Posted on 05/29/2019 12:37:41 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Both Judaism and Catholic Christianity teach that salvation comes from a combination of faith in God plus good works on earth.
By contrast, Protestant Christianity teaches that "faith alone" will save you.
Likewise, Judaism and Catholic Christianity teach that religious authority come from a combination of scripture and tradition.
Protestant Christianity teaches that the "bible alone" is the sole source of authority.
*snicker*
I’ll be sure to tell my mother.
Wishful thinking on the part of Catholics and not supported by Scripture at all.
Jesus is all we need for salvation.
We come to God only through HIM.
No church died for anyone.
Your opinion otherwise is no more relevant than Peterson's.
Christ died for the Church.
He's married to Her.
The baffling part is, why did Jesus tell us to go and do likewise?
Fact of Catholic Church lasting until end of time supported by history. Was there at beginning and still here.
I respect his intelligence, and accept he has a following.
I follow Christ rather than any philosopher, and - since I have been studying the Word since five, and chose at that age to emulate Solomon by pursuing wisdom rather than wealth, and have served in ministry - I frankly trust my own philosophy more than Petersen’s.
I do not begrudge others their preoccupation with him, but I realized long ago that if I wanted to read Christian philosophy or commentary by others, I vastly preferred Chesterton, Lewis, or Tolkien to any of the more highly touted philosophers and theologians.
(Tolkien’s is generally more implicit, but he does explicate it in his essay, Tree and Leaf.)
He is almost saying faith without works is dead.
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He stole that from James 2:14-26, the James whose Epistle Martin Luther greatly disliked (for obvious reasons), calling it an Epistle of Straw.
“To believe, in a Christian sense, means that you live it out fully and that’s an that’s an unbearable task in some sense.”
Yes, unbearable, but there is Peterson’s (and many Christians’) lack of understanding of the gospel.
The gospel has a second clause beyond forgiveness, namely the gift of the Holy Spirit. The God I believe in bears the weight of my life, and I live in His strength. By his Spirit I am being conformed to the age of Christ.
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Jesus is a stumbling block to works oriented people like Peterson.
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Would that include he who wrote the Epistle of James?
Protestant Christianity teaches that the “bible alone” is the sole source of authority.
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Where in the Bible is that “bedrock” truth stated?
Jesus is all we need for salvation.
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Does that mean we don’t need to understand and follow any of the teachings found in the Bible?
So?
Longevity proves nothing.
Why should Satan attack Catholicism? Some of his best agents work there.
Between the current pope and magisterium and the host of homosexual, child molesting priests that have infested Catholicism for so many hundreds of years, Satan has a pretty good thing going there in discrediting Christianity and turning people against God. Why would he want to put an end to it?
Nowhere. Ironically Sola Scriptura is itself “unbiblical”. ;-)
That's wrong-headed because we are not cotton-picking our way out of slavery, we are not lifting ourselves by our own bootstraps--- rather, by the working of the Holy Spirit, we are bring conformed to Christ.
As this happens, we may also very well be developing tested virtue, walking the warrior's path, etc. But the working is not "our" achievement, a "personal best," as if we were acting merely in imitation of Christ. It is that we are living IN Christ, and He in us. We become sharers in His divinity, Who humbled Himself to share in our humanity.
Behold, it's a whole new ballgame.
You make my point. The Church and its magisterial teachings survive Satan’s best tries and members, all the way up to and including popes, who fail to live the commands of Christ.
It seems that you completely missed my point.
It’s that Satan himself is NOT attacking Roman Catholicism.
He has no reason to.
He’s better off protecting it himself.
There it is. Thank you very much.
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