[Mrs. Don-o]

The subjects which are beyond human comprehension are exactly where you need dogma. Many, many issues in life are argued, and endlessly re-argued, on the basis of "the preponderance of evidence." But matters of the greatest importance --- the things of God --- are by definition beyond human comprehension.

You cannot build a house if you are constantly running down to the basement, knocking out the bearing walls, digging up and redesigning the foundation. St. Paul - as we can read in his Epistles --- evidently had some serious problems with some of his new Christians who, in their rejection of dogma, were unable to build their newly-planted churches: digging up the foundations, wrangling about everything, building nothing.

St. Peter notes that such unstable people twist Scriptures to their own destruction. Scriptures are, unfortunately, twistable. (2 Peter 3:16).The Church has the authority to make judgments on disputes; these judgments serve both truth and peace; they are spiritual works of mercy; they are called Dogmas.

[C. Edmund Wright]

You are confusing dogma and principle, and I don’t have the patience to try and splain it to you.....cieau