Posted on 02/06/2006 1:02:10 PM PST by NYer
Thank you!
We'll just keep it to ourselves what sanctioned tradional Catholecism did to Jews. I wouldn't want to say anything.
Oh, you mean Pope Pius XII? That's been de-bunked over and over and over again.
Keep going, then.
We also have the words of Ignatius.
We also have the words of Ignatius.
Pretty much devoid in the history dept. eh?
"Keep going, then. "
(chagrin)
Actually, I have to run out and buy stuff for our new baby (who is due at any minute).
"We also have the words of Ignatius."
Which are valuable and instructive - but not inerrant and not inspired.
(Elsewise the early Christians would have included them in the Scriptures - right???)
Unofortunately, you offer no proof, just slander. You characterize it as an attack. I characterize it as an attempt to safeguard the faith entrusted to the Church by Christ.
BTW, I have no problem with you, either. We both love Christ, but disagree on Christ's intent for the church.
My point is that declaring the Church on "attack" against Scripture because there were active limitations on who could access Scripture (given rampant heresy) is as misguided as jumping to the conclusion that Bible-only Protestants who do bad things somehow invalidate the Bible.
In other words, if the Catholic Church has no authority to interpret Scripture, you have even less.
Congratulations, Petronius! Wish you the best!
That's what I thought.
"In other words, if the Catholic Church has no authority to interpret Scripture, you have even less."
What is LESS than "no authority"???
:) Ha!
(Sorry, I had to get that one! I'll be back at you on this stuff soon.)
I thought it first.
Corrected with apologies in post #193.
If there is no controlling authority, no Truth can be established. Scripture becomes whatever you and I want it to be. Kind of like moral relativism. We can read whatever parts we want from whatever angle we want to. Otherwise there would be Christian unity. There is none.
It's inconceivable that Christ would create a Church marked by theological chaos. The only way to compensate for our shortcomings as silly, impressionable, selfish human beings, is to employ the Holy Spirit in working through one vehicle unified in its teaching, and not "every man for himself".
No, they kept them around as Holy Tradition. (Until a monk with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, went off on a wild tangent)
Nobody with the exception of his Church.
One more note: Jesus only quoted Scripture to Satan, when reading in the synagogue, and with the "twelve". He used parables with the rest who had no access to the written Scripture of the Old Testament, and He didn't hesitate to tell them it was because they were too stubborn and, essentially, too stupid for their own good.
This is how Jesus got into trouble, if I recall. But He wasn't abolishing, just fulfilling.
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