Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Gamecock; jo kus
The Holy Spirit through The Church, of which I am a member.

The Mormons say they are assured that they are right because of "the burning in their breast."

Experience and alleged supernatural revelation is not a very strong argument. Every mystically-inclined religious person - whether Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, or even Islamic - can make an existential argument. Such an argument is therefore highly dubious, if not worthless.

47 posted on 02/06/2006 4:51:09 AM PST by jude24 ("Thy law is written on the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not." - St. Augustine)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies ]


To: jude24; Gamecock
Experience and alleged supernatural revelation is not a very strong argument.

True, which is why the Catholic Church is very skeptical about such matters, and even if deemed worthy of belief, does not make it a part of the Deposit of Faith. In other words, what happened at Fatima, though worthy of belief, is not a required belief by a practicing Catholic. Private revelations are always subject to misinterpretation.

Regards

51 posted on 02/06/2006 4:56:56 AM PST by jo kus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson