Boutique in Abuja

Responsibilities

• Manage internal and external communications (phone calls, emails, letters)

• Manage client relationship and send reports and updates

• Manage business’s social media platforms - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

• Excellent Record Keeping

• General Business Management

Requirements and Skills

• A female Business Manager/Social Media Manager with at least 1 year experience in related position.

• Knowledgeable about Business management, Customer Service and Social Media Management

• A young and matured female. Not more than 27 years

• Excels at building and maintaining sales relationships, online and offline.

• Demonstrates winning Social Customer Service techniques such as empathy, patience, advocacy and conflict resolution.

• Must be conversant with social media and digital marketing tools.

• A team player with the confidence to take the lead and guide other employees when necessary. (ie: content development, creation and editing of content, and online reputation management).

• Maintains excellent writing and language skills.

• Extremely organized

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills



Minimum Qualification Requirements- Minimum OND
Minimum Experience- 1 year
Salary- ₦30,000

Send CV to jobapplyabuja@gmail.com

Boutique in Abuja

Responsibilities

• Manage internal and external communications (phone calls, emails, letters)

• Manage client relationship and send reports and updates

• Manage business’s social media platforms - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

• Excellent Record Keeping

• General Business Management

Requirements and Skills

• A female Business Manager/Social Media Manager with at least 1 year experience in related position.

• Knowledgeable about Business management, Customer Service and Social Media Management

• A young and matured female. Not more than 27 years

• Excels at building and maintaining sales relationships, online and offline.

• Demonstrates winning Social Customer Service techniques such as empathy, patience, advocacy and conflict resolution.

• Must be conversant with social media and digital marketing tools.

• A team player with the confidence to take the lead and guide other employees when necessary. (ie: content development, creation and editing of content, and online reputation management).

• Maintains excellent writing and language skills.

• Extremely organized

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills



Minimum Qualification Requirements- Minimum OND
Minimum Experience- 1 year
Salary- ₦30,000

Send CV to jobapplyabuja@gmail.com

We have new stock coming in and we have decided to sell out our current stock we just purchased at wholesale prices.

Items are ladies shoes and clothing.

With a dollar at the rate of $485 today, this is a good opportunity to buy low cost.

Interested persons should contact us at wholesaleitems33@gmail.com

We will not entertain unserious buyers.

Thanks

A retail Pharmacy located in Abuja is seeking to hire a resourceful, diligent and dedicated pharmacist to run the pharmacy.

Requirements:
The applicant should possess the following qualities: amiable, confident, hardworking with 3-5 years working experience in any reputable retail pharmacy, (managerial skills would be an added advantage).
The applicant must be able to work with minimal or no supervision.
The applicant must also be able to build/improve client relationship.

The applicant must be ready to carry out the following:

Identify drug interactions in prescriptions
Drug and patient counselling
other functions carried on by a Pharmacist

Applicants should send CVs to clickerhub@gmail.com

There are a great number of legal issues associated to businesses, in particular the registration of one. To comply with the various legislations governing the registration of businesses in Nigeria, please feel free to ask any questions you seek clarification on and I will be of assistance at No COST. Send all legal inquiries to crestsolicitors@gmail.com

I will not entertain spam mails!!! If you send a mail total totally unrelated to the the above post. Appropriate sanctions will be taken against your email address.

Thank you.

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Hi all,

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adorable29: I agree with some of d points but disagree wit some others! Firstly, everybody can't be rich. There are goin to be poor ones till eternity. Secondly are you sayin pastors shouldn't be blessed with wealth? Well, i think they "worked hard" 4 their money after all not all pastors are rich. Suffice to say that not all wealthy pastors are fake... Anyway, who are we to judge?

"worked hard for their money" wrong statement

ooshinibos:

IT IS SCRIPTURAL FOR A CHRISTIAN OR PASTOR TO BE RICH , PEOPLE DONT COMPLAIN ABOUT RICH IMAMS AND MUSLIM when a christian is rich the devil panicks , I PRAY THAT ALL MY PASTORS BE ABUNDANTLY RICH MORE THEN THEIR ENEMIES

which scripture?

domcarez:
thanks bro for that wonderful question, no offence to the OP but undergraduates and graduates of the so called private universities always think high of themselves above their contemporaries in state or federal universities probably because they paid exorbitant fees to get admission withou necessarily going through the rigors of writing jamb,post ume and enduring the nonchalant attitude of some staffs of govt schools. Bottom line is, u guys have not tasted the bitter side of university life which is occassioned by constant struggle for survival resulting to a complete individual. Private Universities are business establishments,take it or leave it.

i smell beef...nawa! if you cant answer the poor Lad's question just zip it!!! the fact that you could not afford a private school does not mean u can talk trash!!! Nigerians and their low thinking....mschwwwwwwwwwww

I need a PROFESSIONAL makeup artist who knows her job well in the east and Abuja. The makeup artist in the east is needed for a trad wedding ceremony in Anambra state (the person should be good in gele tying). An abuja based makeup artist is also needed for a white wedding event. makeup artists should also post their facebook link or website (if any) to view previous work done.

Thanks

I need a PROFESSIONAL makeup artist who knows her job well in the east and Abuja. The makeup artist in the east is needed for a trad wedding ceremony in Anambra state (the person should be good in gele tying). An abuja based makeup artist is also needed for a white wedding event. makeup artists should also post their facebook link or website (if any) to view previous work done.

Thanks

Are you between the ages of 18-24, do u reside in Abuja and are you interested in making money by the side. if you are, we encourage you to apply for the positions of ushers and waiters for events. application is fast and easy. no certificate is required as long as you are fluent in English and possess a good communication skill. interested applicants should send the following information to clickerhub@yahoo.com

a. Full name
b. Age
c. Phone no
d. position applied for (either the position of an usher or waiter)

you will be contacted via mail once your mail is received.

Regards

Hi all,

pls can someone tell me a very lovely wedding venue in Abuja. i noticed that Abuja has limited event centers. pls your input is appreciated. thanks all..

if you use dstv at home and u missed the assumption mass, it is showing on EWTN CHANNEL 348. GOD BLESS AS YOU WATCH!

if you use dstv at home and u missed the assumption mass, it is showing on EWTN CHANNEL 348. GOD BLESS AS YOU WATCH!

The Error of the Protestant Lie:
"But as for the cowardly and unbelieving, and abominable and murderers, and fornicators and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their portion shall be in the pool that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." Revelation 21:8, ignored by all liars. See Rev 21:27 also.

It is a foregone conclusion that Jesus Christ founded only one Church.

1) Why then, do Protestants ignore this fact and continue to splinter the Body of Christ?

2) There is no Protestant who can trace his or her church back any farther than the Protestant revolt of the early 16th century.
Where is the verse which authorized them to break from the true Church in the first place?

3) No Protestant can show that their church was founded by Jesus Christ, yet Scripture says there is only one Church, the one founded by GOD (Psalms 127:1, Matthew 16:18).

4) They deny that the Catholic Church is the Church which Jesus Christ founded, yet they cannot name the Church which He did found in its stead. Isn't it strange that Scripture has said that GOD's Church will last forever (Isaiah 2:2,59:21, Matthew 28:20, Ephesians 3:21), and yet Protestants refuse to name it? If Scripture can be believed at all, why then do they refuse to name GOD's one and only Church?

