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It doesn't make any difference. Let's say I'll agree that MML&J are Old Testament. You still won't agree that Acts is New Testament, you'll argue that the New Testament has been put on hold, and that Acts, when it's talking about Paul, isn't the New Testament, it's Paul's dispensation of...

You made that up.

And to any of your dead kin who you believe are in heaven to hear your prayer, which is some form of the general petition "Pray for us". We only have objective confirmation of those recognized as Saints, but upon purification, all believers, and this includes far too many Protestants, will...

Since your ecclesiology is null, as we've discussed, you of course failed to notice that Paul here merely describes the initiation of each Ephesian Christian into Church life, which means Sunday Mass. Paul says they trusted in the Lord, which means that they decided to convert /be received into...

You base your thoughts on the Scripture, no problem. Problem is that there were 17 years, from the Ascension to AD 50, where the Church existed, lived, operated, without a single New Testament book. Mark, or Galatians, or 1st Thessalonians was written that year, one of those books is...

There is no weakness in Catholic ecclesiology, and you don't even have an ecclesiology. Church is literally a topic, subject, character in the New Testament, and you don't even have a thing to say about it. Your ecclesiology is null. 'Curious.

I think his error was in rejecting the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, or that the importance of the Apostolic Church office of a bishop (the authorized pastorate, cf. 1 Ti 3:1) has diminished or even ceased entirely.

That's like today's SAW right there: three shots, all in your general neighborhood in under a minute? Hit the deck!

I could be wrong. But I think over there, limited government and low taxes means liberal. That's what "liberal" means in Europe, including England, a f a i k---but could be wrong too. I have no idea what conservative means in England.

That's fine. The question about the serpent of brass (a shadow of Christ) and Christ on the cross: what did it mean to look upon the serpent? Did you have to focus on it, or what if you looked at the serpent only in your peripheral vision? What if you looked at where the serpent was, but you...

What's the matter with that? I mean, if you're not committing a crime with your property, why shouldn't you think that you can do with it as you please? Everyone does though if you're in their home. A Yankees fan is going to get cancelled at Fenway Park, every time.

Plain. It is. No.

There is no evidence that is inconsistent with the Assumption of Mary. Check. What exactly do you mean by "declare". Because it's not as if the first record of it is in the 1800s.

Bluster. Give me some evidence inconsistent with the assumption of the Blessed Virgin. (Only the Lord ascends.) Doubt.

If you analyze everything available and try to fit an explanatory theory to it, then inconsistency is what you'll find.

There are many snared in lies about Catholicism, but I can't see any actual lies of Catholicism. Cite? Or not. Either way, peace to you.

And Catholics are closer to 1.3 billion bud. Agreed.

1 billion /7 billion ~ 14%

That was a very high quality post. Well, there is Acts 2:42. But this answer of course presumes the Protestant tradition of what's called in shorthand, "Sola Scriptura", meaning that the highest authority for the Church is not Apostolicity as preserved by men holding the office of a bishop...

Sacrifices were fake. They were symbols. Such a rich scripture, so full of wonder and majesty and mystery. How does an eternal sacrifice manifest in the world that is temporal? Once. "One sacrifice for sins forever". Forever indicates eternality, consistent with "the Lamb slain from the...