goodness. True, but over time, most Protestants who genuinely seek the truth end up converting to Catholicism, as it is the Bible itself that affirms the primacy of the Church. The notion of Sola Scriptura is nonsense; after all, the Church wrote and selected the books of the Bible; the Bible did not fall from the skybound. God bless you.
It's fascinating, because we believe the opposite. But alas...We will agree to disagree :)
But weren’t men the ones who chose what to write in the scriptures, and later on what to include into (or hide from) the Bible which exists today?
2 peter 1:21, 2 timothy 3:16, john 17:17....The Bible is inspired, written by men for sure, but through inspiration from God.
@untamed-essence Welcome. Peace and good. Thanks for commenting.
Those who wrote the New Testament were, in some cases, the Apostles of Christ themselves. In other instances, the disciples of the Apostles and those who selected which books were inspired by God and should make up the Bible were mostly the Holy Fathers, who are those who learned and were ordained directly by the Apostles or by their closest disciples who knew them in life, that is, by those who learned directly from the Apostles.
All these men belong to an oral and practical tradition taught by Jesus Christ himself and then transmitted. There is a direct line of succession since Christ ordained the Apostles, and the Apostles ordained countless other bishops and priests successively to this day.
Ah, this supposed concealment does not exist, as the number of witnesses to everything Christ did and taught was enormous. The oldest manuscripts also demonstrate that there were no relevant adulterations, just minor inaccuracies that do not change the meaning of the text.
May God always bless you.