5) They cannot name the person who founded the Catholic Church while at the same time they deny that it was Jesus Christ. That is strange also, since every Church on earth was founded by a person with a name. Every single one of the tens of thousands of Protestant sects can be traced back to a human person with a name, as its founder. Why is it that Protestants refuse to name the founder of the Catholic Church?
Isn't that the epitome of arrogance as I touched upon in a previous segment?

6) Why do Protestants spread the lie that the Catholic Church apostatized soon after the last Apostle died, and therefore the Church of today is not the one that Jesus Christ founded?
This lie flies in the face of Matthew 16:18, as Protestants must then have to admit that the 'gates of hell' did indeed prevail, that the Bible was in error, and that all of the verses I have previously listed that promise the perpetuality of Christ's Church must be in error as well. This so-called "great apostasy" lie is then magnified a hundredfold since no Protestant can produce genuine historical documents which record such a "monumental, universe shaking event". Every writer who was alive at the time had to have witnessed that supposed "profound event", and those who have lived ever since (up until the time that the lie was invented by Protestantism), did not write about it either. What with the "greatest event since the crucifixion" at hand, why didn't they? It is because it never happened, that's why. Simply put, "No lie is of the truth", 1John 2:21, so therefore no lie can be proven.
Scripture does say that people within Christ's Church will apostatize, but not the Church itself. For you see, it is impossible, since Christ is the Head, and the Church is His Body.
How could the Body of Christ rebel against, and leave His Head? They are inseparable forever.

"Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior." Ephesians 5:22-23
Okay Protestants, explain those verses? Is Christ really the Savior of His Body, or did He desert it as Protestantism would have us believe? Is Holy Scripture in error yet again according to Protestant false charges?
Are we to believe the Protestant lie, or the truth of the Word of GOD?
Do you recall the story of the wheat and the chaff, where the weeds will co-exist with the righteous up until the very end, and then they will be separated out and burned (Matthew 13:24-30)?

"For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it, for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized." 1Corinthians 11:18-19.
From those two verses we have a perfect example of the apostasy of individuals within the Church, those who cause divisions and factions. Now from what I have shown in many places in this writing, just who is the cause of divisions and factions? It is none other than Protestantism. Protestantism has already created over 36,000 divisions and factions, and which number is still increasing unceasingly every week to this very day.
Who are the 'genuine among you'?
They are the faithful of the one and only Church that Jesus Christ founded and which is still with us after almost 2000 years of persecution. Read Acts 5:38-39 for the reason why this longevity.
For those who continue to spread the lie of the so-called, and non-existent, "great apostasy", please re-read Revelation 21:8, and endeavor to explain Ephesians 5:23-24?

7) How many verses have I shown in this writing that Protestants ignore? Isn't it a lie to say that you follow Scripture literally to the word, and yet ignore so many Scriptural verses?

Why do Protestants take the whole Bible literally except for John chapter 6, which they call symbolic? One chapter in the whole Bible is symbolic? How can that be true?

9) How can Protestants say that Sola Scriptura has been in use from day one, when for over 1400 years almost no one had a Bible, and even if they did, the great majority of the masses were illiterate anyhow?

10) Since Protestants believe that "all Scripture is inspired (2Tim 3:16)", then why aren't the gospels of Peter, Philip, Nicodemus, Bartholomew, Andrew, Thomas, etc, in their Bible?

11) Where in Holy Scripture did Jesus give instructions that the Christian faith is to be solely based on a book? How about the same question except for using the Apostles instead of Jesus?

12) Why do Protestants say it is the Bible which is the pillar and foundation of truth when the Bible clearly says it is the Church (1Tim 3:15)? Please give me the name of that Church?

13) Why do Protestants reject Apostolic Tradition when the Bible clearly says, "So then, brethren, stand firm and hold the teachings that you have learned, whether by word or by letter of ours."
2Thessalonians 2:15, yet another verse ignored, and taught against by Protestantism.

14) Why do Protestants deny that the Bible came from the Catholic Church when they cannot name a truthful and provable alternate source, and where there are literally hundreds of genuine historical documents which prove them to be wrong in their denial?

15) Protestants deny that Peter was given primacy in Matthew 16:18. Nothing in Scripture is done without a purpose. For what purpose then, did Jesus change Simon's name to Peter?

16) Why do Protestants deny that the Papacy is Scriptural, when in fact, it is very Scriptural?

17) Why is it that Protestants can never supply genuine historical documents to "prove" their false charges? Is it because the lie can never be proven, but the truth can be?
It is simple, if you have no truth, then you have no proof.
Catholics can, and do, supply genuine historical documents to prove what they teach.
Why then do Protestants refuse to read them? Romans 1:18, 2:8

18) Why do Protestants deny the unbroken line of succession of Popes down through the centuries from St. Peter to the present Pope, when the Catholic Church has given free access for anyone to research genuine historical documents to prove it to be true, but Protestants refuse to read them? Anyone can go to a secular encyclopedia and see the same succession of Popes.

19) Why do Protestants deny that the Catholic Church has existed from the first century, when hundreds of genuine historical documents, written by scores of Holy men and women, are freely available to prove them wrong in their denial? However, Protestants simply refuse to read them. As explained earlier, Protestants teach that history ended with Acts 28:30 and did not begin again until Luther came along.

"But there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known."
Luke 12:2

"Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers (includes those who lie and reject the truth), and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then the righteous (those who follow the teaching of Christ through His one Church) will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear." Matthew 13:40-43

"Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation,
among whom youshineaslightsintheworld."
Philippians 2:14-15

naijadeyhia:


Hahaha hehehe read your own mediocre copy and paste material. If i need to know more about God i will go to God i will go to His Holy Spirit and not to some church simply because even the church draws inspiration from the Spirit of God. Catholic teachings indeed. Thank God you call it catholic teachings and not Gods teachings. Hold fast to your catholic teachings and i will do same to mine. The fire of God will try all and then we shall see.

thank you so much, so as u say we should hold fast to our faith, i advise that u should quit quoting any catholic on this page..stay on ur own lets practice our faith, for as long as you discredit, u will be corrected!!!

naijadeyhia: [size=15pt][b]The Catholic Church is Cursed![/size]

Galatians 1:9, “As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

Acts 10:43 simply states, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.” This is the simple Gospel, i.e., Good News of Christ crucified and risen. The Bible declares that all men are guilty sinners, guilty of breaking God's Laws (Romans 3:19-23), and that there is a penalty for those sins, which is death (Romans 6:23). But thanks be to God, in His wondrous love, God sent His only begotten Son into the world to pay for our sins. Jesus paid a debt that He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay. The Gospel is simply that we are sinners in need of a Savior, Who is Christ Jesus, the God-man, the Son of God.

Now the Catholic religion comes along and says something entirely different. The Vatican teaches that it's not enough to simply trust upon the Lord for salvation. They also require their followers to join the Catholic Church. Then the Vatican requires it's members to be water baptized and partake of holy mass and perform a total of seven sacraments in order to be saved. These sacraments are not optional in Catholicism; but are mandatory for salvation within their religion. Catholics are also required to do good works, help the unfortunate, recite the Rosary and live a good life to get to Heaven. If a Catholic sins, they are required to confess their sins to a Catholic priest in a confessional booth to absolve any mortal sins, to avoid going to Hell. Catholics believe that a person who commits suicide automatically goes to Hell because they can't ask the priest to forgive them. How absurd! Ladies and gentleman, that is all a false gospel which the Catholic Church teaches.

