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I’m only human so the only information I have is from books and teachers who regularly tell me contradictions and shill failed jewish ideologies. How do you find the truth, op?
"You will know them by their fruits"
Catholicism and orthodoxy has produced many saints with miracles and stuff. Protestantism and everything that comes from that hasn't…or very few.
“I am firmly convinced that the Reformation of the sixteenth century was as near as any mortal thing can come to unmixed evil. Even the parts of it that might appear plausible and enlightened from a purely secular standpoint have turned out rotten and reactionary, also from a purely secular standpoint. By substituting the Bible for the sacrament, it created a pedantic caste of those who could read, superstitiously identified with those who could think. By destroying the monks, it took social work from the poor philanthropists who chose to deny themselves, and gave it to the rich philanthropists who chose to assert themselves. By preaching individualism while preserving inequality, it produced modern capitalism. It destroyed the only league of nations that ever had a chance. It produced the worst wars of nations that ever existed. It produced the most efficient form of Protestantism, which is Prussia. And it is producing the worst part of paganism, which is slavery.” - G.K. Chesterton
How can I understand scripture if no one teaches me?
You study how the teaching of the apostles were applied into practise in the early Church. To presume that you know better how to interpret their teaching than the people who lived with them, ate with them, talked with them, who lived in the same cultural context and who had them explain all the mistakes and misinterpretations, to contradict them and go againts them is to set yourself againts the apostles and the Christ. Read early Church fathers, read early documents. Or rest surly in the authority of the Church who doesn't take it's authority from private interpretation of the Bible, which we can clearly see to be a bad method.
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Both of you are wrong, ever consider that?¿
I showed my religious affiliation in a reply though you still cannot tell if I'm catholic or orthodox but my OP remains valid. Even if you believe in sola scriptura, "just reading the Bible" is still a shitty method and you need to study early Church. Unless you're afraid of being wrong of course
tfw the whore of babylon is actually the reformation and false doctrine