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To: ConservativeDude

Then what you call the God of Scripture and the God of the Roman Catholic Church are also incompatible. There are many who believe in the authority of the Scriptures who believe differently from you. The Scriptures may be infallible, but you are not. Your understanding of the Bible may be wrong.


255 posted on 11/30/2004 12:58:05 PM PST by stremba
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To: stremba

"Then what you call the God of Scripture and the God of the Roman Catholic Church are also incompatible."

Could be. If you are referring to the RCC's teaching that evolution is in some sense true, then that's probably right.

If you are referring to the Biblical view of justification and a RCC one, then you are probably right also, though this is not as clear to me today as it was in say 1516. My point on that is simply to study the Book of Romans and the rest of Scripture, including the OT, and then try to answer the question, "who does the choosing? Man or God?" Seems to me that God chooses in Scripture. So that is what I believe....In my observations, there is a lot more similarity now in the RCC teaching on justification and the Reformed/Biblical one, though they probably are not yet identical. Work must still be done.

I might be wrong about Scripture? I haven't done anything except try to say faithfully what Scripture itself says. Unlike the pre-
vatican II RCC, I don't claim infallibility. That said, you must refute Scripture with Scripture. You don't refute Scripture with science, or philosophy or wishful thinking or anything else. If someone can point out to me somewhere in Scripture where we are given latitude on understanding the Biblical account of creation, the fall, the flood and so on...I am all ears.


271 posted on 11/30/2004 1:18:03 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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