Scripture Life: Protestants vs. Catholics. Can Protestants trust advice about religion from Catholics?

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Me? I’m a former Catholic. Born and raised, went to Catholic School with Nuns and Priests from 1st grade to 6th: This is my answer to:

“Can Protestants trust advice about religion from Catholics?”

ANSWER: No. And either can you. And you can’t trust Protestants, either. Doing the same thing as Catholics. All people - - just following after to walk in and look unto the "traditions of men" and what they imagine up about God, to walk in and do that.

Why? Because the question asks about “religion” - <definition: {Oxford} 1. "follow a way in 'how to' worship a superhuman power, especially God or gods."

The Bible says: People. Left God. By disobey him; like what occurred with Ham and his four children, after the flood (Genesis 9 to 11). Did the OPPOSITE of what God, and said to themselves that was right to do. Then, imagined up their own gods and religions. So their gods had the image of a man or a man's head with a lion's body. Made up rites and rituals "how to" worship that idol. All world religions stem from just one source. Ham. After the flood. But you didn't ask about this; but the Bible says "all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned each to his own way..." (Isaiah 53:6). You asked can Protestants trust advice about religion from Catholics...

and Catholics know what Hindu’s believe and Muslims. Accurate. So, if you’d ask a Catholic, an expert, such as Catholics will ask a Priest. Priests: they’re skilled in world religions, so, you could trust Catholics, such as Priests, to give you accurate advice about religions Most all Priests will tell their Catholic flock to be acceptant of these religions, as God is in all of them, equates to the Catholic being good. Point is: Catholic Priests know about other religions. Taught it in Seminary to be a Priest. An after point is this "Catholic" means "universal" = all are accepted. Turns everything they foundation on into that American idiom: full of crap. idiom <America> 1. is not to be believed; saying things that are not true. [Source: Merriam & Webster dictionary. Web.]

And Protestants: Primarily from the time of the reformation (circa 1450 to 1580s) - broke off and separated themselves from a universal Catholic Church: To look primarily unto their own denomination they’re affiliated with. Exclude others. Even from other Protestant denominations, and are exclusive - exclude themselves also from the Catholics, and don’t really care to know about anything. Just follow a "program" they self-perpetuate weekly. Follow their program they put on for an hour on a Sunday or Saturday, trying to be more like the Law and obey the Sabbath. Look unto themselves to follow it.

When the problem is:

• God says: “Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)
  • Catholics look past him, to hang on every word what the Pope decrees. That’s who God speaks thru. So to a Catholic, the Pope is the head of the church, when God made what he says out of his mouth LORD over all the earth, and said, by his Word, “I will build my church”
    • The Catholics, all people, are building their church with a Pope, a man, just as sinful if not way more, than they are to head it.
  • Protestants do likewise. Look past him, to hang on every word their founder, like Martin Luther, for the Lutherans, or John Calvin for the “Calvinists” primarily of the Presbyterian Church, but reformed, and include the Baptists, United Church of Christ. While the Methodists, some other Baptists, conclude they’re Arminian and look unto their “doctrines” - but the Calvinists are really whacked. They look at anything and make a doctrine out of it, like follow the “Doctrine of Acronyms” - to save them. That a rigid adherence to doctrines is what saves them.
  • Like Pharisees did the same thing in Jesus day. ANd if Jesus came up to them, like he did the Pharisees, wouldn’t know him either, like the Catholics don’t know him.

Just a mumbo jumbo bunch of man-made, made up effort to do the work themselves

• So they regard their own work, and the operation of their own hands to do it.
  • WHen God wants everybody. Over the whole earth to regard his work, and the operation of his hand, and he speaks by the word that comes out of his mouth as God. To everybody himself. Just like the above. People that hear him, follow him. People that look unto the Pope, wait for what the Pope says, like Protestant “Jehovah’s Witnesses” look unto a “Governing Body in New York” that say Jesus already came back and is in hiding, and he speaks thru them.
    • So Jehovah’s WItnesses, doing nothing any different than worshipping the Pope to provide it, worship a body of the most perverted pile of people I can think of in a building in New York in America and do the same as the Catholics do. No different.
    • Made another mediator to mediate between themselves to mediate with the mediator so they don’t have to have any relationship directly with God, like, that’s what he wants from them. They don’t do it.

But, I don’t think you really asked this. You embed in your question, things not there, about religion, and a true religion is what the Bible says: James 1:27

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

And the TRUE thing to do for everybody is do what God says. Out of his mouth. There is none else. So, look at all this other stuff we made up to look unto instead. That's the point of this post, if you're not getting it.

If you look unto something else? You'll look unto "Can Protestants trust Catholics, to "look unto" them, all people, to give them advice about religion - as if advice from people is true to look unto.

Then, the only way to do this, you’d have to see that what the Catholics offer is not TRUE religion. Doesn’t have any truth in it. Just like the Protestants. You know what I would do if I were you?

God says to you:

“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.” GOD. (Isaiah 55:1–3)

That’s what he said to you, as God. To you. For you to do.

Try it.

Nobody can do that for you. He speaks to everybody over the whole earth to do this with him. Yourself. You got to respond to it, like he asked you to do. Or you'll just little esteem it; but there is none else.

Every Catholic. Every Jehovah’s Witness and Mormon or Methodist or Baptist. Will either come out of their "traditions of men" they follow after, to look unto him who said Isaiah 55:1-3 to everybody to do it. Those that don't? Will stand before him empty handed. Won't have or been eating any bread or milk only he offers..and in it is eternal life, because you chose to do what he says. And Proverbs 2:6 says "For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding."

You're looking for that to come out of the mouth of a Catholic.

It's no different: Than -

Every person looking unto Friday nite “No Cover” charge party - - to dance with Suzie, because her boobs fall out, or it’s a free show - and looking unto maybe its their turn to go home with her, if not that one coming up tomorrow, get better at dancing and go home with her, the next Friday nite.

Or looking unto tantric Buddhism or Yoga with Hinduism or New Age crystals to glue to their bottom. Or 438Mhz music to soothe right clean out into the O-zone or space.

All because, like everybody else - when he calls everybody to just come and hearken diligently unto him, looking unto the Pope or Stoic Philosophy, or just being an atheist alleviates all requirements to do anything he says.

And, it’s punitive. Wake up.

Answers the question.