If the Protestants want to worship the book the Bishops of the Church compiled, then fine. Have at it. Knock your socks off. I often find your interpretations of scripture to be quite amusing. Just do not ever... EVER call yourselves Christians. A true Christian does NOT place the words of St. Paul on the same level, nor (as seen disgustingly way too often here place) do true Christians place the words of St. Paul OVER those of Christ.
This 'Sola Scriptura' nonsense Protestants like trot out over and over and over again on these forums is about as anti-Christian as it gets. You CANNOT reduce Christ to a few chapters in some "magic perfect book" and then call yourselves Christians. I find that obscene.
Go ahead and worship that book the Church compiled long after Christ founded his Church on earth. Just don't pretend the Bible came before Christianity. Treating each part of the Bible as important as the Gospels is about as anti-Christian as someone can get. Bible worshipers or folks that treat the Bible as 'perfect' are about as Christian as Muslims are. (By the way... PLEASE at least get the chronology of Christianity right. It's not that complicated. First came Christ. Then came the Apostles and their succession, and THEN MUCH LATER CAME THE BIBLE!!!!
This really shouldn't be that hard to understand - Christ chose 12 guys to follow him around so he could teach them what they need to teach the rest of us. Christ DID NOT hire a scribe, or wait until the printing press was invented before he showed up on Earth. Christ brilliantly chose men that could teach things that words alone cannot do. The written word is a horrible way of teaching. Hands on face to face transference of knowledge IS NOT. Yet the Protestants love to worship a BOOK!! That's just silly. It's nice to have a book to accompany someone in their quest to be an apprentice of Christ, but if I want to TRULY learn what it is that Christ wants from us, I'm going listen to the folks he taught, and not rely solely on the acoompanying "manual" for my education.
Believing the Bible is the inerrant 'word' of God is about ridiculous as believing in the Easter Bunny.
Would you like some cheese?
Have you got a YouTube link or an mp3 of the Apostles that I can download from iTunes? I must have missed it when it came out.
Cordially,
getoffmylawn wrote:
“... the most nauseating act of idol worship ... monkey pile of Bible worshipers ... bury their heads in the sand ... load of total garbage ... quite amusing ... disgustingly ... nonsense ... as anti-Christian as it gets ... ‘magic perfect book’ ... obscene ... pretend ... as anti-Christian as someone can get ... Bible worshipers ... about as Christian as Muslims are ... written word is a horrible way of teaching ... just silly ... Believing the Bible is the inerrant ‘word’ of God is about ridiculous as believing in the Easter Bunny.”
Did I summarize your post accurately? I want to get all the important points.
No, it isn't. Mary worship is.
Protestants treat the Bible as if it were the perfect recording of God's Word.
Sources? Links?
Kosta has provided about a ton of examples of the Bible being corrupted over the years, and yet there's still a monkey pile of Bible worshipers here that continue to bury their heads in the sand and pretend God grabbed the hand of so many ancient scribes and used his magic tractor beam to write the perfect book. What a load of total garbage.
The Catholic church claims to have written the Bible, saying that its church fathers wrote it. You shouldn't talk about them that way.
A true Christian does NOT place the words of St. Paul on the same level, nor (as seen disgustingly way too often here place) do true Christians place the words of St. Paul OVER those of Christ.
Tell that to annalex who said in this post (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2618333/posts?page=1488#1488)
Everything S,.t Paul write is inspired scripture and supports the Catholic doctrines. Whoever disparaged St. Paul doesn’t understand Catholicism. We are Pauline Christians.
Yet the Protestants love to worship a BOOK!!
Who have you seen making statues of it, lighting candles to it, and praying to it?
It's nice to have a book to accompany someone in their quest to be an apprentice of Christ, but if I want to TRULY learn what it is that Christ wants from us, I'm going listen to the folks he taught, and not rely solely on the acoompanying "manual" for my education.
How are you going to do that? Time travel? They're all dead you know.....
Believing the Bible is the inerrant 'word' of God is about ridiculous as believing in the Easter Bunny.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
107 The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."72
"If there is no truth, all that is left is a struggle of propaganda." Ethan Clive Osgoode
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2173647/posts?page=824#824
WOW...This long rant sounds like something out of the enemy of God's playbook. "Screwtape Letters" come to mind. It would be interesting to hear how one might fair speaking these exact words before the Christ.... I don't think He would be amused.