To: SoothingDave
"Unanimous" doesn't appear to mean what we would think it means. I don't think it ever did mean that every one of the Church fathers had to agree on something. So now you're going to tell us "Unanimous" doesn't mean "unanimous"... When people don't understand something, they start making assumptions. You guys made your assumptions into philosophy and then doctrine. You can't follow the Bible; so, your clergy makes up it's own rules - then it can't even follow it's own rules. This is what we call anarchy. Your religion is whatever your clergy decides - not whatever Christ dictated.
To: Havoc;SoothingDave
This guy spins "unanimous" even better than Dave does:
"When the Fathers of the Church are morally unanimous in their teaching that a certain doctrine is a part of revelation, or is received by the universal Church, or that the opposite of a doctrine is heretical, then their united testimony is a certain criterion of divine revelation. As the Fathers are not personally infallible, the counter testimony of one or two would not be destructive of the value of the collective testimony; so a moral unanimity only is required."
"Unanimous Consent" of the Church Fathers
Now you know the realstory.
To: Havoc
So now you're going to tell us "Unanimous" doesn't mean "unanimous"... When people don't understand something, they start making assumptions. You guys made your assumptions into philosophy and then doctrine. You can't follow the Bible; so, your clergy makes up it's own rules - then it can't even follow it's own rules. This is what we call anarchy. Your religion is whatever your clergy decides - not whatever Christ dictated. You see fit to criticize the RCC for what you believe is wrong. You also have criticized on previous threads, the Bibles used by folks.
I'm not going to stop asking Havoc. What Bible do you use? What church do you attend? You need to stop being a sniper.
24,428 posted on
02/06/2002 5:01:15 AM PST by
Fury
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