If you don’t believe what the Bible says, then you don’t believe what God says.
An easy way to cut through bad beliefs is to find them in the Bible.
If God never said “magisterium” (He didn’t), then it’s a hoax if you rely on a manmade institution called “magisterium” to tell you what the Bible means.
If the Bible says there’s one church (Eph 4), then asking why there are 40,000 denominations begins without God’s word and accepts the premise that there’s a such thing as more than one church.
This isn’t difficult. It is simple.
The challenge regards pride that resists the text teaching you want to believe
Regarding Rome’s teaching of the “Eucharist.” First, the Bible call’s the Lord’s supper the “Lord’s supper” (1 Cor 11). Next, the gospel of John includes Jesus using multiple analogies to teach of the necessity of believing unto salvation. He told Nicodemus to be born again and Nicodemus misunderstood by thinking he had to renter his mother’s womb. Jesus then told the woman at the well that He was living water and the woman wanted the water so she wouldn’t have to drink again. In John 5, Jesus explains this basic idea in verse 24.
And so in John 6, right after Jesus fed thousands, and they followed Him only for food (Jn 6:22), Jesus - just like in John 3 John 4 & John 5 - uses the literal to make a spiritual point.
Bread from heaven given to Moses by God was literal bread and all the bodies who ate it died. Jesus Christ is the bread of heaven that people are to believe and they shall not die.
Rome perverted this and wrongly teaches that a priest can say some magic words and transform the wafer/fruit of the vine into the literal body and blood of Jesus. This is a hoax and is easily shown to be error from the Bible properly understood in context.
I invite Rome’s followers to come and discuss the Bible but they do not. Many outsource their thinking to other authorities that are not the Bible, which is why they err.
Lastly, this is not anti-Rome nor is it hateful or arrogant. It is loving obedience to Jesus Christ to faithfully teach the word in and out of season bc warnings those in danger removed my liability. It’s sad that so few hold fast to the word of God and then play when it comes to being nice or building big groups/movements. I’m uninterested in that. I have no feelings wrong beliefs other than wanting to correct them so that God is glorified and souls are saved.
That’s the mission.
If someone can show me in the Bible where Christians aren’t supposed to judge according to the Bible or where we shouldn’t make thoughts captive to Christ, then I will change.
Until then, I’m going to keep showing the text.
Lastly, if I invite you to come live and discuss the Bible, then that’s bc you’ve made claims about truth that I can show the Bible says opposite, and bc Christians aren’t supposed to diligently seek truth in love, the invitation is a friendly opportunity to prove your claims. If you cannot prove your claims, then you shouldn’t make any. If you are unwilling to defend your claims then you shouldn’t make any.
But I won’t let unfounded claims run wild here bc people may believe them, and then that makes this channel a conduit for false teaching which has massive implications.
I want to be a faithful servant and so I ask people to prove what they say. If you can’t or won’t do that, then this may not be the channel for you.
And that’s fine.