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To: aMorePerfectUnion

You misread. The Bible was put together by Petrine authority after hundreds of years of sorting out various scriptural fragments. Maybe it will help if you study historical texts and traditions. If you think the Catholic Church was not infallible, then please do not refer to the Bible since maybe our Church faltered in sorting out the valid Biblical texts.

Protestantism today is a joke and a caricature. It has disintegrated into bits and pieces with every Tom, Dick, and Harry and Foursquare Church pastor purporting to teach the Word of God.This is the rubbish the Reformation spawned and why any number of eminent Protestant theologies have come around toward dumping this heresy and embraced Catholicism.

Dr. David Anders speaks for a number of them.

“By the time I finished my Ph.D., I had completely revised my understanding of the Catholic Church. I saw that her sacramental doctrine, her view of salvation, her veneration of Mary and the saints, and her claims to authority were all grounded in Scripture, in the oldest traditions, and in the plain teaching of Christ and the apostles.”

“I also realized that Protestantism was a confused mass of inconsistencies and tortured logic. Not only was Protestant doctrine untrue, it bred contention, and could not even remain unchanged.”

Of course, we are not quoting here the great Catholic theologians in the traditions of the early Church fathers (theologians) like Augustine, Aquinas, Neman, and Benedict.

The real problem with Protestantism is that it thrives in shallow waters. This is why we have crooks like Joel Osteen and Creflo Dollar because of the low -information congregations they attract, not unlike the local neighborhood Protestant churches.


14 posted on 04/28/2015 7:40:09 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

First, friend, I did not misread.

The Scriptures were inspired by the Holy Spirit - two thirds before the Christian assembly began on earth. God continued to inspire, preserve and collect His Sacred Words. In saying so, Christians assign infallibility where it was - on the God who soveignly worked through history and through fallible men to inspire, preserve and collect His Word. It is our faith in His attributes that gives us confidence in His Word.

Since the early collections were first assembled, they have been re examined and corrections made.

None of the inspired writers were infallible. God “moved them” as He willed, to write his word.

Protestantism has problems exactly because all men have the nature of Adam and consequently are fallible. We see the same in your gay and pedaephile priests. In the heresy of your bishops, in the lack of conversion of your “members”, who never attend. It is the nature of man.

Best.


17 posted on 04/28/2015 8:05:25 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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