[karenbarinka]

So, how do you reconcile novel teachings of the Pope and Bishops which are clearly anti-Biblical? The Bible is very explicit about capital punishment for murderers, but for the past 10 years, the Church has begun to oppose the death penalty and even worse, begun to equate opposition to the death penalty with opposition to abortion.

Conversely, speaking about abortion, the development of the Church's teaching against it shows a perfect example of how sola scriptura was not sufficiently clear, and the Church was needed to explicitly define doctrine against abortion. But a couple thousand years of the Church being right against abortion is being muddied by new, anti-Biblical revisionism about the death penalty.

[NeoCaveman]

So, how do you reconcile novel teachings of the Pope and Bishops which are clearly anti-Biblical? The Bible is very explicit about capital punishment for murderers, but for the past 10 years, the Church has begun to oppose the death penalty and even worse, begun to equate opposition to the death penalty with opposition to abortion.

Oh this is an easy one. The Pope's personal opionions, death penalty, Iraq war, etc are not protected from error, nor has it ever been Church teaching that they are.

[NeoCaveman]

P.S. Great tag line.

[NYer]

But a couple thousand years of the Church being right against abortion is being muddied by new, anti-Biblical revisionism about the death penalty.

The bible also provides guidelines for proper living - do you refrain from eating pork and shellfish? Do the women in your life go monthly to a mikvah? (didn't think so)