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What would keep me from converting to Catholicism is that church's establishment of a separate tradition that isn't supported by the Scriptures like the ideas about Mary and praying to her and the saints. I understand that the church replaced a pagan Queen of Heaven with Mary at its beginning...

Why were you drawn to a Greek philosopher's teachings instead to to Jesus' teachings and to the whole Bible? Why is Plato so important to you?

It was his choice; we don't need to question it.

Some of those "sins" on that website are actual sins against God, for example, number eight about sex, which allows "intimate, consentual sex whether or not you're married" ignore God's commands, "You shall not commit adultery" (Old Testament) and "Flee sexual immorality" (New Testament), which...

The demons show us the tempting world and use our own sinful, self-centered natures to tempt us. We need to claim Jesus' victory over them through persistent prayer to the Father to be able to gain his power to reject their temptations as James commands us and gives us a promise in 4:7, "Resist...

It's never easy, but we can if we take God's viewpoint that they are God's creations and therefore worthy of our respect as fellow creatures.

Sin is self-centeredness. Therefore, when we oppose some action or idea 100% to honor God with no selfish motives at all, that's when Paul's description is fulfilled. But it requires the command because we are seldom righteously angry.

God doesn't talk to me directly with audible words. Sometimes, my thoughts are only mine, but many times God does pop ideas in agreement with his Word into my creative consciousness as his creative author.

Neither, I'm a man! :D

Of course, they are. God is their Creator and Judge, as he is with all humans. They are responsible for turning away from their Creator to trust in his creation instead of him (Romans 1:18 and following).

We'll see, but Trump did initiate the Abraham Accords to bring about peace.

That's true, but Paul also allowed for differences on more peripheral, disputable matters of practice, as in Romans 14. On the central, essential beliefs we must be unified: the Trinity, Jesus' divine and human natures, his death and resurrection as the only way to the Father's acceptance, and...

Yes, babies are born self-centered, which is my definition of sin. They demand that their needs be met. One example is when one of our children was a baby, he would cry when he was put to bed, even though his needs were all met. He would quiet down and then cry again to see if we would come and...

In my basement man cave, which has my desktop computer and large monitor.

I am always reading the whole Bible all the way through or the whole New Testament. God uses such an approach gives me the understanding of the wholeness of God's Word.

The letters by Paul and Peter are to the churches. Thus, one would expect encouragement and instruction in the Christian faith, especially since those churches had only the Old Testament, not the New Testament.

Where in the Bible are we taught to pray to Mary or the saints? Nowhere. To whom did Jesus teach us to pray? "Our Father...."

However, sometimes churches split over basic biblical truths that one faction doesn't want to accept cand the other one does. But many times it's due to politics and personalities.

You have an interesting summary. It is my opinion that the Catholic Church's approach went wrong when they established a separate tradition apart from the limits of the Bible's teachings and history and that much of this summary admits to that fact. They would do much better to stick within the...