In fact, it is no church at all. There is only one true church and its the New Testament church which Jesus started, which is composed of only born-again believers. The true church is not found in a building made with hands; but in the heart of every born-again believer. Jesus said, “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).

In Galatians 1:9 the Apostle Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, plainly states that anyone who teaches a gospel different than the one taught in the Scriptures is CURSED! This means every Catholic priest is CURSED! The Pope is CURSED! Those who teach Mormonism, Buddhism, Baha'i Faith, Scientology, Seventh-Day Adventism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam are CURSED! All of these religions teach a false gospel, a false plan of salvation. Jesus proclaimed that the only way to God the Father is through Himself, i.e., through the Lamb of God Who shed His blood to pay for our sins and redeem us back to God (John 14:6). Amen!

The popular public opinion today is that no one has a right to criticize someone else's beliefs. Whatever happened to free speech? I have every right to criticize your beliefs, and you mine. Now I don't have a right to be mean or unkind to you, but you're going to accuse me of that anyway because I'm criticizing your beliefs. This is the nature of a free-speech society. People get upset. It is not unkind to criticize someone's beliefs or opinions. Only in a truly free society is it safe to be unpopular.

So I say to you, the Catholic Church is demonic, of the Devil and straight-out-of-the-pits-of-Hell. Luke 11:44,52, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them... for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.” Jesus ripped and scathed the religious hypocrites of His time, whom we still have with us today in larger numbers. Jesus said they are like open graves, traps, waiting for their next victim. The Lord accused them of corrupting the gospel to prevent people from getting saved. The gospel of the Catholic Church is a perverted gospel of death, a trap door leading into Hell, a cursed teaching.

Oh, listen my friend, if religion could save you and me, then Jesus wouldn't have had to bleed and die for our sins. Religion wants to fit us with glasses; but Jesus wants to open our eyes. You don't need the Catholic Church to go to Heaven, you just need Jesus. You don't need ANY religion or church to get to Heaven, you just need Jesus. You don't need good works to get to Heaven, you just need Jesus. You don't need water baptism to get to Heaven, you just need Jesus. You don't need to stop living in sin to go to Heaven, you just need Jesus. When Jesus saves you, then He'll do a work in your heart that'll cause you to want to stop living in sin; but all you need to be saved is Jesus. You don't need to keep the seven sacraments to get to Heaven, you just need Jesus. You don't have to confess your sins to a priest to be forgiven, you just need Jesus. JESUS! JESUS! JESUS![/b]

The Protestant Shopping for a Church Error:
We must search for the one Church which has objective truth, not one conforming to our individual subjective truth. We must conform to the will of GOD and not to our own personal beliefs and opinions.
That person fell right into that "If it feels good for me, it must be okay" mentality.
Protestants choose churches for all of the wrong reasons and here are some of them.
1. This one has better child care while I attend the services.
Yes but Jesus requested that the little children to come to Him, Matthew 19:13-15.
How can they when they are kept away from the services?
2. I like the singing in this one better. Yes but you cannot sing your way into heaven.
3. Mine has a better Sunday school. Yes but only if they teach the truth.
4. I like the preacher in mine. Yes but there are many likable preachers all over the place.
5. I enjoy the fellowship. Yes but GODship comes before fellowship.
6. I feel more comfortable with their beliefs because they fit better with my beliefs.
Need I say more?
7. The distasteful things like the existence of hell and other subjects are not mentioned.
Sometimes the truth hurts, but regardless of that, truth cannot be suppressed, Romans 1:18.
8. It is not authoritarian, and rigidly structured.
Yes but the absence of authority breeds chaos, as we have already seen in Protestantism.
9. Believe it or not, I have heard, "I like mine because it has a parking lot which is easier to exit".
How is that for an excuse?
10. Then there is the error of the heresy of indifferentism, a false belief that all religions are of equal validity. Therefore, it does not matter to which one I shall go, so I will pick the nearest one.

The only valid reason to search for a Church is to find the true and only Church, the one which the Lord GOD, Jesus Christ founded. We must not labor in vain in those churches which were not founded by GOD, but were founded by mere men or women, as Psalms 127:1 so clearly cautions.

naijadeyhia: [b]In the Catholic Catechism (part 3) you'll read the following words of blasphemy...

2132 The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, "the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype," and "whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it."[70] The honor paid to sacred images is a "respectful veneration," not the adoration due to God alone:

That is what Catholic men teach; but it's not what God says, “THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN THYSELF TO THEM.”

First of all, not bowing to a graven image is the 2nd command, not the first. The evil men who wrote the preceding Catholic Catechism deceitfully split the 10th commandment into two to make up for the missing 2nd commandment. Why are there two commandments telling us not to covet? It seems mighty strange don't you think? It's obvious what the Devil has done here. You can't just eliminate the 2nd Commandment!

Secondly, the quoted passage I have given you from the Catholic Catechism is blasphemy. God clearly warns us in Exodus 20:4-5 NOT to make unto ourselves ANY graven images.

Catholics attempt to justify their idolatry by comparing what they do to the brazen serpent in the Wilderness in Moses' time. The children of Israel had murmured (complained) so much that God decided to judge them with fiery serpents. 16,000 Israelites had already died and Moses pleaded with the Lord to spare Israel. God told Moses to fabricate a serpent made of brass, to hold it up before the Jews, and tell them to look unto the serpent to live. That serpent symbolized Jesus Christ, Who became as sin to save us.

This is why we read in John 3:14-15, "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." Carefully notice that the brazen serpent was God's idea, not Moses. God never told us ANYWHERE in the Word of God to make a statue of anyone nor anything. The Israelites were instructed to “look” to the serpent (which pictured Christ) so they could live. The people were NOT instructed to bow, honor, nor pray to the brazen serpent (statue).

It is sinful for Catholics to attempt to justify their idolatry by taking the incident of the brazen serpent out of context. The entire focus of the brazen serpent is to LOOK TO JESUS TO LIVE. Isaiah 45:22, " Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." It is a sin to look to Mary.

The Catholics can devilishly call their idolatry "Respectful Veneration" if they want to, but it's a direct violation of the 2nd Commandment (which they don't have in Catholicism). Anything can be justified if one is willing to twist the truth far enough. The FACT of the matter is that neither Jesus, nor any of the Apostles, elevated Mary in any capacity. Yet Catholics have created a monstrosity of adoration toward Mary, refusing to obey the Scriptures. Jesus Christ is magnified in the Word of God, not Mary. A standard Rosary contains 53 Hail Marys. It is sinful idolatry[/b]

The Protestant Failure to go to the Source Error, Keeps Them in Error:
When discussing the teachings of the Catholic Church, Protestants will invariably espouse what they have heard from other Protestants, while at the same time failing to go to the source of Catholic teaching, the Catholic Church itself, in order to find the truth of what it really teaches.
If you were going to buy a Ford, would you go to a Chevrolet dealer to ask his advice about the Ford? What would he tell you? No, an intelligent person would go to the source, the Ford dealer.
Why then, do Protestants not go to the Catholic Church to find the truth of Catholic teaching?
Ignorance of the Catholic Church is ignorance of Christ, since the Catholic Church is His body.

naijadeyhia: [b]"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats..." (1st Timothy 4:1-3). It's not difficult at all to EXPOSE the demonic Catholic faith if a person is simply willing to believe the Bible over Catholic tradition--but that's the BIG PROBLEM ... Jesus said in Matthew 15:9, "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." The Bible teaches that Peter had a wife (Matthew 8:14). Yet, Catholic priests are wrongfully denied the God-given privilege to marry. The results have been tragic.

