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To: Quix
CLEARLY HOLY SPIRIT IS WELL ABLE TO INSURE THAT GOD’S WORD DOES NOT RETURN VOID. MORE IMPORTANTLY, HOLY SPIRIT HAS REPEATEDLY MADE CLEAR OVER 30 YEARS THAT HE IS WELL ABLE TO ESTABLISH HIS CHURCH AND MAINTAIN IT’S HEALTHY FUNCTIONING

WITHOUT

ANY BUREAUCRACY FROM THE WEST OR ANYWHERE ELSE. . . .

without any tradition bound, traditions of men infected magesterium;

without any pontifical seminaries;

without any arguments about the original artifacts;

without any trumped up line of political succession;

without any denominational pride, parochialness and haughtily held distinctives;

without any formal or informal inquisitions;

without any arrogant authoritarian doctrinal police;

WITHOUT any elaborate explanations and straight jackets about how GOD CAN’T/WOULDN’T DO IT THAT WAY; GOD WOULDN’T DO !THAT!

WITHOUT anything but GOD’S WORD. TRULY LITERAL SOLA SCRIPTURA.

These people have done well with the measure of Grace and knowledge of God given them. That said, I challenge how that "proves" Sola Scriptura; given only Scripture and the Natural Law that already existed in the hearts of these people, neither I nor anyone else could expect they would come up with something other than a system based only on Scripture. Had they been given the Faith in its fullest as it came down from the Holy Apostles, they would have had a church that resembled the Catholic or the Orthodox Church (if not a part of one of those two Churches).

That said, I'd rather they have the Scriptures alone than to remain pagans with no knowledge of Christ.

24 posted on 01/24/2007 12:33:15 PM PST by GCC Catholic
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To: GCC Catholic

These people have done well with the measure of Grace and knowledge of God given them. That said, I challenge how that "proves" Sola Scriptura; given only Scripture and the Natural Law that already existed in the hearts of these people, neither I nor anyone else could expect they would come up with something other than a system based only on Scripture. Had they been given the Faith in its fullest as it came down from the Holy Apostles, they would have had a church that resembled the Catholic or the Orthodox Church (if not a part of one of those two Churches).
= = =

Seems like quite a LOT of rather brazen

ASSUMPTIONS,
INFERENCES,
EXTRAPOLATIONS
AND
BIASES . . .

to me.


35 posted on 01/24/2007 1:25:58 PM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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