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To: Gamecock

A couple other puzzlers that make no sense:

Mat 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Christ was obviously condemning using “father” as an honorific, since He repeatedly used “father” to describe the male parent...

Mar 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mar 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

Catholics rather boldly teach that their traditions trump Scripture wherever the two are in dispute... And that’s a rather dire warning Christ gives for holding to tradition over God’s commandments. Tradition that trumps Scripture therefore definitionally can NOT be from the Holy Spirit.


46 posted on 07/08/2015 9:54:44 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: afsnco
Christ was obviously condemning using “father” as an honorific

He evidently didn't tell Paul:

For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. -- 1 Cor 4:15, NASB

I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment … -- Phlm 10, NASB

Catholics rather boldly teach that their traditions trump Scripture wherever the two are in dispute

Well, no, actually we teach no such thing. But we're happy to teach that "our traditions" trump *your* erroneous understanding of Scripture.

49 posted on 07/08/2015 10:08:20 AM PDT by Campion
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