This comes from the poster who wrote:
In your beloved scriptures,....
Yes...you've defended roman catholicism very well. Christianity no. But roman catholicism, yes.
There is a difference.
The astute reader of this thread will draw their own conclusions as to the accuracy of what has been posted.
Meanwhile, you keep on defending dogmas where No direct or categorical and stringent proof of the dogma can be brought forward from Scripture.
ealgeone:
This comes from the poster who wrote:
In your beloved scriptures,....
RB:
I was being cynical with regard to whose they are. You missed it. I ought to have added “sarchasm” alert or put in quotes to make it more plain. (See final Scripture passage at end of this post.)
ealgeone:
“Yes...you’ve defended roman catholicism very well. Christianity no. But roman catholicism, yes.
There is a difference.”
RB:
No there is not a difference. Roman Catholicism is Christianity. Protestantism is a protest against Christ’s teaching, though perhaps all do not realize it.
ealgeone:
Meanwhile, you keep on defending dogmas where No direct or categorical and stringent proof of the dogma can be brought forward from Scripture.
RB:
So. Do. You. (Did you miss that disclosure in posts 157 & 154?)
When I point it out you ignore it and thus infer denial (false witness) by your last comment above. That is lawyer language which is otherwise known as misleading your readers. Many Protestant pastors and modern politicians are very proficient at this.
Besides, there are proofs which surpass your indirect proofs given for Protestant doctrine, proofs that other Christian writers have provided to support the high place of Mary (”And she cried out with a loud voice, and said: Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.” St. Luke 1:42), which are stronger than just the inferences that YOU used for your FALSE claim. (Where in my beloved Scriptures - which protestants reinterpret and often reject - does it say that the only authority for fact is the Scripture whenever one ECF does not agree with another?)
On the other hand you remind me of the Jews who Jesus chides for seeking God in the Scriptures while rejecting His Son’s words, such as how the Protestants reject much of chapter 6 of Saint John’s Gospel, and won’t admit it (see post 129). Then in the next breath they profess to believe in Jesus’ words. (Who are they kidding?)
From John Chapter 5:
[39] Search the scriptures, for you think in them to have life everlasting; and the same are they that give testimony of me. [40] And you will not come to me that you may have life.
[39] Search the scriptures: Scrutamini. It is not a command for all to read the scriptures; but a reproach to the Pharisees, that reading the scriptures as they did, and thinking to find everlasting life in them, they would not receive him to whom all those scriptures gave testimony, and through whom alone they could have that true life.
http://drbo.org/chapter/50005.htm