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To: Campion
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Word games. what do they accomplish?

What do fragments of scripture twisted loose from their context tell us?

170 posted on 10/07/2001 8:30:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor
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To: editor-surveyor
What do fragments of scripture twisted loose from their context tell us?

In other words, when you tell us "the Bible says" what the Bible clearly doesn't say, and can't cite Scripture to support your position, that's "Biblical teaching".

But when Catholics cite Scripture to support their position, those are just "fragments of scripture twisted loose from their context".

Oh, don't worry. There are plenty of folks like you here on FR. They're sure they know what the Bible teaches, sure they know what the Catholic Church teaches, and sure the two don't match up. But when they actually run up against knowledgeable Catholics who know why they are Catholics and know how to defend Catholicism from Scripture, suddenly all they can do is throw lame accusations that the Catholics are "Scripture-twisting".

You really owe it to yourself to be more honest with God, more honest with the Bible, and more honest with yourself. Cardinal Newman ended one of his books with the tagline "Time is short, eternity is long." And so it is.

Do yourself a favor. Get Karl Keating's Catholicism and Fundamentalism, David Currie's Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic, and Karl Adam's Spirit of Catholicism. Read them. If we are right, you are not where Jesus wants you to be, and you need to fix that. Today.

If, OTOH, we are wrong, you will at least know why we believe what we believe, and will be ever so better prepared to show us why we are wrong in ways that are more convincing than simply accusing us of "word games".

180 posted on 10/07/2001 8:51:54 PM PDT by Campion
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