Midgie wrote:
Paul, you offer us YOUR understanding of the Scriptures as if we should simply accept what you say when you pick and choose what you will believe from the Bible! You obviously expect Catholics to simply kow-tow to YOUR understanding of the Scriptures????
Do you have any idea just how identical that statement is to how Catholics act?  Let me demonstrate.
Catholics offer us their understanding of the Scriptures as if all non-Catholics should simply accept what they say when they pick and choose what they will believe from the Bible! Catholics obviously expect non-Catholics to simply kow-tow to THEIR understanding of the Scriptures.
Whether you can see it or admit it or not, that is EXACTLY how you appear.


Catholics are a lot more tolerant of heretics and schismatics today than the Early Church was!
It's a good thing.  Things like the inquisition and the crusades would be severely frowned on today.