Vadim wrote:
According to Gospel, "A good tree cannot produce evil fruit, and neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit." (Matthew 7:18)
If Roman Catholic Church is a good tree, then why does she produce so many evil fruits? An interview with Robert Jackline, a former Roman Catholic priest who converted to Orthodoxy:
Woah, hold on here. The devil has sown tares in with the wheat. Those tares will produce a lot of mayhem. It's some individuals (not all of them) in the Catholic Church that produce bad fruit.
Matthew 13
24 Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
25 But while his men were sleeping,
his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.
26 But
when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also.
27 The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’
28 And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this!’
The slaves *said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?’
29
But he *said, ‘No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them.
30
Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
So they're in there until the harvest. Bad fruit from them is to be expected. Woe to them on the day of harvest.
-BHM