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Why do Protestants, Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, and JWs not believe the Bible?

You guys believe IN the Bible as far as its existence goes, but why do you refuse to believe what it teaches?

Update:

You guys only believe your interpretations, not the Bible itself.

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  • 7 years ago

    Your "update" is backwards.

    That we don't agree with YOUR personal, fallible opinions on what the Bible teaches doesn't mea we do not believe the Bible. It's YOUR interpretation that we disagree agree with, not the Bible.

    And that's the problem with the "bible only" approach to understanding Christ's teachings. And that's why the Catholic Church recognizes that "bible only" is NOT what Christ taught.

  • Hogie
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Yours is not a question, it is an accusation. It also implies that you believe what it teaches. Based on the list here, I would say you are Catholic, which in turn begs the question why the Bible is not considered by the Catholic church to be a sufficient guide when it comes to living and salvation.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    Catholics are actually very good at the Bible. Can't say for the rest in the list there. We like to focus on the context, not simply pick a verse, isolated from its context and meaning, and base an entire belief on it, like you would apparently.

  • 7 years ago

    There is one truth, and there is one faith, one altar upon which we offer sacrifice to the Father, one bread we break, one cup we share, one sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. Christ declared to Peter,

    "I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.”

    Christ promised to lead into all truth, and Christ doesn't have empty promises. "But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth." Christ also gave the Church the authority to "bind and loose". Did he give this authority to every Christian sect that has broken from the Catholic Church, or did he give it to a visible Church built on a rock, unified in spirit, worship and sound doctrine, with an unbroken line to St. Peter himself, in which the fires of hell will never prevail against? Who has the authority to do this? Anyone who is holding a Bible? No. We are told in scripture that the Church "is the pillar and foundation of the truth". The Catholic Church compiled the Bible, it determinted, guided by the Holy Spirit, (which Christ promised) what is the Word of God and what was not.

    I'm sorry, there cannot be 60,000 truths, the number of offshoots of the Church Christ established 2,000 years ago.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    to put your mind at ease , the catholic Church has the sole responsibility to interpret scripture,

    matthew 16:19

    Luke 10;16

    matthew 28:20

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Depends on what you mean. There are many Fake christians like Joel Olsteen who are fakes

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    You don't give examples. I think you are saying you are Catholic and you are better than others. Am I right?

  • Depends on what you mean. There are many Fake christians like Joel Olsteen who are fakes

  • 7 years ago

    Every denomination of Christianity interprets the bible according to their views.

  • Jess
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Who says they don't?

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