Posted on 10/30/2007 12:47:36 PM PDT by Gamecock
ROFLOL! This is Saturday Night Live, folks!
A mutilated Bible?
Arguably some of the finest Roman Catholic theologians of the Middle Ages rejected the legends and prejudices of the ancient apocryphal books, just like Luther and later Evangelicals agreed--in accord with the Jews, who are after all who wrote them, who rejected these books as canonical in the 1st Century. It wasn't until Trent, 80% of the delegates who were Italian... (and just how representative was that of the Roman Church at that time?), that just because Luther et al. rejected the Apocrypha, made it mandatory.
Just what parts of "Bel and the Dragon", the ridiculous, fanciful and superstitious story of "Tobit," and the rest, do you refer to for any, any at all, important doctrines?
Sorry, I just have to laugh when Romanists mention the Apocrypha. Most have read it about as much as they have read the real Bible...
Never heard of Graduate of Westminster Seminary (PA). Any well-known theogians or gradutes you know of, aside from yourself?
>>In fact, Paul says all men are tempted.<<
I take enormous comfort in Paul’s own descriptions of his “harrassing demon” (2 Cor 12) when I stress under the weight of my own besetting sins.
Praise God for his faithfulness to wretched and vile sinners as us!
Snicker, snicker. An argument from a bible believer, that rejects a book from the bible because it is deemed fanciful and ridiculous is very funny. Reminds me of Mr. Jefferson. Makes for a thin bible.
J. Gresham Machen was a founder of that fine institution
AMEN!
>>Sorry, I just have to laugh when Romanists mention the Apocrypha. Most have read it about as much as they have read the real Bible...<<
Ooo, that’s gonna leave a mark!
***We follow the teachings of Jesus, not a murdering theological thug who imposed an iron despotic rule upon Geneva.***
Perhaps you don’t remember the number of Popes who made murder, extortion (you might call some it indulgences), & despotic rule the way of the land. Before you crucify falsely one of the most brilliant and God gifted theologians of all time, you might ought to remember your own history and butchery that would make many of todays religious fanatics green with envy. And, if I understand aright Catholic belief, we have yet to see this “anti-Pope” and the most bloody religious ruler of all time.
And you trot out the Servetus card when he would have been killed by Rome and would have been just one of a multitude of heretics burned by Rome about that time.
We are not Romanists. We are Papists and don’t you forget it. :)
Do you have a list of the Roman Catholic theologians of the Middle Ages that rejected the Deuterocanonicals?
We have theological proofs in the Deutercononicals that are carried to lesser degree in the rest of the Bible; that is the real reason that Luther and his merry band of Scriptural Visigoths went after the affected books. Don’t forget that he wanted to get rid of Revelation and the non Pauline epistles (especially James) as well.
I have no intention of crucifying Calvin. He has made his own legacy, let his followers revel in it. The rest of us will just look on with alternating amusement and abhorrence.
I make no mention of Servetus; doubtless Saint Calvin (PBUH) was just secretly doing the will of the Pope. I would however enquire of the rest of the Genevans that he had burned at the stake. I suppose that he was secretly doing the will of the Pope there, too.
Everything that you need to know about anti popes can be found at New Advent.
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