It's almost impossible to convince a Catholic that all of their priests, archbishops, cardinals, and even the Popes are heretics. I can tell you with great certain my friend--they are all LIARS! How can I be so bold as to say such a thing? It's simply because I have in my hand the eternal, inspired, inerrant, infallible, preserved, Words of God. Most Catholics DON'T genuinely believe the Bible. Rather, they have sold their souls to a bunch of religious charlatans (priests) who commit blasphemy by claiming to have the power to forgive your sins.

Even the self-righteous hypocritical Pharisees knew better than to be so arrogant as to claim the power to forgive someone's sin ... "And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying ... Who can forgive sins, but God alone?" Woe unto the Catholic Church, for it is a prisonhouse of religion. Romans 10:3,4 proclaims, "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."[/b]

The Historical Black Hole Error:
Sir Isaac Newton was once asked how he managed to amass such great knowledge of his field in his lifetime. He replied, "Because I stood on the shoulders of giants".
Gaining knowledge in any field, including Theology is a continuous process (John 16:13), where one lays the foundation and others build upon it therein (1Corinthians 3:10). Mistakes are made along the way but conscientious followers profit from those mistakes and knowledge increases. Protestantism however, being severely handicapped by the ball and chain of Sola Scriptura, makes no use of those "giants" who went before them for the first fifteen hundred years of Christianity. Theological progress and past mistakes and errors are ignored as if they did not even exist.
Protestants are saddled with an historical fifteen hundred year Black Hole.
So what is the end result?
The errors of the past are repeated and progress in truth is hindered and stifled.
To be successful in any endeavor, historical successes and historical failures and errors are not to be ignored, for that is how knowledge progresses.
Those who fail to profit from the errors of others who went before them are doomed to repeat those same errors again, and in so doing take steps backward instead of forward.
Those who fail to profit from historical successes are doomed to re-invent the wheel again and again.

"All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already, in the ages before us. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after."
Ecclesiastes 1:8-11

Protestants are afraid to read authentic historical documents written before their revolt in the 16th century, because they fear what they may find written therein.
One of the most famous converts to the Catholic Church from Protestantism, Cardinal John Henry Newman, wrote in his introduction to his "Development of Doctrine" treatise,
"To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant". Newman set out to "prove" from historical documents that Anglicanism was the "true" church, the Church which Jesus Christ founded. What he found by extensive researching of genuine historical documents was that it was not the Anglican church which Jesus Christ founded, but the Catholic Church. From the overwhelming evidence which he found, he immediately converted to the "true Church", the Catholic Church.

What happened to the Christian Church after Acts 28:30? Aren't you the least bit interested? Did historical progress of the Christian Church end abruptly there and then? Absolutely not!
Show me a period in Church history where the events of the time were not recorded by historians and scribes?

I challenge all Protestants to read what has been recorded regarding the history of Christianity, and to start with genuine historical writings beginning in the first and second centuries. These are available for free on the Internet.

Aren't you the least bit interested in your Christian heritage, the struggles and martyrdoms of your Christian ancestors who led us to where we are today? If you call yourself a Christian, you certainly should be. Put yourself in John 16:12-13 and note that the verses use future tense, which means coming revealed truths by the Holy Spirit. It is the development of Scriptural doctrine over many centuries. These century by century incremental steps are recorded in many authentic historical documents and are available for all to see. Read for yourself the progress of knowledge of the original primitive Christian Church down through the centuries.
I must add that if you refuse to read the history of Christianity, then you must have a closed mind.

The Protestant "Once Saved Always Saved" Error:
Are you saved? This is what some Protestants will ask you. Anyone who thinks they are automatically "saved" simply by declaring that Jesus Christ is their personal Lord and Savior is grossly mistranslating Holy Scripture, and is committing a sin of presumption. It is GOD alone who knows who is "saved" and who is not. No human creature can declare themselves as being "saved". That false doctrine is a fabrication of Protestantism and cannot be found written anywhere before the Protestant revolt. Salvation is an on-going process throughout our entire lives as Holy Scripture clearly has told us. Read 1Corinthians chapter 13, as it tells us that we must have faith, hope, and charity (13). If we are automatically "saved", then what is the purpose of hope?
Sola Fides, or "saved by faith only" is taught by many Protestants. However, that false man-made Protestant doctrine cannot be found anywhere in the Bible. In fact, the only place in the entire Bible where the words "faith" and "only" are found together is in James 2:24, where it says,
"You see that by works a man is justified, and NOT by faith only."
That verse was a thorn in Martin Luther's side. He called the book of James a "straw epistle", which meant it was worthy of burning, and he wanted to remove it from Scripture. It must have been an embarrassment to him since he had added the word "alone" to Romans 3:28, in his German translation of the Bible, in order to have it support his false "justified by faith alone" doctrine. James 2:24 is still ignored or rejected altogether by many Protestants.

"You are my friends if you do what I command you." John 15:14
"...work out your salvation with fear and trembling." Philippians 2:12
For those who think they are "saved" by faith only, how could they ever ignore those verses?
Both say very clearly that works are needed, and without works you are no friend of Jesus.
They also ignore a large part of Matthew 25 regarding the Last Judgment. Read vs 31-46 very carefully, as Jesus spoke of judging two groups, the sheep and the goats.
Notice that both groups believed, but only one group worked, and they were the sheep, and it was the sheep who were to be saved.
Be sure and do not overlook verses 41-46, as you will find therein where the goats were going to spend their eternity since they also believed, but did no work?
The goats believed, but were they saved by believing only, and without works?
Those who practice "once saved always saved" would have us believe that they were.

The Protestant Acceptance and Rejection of Holy Scripture Error:
This is known as Smorgasbord or Cafeteria Christianity. I have already presented several verses which are rejected or ignored by Protestants.
"I will accept this verse because it feels good (again) for me, and I will reject that verse because it does not fit in with what I believe", so they say. I have already presented many verses of Scripture that are completely ignored by Protestants. By their actions, rather than by their words, they contradict their claim to follow Scripture to the letter.

Here is just a sampling of several more verses which Protestants either reject or ignore in addition to those already mentioned:

Matthew 16:18, Jesus said He would found "A" Church. He did not say churches did He?

Matthew 18:15-18, It is the Church which is the final authority.
Why do Protestants say it is the Bible which is their final authority?
Where does the Bible say that it is the final authority?

John 10:16, And there shall be ONE fold and ONE shepherd.
Where did Jesus say there shall be 36,000+ folds as there are in Protestantism today?

