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To: Petrosius
You should really limit yourself to topics of which you are knowledgeable. All priests have studied the Scriptures for four years at the graduate level in the seminary. Many go on to advanced degrees.

I'd say that applies to you, and more so...

Go to Seminary or Complete Graduate Work
Aspiring Catholic priests may attend a seminary before ordination. Some churches, like the Roman Catholic Church, may require candidates to go to seminary for four years. A seminary program offers graduate-level coursework in subjects like Biblical studies, liturgy, ethics, pastoral studies, church history and preaching. Aspiring priests may obtain a Master of Divinity or another related degree. Other churches may not strictly require their priests to receive training at a seminary. Future priests may be required to earn a graduate degree in any field, though some churches prefer candidates with a degree related to theology or religious studies.

There is very little actual bible study for priests...The education is mostly human philosophy... The rest is Catholic church history, theology, ritual, apologetics...Very little actual bible study...

And there you have it. You do not trace your beliefs directly to the Bible but to how Tyndale and other Protestants have interpreted it for you.

Apparently you don't know much about that either...Tyndale was not an interpreter...Tyndale was a translator...A translator who put the bible in language of the native people, Protestant and Catholic alike...

44 posted on 12/16/2013 4:53:56 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool
Go to Seminary or Complete Graduate Work

I do have a Masters degree. What is your training? There is very little actual bible study for priests...The education is mostly human philosophy... The rest is Catholic church history, theology, ritual, apologetics...Very little actual bible study..

The study of Scripture is one of the subjects that is indeed one of the subjects that is taught in the seminary and is covered each of the four years. Many priest graduate with a Masters degree in Scripture in addition to their M.Div. Put away your Protestant ignorance.

Apparently you don't know much about that either...Tyndale was not an interpreter...Tyndale was a translator...A translator who put the bible in language of the native people, Protestant and Catholic alike...

More of a mistranslator. His translation was deliberately polemical. He also introduced commentary within his translation promoting Protestant beliefs. Even the Protestant King Henry VIII ordered all copies of his translation to be burned. Nor was he the first to offer a vernacular translation. There were many such translations in various languages before either Tyndale or Luther.

47 posted on 12/16/2013 5:24:09 PM PST by Petrosius
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