Sorry, I can't and I won't think for myself.

"All authority is given to me in heaven and on earth Go therefore to all nations baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL I have commanded  you and I am with you always until the consummation of the world" Matthew 28.

The above passage is about Authority, baptising, and teaching.  And since Jesus says he will be with us all days then that Authority will be with us all days.

We are talking here about the Church Jesus founded and has survived until today in the Catholic Church.  Again in the seventies and eighties the Reformers [not Vatican II where it was taught in Lumen Gentium] trashed this.  We were told that no Church had the full truth and that Protestants and Catholics shared the truth together.   And the paid bureaucracy toured the Diocese telling us that Papal Authority was in 'Love and not Doctrine'.  I heard this remark in a Catholic Church before the Blessed Sacrament and there was no one but me to contradict.   Yet to contradict was to be charged with 'triumphalism' and through ecumenism friendships were shaped where the chosen denied their Catholic Faith and destroyed the children by replacing the truth of Christ with their own opinions.   In the early Church what was true and what was false was of immense importance to Christians.   As the Church grew there were many writings passed from Church to Church and questions began to be asked  "Which of these writings are faithful to the teachings of Christ?   There were many opinions about which writings could be trusted and which could not and many
found favour and many did not.    It was not until the 6th century that three Councils of the Church settled the matter and chose the present books in the New Testament.   The Church presented these as the Word of God.   But whereas the early Christians were concerned with truth today nobody seems to care what is true and what is  not true in the Bible.   The Bible it seems is acceptable as long as everyone can disagree with it and follow their conscience.  What an insult to Christ and the early Church.   











   


  







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