It is sooooooooooo not
What I honest to goodnessly wanted was to know why Catholics observe themselves as superior.
But they are too afraid to say so because it would "spark" a controversy/exciting discussion
First of all this is not the objective/focal point of the OP....
I've never studied Protestant theology nor any other theology other than Catholic and my own.
I used to be RC, from when I was 27 until I was 50, so I have a good perspective from both sides (or 3 sides, before, during, and after).
That the Eastern Orthodox had accepted RC doctrines at the Council of Florence (1439, but later it reneged) gave RC the best claim in my investigation, plus sheer force of numbers (half of Christianity). I hadn't encountered any Protestant claims viable before I converted.
Then at age 35 I got baptized in the Spirit in the Charismatic Renewal, so RC had full claim on my allegiance.
That RC seemed to have all the answers worked to its advantage until at age 50 I uncovered some elements that could not stand. Nevertheless, for the reasons above, RC still
looks superior.
Parenthetically let me add that only
afterwards did I run across the Lutheran doctines in the Augsburg Confession, that seems to me now a better statement of what RC most truly had been and should have declared itself instead of settling for the Council of Trent. Also, from 1992 to 2004 I was Episcopalian, when I found out
after leaving RC that the rather awful Thirty-nine Articles were no longer required to be Episcopalian, as they had been
beforehand (what I had been told in the 1960's). So RC fortunately was not still my only choice, now that RC was not a choice.
Korah