Luke 1:48
"For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; "
"Henceforth" means from the moment she said it. "All generations" is all of humanity from the time she said it until the end of time. The word "will" is a command and not a mere suggestion.
In all of my stack of correspondence from Protestants regarding the Mother of GOD, from many years ago to the date of this writing, not a single Protestant has ever called her blessed. I must point out a second time that this verse is not a suggestion, but a command, and it is a command from GOD. The Archangel Gabriel called her blessed in Luke 1:28. Angels speak for GOD. Elizabeth called her blessed in Luke 1:42, and those words of hers came from being filled with the Holy Spirit in the previous verse. GOD called her blessed more than once, so what possible excuse can Protestants, who claim to faithfully follow Holy Scripture to the letter, have to not call her blessed as well?
Dear Protestant; Do you call her blessed? No? Then why are disobedient to Holy Scripture?

John 6:53, So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you;"
Did He say to eat and drink a symbol of His flesh and blood? What does the "Truly, Truly, I say to you" mean to you? We have already established that truth is a person. That person is Jesus Christ. When "Truth" Himself said "truly", twice in that verse, is that indicative of being a symbolic statement, or of a reality?
Do you "truly truly" believe what "Truth" Himself said here?
Or perhaps, are you one of those in John 6:66 who refused to believe Him and walked away from Him, abandoning His truth? Did you notice the 666 connection in that verse?
It is too bad that Protestants do not see the typological connections between the Old and New Testaments. Did the Hebrews and Jews "symbolically" sacrifice animals, or did they, in fact, sacrifice real animals? Read the book of Leviticus and find out for yourself.

1Corinthians 10:16, "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?"
Where is the symbolism found in this verse or anywhere in the context?

1Corinthians 11:29, "...he who eats and drinks unworthily, without distinguishing the body eats and drinks judgment to himself." How could a mere symbolism be a cause of judgment?

Malachi 1:11, all day in every place there is offered sacrifice, and there is offered in my name a clean oblation. How many Protestants sects offer sacrifice at all, let alone every day?

Matthew 28:19-20 says that Jesus Christ will be with His Church every day in every century until the end of time. This theme is repeated in Ephesians 3:21 and in John 14:16. Why then do Protestants insist that the Church which Jesus Christ founded apostatized at some unspecified time after the last Apostle died? By saying this, aren't they calling Jesus Christ a liar?
"He who does not believe the Son, makes Him a liar." 1John 5:10

There are over 50 verses in the Bible in which hell is mentioned. Matthew 23:33, Mark 9:43, and Luke 10:15, are but three examples. Yet in some Protestant sects the existence of hell is denied. Imagine how much space in the Holy Bible those 50 plus verses and the related verses cover, and you can readily see that a large segment of Holy Scripture is denied by them.

1Corinthians 11:22 warns not to despise the church of GOD, "What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the Church of GOD and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not."
Later in this essay, I will show you how some Protestant sects do indeed despise the "Church of GOD" by calumnizing it and spreading lies about it.

Here is another ignored verse along those same lines,
"Do not be a stumbling-block to Jews and Greeks and to the Church of GOD."
1Corinthians 10:32

Throughout this document, I have listed many more verses which are ignored by Protestants.

The Mis-interpretation of Holy Scripture Error by the protestants:
There are several things which must be taken into consideration when interpreting Holy Scripture, and many of them are ignored by Protestants.
1. The Senses of Scripture. Should the passage be taken literally, allegorically, as a parable, etc?
Most Protestants will take the whole Bible literally, except for John chapter 6, of which they say it is symbolic.
2. The meaning of the words used at the time of writing are not necessarily the same meaning of the words today.
3. History plays a big role in proper Scriptural interpretation. The nature and customs of those of which Scripture speaks must be taken into account.
4. The true meanings of what the authors had in mind are sometimes lost in translation from one language to another. Words in one language sometimes have no exact counterpart in another language and a word is chosen by compromise as "closest" in meaning, that is according to the one who is doing the translating. Frequently, the ancient Greek and Hebrew texts must be consulted in order to ascertain the true meanings of the words of Scripture.
5. Many Protestant sects will attempt to conform Holy Scripture to their false teaching, rather than to conform their teaching to the truth of Scripture.

Some of the false charges made by Protestants against the Catholic Church, due to their mis-interpretation of Holy Scripture. Cases in point:
*Mary had "other children".
*Holding to the Sabbath.
*Peter had no Primacy.
*The Papacy is not scriptural.
*The Catholic Church could not be the Church which Jesus Christ founded, as it does not match what Scripture says regarding the primitive Church.
*The Holy Eucharist is merely a symbol and could not be the Body of Christ. Didn't Jesus Christ say in many verses that it is His Body? Did He say anywhere that it was only a symbolic gesture?
*The seven churches mentioned in Revelation 2 and 3 are said to be various Protestant churches. That is one of the most ridiculous claims of all, with Protestants grasping at straws, and using wishful thinking. To make it simple, by using today's English, those seven Churches were parishes in different cities of the same one Church which Jesus Christ founded. In easy to understand terms, they were all founded by the same Apostles who were all infused with the same truth by the same Holy Spirit at the same time at Pentecost. They all taught only one truth, so all of those Churches were in the same one fold, and were not in seven different opposing Protestant folds.
The seven Churches are merely an extension of Acts 1:8 where Jesus said this to the Apostles:
"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem (local) and in all Judea and Sama'ria (expanding to surrounding areas) and to the end of the earth (expanding over the whole earth)."
How could this ever be accomplished except by establishing Churches in all areas of the world?

The Protestant Out of Context Error:

Protestants have a bad habit of taking Holy Scripture out of context when they try to make a point.

CONTEXT: The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage AND DETERMINES ITS MEANING.
Protestants invariably will choose a verse or two from Scripture in a vain attempt to "prove" a point. They are oblivious to the surrounding text which gives a different, or usually opposite meaning to their chosen verse or phrase. They will also omit key information and in so doing slant the truth.
Some examples are...
Sola Scriptura: They will use 2Timothy 3:16-17 to try to justify it, but taken in context, those two verses portray an entirely different meaning.
There is no justification for Sola Scriptura whatsoever in those two verses.
One Mediator: They use 1Timothy 2:5 to "prove" this, but taken in context, 1Timothy 2:1, indicates many intercessors. The Blessed Virgin Mary is an intercessor."
Call no man your Father, taken out of context.
The "brothers and sisters" of the Lord, taken out of context.

A text without a context is simply a pretext and nothing more.

The Error of Bringing GOD Down to Our Mere Human Level:
1) The Blessed Virgin Mary could have not been immaculately conceived.
2) She could not have been ever virgin.
3) She could not have been assumed into Heaven.
4) There was no miracle of the loaves and fishes, as each of the 5000 had a sandwich in his pocket.
This rejection of a genuine Biblical miracle leads to another related rejection:
5) "This is My Body" could not possibly be His real body, for it would be used up in no time in millions of communions, so it has to be a symbolic gesture.

These and many more denials of Catholic teaching come from Protestant scoffers and doubters as they attempt to transpose Divine miraculous happenings into mere human undertaking.
What these scoffers and doubters are really saying, is that, 'He who has created the universe and everything in it out of nothing, and sustains it all by virtue of His will, found it to be impossible do these things'.
In their denial of the examples which I have listed, Protestants have done nothing other than to impose limits upon an unlimited GOD.

