Posted on 01/24/2007 8:41:04 AM PST by Joseph DeMaistre
I'm pouring myself a drink before this gets started.
This ought to be fun!
"Sola Scriptura is about as Biblical as what the Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses believe."
PROTESTANTS ALL BELIEVE CHRIST IS PART OF THE TRINITY AND NIETHER THE MORMANS OR JW'S BELIEVE IN HIS DIETY.
HOW DO YOU DRAW A COMPARISON?
Checking in.
Why do we do this to ourselves?
The best reason that I can come up with is pride, but if you've got a different or better idea I'm all ears.
I choose to ignore the ignorant.
2 Tim. 3:16 - also, these inspired Old Testament Scriptures Paul is referring to included the deuterocanonical books which the Protestants removed from the Bible 1,500 years later.
This is about as accurate as Mormon historical claims about the Americas or JW predictions about Christ's second coming in 1878 and 1914. The author neglected to mention such luminaries as Pope Gregory the Great, St. Jerome, and a great many others in his list of "Protestants" who "removed the deuterocanonical books from the Bible". Cardinal Catjen, Luther's adversary, and probably the foremost RC scholar of the day wrote this:
"Here we close our commentaries on the historical books of the Old Testament. For the rest (that is, Judith, Tobit, and the books of Maccabees) are counted by St Jerome out of the canonical books, and are placed amongst the Apocrypha, along with Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus, as is plain from the Prologus Galeatus. Nor be thou disturbed, like a raw scholar, if thou shouldest find anywhere, either in the sacred councils or the sacred doctors, these books reckoned as canonical. For the words as well of councils as of doctors are to be reduced to the correction of Jerome. Now, according to his judgment, in the epistle to the bishops Chromatius and Heliodorus, these books (and any other like books in the canon of the bible) are not canonical, that is, not in the nature of a rule for confirming matters of faith. Yet, they may be called canonical, that is, in the nature of a rule for the edification of the faithful, as being received and authorised in the canon of the bible for that purpose. By the help of this distinction thou mayest see thy way clearly through that which Augustine says, and what is written in the provincial council of Carthage."
(In ult. Cap. Esther. Taken from A Disputation on Holy Scripture by William Whitaker (Cambridge: University, 1849), p. 48.)
Cordially,
Which is why only the authentic Jewish Tradition can interpret the Bible.
Gratuitous remarks about Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses do not make your case any more convincing.
Uh-oh.
No time to rebut, too busy.
However, I am very impressed with the amount of effort you've put into your deception. With folks like you around I am certain the RCC will be around to continue deceiving their faithful all the way to hell for years to come!
Great effort!
Whose pride?
The post itself is plainly intended to provoke.
The subsequent comment regarding Mormons and Jehovah's witnesses is plainly intended to insult.
I, for one, will not bother.
The official body to decide such matters hasn't sat for about 1700 years. 1930 years if you don't count the post-Temple period.
What capacity does any individual Jew have to decide what is or is not in accord with tradition? What is or is not authentic? Rabbis have their opinions. Sometimes they even contradict each other. But only the duly constituted Sanhedrin decides for good. And until it does, the field is open.
Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse.
What capacity does any individual Jew have to decide what is or is not in accord with tradition? What is or is not authentic? Rabbis have their opinions. Sometimes they even contradict each other. But only the duly constituted Sanhedrin decides for good. And until it does, the field is open.
Well . . . how about that. Instead of needing a Sanhedrion to officially declare who Mashiach is, now we need one to declare who he isn't!
Bravo, JDeM! Very Orthodox, as I would expect from a Uniate! Really excellent. Thank-you!
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