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To: daniel1212

One would have a hard time in Bible times explaining kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world,


And there lies the problem. Standards of reference for truth being scripture or tradition/church.

Until RC uses the scripture for testing truth, it is like talking to a fencepost......................

They even rewrote the 10 commandments. Compare them sometime.


94 posted on 09/09/2020 5:05:13 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
And there lies the problem. Standards of reference for truth being scripture or tradition/church. Until RC uses the scripture for testing truth, it is like talking to a fencepost...................... They even rewrote the 10 commandments. Compare them sometime.

Rather than writing being what God manifestly made His most-reliable means of authoritative preservation. (Exodus 17:14; 34:1,27; Deuteronomy 10:4; 17:18; 27:3,8; 31:24; Joshua 1:8; 2 Chronicles 34:15,18-19, 30-31; Psalm 19:7-11; 102:18; 119; Isaiah 30:8; Jeremiah 30:2; Matthew 4:5-7; 22:29; Luke 24:44,45; John 5:46,47; John 20:31; Acts 17:2,11; 18:28; Revelation 1:1; 20:12, 15;

And thus as abundantly evidenced , as written and established, Scripture became the transcendent supreme standard for obedience and testing and establishing truth claims as the wholly Divinely inspired and assured Word of God;

Thus the veracity of even apostolic oral preaching could be subject to testing by Scripture; (Acts 17:11)

Moreover, men such as the apostles could speak as wholly inspired of God and also provide new public revelation thereby (in conflation with what had been written), neither of popes and councils claim to do;

In Catholicism Scripture is effectively too often made a servant to be abused in being compelled to support teachings that they can only wish were taught in the only wholly God-inspired and faithful substantive record of what the NT church believed.

98 posted on 09/09/2020 5:30:04 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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