Really?
So the first mover theory put forth by St Thomas Aquinas, long before you and your “sola scripture” nonsense was put forth by ignorant louts which is the absolute basis for the Pope’s argument is not theologically correct?
Sola Scripture is probably the most wholly ignorant theological branch of “Christianity” ever devised, and frankly has kept as many if not more people ignorant as the Koran.
uhhh....you might want to rethink that. The Bible has done more to free people than the Koran ever dreamed of doing.
Either God created the universe ex-nihilo or He didn't.
If He is not capable of doing so, He is not capable of being God.
Without God we have no answer for how the universe came into existense.
Why?
Something can't come from nothing and life can not come from lifelessness.
Considering God's Word as the highest authority is ignorant? Really?
the same St Thomas Aquinas who brought out the heresy of centering prayer, a mystical meditation that is un Biblical?
http://www.wayoflife.org/index_files/evangelicals_turning_to_roman_catholic_spirituality.html
The Catholic Church:
Catholics in the U.S. on average know little about the Bible (and no reason to think that’s different worldwide).
Heavily Catholic areas tend to be largely “post-Christian” and not very “Bible-minded” (from recent surveys).
Catholics support gay marriage at far greater rates than evangelical (Bible-believing) Christians, and while Bible belt states have resisted gay marriage, heavily Catholic states paved the way for it. The first 15, from Wikipedia - Massachusetts (44% Catholic), California (36%), Connecticut (43%), Iowa*, Vermont*, New Hampshire *, D.C.*, New York (^40%), Washington*, Maine (28%), Maryland (21%, Beliefnet), Rhode Island (43%), Delaware*, Minnesota*, New Jersey (37%), Hawaii*.
(*In Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Hawaii, the CC is the largest denomination, and the next largest denominations - and most of the “Protestants” - are mainline Protestants (except Hawaii - LDS). In D.C., there is no one particularly large denomination. In Washington, evangelicals and Mainline Protestants are about 25% each, with Catholics about 16%. Delaware is an exception to the pattern: 26% evangelical and 9% Catholic (Beliefnet), and I’m unsure about the rest at this time).
Heretics maintain their positions in the Catholic Church, even in leadership, despite what the Bible says about rejecting false teachers and prophets or else one is guilty of accepting them.
The Catholic Church largely though unofficially accepts Mary as “co-redemptrix.” Prominent Catholic leaders petitioned for official acceptance of this doctrine.
“When asked in an interview in 2000 whether the Church would go along with the desire to solemnly define Mary as Co-redemptrix, (the then) Cardinal Ratzinger responded that, “the formula “Co-redemptrix” ***departs to too great an extent*** from the language of Scripture and of the Fathers and therefore gives rise to misunderstandings...Everything comes from Him [Christ], as the Letter to the Ephesians and the Letter to the Colossians, in particular, tell us; Mary, too, is everything she is through Him. The word “Co-redemptrix” would obscure this origin. ***A correct intention*** being expressed in the wrong way. [24] Pope Benedict XVI further explained his notable opposition of a dogmatisation, concluding that ***the title is sufficiently included*** in other better expressions of Catholic Marian teaching.” (Co-redemptrix, Wikipedia)
The Catholic Church has no problem with acceptance of Christ (confirmation) as a rite-of-passage and family expectation instead of as a personal conviction.
Yeah. Imagine that. People depending on what God tells them over what man tells them.
Such fools.......