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To: Iscool
"Every Catholic I've talked to on FR says you can't read and understand the bible...It 'must' be translated first by your church..."

In any other setting the "reasonable man" would call that a lie.

346 posted on 08/22/2011 4:19:19 PM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Natural Law; Iscool; presently no screen name
In any other setting the "reasonable man" would call that a lie.

Two things. First, It's not clear, at least not to me, what 'translated' means in this context.

Second, the "reasonable man" standard has been thrown out. The ONLY standard is spiritually discernment and, as far as I can tell, the only way to tell what that is is to read what "presently no screen name" says.

This would seem to be an extreme demonstration of my contention that Protestants reject Reason. The gulf between us is deep. It is Nominalism taken to the umpteenth limit and beyond. I don't see how it is not, au fond, gnosticism, but, of course, the conversation cannot be had since any disagreement is thrown in the "non-spiritual discernment" bucket.

349 posted on 08/22/2011 5:21:55 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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