Either / or, in Bible interpretation, is
Protestant teaching. It was not known before the reformation. Instead of
examining all of what Holy Scripture has to say, they have been attuned
to the smorgasbord mentality of pick and choose and have a rejection, or a "lets
ignore mentality", of the truths of which they do not agree.
I will
present some examples to illustrate what I have just said:
Here is what non-Catholics say, followed by what Catholics say:
There is found nothing of the Catholic Church in the
Old Testament. There are many references to the Catholic Church in the
Old Testament.
There is found nothing of the Catholic Church in the
New Testament. There are scores of references to the Catholic Church in the
New Testament.
There is no evidence that the Catholic Church is the true
Church that Jesus Christ founded. Here are 140 reasonsof evidence for you, overwhelming proof that it is the Catholic Church,
and none other, that Jesus Christ founded. Show me just one authentic
historical documented proof that it is your church and not the Catholic Church
that Jesus Christ founded?