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To: Cronos; Judith Anne
"But now from hence it follows not that the authority of scripture depends upon the church; but, contrariwise, that the authority of the church depends on scripture."

St. Thomas Aquinas, in his logical proof for the existence of God, established that everything in creation is contingent upon something that precedes it with the one exception of God. Scripture is no exception. When one traces Scripture backward toward its ultimate source they will find the Episcopacy of the Catholic Church as one of the fundamental contingencies in the chain.

The irony is that to be a Protestant one must simultaneously both accept AND reject the authority of the Catholic Episcopacy that compiled the Canon of the Scripture.

555 posted on 10/26/2011 10:50:47 PM PDT by Natural Law (Transubstantiation - Change we can believe in.)
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To: Natural Law

That right there shows the insanity, the self-contradictory, self-serving twisted logic of the Sola crowd.


556 posted on 10/26/2011 10:55:27 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Holy Mary Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.)
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To: Natural Law; boatbums
one must simultaneously both accept AND reject the authority of the Catholic Episcopacy that compiled the Canon of the Scripture.

True and Bb's faction also has to justify it's buddy's belief in double-predestination and limited atonement.

558 posted on 10/26/2011 11:04:45 PM PDT by Cronos (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2787101/posts?page=58#58)
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To: Natural Law
St. Thomas Aquinas, in his logical proof for the existence of God

Thomas A found that??? Any one who read the scripture before Thomas A knew that...Logic is no proof, or truth...If you have truth, you have no need for logic...

When one traces Scripture backward toward its ultimate source they will find the Episcopacy of the Catholic Church as one of the fundamental contingencies in the chain.

Got a few hundred million bible believers who have traced the scriptures to their ultimate source and didn't see your Catholic religion anywhere...In fact, it was so NOT found, that a Reformation was the result of it...

The irony is that to be a Protestant one must simultaneously both accept AND reject the authority of the Catholic Episcopacy that compiled the Canon of the Scripture.

The scripture compiled the Catholic religion and the Catholic religion compiled the scripture...Yup, uh huh...Keep 'em comin'...They're gettin' funnier by the minute...

585 posted on 10/27/2011 8:28:24 AM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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