Can a "well informed" non-Catholic Christian, Please, Please give me a reason why I Should not be a Catholic?
Please do not give me hollow and easily refuted reasons such as:
1.) Salvation is by faith … just do a search on "faith" and "only" in the same step of any verse in the New Testament and tell me what I find … except that the time (James 2:24)
2.) Do not call the [...]
Give me a convincing reason why Catholic priests are not allowed to marry.
Anglincan, Protestant and Baptist priests who preach the same Jesus Christ, they are allowed to marry and therefore the likeniness sex. So why the Pope still wants to maintain this duty of the priests to be alone and not have girlfriends?
Who was the Pope that prohibits marriage for Catholic priests? What was your reason?
It is a practice based on Biblical precedent:
Matt. 19:11-12 - Jesus says celibacy is a gift from God and whoever can bear to bear. Jesus praises and recommends celibacy for full-time ministers in the Church. Because celibacy is a gift from God, those who criticize the practice of the Church of God, celibacy and [...]
The reason for the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Church all differ in what happens to the soul after death?
Orthodox = The soul goes through a sort of 40 days of travel. On the 40th day it had given a preliminary ruling. Subsequently their reward or punishment of the grave … see heaven or hell expected that after days of trial.
= Catholic soul goes immediately to heaven or hell (which is what I [...]
How is faith and reason be reconciled Best of Protestant and Catholic perspective?
Martin Luther, Protestant reformer who broke with the Catholic Church simply declared "just shall live by faith" Romans 1:17. The Cathechism of the Catholic Church in 157 recognizes that "faith is more certain than all human knowledge." However, 159 against this by stating that "Though faith is above reason, there can never be a real [...]
Is there a reason for the differences in architecture between the Catholic Church and Protestant churches?
Catholic churches of which I refer have very high ceilings, windows, lots of works of art representing Christ and the saints, the different colored tiles on the floor that add visual texture, and other various artistic detail in the sanctuary . Protestant (eg Baptist, Methodist, Nazarene, Pentecostal, Church of Christ) churches I visit are very [...]
