To: topcat54
** 3. All synods or councils, since the Apostles' times, whether general or particular, may err; and many have erred. Therefore they are not to be made the rule of faith, or practice; but to be used as a help in both. (Westminster Confession of Faith) " Don't believe them, believe US! We are smarter and wiser than they." Seriously, how would they know that?
80 posted on
12/15/2010 9:57:54 PM PST by
RobbyS
(Pray with the suffering souls.)
To: topcat54; RobbyS
All synods or councils, since the Apostles' times, whether general or particular, may err; and many have erred. Therefore they are not to be made the rule of faith, or practice; but to be used as a help in both. (Westminster Confession of Faith)
And yet in those councils, since Apostolic times there were decisions like preaching to Gentiles, not following Mosaic dietary, circumscion etc. rules, collecting canon, declaring the doctrine of the Trinity, declaring Jesus Christ as God, eternally begotten of the Father, etc. etc. -- if the Westminister C plans to doubt every single one of these, it is analogous to someone arguing first that calculus rules are wrong, then that algebraic formulae are wrong and finally doubting why 1+1 = 2.
158 posted on
12/16/2010 2:25:52 AM PST by
Cronos
(Et Verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis (W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie))
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