Posted on 06/29/2010 5:57:07 AM PDT by TSgt
You wrote:
“what I quoted was a Biblical scripture”
You haven’t quoted any scripture in at least the last 6 posts to me. Saying “Galatians Chapter One” is not a quote, but merely a citation.
Here are the questions that you have now not answered for the 14th time:
1) Is there anyone, ANYWHERE, who has EVER made such a claim?
2) Why do you make things up like that?
Galatians One is the Word of God.
You wrote:
“Galatians One is the Word of God.”
Yes, it is - and it doesn’t say what you apparently claimed it did.
Here are the questions that you have now not answered for the 15th time:
1) Is there anyone, ANYWHERE, who has EVER made such a claim?
2) Why do you make things up like that?
If only gays in Massachusetts were allowed to "marry",then this wouldn't happen!
Oh,wait......
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
I reject your premise that the institution of the Church abused anyone. The Church is no more culpable for the sins of the priests who claim to represent it than is Jesus whom they also claim to represent.
“The Church is no more culpable for the sins of the priests who claim to represent it than is Jesus whom they also claim to represent.”
That’s heresy isn’t it? Priests in the Catholic Church claim to represent Jesus Christ?
Priests represents Christ, not himself, Pope tells audience
April 14, 2010
A Catholic priests "is always a teacher," Pope Benedict XVI remarked at his weekly public audience on April 14.
Speaking to a crowd of about 16,000 people in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father said that a priestly vocation is "not chosen by anyone for himself," but a call to serve God in the Christian community. When he answers that call, the Pope continued, the priest "represents Jesus, who is never absent in the Church." He went on to say that a priest "never acts in the name of someone absent, but in the person of the Risen Christ."
By the same token, Pope Benedict continued, a priest does not teach according to his own wisdom, but follows that of the Church. "For a priest," he said, "it is true what Christ says of Himself: my teaching is not my own."
The Pope concluded his prepared remarks by reminding his audience that the Church is observing a Year for Priests, and suggesting that the patron saint of priests, St. John Vianney, should be a model for all priests to follow. The faithful, he said, should hear "that which must always be recognized in a priest: the voice of the Good Shepherd."
And what Biblical scripture backs up that wise proclamation?
What biblical scripture backs up that 100% of the revealed Word of God must come from Scripture?
In persona Christi is a Latin phrase which translates literally as "in the person of Christ." This is an important theological concept of the Catholic Church referring to the action of a priest while celebrating a sacrament. The priest acts in the person of Christ, or it could be said, the Person of Christ is acting in the performance of the gesture and the pronouncing of the words of the sacramental rite.
In particular, there are essential moments in the rites where the priest's words and gestures confect the sacrament. These words are spoken in persona Christi. "This is my body." in the Eucharistic prayer and "I absolve you of your sins" in the Sacrament of Reconciliation are chief examples.
The basis for this is found in 2 Corinthians 2:10 and hinges upon the translation of the Greek word, prosopon. Here is the passage as seen in context in three major translations.
"For to this end also did I write, that I may know the experiment of you, whether you be obedient in all things. And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ." - 2 Corinthians 2:10
2 Tim 3:16
The Catholic Church does not dispute that all Scripture is indeed the true revealed Word, it just does not accept that 100% of the Revealed Word is included in Scripture.
” ... it just does not accept that 100% of the Revealed Word is included in Scripture.”
Then we’re back to another gospel.
No, you are just trying to drag the Catholic Church into the unbiblical tradition of Sola Scriptura.
I don’t even know what that is... I do know how to read the Bible and what is says...
What about john 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, it didn't say the book. Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture make up a single sacred deposit of the Word of God. the Christian faith is not a "religion of the book." Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, a word which is "not a written and mute word, but the Word which is incarnate and living."
If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, open our minds to understand the Scriptures.
The trinity is the Word.
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