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To: Steelfish; Iscool
Throwing out snippets of scripture is exactly what makes for shallow theology.

You're exactly right because that's what's wrong with Catholic theology.

They take one verse out of context and build on it: the papacy, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the immaculate conception, works based salvation, a priest having the ability to forgive someone else's sin, transubstantiation, apostolic succession, to name a few.

All based on one verse, usually very loosely translated.

That's why *Protestant* theology stands head and shoulders above Catholic theology. Because Scripture interprets Scripture and any Christian worth their salt demands multiple passages of Scripture to defend a belief, not just ONE verse.

1,721 posted on 10/06/2014 7:50:14 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom; Iscool; Elsie

There is NO such thing as Protestant theology. 35,000 sects of them have littered the steers with Biblical chaos, the inevitable outcome of a denial of Petrine authority. Protestant “theology” or whatever is whenever any Protestant cracks open the Bible and runs with a scriptural quote from Jim Jones to Billy Graham to Joel Osteen and Rev. Wright making personal fortunes on the way. This is why there are now a slew of scholarly articles trying to explain why Bible Christians are so shallow.


1,723 posted on 10/08/2014 7:26:00 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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