Curious for a while now - why or why not can Catholicism (or orthodox as I’m kind of dealing with th...
Curious for a while now - why or why not can Catholicism (or orthodox as I’m kind of dealing with them both in the sane way as they came from sane origin) be considered apostacy? I’m thinking the difference between Paul’s teachings and direction he went comparatively - no longer focusing on scripture, idolatry, praying to dead people, the Eucharist seems pretty demonic if you understand what they actually believe about it, infant baptism seems to have come out of no where, salvation through works, cut out the Holy Spirit as interpreter and teacher of scripture to point people discouraged from pursuing scripture for the selves. I used to be Catholic. This is not about the people. Its not d out salvation as God has His ways of knowing how to teach the hearts of people and move us beyond our circumstances and limitations. It’s about the church as an institution. I’m just looking at the drastic difference between Paul’s teaching and what we see in what would become for centuries the picture if Christianity….how is it not apostasy or on the other side, if it’s not, how is it not addressed in scripture. I just feel like that’s a much bigger event in religion then we generally seem to realize and wander if maybe it was apostasy. I don’t see how it isn’t but concerned to assume so because of its role in prophecy. I look at it this way, if you were born during a certain time of history in what is considered the Christian parts of the world, you had no choice but to be Catholic. That may be a simplistic point of view for history as well as God’s ways with individual people, but generally speaking, for a long time in history you were Christian, you were Catholic. Curios other peoples thoughts what I’m understanding or misunderstanding because we’re all kind of watching for the apostasy, but this issue always hangs around in the background for me.
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