[BlueDragon]

I've seen the maps of the minefields. A few items can never make it through without triggering chain reaction "explosions" which blow certain little extraneous items to kingdom come. But they'll just pick themselves up like it never happened, eyes slammed shut, mind closed upon the perfection and presumed infallibility of Romish edict.

As usual, much support for those particularly Romanist views come by way of argument of assertion, as has long been the case. Though there can indeed be found support for certain peculiarities from 4th century and onward writers, going backwards in time from there to the actual time of the Apostles can be seen to be increasingly problematic, the closer to Christ we travel.

I was just reading again Farber's The Difficulties of Romanism

in which he defines the term he uses, Romanism, itself. I am much persuaded by his treatment not only of that, but of pretty much all the rest, difficult as it is to digest, lengthily written as it is in early 19th century style, albeit fairly repetitive throughout (as is the case with many scholarly works), it is still quite clear.

Here's an excerpt from the book found elsewhere which is a short treatise sourced from the larger Difficulties work. In the main, what appears below is largely footnote [from page 6]:

I would bring here more, but it appears they have a way to limit image transfers.

[daniel1212]

And argument of assertion has largely been the papal polemic here. And see http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Ancients_on_Images.html for more on images.

And the reality that under the proposed alternative model to SS, that of sola ecclesia, who also have divisions, as not only to cults typically work out of this model, but the Orthodox differ with Rome on no less a doctrine than papal infallibility, purgatory the use of images, etc.http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/DisagrementsSSandSE.html