Have some NEW stuff!
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Vatican-to-share-tax-info-with-US-in-new-6318032.php
Father; I have sinned.
How so; my son?
I used a tax haven.
Too bad; my son; but now I have to report you.
Posted on 06/11/2015 8:19:28 AM PDT by RnMomof7
The link in the article to Newman’s original article is broken, and google couldn’t find it either. I could only find it in snippets from others who criticized it.
Nevertheless, looking only at the snippets included in this article, it seems that the author is confused between mediation and doctrine.
At least in the snippets provided, Newman does not say that the details and embellishments are “evidence” of anything. He says they are aids to meditation.
A quick example will illustrate the difference: if I meditate Luke Ch. 1 26-38, I read:
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.
When I meditate on this passage I picture it, like many painters have done, taking place in a house. I picture Mary alone perhaps in her bedroom when the angel appears.
But scripture does not say that the angel came to Mary in a house. It might have happened outside at the well or elsewhere.
If there were a raging debate over the issue of whether this scene took place inside or outside my picture of this scene would not constitute “evidence” that it took place inside and contrary to what the author of this article believes, Newman is not claiming that it does.
Is this all you can do.....provide links to catholic sources?? Good grief.
Go easy on the use of the word “proddie”....
Why are you grief stricken?
Wikipedia discusses this here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%27s_canon
(Sorry, I don’t know how to do links here.)
He wanted to remove the Epistle of James and called it an epistle of straw, quite possibly because it is the only place where the words “faith alone” are found: James 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
And Luther added the word alone to Romans 3.28 **in order to change the teaching,** which is, of course, more along the lines of what is being erroneously and without evidence criticized on the part of Catholics.
Why are you avoiding the question?
I had some Protestant books for children when they were young, and they had all kinds of additions to the Bible stories. They even included pictures of things which were not minutely described in Scripture!
The OP is a strawman argument which makes little sense at all.
That's a very good point. Taking the author's offense to embellishment to its logical extreme you would be inclined to burn all works of religious art, destroy all stained glass with lead pipes, and set fire to libraries "on a scale that far outstrips the modern efforts of Islamist extremists."
Oh wait, they already did that:
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2013/10/08/a-sad-reminder-of-the-art-lost-in-the-years-after-the-reformation/
You're actually attempting to equate a child's book with the Word??
Place mark
Don’t you have a pope to complain about?
You have not noticed that there are books written about their religion by Protestants? That there are publishers who publish books by Protestants, and even bookstores which specialize in those books? Many are called “Christian,” but since they exclude Catholic books and sometimes even include books which slander the Church, they cannot be considered “Christian” per se. Hence, yes, Protestant.
Well, no, but the Catholic Church has not changed the Word in this way—even the OP does not claim that.
Have some NEW stuff!
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Vatican-to-share-tax-info-with-US-in-new-6318032.php
Father; I have sinned.
How so; my son?
I used a tax haven.
Too bad; my son; but now I have to report you.
What are they going to do when they realize that a lot of this stuff was written in the 1800s???
Well, you have changed the Word in that you’ve added to it with the apocrypha and the CCC.
I don’t accept the word of someone who claims to have authority simply because they make that claim.
Their claim that they have it does not mean they do.
Mary is the mother of Jesus.
God did not have a mother.
Jesus did.
So what?
You know what?
Nobody really cares.
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