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Will the Pope's Pronouncement Set Ecumenism Back a Hundred Years? (Challenge to Apostolicity)
Progressive Theology ^ | July 07

Posted on 07/22/2007 7:40:38 PM PDT by xzins

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To: kosta50; P-Marlowe

You missed p-marlowe’s correction about the JW’s just a few posts later. He had already caught it.


101 posted on 07/23/2007 8:56:35 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: P-Marlowe; wmfights; Frumanchu; xzins; kawaii
“Whereas protestants appeal to which authority? the authority of law school flunkies to reinterpret for themselves?”

Was that an insult or an acknowledgment of the perspicuity of the scriptures?

102 posted on 07/23/2007 8:57:09 AM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: P-Marlowe
They were deleted in the next post

Thank you. I didn't get that far. Correction noted.

103 posted on 07/23/2007 8:58:09 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; OLD REGGIE; Ruy Dias de Bivar

Paul specifically says that Christ was the source of his Apostleship and not any man.


104 posted on 07/23/2007 8:58:59 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: blue-duncan

Martin Luther flunked out of law school and then joined up as a Catholic priest, not content to mess up simply law school he flunked out of history as well and tried to write himself a new religion.


105 posted on 07/23/2007 9:00:42 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: Iscool
Are you saying that when your religion murdered all those groups of 'heretics' in the early centuries, none of them survived??? You got 'em all??? You broke the lines???

No, satan is still alive and well, and forming new 'churches' every day.

106 posted on 07/23/2007 9:01:00 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: Iscool
If they were good enough for Jesus to quote, and He called them scriptures, ...

And how do you know that's what anyone said if you don't have the original?

they're just as good as the 'originals' to me...

is that what God wants, a "me church?"

107 posted on 07/23/2007 9:03:52 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kawaii; blue-duncan

From Martin Marty’s bio of Luther via Wiki:

Hans Luther was ambitious for himself and his family, and was determined to see his eldest son become a lawyer. He sent Martin to Latin schools in Mansfeld, then Magdeburg in 1497, where he attended a school operated by a lay group called the Brethren of the Common Life, and Eisenach in 1498.[14] The three schools focused on the so-called “trivium”: grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Luther later compared his education there to purgatory and hell.[15]

At the age of seventeen in 1501, he entered the University of Erfurt — later describing it as a beerhouse and whorehouse[16] — which saw him woken at four every morning for what Marty describes as “a day of rote learning and often wearying spiritual exercises”[16] He received his master’s degree in 1505.[17]

In accordance with his father’s wishes, he enrolled in law school at the same university that year, but dropped out almost immediately, believing that law represented uncertainty.[17] Marty writes that Luther sought assurances about life, and was drawn to theology and philosophy, expressing particular interest in Aristotle, William of Ockham, and Gabriel Biel.[17]


108 posted on 07/23/2007 9:06:15 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins; OLD REGGIE; Ruy Dias de Bivar
Paul specifically says that Christ was the source of his Apostleship and not any man

Except there was no one to witness it. But, be it as it may, Christ was the source of Apostleship of the remianing 12 and even of Judas. So, what's your point?

109 posted on 07/23/2007 9:06:24 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: PrezUSA222

I am sure you have fine points to make, but paragraph breaks are our freinds. Use them. I can’t read clock posts.


110 posted on 07/23/2007 9:07:56 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kawaii; blue-duncan

Same article:

Marty writes that Luther sought assurances about life, and was drawn to theology and philosophy, expressing particular interest in Aristotle, William of Ockham, and Gabriel Biel.[17] He was deeply influenced by two tutors, Bartholomäus Arnoldi von Usingen and Jodocus Trutfetter, who taught him to be suspicious of even the greatest thinkers,[17] and to test everything himself by experience.[18] Philosophy proved to be unsatisfying, offering assurance about the use of reason, but none about the importance, for Luther, of loving God. Reason could not lead men to God, he felt, and he developed what Marty describes as a love-hate relationship with Aristotle over the latter’s emphasis on reason.[18] For Luther, reason could be used to question men and institutions, but not God. Human beings could learn about God only through divine revelation, he believed, and Scripture therefore became increasingly important to him.[18]

He decided to leave his studies and become a monk, later attributing his decision to an experience during a thunderstorm on July 2, 1505. A lightning bolt struck near him as he was returning to university after a trip home. Later telling his father he was terrified of death and divine judgment, he cried out, “Help! Saint Anna, I will become a monk!”[19] He came to view his cry for help as a vow he could never break.

He left law school, sold his books, and entered a closed Augustinian monastery in Erfurt on July 17, 1505.[20] One friend blamed the decision on Luther’s sadness over the deaths of two friends. Luther himself seemed saddened by the move, telling those who attended a farewell supper then walked him to the door of the Black Cloister, “This day you see me, and then, not ever again.”[18] His father was furious over what he saw as a waste of Luther’s education.[21]


111 posted on 07/23/2007 9:08:36 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: kosta50

What is my point?

It was after the resurrection and ascension.

It wasn’t based on Peter and the others drawing straws, either.


112 posted on 07/23/2007 9:10:09 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins
He was deeply influenced by two tutors, Bartholomäus Arnoldi von Usingen and Jodocus Trutfetter, who taught him to be suspicious of even the greatest thinkers,[17] and to test everything himself by experience.[18]

Now there's a faithful man for you. If he hadn't set about creating his own religion he'd probably have become an athiest.
113 posted on 07/23/2007 9:10:55 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: xzins
“This day you see me, and then, not ever again.”

If only...
114 posted on 07/23/2007 9:12:23 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: xzins
We want to be in the teaching, doctrinal lineage of the Apostles.

Teaching/doctrine of the Apostles as determined by whom?

-A8

115 posted on 07/23/2007 9:16:17 AM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: kawaii
if only...

Is not God in control?

116 posted on 07/23/2007 9:16:34 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins

i’m more inclined to suggest that Martin Luther broke his vow at the temptation of Satan...


117 posted on 07/23/2007 9:17:19 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: adiaireton8
Teaching/doctrine of the Apostles as determined by whom?

As determined by what they wrote. After all, we do have their writings.

118 posted on 07/23/2007 9:18:08 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: kawaii

Is not God in control?


119 posted on 07/23/2007 9:18:41 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins

suggesting that everything happens because God directed it is naive and un-scriptural. The apostles warned that Satan would send wolves in to steal the faithful away and this whiny overweight law school drop out seems like a prime candidate.


120 posted on 07/23/2007 9:21:12 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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