This is brilliant! Exactly the type of stuff I'm looking for.
So let me get this straight....
When you are Catholic, you believe all Catholic Doctrine?
Which means you and Catholic Doctrine are alligned...So that your thought pattern matches with that of the Catholic Church.
All non-Catholic denominations....
More than 50% of the Catholic Church.
Well actually 100%(meaning those who are true Catholics)... Because those who are truly Catholic are in depth with Catholicism and know the membership and such. True Catholics believe that and they are right. Otherwise a lot just go to a Catholic Church and think that makes them Catholic....
What makes Pentacostalism superior to you above all other denominations? Why is it your Christian faith above all other Christian Faiths?
Here is a reason why the Catholic Church is superior to many other (not all) Christian churches. When most protestant churches started out, they were very much against the Catholic church. Martin Luther, John Calvin, Wesley and many other reformers took an extremely strong stand against the catholic church and her teaching. What do we find today in those same churches. The catholic church has not changed. Her standards are the same. Her thinking is the same. She is consistent. Protestantism has changed to become more united with Rome. And it was not that Rome came 50% and protestants came 50%. Protestants came the entire 100% and Rome has not changed. There are only a few that speak out now. I recently learned that the Pope released a document where he restated that there is no salvation outside the catholic church. That is a statement of superiority. Who stand up against it? Hardly anyone. In that way, the Catholic church is superior to many other churches.
it's already been established that Catholicism/Vatican = Superior to all others.
If you disagree please say so.
The proper way to understand it is that if one submits to the teaching of the Catholic Church, one is submitting to the teaching of Jesus Christ.
For we believe He continues to speak through the Church and Her successors via the Holy Spirit, which He promised to guide the Church till the end of the age.
It is sooooooooooo notIt's a total bait and trap question soooooooooo we can have yet ANOTHER "Us vs dem dare Cath- O - Licks" thread.
First of all this is not the objective/focal point of the OP.What makes the YOUR Pentecostal Faith superior in your eyes to all other Christians Faiths?
I'd ask you the same question. (Of course worded differently)Why Pentecostal and not Baptist or Lutherean?
Again I could ask you the same question.What makes Pentecostal Theology superior to other Protestant theologies?
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).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).
interesting...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
Your theology is correct. But that dosen't change the Fact that the many Catholics me and others have met agree that "There is only one Church."I didn't know any church was superior to any other. No Christian is superior to any other, so why would any church be?
If they could show me in scripture where "Katholikos" is used in reference to the Catholic Church, I might change my way of thinking just a little. But they can't prove it through scripture so I am safe in my way of thinking.
But they are too afraid to say so because it would "spark" a controversy/exciting discussion
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