A good analogy is people in America who do Yoga stretches but they don't realize that Yoga is a religion. It simply refers to "structured worship" consisting of sufficient divinely revealed detail to actually carry it out in real life. What is regulated is that we read scripture. Where there is virtue, however, there also are harmony and unity, from which arise the one heart and one soul of all believers.271818 "However, one cannot charge with the sin of the separation those who at present are born into these communities [that resulted from such separation] and in them are brought up in the faith of Christ, and the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers . It's impossible. The ultimate and most effective Catholic apologetics argument against Protestantism. That Paul is addressing liturgical issues is clear from the fact that he is addressing Timothy on a whole host of church order issues, including the public reading of scripture, etc. Sola Scriptura might be thought of as the methodological doctrine of the Reformation, for Protestantism is said to be founded on Scripture Alone (as opposed to religious tradition), and its primary doctrinal teaching is Sola Fide– that salvation is by faith alone (apart from works). That's all well and good, but there are Protestants who have genuine and well thought out arguments. Catholic Truth! Christ is IN us, through the Holy Spirit, but we are also IN Christ. 100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura by Dave Armstrong No belief is more central to Protestantism than sola Scriptura, which says the Bible is the only infallible, authoritative source of Christian faith and practice. )Nick, you said: “The fact remains that it is a grave matter to not worship God as He has instituted worship. There is no making up a liturgy in the classical Reformed mind. They continued to celebrate valid sacraments. He did all this for you...including taking my sin, my punishment that I ever so deserve! Is the Church a visible, physically identifiable reality with an institutional government that keeps guard over doctrine and discipline, or is it a kind of invisible, loose union of various communities of Christians with different opinions on doctrinal questions and no institutional reality beyond the local level? Nick,In reply, I will again post this paragraph from the Catechism:819 "Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth"273 are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: "the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements. They will claim this is a very serious case of idolatry or blasphemy, etc. It's "developing." It is no surprise that Protestants 'dont see' this passage when they read the Bible, because in rejecting the Sacrifice of the Mass, they unwittingly threw out Divine Worship and instead replaced true worship with a Bible study. The Spirit unites us to Christ in heaven, we become part of His body, as St. Paul writes. Non-Catholic Christians ask people on earth to pray for them (2 Thess. Evangelism means doing what we can do to turn unbelievers into believers in Jesus--not promoting the papacy, the liturgy, the magisterium, the saints, Mary, the dignity of the priesthood, the Eucharist etc. In this post (Part 1) we will be tackling a myriad of questions for Catholics from Reformed Protestant Apologist, Matt Slick. So, at that time, all of the clergy of this “new” church were validly ordained Catholic clergy. And there is a lot of gray areas that get debated, such as predestination versus free will.We do not believe that Jesus actually was separated from the Father when He was on the Cross. I have recently become very interested in studying the Holy Mass/Divine Liturgy from many viewpoints e.g. Let me explain this more. We are commanded to praise God. Nick>>"To say a person can worship as little or much as he wants, however he wants, is to ultimately say God doesn't care about worship, which is obviously ridiculous. She then joined the Lutheran community.I'm not sure what their liturgy is like, and she has never invited me to attend with her. Continued from previous...>>But even Mark Taylor,a fairly intelligent poster, in his posts above can only produce a few fragments from scripture as some sort of sufficient "guidelines" which by themselves do not and could not possibly preclude any number of Liturgies Protestants would claim to be idolatrous. 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