Posted on 10/30/2015 11:11:35 AM PDT by fishtank
Reformation Reminders: Rome & Her Desecration of Christ
By Eric Davis
OCTOBER 28, 2015
This Saturday, October 31, commemorates nearly 500 years since one of the greatest movements of God in church history; the Protestant Reformation. Up to the time of the Reformation, much of Europe had been dominated by the reign of Roman Catholicism. To the populace was propagated the idea that salvation was found under Rome and her system alone.
But as the cultural and theological fog cleared in Europe and beyond, God's people gained a clarity that had been mostly absent for centuries. The Reformers gained this clarity from keeping with a simple principle: sola scritpura, or, Scripture alone. As they searched the word of God, they discovered that Rome deviated radically on the most critical points of biblical Christianity. With one mind, God's people discerned from Scripture that, tragically, Roman Catholicism was a desecration to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Are you saying God and a nutritionists’ words have the same validity? When they have the same validity, you’ll have something, until then the statement and comparison fail.
“This is a gross simplification that disregards dozens of factors.”
It is a simplification, but I don’t think it’s either unfair or inaccurate. We can’t speak of matters as broad as this without simplifying things to an extent. I think if you were to try to break it down and analyze the minutia, you’d still find that many of those other factors you want to take into account were heavily influenced themselves by the Reformation, because it was one of the biggest factors impacting European society for centuries.
“If it were true, then you’d be laying abortion, homosexuality, rampant political-correctness, obesity, and who knows what else, at the door of Protestantism.”
That’s just fallacious reasoning since none of those evils originated with Protestantism, they are all quite ancient. You’re also only assigning blame to one party for ills present in their society, while ignoring the ills of the other society. Also, most of those problems have only increased in severity as North American countries began moving towards secularism, so we would have to conclude, if anything, there is a negative correlation between those problems and how Protestant our society was.
Where in the Scripture you posted, does Christ give His authority to anyone? He gave them a charge and promised to be with them to the end of the age.
Wrong. When God says the sky is blue, it's no more valid than when the nutritionist says it; it's called "truth."
You're trying to make truth relative.
And by the way, when you say God said something He DIDN'T say, you're taking the Lord's name in vain.
So eating a vegetable because someone says it’s good for you is the same as heeding what God says about His Word. Gotcha! If you have an allergy to that vegetable, it is still good for you? Some Catholics must have an allergy to God’s Word.
And what was that?
You are claiming the text says something is comprehensive yet admit that if it were anything else, it wouldn't be.
That's claiming God said something He did NOT say.
Now you're just trying to mangle the analogy.
You already admitted it "might" (weasel wording) be valid if it weren't God's Word under consideration. Of course you allude to NOTHING else that might make it invalid EXCEPT that it's God's Word, so that must be your reasoning.
I’m claiming that an equivalency to what someone says about vegetables and what God says about His Word is a stupid comparison. Nice try.
When the nutritionist in the analogy becomes God Almighty, you will finally have a point.
Utter nonsense. Were it true, the founders would have instituted an Anarchy, not a Republic. Conflating the legitimacy of an office with equality is intellectually dishonest.
Yes, you are, but you're not saying why. You're not saying why, because you can't come up with a legitimate reason.
Since when do you have to be God Almighty to utter a legitimate truth? You already admitted the analogy was valid. You just claim it's fallacious because it conflicts with your doctrine and you can't find another out than pretending the person uttering it is contradicting God when what they really are doing is contradicting your interpretive doctrine.
Prove from the Bible alone where Jesus gives that authority to the apostles, please.
Also, you add bishops to the Disciples in your understanding. Really Christ is speaking to them of the whole Church which was to come, which they represented.
Even right now you are trying to teach. Are you a Bishop? Is Christ with all Christians always or only the Bishops of the CC?
Mat 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
All authority was given to Christ. Prove from your Bible that ‘all authority’ was given by Christ to anyone.
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