This is as great a picture as could exist when it comes to explaining what I have been trying to say to protestants and evangelicals…
Before you laugh at a book defending the Papacy of Saint Peter, ask yourself how many stupid and unsupportable doctrines, accepted by your church but rejected by the rest of Christ’s Church, you are determined to defend at all costs…
I would dare to say that, among my followers, there are very few who would stand up and defend the doctrine that declares that Peter was the first pope… Nonetheless, the photo posted here is of a book by a man who, having believed the doctrine, seeks to defend it…
You may laugh at that, but Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Protestants, and Charismatics all do exactly the same thing… We never seem to search for truth… we simply assume that the founders of our little group discovered “THE TRUTH”! We accept their “truth”, as being the “Ultimate Truth”, and we will defend that “truth” to the death…
Therefore, when we find a verse or passage that seems to line up with our accepted “truth”, we rejoice… We memorize those verses, put those verses on beautiful plaques and decorate our walls with them… we meditate on them, study them, and share them…
But, how many times have you seen a decretive poster bearing Matthew 24:9?
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.”
When we find a verse or passage that would seem to violate our accepted truth, we feel shocked and threatened… If we are no more than a church member, we will tell ourselves that such things are too great for us, go on and try to forget it. If we are a ThD professor at a prestigious denominational seminary, we will attempt, at all costs, to interpret that passage in such a way as to force it to agree with our accepted “truth”.
Many thousands of doctoral dissertations have been written in defense of accepted doctrine and denominational truth. The people who write these papers have no interest whatsoever in discovering the truth…
The Truth will set you free…
Accepted, exclusive, denominational truth will bind you tightly and imprison you forever…
How many verses and Bible passages have you cleverly reinterpreted, twisted, ground up and pounded until they fit your “truth”?
Scripture is ultimate truth. The doctrinal “truths” of your denomination are built on assumptions and presuppositions, they must never be blindly accepted as unquestionable truth…
David…
End Time Thinker 
David, how much I agree with this! but all I am in a position to say is to agree with scripture “The Spirit is the truth”. Thanks.
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