Several things have been learned about Protestant thinking since this site has been on Facebook:
Those who justify being in a Protestant denomination, or “non-denomination” as many of the newer denominations identify themselves, have this truth in common: Professional Protestants will not think deeply about what Jesus said to the first Pope: “Thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
They ignore the deeper truth with silly platitudes like, “Well, Jesus didn’t want a big bureaucracy.” Others go on and on about what “rock” means. Those small dishonesties are enough for professional Protestants to justify ignoring Christ’s clear, simple words to the first Pope, “Thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
The professional Protestant’s have this for an absolute truth: “We will avoid the clear, simple truth of that passage!”
Matthew 16: 18-19 is very clear. An honest reader is not confused by what Jesus said. “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.”
Jesus’ words to the first Pope are clear. Why do professional Protestants ignore or over-complicate them? All Protestant theology boils down to one thing, allowing the Protestant clergy to have sex.
The Catholic clergy, like Jesus, are required to be celibate. Protestant schisms all allow clergy to be married because they want to have sex. That is one reason they confuse and obfuscate Jesus’ clearly pro-Catholic passages in the Bible. After they justify their need for sex, they need to keep the people in their pews paying.
There is an economic reason that Protestants must donate far more than Catholics. The costs of married clergypersons are far higher. Congregations in schism must pay the higher costs with greater tithing. They need to be kept confused about “Thou art Peter and on this rock, I build My Church.”
On reflection, a bigger issue emerges. Our most important issue concerns our immortal souls. We must ask all to consider the possibility that supporting one of the 34,000 separate schisms may be cause for losing our soul.
How can such a thing be? The multiplicity of competing denominations, led by professional Protestants who often use life-destroying birth control chemicals and devices, have allowed abortion to get started and to continue. The Catholic’s consistent pro-life message has been so diluted by conflicting schisms that The Church cannot stop the slaughter.
Those who supported the endless splintering of Christendom to justify the lust-driven schisms have allowed abortion to become the law of many lands.
There is a cost, here and hereafter.
