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The word of God. But again and here's an example, if I went to a football game last week and team blue won. It is a historical fact that last week, team blue won a game. Events that happen in life are real. The way they are documented might create opportunities for history to be tampered with. Even God's word is tampered with. People take God's word, flip the words around, and use it to their advantage.
A religion is defined by its worship system full of holy days, sabbath, traditions and rituals.
What binds all Christians and indeed NATIONS is simply worship systems.
The first Christianity converted tens of thousands of people in the first ten years, and not a single Gentile convert was among them.
For ten years it was only non Jewish Israelis converting to Judaism to become one with Jews.
For ten years non Jewish Israelis became Jews because they converted to the same worship system of Jews.
Christians like to deny these historical facts.
Catholics take a relligion that existed centuries before Peter was born, and after Peter was born, they made Peter the head and pretend like their worship system was created out of thin air.
The really sad thing is that you ALL seem to have abandoned Jesus' teachings and example in favor of our primitive ancestors' ignorant beliefs about God and interpretations of Him!
blah blah blah "ignorant" blah blah blah "primitive" blah blah blah "I'm better than you"
Can you point to Scripture where Jesus instituted confirmation?
Not explicitly, though it can be inferred.
In Luke 22:32 we see Jesus command Peter to "confirm [or strengthen] your brothers".
In Acts 8:14-17 and Acts 19:1-6, we see Peter and John, and then Paul, respectively, laying on hands and imparting the "gift of the Holy Ghost" upon those who had already been baptized.
At the end of Luke, we see Jesus giving His disciples a special blessing just prior to His Ascension; and in Acts 1 He promises them the gift of the Holy Ghost. It's possible that this was a reference to what we now call confirmation.
Great dodge of a simple question! Actually, I already know the answer. You trust the fallible words of men above the word of God. That is true of the Catholic Church and it’s leaders past and present. Catholicism is built on tradition, not Scripture!
It wasn't a dodge, I just want clarification before answering a question.
I don't trust the fallible words of men above the Word of God; and Scripture is a part of the Tradition on which the Catholic Church is built. The two are not in conflict.
Catholics take a relligion that existed centuries before Peter was born, and after Peter was born, they made Peter the head and pretend like their worship system was created out of thin air.
Catholicism is the fulfillment of the Hebrew religion. Our worship system was most definitely NOT created out of thin air.
There is no scripture where Jesus institutes confirmation. It’s just another tradition of men.
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