The scoffers and doubters with their narrow and limited insights, ignore these words of GOD,
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9

The Protestant Never Ending Splitting of the Body of Christ Error:

The errors of "rule by personal opinion", the "Holy Spirit told me", "Sola Scriptura", and "rejection of authority", all lead to chaos, confusion, and to divisions of the one Body of Christ.
Where there is rule by personal opinion among millions of people, you will have millions of differing personal opinions which leads to utter chaos.
Where everyone thinks he or she is right because the "Holy Spirit told me", there is bound to be all three spirits involved. Who is right and who is wrong when all think they are right?
When everyone is practicing Sola Scriptura, they limit themselves to Scripture only, and again personal opinions enter into the picture, so whose opinion do we accept?
Where there is no GOD given authority, and a dispute between factions cannot be settled amicably, the factions of personal opinion split, creating yet more factions. This is precisely why Jesus Christ founded His one teaching Church and gave it the authority (Matthew 18:17-18) to settle disputes of which Scripture tells us were inevitable to arise (1Corinthians 11:19).

Where there is GOD given authority, a dispute is settled by that authoritative body.
Where there is no GOD given authority, a dispute is not settled. The opposing parties simply split and form new sects, and thus is revealed the main reason why there are 39,000 splits of the Body of Christ in Protestantism. "Has Christ been divided?", 1Corinthians 1:13.

When Martin Luther came along and broke from the Church which Jesus Christ founded, which had already existed for almost fifteen hundred years, and which was on its 218th in a line of Popes going all the way back to St. Peter, he created the first Protestant church. It was 1521. He was not alone in doing this but almost immediately he and Thomas Munzer had a "difference of opinion" and Munzer broke from Luther and formed the second Protestant church, also in 1521. The splits in Protestantism had begun and continue at a feverish pace to this very day. In 1600 there were 100 splits. In 1900 there were over 1000. Today there are at least 39,000 splits in the Body of Christ in Protestantism with new ones being added every week, and the end is not in sight.
"Has Christ been divided up?" 1Corinthians 1:13, yet another verse ignored by Protestants.
This is the legacy one receives as a "reward" for 'rule by opinion' which is forbidden by scripture, insisting that 'the Holy Spirit told me' when He did not, 'Sola Scriptura' which is not scriptural, and 'rejection of an authoritative governing body', which is against the commands of Scripture
(Matthew 18:17, Hebrews 13:17).

"He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters."
Matthew 12:30, Luke 11:23
With, 39,000 different non-Catholic sects in the world today, just who is doing the scattering?
It is obvious from the verses listed that 'he who scatters' is against the gatherer, Jesus Christ.

Protestants who claim to follow Holy Scripture literally, practice a false man-made doctrine which they have labeled Sola Scriptura or "Bible Only", a term virtually unknown before the Protestant revolt of the early sixteenth century. In other words, they say that the Bible is all they need or want because they claim it contains everything necessary for salvation. Anything outside of the Bible is immaterial and should simply be ignored or discarded. By taking such a narrow view of salvation history, they have boxed themselves in to a limited knowledge of Christianity. This grave limitation exposes them to increased and compounded error, because for them to believe in anything, therefore, they must be able to find it in the Bible. However, the very doctrine of Sola Scriptura itself, is not to be found anywhere in Holy Scripture, as I have documented in the above two links. That being the case, how could anyone practice it and not be accused of hypocrisy?

"The Lord says, "These people worship me with their mouths and honor me with their lips. But their hearts are far from me, and their worship of me is based on rules made by humans."
Isaiah 29:13
"Jesus told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites in Scripture: 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is pointless, because their teachings are rules made by humans.' ""
Mark 7:6-7
The fact that the man-made "rule" of Sola Scriptura cannot be found in Scripture proves it to be a "rule made by humans", and this makes it diametrically opposed to Holy Scripture and the words of Jesus Christ.

Since Scripture is not self authenticating, and is not self teaching*, and does not specify which books within it are inspired, how can the Protestant know that the book to which he holds is inspired at all?
*Acts 8:30-31, 2Peter 3:16

Sola Scriptura has failed this most basic test. It is not Biblical. It is certainly not historical before the Protestant revolt. It could not possibly have worked before the invention of the printing press when Bibles became plentiful. It could not possibly have worked when 95% of the masses were illiterate. From the evidence I have presented in this essay, it simply could not, and does not, and never will work. Protestantism fabricated this false man-made doctrine of Sola Scriptura simply because they have nothing else to work with.

The Protestant Rejection of Authority Error:
"He who hears you, hears me; and he who rejects you, rejects me; and he who rejects me, rejects him who sent me." Luke 10:16
That is authority!
Powerful words from the mouth of Jesus Christ to his disciples, the leaders of His Church.
Those who hear His Church, hear him, is what Jesus Christ said in that verse.
Conversely, those who do not hear his Church, do not hear him. If you are interested to know what will be the fate of those who reject His Church, then read the context in Luke 10:1-15.

Holy Scripture has a lot to say about authority, as to just who has it and who does not, and how important a central authority is to the understanding of truth.
However, Protestants have consistently rejected all authority. They simply rejected what they never could have had from the onset of their revolt. However, rejection of authority is anti-Christian and anti-Bible. Since they have rejected his Church, haven't they rejected Jesus Christ and the Father as well? Luke 10:16 has clearly told us that they have.

"Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment."
Romans 13:1-2

"Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you."
Hebrews 13:17
Was Martin Luther and the other leaders of the Protestant revolt obedient as this verse demands?

"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector."
Matthew 18:15-17
So what does this verse tell us as to where the final authority is to be found? What is the name of that Church, since it is still with us? To what Church would you go in order to obey the command of Jesus Christ in those verses if you lived in 110, or 450, or 1025, or 1490? Can you name it?

There are many verses which warn against forsaking GOD given authority regarding His Assembly (O.T.) or Church (N.T.) which He bestowed upon prophets such as Moses
Exodus 3-40, and on the Apostles John 20:21-23, and to their successors, Hebrews 13:7-8, 13:17.
Read of Mariam and Aaron as they complained against the authority of Moses in
Numbers 12:1-15, (3) "Is it through Moses alone that the Lord speaks? Does he not speak through us also?"
GOD became angry with this remark, since He had previously chosen to speak through his one and only father figure, His "vicar" on earth, Moses. Consequently he turned Mariam into a leper.
Read of the rebellion of Korah against the GOD given authority of Moses in Numbers 16, and pay especial attention to what happened to Korah, and to his followers in Numbers 16:31-35.
His ending, and that of his followers is not pretty to say the least.

Which person in any of the now 39,000 Protestant sects has any authority at all?
Who has the over all authority to separate truth in teaching from the pitfall of error?

The rejection of authority is merely a Protestant defense mechanism. Since they obviously knew that they had no authority to begin with, they simply elected to reject all authority. However, their rejection of authority is highly anti-Christian and anti-Biblical, as I have shown.
For those who claim to follow the Bible only, how is it that they cannot see this?

