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To: WVKayaker

No you didn’t fix it. The Pope is not the guide, the Pope only defends what has been defined by his predecessors. In fact, the more and more you go into time, the less a future Pope matters. No Pope can undue the Council of Nicea, Constantinopile, Ephesus or Chalcedon and the Doctrinal definitions about the Trinity and Jesus Christ. The Pope’s role is to defend Doctrine and ensure that it is passed on what he received. Vatican 2 did not define anything, it only further developed earlier teachings, for example, Dei Verbum was a Document on Sacred Scripture, nothing new, but a more fuller presentation of Scripture in the life of the Church. Lumen Gentium defined more fully the Church, and in particular the Church of Rome having premminent authority. In that sense it more fully defined Vatican 1 which, while defining what Papal Infallibility is, also talked that the Infallibility of the Bishop of Rome is linked to the fact that the Church of Rome has preeminent authority [Vatican 1 quotes saint Irenaeus here] but Lumen Gentium more fully developed the link between the Pope and the Church of Rome and how Primacy is rooted in the authority of the Church of Rome and its connection to both Peter and Paul..

As for throwing Scripture quotes, what does that prove, you can type. They do not mean what you say they mean.


56 posted on 06/09/2014 7:00:44 PM PDT by CTrent1564
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To: CTrent1564
No you didn’t fix it. ...

...They do not mean what you say they mean.

As for throwing Scripture quotes, what does that prove ...

It proves Roman Catholic doctrines are not based on Scripture, but only on the minds of (sometimes) evil men!

1 Corinthians 2: 10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.


57 posted on 06/09/2014 7:19:42 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("Every American should feel outrage at any injustice done to our veterans " -Sarah Palin 5/26/14)
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