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To: narses; CynicalBear
“Because salvation and truth is not built on assumptions.”

Nor is “they will” the same thing as “my intellect” and yet those who disagree with the Catholic Church spend 95% or more of their time trying to prove the Scriptures do not say what they very clearly do say or reinterpreting clear verses into something that suits their own personal assumptions and preferences. It takes incredible contortions to accept Sola Scriptura as being Scriptural and yet the folks who will stand on their had to pretend the Bible agrees with the fallacy of "Sola Yourselfa" pretend it's a horrible distortion to accept that a rock is a rock or that flesh is flesh and blood is blood even though it is Christ Himself who says these things. If salvation is not built on assumptions, then it cannot possibly be built on the personal infallibility those who deny the Scriptures assume for themselves.

That's exactly like the disciples who left when Christ explained that it was His Body and His Blood we would partake of. They asked him to clarify hoping He would restate what He said in a way that agreed with their intellect. He did not, he restated it in an even more offensive manner making it crystal clear that it wasn't an analogy or some sort of parable but His physical body and His physical blood. The “thy will means my intellect” crowd do the exact same thing, hear what Christ Himself says and then turn and walk away from Christ. They cannot give up the pride in their own intellect that they substitute for His Word. Whether or not “Faith Alone” is Scriptural doesn't even matter because those who cling to their own intellect have faith in themselves and in nothing else, not even what Christ Himself clearly says.

Not by faith alone? Those who worship their own intellect say, “The Scripture doesn’t mean what it says”.
The Apostles forgiving sins? Those who worship their own intellect say, “The Scripture doesn’t mean what it says”
Baptism for forgiveness of sins? Those who worship their own intellect say, “The Scripture doesn’t mean what it says”
God of the living, not of the dead? Those who worship their own intellect say, “The Scripture doesn’t mean what it says”
Nothing impure will enter heaven? Those who worship their own intellect say, “The Scripture doesn’t mean what it says”
The real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist? Those who worship their own intellect say, “The Scripture doesn’t mean what it says”

These things are all very clearly stated in Scriptures which is why the Catholic Church believe them and teaches them. It's very clear which church dedicated anti-Catholic folks really belong to, and it is far from invisible. Whether they're Marxists who refuse to accept that some things aren't related to class struggle, Freudians who refuse to believe that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, or anti-Catholics who refuse to believe their intellect and God's Will are not the same things. They're all members of the Church of The Arrogant Self worshiping their own intellect just like all the Gnostics before them.

And yet these same folks expect others to believe them when they say they believe in the Scripture Alone? No, unlike so many who are simply not aware of the fallacies in the non-Catholic denominations they're a part of, the dedicated anti-Catholic crowd who claim to be infallible believe in slandering the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by Christ Himself and in very little else other than their own ego.

Regards

274 posted on 11/26/2011 11:44:10 AM PST by Rashputin (Obama stark, raving, mad, and even his security people know it.)
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To: Rashputin

Wow! That was a whole lot of nothing backed up by nothing! Maybe you could start by enlightening us as to where to find the bodily assumption Mary in scripture.


275 posted on 11/26/2011 12:01:14 PM PST by CynicalBear
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