The "Holy Spirit Told Me" Error by protestants


There are three "Spirits" from whom we may receive prompting. They are:
1. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth. 1John 4:6
2. The human spirit within each one of us. 1Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 4:12
3. The evil or Demonic spirit which comes from Satan, the spirit of error. 1John 4:6

All of Holy Scripture was written by people who were inspired by the Holy Spirit. This being so, the Bible is inerrant. It has to be, as it came to us under the inspiration of GOD.
Psalms 127:1 is Holy Spirit inspired and it says that there is only one Church, the one founded by GOD Himself, and that in all others, the members labor in vain. Isn't it interesting that teachings of the Old Testament are stressed anew in the New Testament? Ephesians 4:1-6 repeats what is said in Psalms with a list of many "ONES" including only ONE faith in verse 5. These verses have clearly said that the Holy Spirit guides only the one Church which GOD founded, and none other.
See John 16:13, "When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come."
There are hundreds of millions of Protestants, all interpreting Scripture individually by mere personal opinion, and with all of them claiming "The Holy Spirit Told Me".
How can this possibly be, when every doctrine taught by one sect is denied by another, except for the existence of GOD? One claims the "spirit" told them to worship on Saturday, another makes the same claim except they were told Sunday. One says the "spirit" told them not to baptize infants. Yet another makes the same claim from the "spirit", but insists they were told just the opposite, they must baptize infants.
One claims they were "told" to have communion once a week, yet another was "told" once a month, and yet a third was "told" quarterly. You can readily see that I could go on and on down through the whole list of beliefs and find one which teaches one way and another to the contrary.
Since GOD is one, with only one truth and with only one Holy Spirit, how could that one Spirit of truth be prompting those who have contradicting viewpoints? Again, we look to Holy Scripture for the answer.
"And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him." Acts 5:32. See Acts 15:8 also.
Aha, so the Holy Spirit is given only to those who obey GOD. And who are they? In what I have shown so far, how can any of those sects with opposing viewpoints, be in obedience to the one truth of GOD?
Was Martin Luther in obedience to his superiors (Hebrews 13:17) when he started the Protestant revolt all the while blaspheming his superiors at the same time?
Just who do you suppose is creating all of this confusion between the Protestant sects?
The answer is that the Holy Spirit cannot, and will not, for GOD cannot deceive us, Isaiah 53:9, Hebrews 6:18, 1Peter 2:22, and He certainly cannot contradict Himself, 2Timothy 2:13.
Since truth is one, GOD cannot lie, Titus 1:2. There cannot be opposing viewpoints with each claiming to be of the truth. Common sense tells us that in at least half of the opposing viewpoints the truth has to be compromised.
So now, just who is the liar and the Father of Lies? See John 8:44 for the answer.
1Corinthians 14:33, "For God is not the author of confusion..."
If GOD is not the author of confusion, then who is?
I would suggest that you re-read Psalms 127:1 and Ephesians 4:1-6 again, for of the three choices of "spirits who told me", we have eliminated the first one. There are only two choices left.
Which one of those remaining two is prompting Protestantism?

The Protestant Personal Opinion Error:
Why are there now at least 39,000 different Protestant sects in the world today?
The answer to that question can be found in Holy Scripture:

"You shall not do as we are now doing; here, everyone does what seems right to himself..."
Deuteronomy 12:8, a verse ignored by Protestants since they do these things.

"In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what he thought best."
Judges 17:6, 21:25, verses accepted by Protestants.

"Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation. For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Spirit."
2Peter 1:20-21, ignored by Protestants.

"They came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you are not concerned with anyone's opinion. You do not regard a person’s status but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth..."
Matthew 22:16, Mark 12:14, ignored by Protestants.

"(13) And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? (14) But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets. (15) Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? (16) Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. (17) And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. (18) And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (19) And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven."
Matthew 16:13-19

The above verses are a prime example of personal opinions contrasted with doctrinal truth.
In verse 14 through 17, all but one of the disciples had nothing to offer but personal opinions expressed by mere human creatures (as it is read in vs 14, 'some', 'other some', 'others', and in vs 17, 'flesh and blood'), and ALL OF THEM WERE WRONG, save for one, Simon Peter.
Simon Peter was the only one to receive this revelation from GOD, and in so doing he was the only one to express the truth, by GOD given authority. Since GOD never changes, who would have the audacity to be so bold as to deny that GOD does the same today as He did then, by giving His one representative of authority on earth the fullness of doctrinal truth?

"For GOD is true, and every man is a liar..." Romans 3:4

Now that we know what Holy Scripture has said, what do Protestants, who claim to follow Holy Scripture, do about these verses? All of Protestantism is based solely on personal opinions of men and women, and not on doctrinal truth. "If it feels good for me, then that is all that matters", so they say. So where does an attitude like this lead them, but to differences of opinion, squabbling, and finally endless splitting of the Body of Christ. Go back and re-read those verses above.
GOD is not concerned with anyone's personal opinion, but only for those who speak His doctrinal truth.

Protestants attack the Catholic Church by saying there is no need of a Pope. Well, they should look in their own back yard first, because each Protestant acts as his or her own pope. There are millions of "popes" in Protestantism, and all of them are running around claiming that their personal opinion regarding the interpretation of Scripture is the truth. Are there really millions of truths? I thought Holy Scripture said there was only one truth.
Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, lamented as he said these things after he had seen the damage that individual interpretation of Holy Scripture had done to his movement,
"This one will not hear of Baptism, and that one denies the sacrament, another puts a world between this and the last day: some teach that Christ is not God, some say this, some say that: there are as many sects and creeds as there are heads. No yokel is so rude but when he has dreams and fancies, he thinks himself inspired by the Holy Ghost and must be a prophet."
De Wette III, 61. quoted in O'Hare, THE FACTS ABOUT LUTHER, 208.
"Noblemen, townsmen, peasants, all classes understand the Evangelium better than I or St. Paul; they are now wise and think themselves more learned than all the ministers."
Walch XIV, 1360. quoted in O'Hare, Ibid, 209.

So what are they to do?
Scripture has very loudly and explicitly told them what to do and what not to do:
Stop "doing your own thing".
Stop the "If it feels good for me it must be true" mentality.
Stop the incessant and destructive individual interpretation of Holy Scripture which is forbidden by Holy Scripture itself.
Be obedient to what Scripture has admonished you to do.

So how do they get back to doctrinal truth as GOD demands from all of us?
Truth is one and it is a person. There is only one truth.
To have only one truth you have to have only one authority, the same one authority which was given to Simon Peter alone.
Is the Holy Spirit really prompting millions of Protestants, all of whom are interpreting Scripture for themselves on an individual basis, and with so many opposing viewpoints?

naijadeyhia:


[b]You need to know your History and draw inferences from them. Martin Luther took out books from the Apocrypha because there was no claim to them being divinely inspired. Let me give you some facts below:

The Roman Catholic Church did not officially canonize the Apocrypha until the Council of Trent (1546 AD).

This was in part because the Apocrypha contained material which supported certain Catholic doctrines, such as purgatory, praying for the dead, and the treasury of merit.

Not one of them is in the Hebrew language, which was alone used by the inspired historians and poets of the Old Testament.

Not one of the writers lays any claim to inspiration.
These books were never acknowledged as sacred Scriptures by the Jewish Church, and therefore were never sanctioned by our Lord.

They were not allowed a place among the sacred books, during the first four centuries of the Christian Church.

They contain fabulous statements, and statements which contradict not only the canonical Scriptures, but themselves; as when, in the two Books of Maccabees, Antiochus Epiphanes is made to die three different deaths in as many different places.

The Apocrypha inculcates doctrines at variance with the Bible, such as prayers for the dead and sinless perfection.

