Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Obviously...since I'm not catholic, I don't recognize the authority of the pope.
I think the catholic church has a lot of issues in its doctrines. They are wrong about the issue of justification, their mariology and other issues. I mean their official teaching is. That's not to say that anyone and everyone that calls themself catholic is hell-bound....but if you follow all of thier teachings, you are not a Christian as the Bible defines it.
That's debatable. There was plenty of Christianity in existence prior to them.
True, there were Gnostics, Marcionites, Montanists, Ebionites, etc. However, it was what is not the Catholic Church that deemed the former to be heretics. The Catholic Church picked the very books you have in your Bible. So in a sense, whatever Protestant sect you belong to can rightly be called an offshoot of the Catholic Church. And as far as Pope go, Protestants have plenty of them; men in authority who they look to for doctrinal guidance.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
