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To: Steelfish; Elsie; boatbums; Syncro; narses; NYer; Salvation
>>They all “read” and “teach” from Scripture, don’t they?<<

With the same type of corruption's, twists, and additions as the Catholic Church yes they do.

381 posted on 09/28/2014 12:34:00 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear; boatbums; Syncro; Elsie; Iscool; narses; NYer; Salvation

“Twist and turns” by “your” telling? No, the “twist and turns” come only when you deny Petrine authority and have every Tom, Dick, Harry, and Jane, the freedom of the wild ass to interpret as and how they choose ala Tammy Faye Baker; Jimmy Swaggart; Rev. Schullers; Rev. Sharptons. Hence you have your First Lutheran Church, First Baptist Church, AME Churches; corner street Foursquare Churches; Rick Warrens, Joel Osteens, First Calvary Church, First Methodist Church, (by the way any Second or Third Calvary Churches etc?). No, we don’t have this theological bedlam and Biblical anarchy.

This kind of “multiple “ interpretation to each his “own” is for low-information Christians, the type who flock to Joel Osteen; the Rev Jeremiah Wight; Billy Graham; David Koresh; where they wave their Bible in hand, quote some scripture from here and there, and so goes this incontinent juvenility. No small wonder that educated Jewish opinion with a rich tradition of scholarly inquiry looks down upon these groups like dumpsters on a street.

But when renowned theologians through the ages of both the Catholic faith, and of those in the Protestant world convert to Catholicism, the illiterate faithful are left dumbfounded. Apparently, somewhere along the 2000-year line, the Catholic Church whose early Fathers painstakingly used the oral tradition, historical authenticity; sacred ritual; and guided by the Holy Spirit put together the books we call the Bible, lost its Petrine authority. (Strange, they did not lose this authority during the decades they chose which writings to discard and which ones to include and which beliefs to accept).

Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses; Pentecostalists; Seventh-Day Adventists; Assemblies of God (whatever that means); all began to sprout out from the ground like wild mushrooms. Most wither away and die but each claims “authority” to interpret Scripture despite the constellation of theologians and scholars who believe this authority is one (Christ) given exclusively to Peter (rock) and his successors to establish one Church and teach one truth until the end of time. Hence the gates of hell shall never prevail against it.


470 posted on 09/28/2014 4:01:58 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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