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Same here. I knew it was bogus starting in 1st grade catechism class. By fourth grade, after they tried to indoctrinate me with transubstantiation, I knew I had to learn to keep my head down until I was old enough to walk away.
Atrocities are human affairs. A Church doctrine known as 'original sin' practically guarantees they'll occur, unfortunately. And I'll tell you that they have and will occur at the hands of sola scriptura adherents as well. But that only goes to say that, along with following Church doctrine her members have also often ignored it, or twisted it, for their own agendas. There's only one church and her legacy is the legacy of all Christians-of all humans- in some capacity. The darkness and the light co-exist, the wheat with the tares. But truly beautiful wheat has been produced: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, millions of hours of volunteer work, vast wealth donated, orphanages, hospitals, the preserving of education through the dark ages, the development of education and the university systems later, the pursuit of excellence in general, social justice work, promoting strides in science, the arts, giving order and hope to a lost and dying world, all inspired by the light that entered the world and continues to grow-never fast enough-to this day.
Your church is the only church that committed heinous atrocity's such as the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades where they murdered anybody that didn't submit to your churches authority and that time was rightly called the dark ages and yes it's still going on through covered up pedophilia.
Or will say and do anything to justify it e.g. the false doctrine of "original sin" as a license to sin.
If we understand our place in the overall plan of God - if there were a map that said "You are here." It would show a timeline whose Apex is Christ, who died for the salvation of Israel, and gave the gift of the Holy Spirit and the ability to be born [again] directly into the kingdom of God, to the gentiles, that we should be grafted into His great act of salvation.
Haven't heard anyone accepting sin as normal. Sin, original or otherwise, is always defined as a gross anomaly-down to the whitest of lies.
Haven't heard anyone using original sin as a license to sin-only as an explanation. You, OTOH, appear to deny that particular tendency in yourself. Pharisees had that orientation as well-and playing the same blame game. We all do, truth be known.
Yes but it most certainly is another catholic false doctrine that isn't found in the bible. And to farther prove the fallacy of "original sin" that fact can be found in God's word that states emphatically we aren't held responsible for our Father's sin e.g. Adams sin.
Well we can go back and forth but history shows the Protestant Inquisition to be at least as heinous-none of it can be justified based on the gospel anyway. And the dark ages are typically considered to be prior to the time you speak of, ushered in by the fall of the Roman Empire. But go ahead and stay comfortably away from a church-or in a modern church that's isolated in time from the ugliest crimes that have prevailed-at least until you start witnessing their failings-which are inevitable. No excuses for the modern scandals-even a tiny percentage of clergy are too many-I just know that casting stones is a game I used to play but I no longer have that luxury-so I rejoined a group of sinners rather than play-act the saint. Again, there is and can only be one Church, wart's and all.
Sorry I'm neither Protestant nor catholic and yes you both did much wrong in your history up to and including murdering born again christians. Yes I agree there is only one Church built on the ROCK CHRIST. http://www.baptistbecause.com/Tracts/TrailBlood.pdf
Yes you would think that about those the follow God's word and not satanic doctrines of devils.
