Catholic Word of the Day: IMMANENTIST APOLOGETICS, 01-26-12

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IMMANENTIST APOLOGETICS

A method of establishing the credibility of the Christian faith by appealing to the subjective satisfaction that the faith gives to a believer. This method tends to ignore, if not deny, the corresponding value of objective criteria for accepting divine revelation, notably miracles and prophecies. The latter alone are finally demonstrative of the fact of revelation. Therefore immanentist apologetics runs the danger of leaving Christians with purely personal motives for their faith and without intellectually convincing grounds as to why they believe.

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Therefore immanentist apologetics runs the danger of leaving Christians with purely personal motives for their faith and without intellectually convincing grounds as to why they believe.
Important point that, I believe, happens in many denominations.

Yes it does thankfully...It's called faith...And trust...

2Co 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

We do not look for physical signs...

Mar 8:12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

Luk 11:29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

1Co 1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

So John Hardon says you must come to the knowledge intellectually, eh??? And what does the bible say???

1Co 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1Co 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

1Co 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
1Co 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
1Co 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

If only you guys would read the scriptures and believe God...

..but prophecies and miracles are "intellectually" convincing? Signs, wonders and miracles, declared by man to be of God takes precedence over God's Word, declared by God to be of Him.

And they're convinced they won't be deceived when the anti-christ appears, with all his lying signs and wonders and miracles...they'll trample each other under foot, trying to get in line to see the "miracle"...

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