I know the Lord loves me and He accepts me just as I am.

Hi Lutero,
I am happy to be a Bible believing Christian and I know the Lord loves me irrespective of my short-comings.

That is true.

He accepts me just as I am.

He placed the Church here in order to teach you how to achieve the perfection which He would like you to achieve (Matt 5:48; 2 Cor 13:9).

I post on this blog with the intention of sharing the truth.

I thank you for your good intention. However, I assure you that you only have a partial truth and if you want to have the fullness of the truth, you need to come to the Catholic Church (1 Tim 3:15; Eph 3:10).

The war is not against the flesh, but against spiritual wickedness in high places. I oppose doctrinal teachings that are anti-biblical.

Then you should be opposed to Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide and you should embrace every teaching of the Catholic Church.

I am not against or condemn an individual as a person – Catholic or Protestant.

Good for you. But it wouldn’t matter if you condemned or commended a Catholic or a Protestant. God is judge of all.

Its understandable the differences do exist between Catholic and Protestants, but you say numbers of Protestant are huge. Ok fine. But they all agree that the scriptures being God breathed are the sole rule of faith,

And that is the main reason that Protestants differ with each other on so many other doctrines. Because they each interpret the Scriptures differently and rely upon their own understanding (Proverbs 3:5; 2 Pet 1:19-21).

and sufficient for all matters of faith, doctrine and practice –

The Catholic Church does not deny that the Scriptures are materially sufficient for all matters of faith, doctrine and practice. The difference is the addition of the word, “sole”. Scripture is clear that one can learn their faith, doctrine and practice from the Church (Eph 3:10), from one’s parents (2 Tim 1:5), and from one’s teachers (Heb 13:7). Scripture nowhere even suggests that one must discard all other sources of learning and hold “only” to Scripture.

Sola Scriptura is a deceptive doctrine which must have been born of Satan, because with the guise of loving Scripture, one is convinced to disobey the commandments of God recorded therein.

leaving aside differences in interpretation among themselves.

By what authority do you set those differences aside? Scripture doesn’t permit it (Titus 1:9).

Catholics say scripture ‘plus’ tradition.

You have that backwards. Scripture says Traditions, by word and epistle. Scripture is the written form of Tradition (2 Thess 2:15; 2 Pet 20-21).

So here we have 50,000+ Protestant denominations

Correct. The proof is in the pudding. 50,000 plus beliefs. A showcase of confusion. Who is the author of confusion, Joel? Is it God (1 Corinthians 14:33)?

versus just one Catholic who oppose submission to only scripture.

Yes. What does Scripture say? Ephesians 4:5

So Protestants are in majority

If this were a democracy, even that wouldn’t help you. There are many Protestant denominations. But the one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church has more adherents than all Protestant denominations put together.

and they are right to oppose adding of un-biblical traditions to scripture, as the CC does.

The Catholic Church does not do that Joel. The Protestants do. All I can do is repeat the evidence. It was long ago proven to me, that it is God who causes the growth. If you are not able to receive the Spiritual message, my arguments and words will not convince you (1 Corinthians 2:14; John 6:44).

Sincerely,

De Maria