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I was specifically addressing what you quoted from the Council of Nicea. If the question is, do I agree with the Council of Nicea that the clergy shouldn't practice usury? Then my answer is yes, I agree with the Council of Nicea that the Clergy shouldn't practice Usury. Usury, loaning money at...

I agree that the clergy shouldn't be loan sharks, which is what this was happening in many places and what the council was addressing. Notice that this directive was specifically to the Clergy.

I always find it ironic that Catholics try to use where Jesus told us to "do what they say but not what they do" as the Catholic church having the same authority as the "Scribes and Pharisees". That is one group I don't want to have anything to do with. Most of Matthew 23 (and other places) is...

Another tradition of men created to have control over the masses. Apostolic succession isn't what Catholic's say it is.

After the first century the Apostles didn't create more Apostles. Nobody on earth met the requirements for Apostleship. To be an Apostle you had to have been with Jesus and sat under His teaching. (Acts 1:21-25) 21 Therefore it is necessary that of the men who have accompanied us all the time...

Thank you for proving my point. The Lateran council was in the 7th Century. There were no holy apostles at the Lateran Council. The last apostle died in the first century. Everyone who came after that is bound to teach the Gospel message that was delivered by Christ and the Apostles...

And Catholic Mariology wasn't in the deposit of faith. It came later and was invented by theologians and Bishops.

No it hasn't. It didn't start teaching this doctrine until at least the 3rd or 4th Century and it didn't become dogmatic teaching until many centuries later.

The church can't just make stuff up. It has to hold to the Gospel of Christ. The church (Catholic or Protestant) doesn't have the authority to invent doctrine, which is teaching a different gospel. 6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you [y the grace of Christ...

It is up to you to show that the Mariology as taught by the Roman Catholic Church was revealed by Christ and taught by the Apostles. If you can't do that, then your claim is a spurious claim. It is a doctrine made up by theologians and bishops in later Centuries. Therefore it is not apostolic...

Because it was part of God's plan. That is all we need to know.

I don't believe for a minute that the apostles believed or taught what later became Catholic views on Mary. They didn't record it in their writings and it didn't become part of Tradition until a couple of hundred years after the death of the last Apostle. No, Mary, as viewed by the Roman...

This thread isn't about the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist and roll of priest. If you want to talk about that then I suggest you start another thread.

Ugh, Because the Little Drummer Boy is a silly song written in 1941 that has no basis in Christian Tradition or Scripture. It comes from the imagination of a composer not Scripture. I don't know anyone who actually believes there was a little drummer boy. It is just a silly tune that gained...

Okay, I'll bite. What in the world does Acts 2:42 have to do with Mary being a perpetual virgin. And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers

We don't offer Christ sacrifice. We accept the sacrifice He offered to us.

Yes, we are all part of the priesthood of the believer. 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 for you once were not...

It is a free country and you can believe whatever you want. However, this puts you at odds not only with the majority of Protestants but also the majority of Catholics. Both of whom believe the throne of Grace refers to God's throne. The difference between Protestants and Catholics about how...

At any rate, to get us back on Topic. Every catholic view I've read on the "Throne of Grace" is that it is God's throne and "going boldly" to the throne of Grace refers to the sacrament of reconciliation. In other words, going to the throne of grace is confessing your sins to your priest who...

Not until the church declares them to be a heretic. If the church doesn't declare them to be a heretic, then they aren't a heretic.