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To: BlueDragon
It is interesting that you come right out and say it like that, for a previous contention and complaint among Protestants is that amid [Roman] Catholicism, there has been tendency to treat writings of past note-worthies as holy writ, thus having greatly expanded the canon somewhat by default --- and without much of any effort to provide clear discrimination and/or delineation between what could or should be regarded as even "inspired" (rather than informed by tradition) -- with you here now, indicating in the instance of Gregory a going beyond "inspired" to a "dictated by".

What it infers is that God was the actual author of such as with Scripture, versus at most being protected from error as in (purportedly) infallible statements.

365 posted on 04/07/2014 1:29:32 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

If that be the case, then Gregory the Great who was depicted as taking dictation, should be looked into more deeply than those apologist whom employ ellipses to get around Gregory writing of "the See of Peter being in three places", as is spoken of (when not simply ignored) in modern, Roman Catholic pattern & practice of "apologetic" dodginess, spoken of here, with that title "Universal" though used to some extent by his own predecessor Leo I, was urged upon himself also -- but which Gregory as bishop of Rome, rejected in no uncertain terms, writing in paragraph after paragraph just how wrong the very idea of that sort of one bishop over ALL others was (though various patriarchates in his day, had some history of "development" previous to his own time) as is discussed by Schaff here.

391 posted on 04/07/2014 3:05:41 PM PDT by BlueDragon (You can observe a lot just by watching. Yogi Berra)
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