This is a test case example

And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchers of their fathers. And they found under the coats of the slain some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain. Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had discovered the things that were hidden. And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that the sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forasmuch as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of the sins of those that were slain. And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachmas of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection, (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,) And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. (2 Maccabees 12:39-46)

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Someone who believes:

The present roman catholic church organization in Rome is Christ's one true church established in 30 A.D.
The pope is a god-appointed head of the church on the earth.
The teachings and decrees of the pope as equal to the bible in authority.
The Catholic church as the infallible interpreter of scripture.
That tradition is equal to the bible in authority.

All HERESY

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If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away that person's share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. Revelation 22:19

All Christians - Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant - agree that the Books in the Bible are the inspired, written Word of God but disagree on which Books belong in the Bible. Specifically we do not agree on the Old Testament (OT) canon - the list of Books inspired by God. The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT. Protestant Christians do not accept these Writings as inspired by God and refer to them as the "Apocrypha".

Sometimes this problem is used to defame the Catholic Church. As an example, John Ankerberg and John Weldon in their book, The Facts on Roman Catholicism, write:

Catholicism teaches that Scripture involves more than the canon accepted by the Jews, Jesus and the Church of the first four centuries, i.e., the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament. [A&W, p.33]

Allegedly the Catholic Church added to the OT that Jesus used.

Now it may be true that Protestants share the same OT canon as Jews today; however, the situation was a little different during the time of Jesus. The Jews before the 2nd century A.D. did not appear to have a rigidly defined OT canon. In the words of James King West, a Protestant Bible scholar:

The Scriptures of Judaism were not, therefore, a precisely defined body of literature absolutely set apart from all other literature, but a central body of material, the Torah (i.e. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers & Deut.), which from the time of Ezra had remained fixed as... the Scriptures par excellence, surrounded by other interpretive material of varying degrees of importance and authority. [S&W, p. OT 432]

By the time of Christ, all Jews accepted the five Books of Moses - the Torah - as Scripture; however, Books, like Esther and Ecclesiastes, were debated. From the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Jews at Qumran apparently read and copied Tobit, The Letter of Jeremiah (Baruch 6) and Sirach as Scripture, while Esther is missing from the scrolls. [JBC, pp. 522 & 565] Unfortunately we can only speculate on what Jesus thought on this issue. No where in the New Testament (NT) does Jesus or His Apostles present a complete list of the OT Books or even discuss this issue.

Before the 2nd century, most Palestian Jews preferred a canon loosely similar to the Protestant OT; however, the Greek-speaking Jews preferred the larger canon found in the Greek Septuagint Bible - a 2nd-century B.C. Greek translation of the Hebrew Scripture. It was the "Bible" for the Greek-speaking Jews. When the Apostles began to evangelize the Greek-speaking Jews and Gentiles, they used the already established Septuagint as their Bible. Using the Hebrew Scripture would have been as effective as using a Russian Bible to evangelize Americans. The Septuagint served to bridge the culture gap. Quickly the Greek-speaking converts outnumbered the Hebrew Christians. Scholars also recognize that the NT writers quoted extensively from the Septuagint, e.g. Matt. 1:23. The Septuagint became the OT of the early Church. [S&W, p. OT 433]

Only after the destruction of the Temple and debates with Christians, the Pharisees at Jamnia finally limited the Hebrew Canon in the 2nd century A.D. - a century after the Resurrection of Christ. They restricted the Hebrew Canon to Books written before 400 B.C. in Hebrew. They also rejected the Septuagint claiming it to be corrupted by the Christians. [S&W, p. OT 433]

In the mid-2nd century, St. Justin Martyr in his Dialogue With Trypho commented on the difference between the Christian OT and the Hebrew Canon. Tertullian during this period also commented on this difference. [JBC, p. 523] These comments and concerns would have been inappropriate, if the early Christians and Jews shared the same OT canon.

The OT of the most ancient surviving Christian Bible manuscripts - Codex Vaticanus (4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (4th century) and Codex Alexandrinus (5th century) - are Greek Septuagint text. Apart from holes and missing pages, the Codex Vaticanus contains all the Books of the Catholic OT, except I and II Maccabees. The Codex Sinaiticus only lacks II Maccabees but also includes IV Maccabees. The Codex Alexandrinus contains all of the Catholic OT Books plus III and IV Maccabees. These manuscripts show that the Septuagint with its larger and looser canon was the OT "Bible" of the early Church.

In the 4th century, some Church fathers, especially those who debated with the Jews, like Jerome, favored the shorter Hebrew Canon. Some Church fathers like Ambrose and Augustine favored the larger canon of the Septuagint. Others like Gregory Nazianzen also excluded Esther from the Bible [JBC, p. 522]. Jerome while favoring the shorter canon, several times in his writings cited Books from the larger canon as Scripture. [S&W, p. OT 434] The Councils of Hippo and Carthage in the late-4th century were the first real attempts by the Church to end the confusion over the OT canon. The OT canon which they proclaimed is still found in Catholic Bibles today. The controversy continued but in 1441 the Council of Florence upheld this larger canon. In response to the Protestants, the Council of Trent definitively upheld the larger OT canon. [S&W, pp. OT 434-435; JBC, p. 517]

Now the Catholic Church is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also recognize these Books as inspired by God. In 1950 an edition of the OT containing all these Books was officially approved by the Holy Synod of the Greek church. Also the Russian Orthodox church in 1956 published a Russian Bible in Moscow which contained these Books. [JBC, p. 524] More details from a scholarly Protestant viewpoint can be found in The New Oxford Annotated Bible (Oxford, 1977).

Some Christians attempt to discredit these Books by pointing out apparent historical errors contained in them. [A&W, p. 33] It is common knowledge among scholars that Tobit and Judith contain obvious historical inaccuracies; however, these Books are recognized as didactic parables, like Jonah. It is also common knowledge among scholars that Daniel suffers from similar glaring historical inaccuracies, e.g. Daniel 1:1. [S&W, p. OT 419] Some scholars have suggested that both Daniel and Judith may actually be a disguised historical account of Antiochus Epiphanes [S&W, p. OT 462].

Other Christians may point to the immoral deceit of Judith in Judith 9:10-13 in an attempt to discredit this Book. [A&W, p. 33] Unfortunately the OT contains other less than edifying practices, for example: the deceit of Jacob in Genesis 27, incest in Genesis 19:32 and inhumanity in Psalm 137:9. Also in Hosea 1:2, God commands the prophet Hosea to marry a woman who would commit adultery. These OT events simply show the need for Jesus Christ. Finally we cannot use human reason alone to judge the Word of God.

In conclusion the Catholic Church did not add to the OT. The Catholic OT Canon (also the numbering of the Psalms) came from the ancient Greek Septuagint Bible. Protestants, following the tradition of the Pharisaic Jews, accept the shorter Hebrew Canon, even though the Jews also reject the NT Books. The main problem is that the Bible does not define itself. No where in the Sacred Writings are the divinely inspired Books listed completely. (The Table of Contents is the publishing editor's words, like the footnotes.) The Bible needs a visible, external authority guided by the Holy Spirit to define both the OT and NT Canons. This authority is the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. As St. Augustine writes, "I would not have believed the Gospel had not the authority of the Church moved me." [Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed.,