[P-Marlowe]

From Beckwith's Blog:

Because I can in good conscience, as a Catholic, affirm the ETS doctrinal statement, I do not intend to resign as a member of ETS.

Well here's the doctrinal statement:

Doctrinal Basis

The following doctrinal basis must be subscribed to by all members annually with the renewal of their membership in the Society.

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"The Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written and is therefore inerrant in the autographs. God is a Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each an uncreated person, one in essence, equal in power and glory."

The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone. The Bible Alone.

Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura. Sola Scriptura.

No Catholic can subscribe to that statement since the Catholic Church places Tradition on an equal level with the Bible and The Catholic Church places the ex-cathedra declarations of the Pope above both the Bible and Tradition.

Mr. Beckwith is duplicitous.

(James 1:8 KJV) A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

[NYer]

The Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written and is therefore inerrant in the autographs.

Scripture never says that Scripture is the sole infallible authority for God's Word. Scripture also mandates the use of tradition. This fact alone disproves sola Scriptura.

[Campion]

No Catholic can subscribe to that statement since the Catholic Church places Tradition on an equal level with the Bible and The Catholic Church places the ex-cathedra declarations of the Pope above both the Bible and Tradition

The underlined portion of the above is completely false.

[AnalogReigns]

I think ETS statement is flawed. It doesn’t say the bible alone is the one, final inerrant authority. It merely says the bible alone is God’s word WRITTEN.

Romanists believe this, they just add that Tradition is God’s unwritten word passed down orally, and communicated authoritatively by the Church.

I’m sure that’s the loophole Catholics like Beckwith can find.

Although it’s a sorry loophole, I believe Open Theists are even (far) more in error than devout Catholics—and these have been allowed to stay in ETS.

So much for ecumenical evangelicalism....it, like the magazine Christianity Today, been in decline for a long time.