Any one of these doctrines should be enough to reject the Roman-Papist denomination:
- 11th century - indulgences - that you could pay money or perform some act to reduce the sentence of "purgatory"
- 12th century - "implicit faith" (Lat., fides implicita) - that you don't have to personally understand (and personally hold as true) the doctrines of Christianity, as long as you are "in communion with the learned"
- 13th century - transubstantiation - that by priestly magic the bread and the wine of the Eucharist are turned into the actual body and actual blood of Jesus (yet without looking, feeling, smelling, tasting, or feeling like flesh and blood)
- 16th century - justification by faith AND works, or by "faith formed by love" which is fancy-talk for faithfulness = obedience = works (have you even read the Bible, bro)
- 19th century - papal infallibility - that whoever gets elected as Pope is infallible (i.e., has the same amount of credibility and authority as the Scriptures themselves) in all matters pertaining to the faith (yikes too bad they contradicted themselves again and again)
- 19th century - the immaculate conception of Mary - that, because Christ could not come into contact with sinfulness, Mary herself, who bore him, had to first be sinless (yet by this same argument wouldn't Mary's mother have to be sinless? ad infinitum - zero mention of this in Scripture)
- 20th century - purgatory - the heresy that Christ did NOT actually suffer once for all time for all the sins of his elect, and we need to "top off" the suffering by spending thousands of years in purgatory--but that the Roman priests can, at will, "reduce our sentence" (have you even read the Bible, bro)
- 20th century - the assumption of Mary - mentioned in Scripture in precisely zero verses
...and so many more. The Roman magisterium coming up with new doctrines was (and is) like a bored congress coming up with new legislation to extract more taxes from its people and attempt to justify its existence.
- 11th century - indulgences - that you could pay money or perform some act to reduce the sentence of "purgatory"
- 12th century - "implicit faith" (Lat., fides implicita) - that you don't have to personally understand (and personally hold as true) the doctrines of Christianity, as long as you are "in communion with the learned"
- 13th century - transubstantiation - that by priestly magic the bread and the wine of the Eucharist are turned into the actual body and actual blood of Jesus (yet without looking, feeling, smelling, tasting, or feeling like flesh and blood)
- 16th century - justification by faith AND works, or by "faith formed by love" which is fancy-talk for faithfulness = obedience = works (have you even read the Bible, bro)
- 19th century - papal infallibility - that whoever gets elected as Pope is infallible (i.e., has the same amount of credibility and authority as the Scriptures themselves) in all matters pertaining to the faith (yikes too bad they contradicted themselves again and again)
- 19th century - the immaculate conception of Mary - that, because Christ could not come into contact with sinfulness, Mary herself, who bore him, had to first be sinless (yet by this same argument wouldn't Mary's mother have to be sinless? ad infinitum - zero mention of this in Scripture)
- 20th century - purgatory - the heresy that Christ did NOT actually suffer once for all time for all the sins of his elect, and we need to "top off" the suffering by spending thousands of years in purgatory--but that the Roman priests can, at will, "reduce our sentence" (have you even read the Bible, bro)
- 20th century - the assumption of Mary - mentioned in Scripture in precisely zero verses
...and so many more. The Roman magisterium coming up with new doctrines was (and is) like a bored congress coming up with new legislation to extract more taxes from its people and attempt to justify its existence.
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