If anyone is to blame for the fracturing of Christianity it's the the Catholic Church.
Case in point... Pope Francis. He's piece of garbage and unfortunately for you if you are a Catholic, he is the one that tells you how to interpret the Bible.
I always laugh when some Protestants bring up indulgences.
Oh no, 500 years ago there was a bishop out their selling/grifting the Grace of God? How horrible! Good thing we solved that with a schism - now there's no one out there abusing God's word to grift money out of people.
Now please ignore how all the biggest grifters (Kenneth Copeland, Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen etc.) are a bunch of Protestants; who make many millions by lying about "faith healing" and "tickets to heaven" etc. Protestantism has created bigger grifters than ever imagined possible 500 years ago.
For better or worse, the Church is the Church created by Christ. There have been good popes and bad popes. Through it all, it remains Christ's Church. We could really use your help in the congregation - come home if you want to help Christ restore His Church. Or you can keep running away, and continuing to schism into chaos. It's your choice.
If you read my comment, they're still doing it to this day... for twitter follows.
Those prosperity preachers are terrible and utterly refuted by the people I follow.
The Catholic Church was not created by Jesus. Do you really think that if Jesus were to design a church that it'd be the Catholic Church? You should think about that one.
And if I did go Catholic, I'd just be a "convert" right? Yet another barrier between me and God.
You can keep running away too buddy, from logic that is. I don't recommend it.
Schisms and reformations don't fall out of the sky randomly.
The Church is still offering indulgences till this day for stupid stuff like following the Pope on twitter. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/16/vatican-indulgences-pope-francis-tweets
If anyone is to blame for the fracturing of Christianity it's the the Catholic Church.
Case in point... Pope Francis. He's piece of garbage and unfortunately for you if you are a Catholic, he is the one that tells you how to interpret the Bible.
Does that sound ok to you?
I always laugh when some Protestants bring up indulgences.
Oh no, 500 years ago there was a bishop out their selling/grifting the Grace of God? How horrible! Good thing we solved that with a schism - now there's no one out there abusing God's word to grift money out of people.
Now please ignore how all the biggest grifters (Kenneth Copeland, Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen etc.) are a bunch of Protestants; who make many millions by lying about "faith healing" and "tickets to heaven" etc. Protestantism has created bigger grifters than ever imagined possible 500 years ago.
For better or worse, the Church is the Church created by Christ. There have been good popes and bad popes. Through it all, it remains Christ's Church. We could really use your help in the congregation - come home if you want to help Christ restore His Church. Or you can keep running away, and continuing to schism into chaos. It's your choice.
If you read my comment, they're still doing it to this day... for twitter follows.
Those prosperity preachers are terrible and utterly refuted by the people I follow.
The Catholic Church was not created by Jesus. Do you really think that if Jesus were to design a church that it'd be the Catholic Church? You should think about that one.
And if I did go Catholic, I'd just be a "convert" right? Yet another barrier between me and God.
You can keep running away too buddy, from logic that is. I don't recommend it.
Matthew 16:8 - And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
I don't know what denomination you have fallen into, but apparently if it's one that argues against Christ Himself. Good luck with that