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You are missing the point. It is the church itself that defines who is faithful and true. If you are Catholic and the church defines a bishop as valid, then they are valid. There is no room for doubt, else you are doubting the infallibility of the church. If you are saying the church got it...

If the church is infallible then it is impossible for it to be apostate, because it is impossible for it to pick someone as bishop that is invalid. If it does, then it is not infallible after all. You are still contradicting yourself.

If the Catholic church cannot error then who they chose as Bishops and Popes cannot be in error. You are contradicting yourself.

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The Catholic church has declared them to be valid, therefore, they are valid. Unless of course, you think the Catholic church can be in error. Do you think the Catholic church can be in error?

Saint Bonaventure doesn't speak for the Catholic church. The US conference of bishops does speak for the Catholic church.

Mary is full of grace the same way we all are full of Grace. Because God gave it to her. You don't even have the Catholic teaching correct. [4:14–16] These verses, which return to the theme first sounded in Heb 2:16–3:1, serve as an introduction to the section that follows. The author...

Uh, no, now your just making stuff up.

The prayer of the tax collector in the parable of the tax collector of the pharisee in Luke 18:9-14 "God, have mercy on me, a sinner".

So you don't believe that sexual union between a husband and wife is just, fitting, and holy?

Since when does Just = Chaste? In a marriage the sexual union is just and fitting and holy. As a matter of fact, to not have a sexual union would make marriage unjust and unholy.

So the Catholic church can't be for sure who they are, just who they are not?

Other's said that the brethen of the Lord were step-brothers. Which one is it? Was Jerome wrong or were the others wrong?

I don't believe that Baptism, in and of itself, gives the Holy Spirit. There are three different ways/times the Holy Spirit is given in the New Testament At the same time as Repentance and Baptism (Acts 2:38). After water baptism, Via the Laying on of hands (Acts 19:6) Before baptism (Acts...

Well that is your opinion and you are entitled to it. But who says someone needs a deep "adult" understanding in order to be saved. Even adults have a hard time understanding theology like the incarnation, trinity, that Jesus if fully God and fully man and so forth. We aren't saved by our...

As I said earlier. The church in the 2nd Century to the 4th Century used a catchehuman system. Which, while different that Credo-baptism has many things in common. A profession of faith, a time of teaching/learning, baptism. I believe infant baptism was a late 2nd century development...

My son came to faith when he was three years old. He was sitting in a sandbox and my wife was talking to him about Jesus. He flat out told my wife that he believed in Jesus and wanted to ask God to forgive him. My wife was amazed and prayed with him. Later we took him to our children's...

No, we teach our children and do so hopefully and expectantly, that God will work in their heart and bring them to faith. However, we don't baptize them until God works in their heart to bring them to a new life in faith. Which is the Biblical model. You can say that baptizing infants is...

God promised salvation is for Children and adults and people everywhere. If a child is saved then they should be baptized. Otherwise they should wait until they come to faith. There is a difference between baptizing children who come to faith, which I'm all for. And baptizing infants who...

I was raised Southern Baptist and we did not wait for any particular age. Any credible profession of faith at any age was a candidate for baptism. Now sometimes a parent would cause the child to wait but that was a parental decision, not a decision of the pastor or a rule of the church. ...