***Who’d be dopey enough to believe that?***
Ask MarkBsnr.
“(I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)”
He's not the one that said
I'd much rather be silly than blasphemously believe the Word of God only gains effectiveness with approval of man.YOU are...
Ask MarkBsnr -- "(I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)"
Mark, did you really say that? The authority of the church gives one a belief in the Gospel?
You could not and would not believe in the Gospel by your own Spirit-led reading comprehension? By your own quickened mind and reborn heart? With your own two eyes and ears given by God alone?
We can conclude from this logic that if the church moved you away from the Gospel you would follow happily since the church has all authority.
******Who’d be dopey enough to believe that?***
Ask MarkBsnr.***
Sure. Anyone who believes in the WCF, the Longer and Shorter Confessions, the Belgic Confession, and so on. They’re well represented here, I must say.