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<blockquote data-quote="MichaelWitcoff" data-source="post: 1520387" data-attributes="member: 16038">If Protestants believed in what the Scriptures teach then they’d believe in apostolic succession, the Eucharist as life-giving, miracle-working relics, and other things that none of them believe in as a whole. And I say this as someone who used to be a &quot;sola Scriptura Protestant;&quot; in retrospect, I was deluding myself and trying to virtue-signal my piety by saying I believed in &quot;sola Scriptura&quot; without actually knowing how much of the Bible I was missing. The reason is simple: Protestant pastors don't talk about all the parts that disprove Protestantism, so you end up thinking you're a &quot;Bible-believing Christian&quot; based on what you hear at Church, not realizing how little of it you're actually hearing preached on.For example, 2 Kings 13:21 reads &quot;And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha. And when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood up on his feet.&quot; Right there in the Bible you see an example of miracle-working relics: the bones of a Saint, still possessing so much power and divine grace that they can alter the material world simply by coming into contact with it. In this case, the bones of Elisha brought a dead man back to life the instant they touched his body. When was the last time you heard about this verse at Pastor Jim's Bible Church?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MichaelWitcoff, post: 1520387, member: 16038"] If Protestants believed in what the Scriptures teach then they’d believe in apostolic succession, the Eucharist as life-giving, miracle-working relics, and other things that none of them believe in as a whole. And I say this as someone who used to be a "sola Scriptura Protestant;" in retrospect, I was deluding myself and trying to virtue-signal my piety by saying I believed in "sola Scriptura" without actually knowing how much of the Bible I was missing. The reason is simple: Protestant pastors [I]don't talk about all the parts that disprove Protestantism[/I], so you end up thinking you're a "Bible-believing Christian" based on what you hear at Church, not realizing how little of it you're actually hearing preached on. For example, 2 Kings 13:21 reads "And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulcher of Elisha. And when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood up on his feet." Right there in the Bible you see an example of miracle-working relics: the bones of a Saint, still possessing so much power and divine grace that they can alter the material world simply by coming into contact with it. In this case, the bones of Elisha brought a dead man back to life the instant they touched his body. When was the last time you heard about this verse at Pastor Jim's Bible Church? [/QUOTE]

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