The Catholic faith doesn’t rest only on the scant contents of a set of writings that fit into a moderately large book but in the entire received Tradition of the Christian faith. Bible alone is a self contradictory heresy and an utterly foolish notion so we cannot have a conversation that considers only the biblical aspects of the legitimacy of Francis’ positions.
As I said, you think you’re up to the challenge?
There’s a huge load of contradictions between Scripture and this tradition of yours. You ready to answer the challenges, or are you going to just keep on insulting people?
You don't seem to understand what sola Scriptura really means. If you did, you would understand why it is NOT self-contradictory NOR heresy. You're right that the Roman Catholic religion doesn't rest upon the Divinely-inspired word of God. In fact, truth is whatever they say it is. Read this interesting article discussing the "development" of doctrine in the Roman Catholic church:
Self contadictory?
How so?
How is sacred tradition any better when it produces such controversy and confusion?
Scripture is consistent with itself, something that CANNOT be said of Catholic tradition and teaching.
With Scripture, it is truth that never changes. Catholic teaching is a free for all and if you don't like the church teaching on something, you can find someone else who said something different or just *interpret* it into having a different meaning.
Let me pose a question.
I await your answer from my previous question.
GOD?
You may be barking up the wrong tree...
(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche)
| 1 | Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive powerful graces. |
| 2. | I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. |
| 3. | The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies |
| 4. | It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means. |
| 5. | The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish. |
| 6. | Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying Himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise Him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. |
| 7. | Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church. |
| 8. | Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise. |
| 9. | I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary. |
| 10. | The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven. |
| 11. | You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. |
| 12. | All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities. |
| 13. | I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death |
| 14. | All who recite the Rosary are my children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ. |
| 15. | Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination. |
"The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem,
no matter how difficult it is, wheter temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families...that cannot be solved by the Rosary.
There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."
Sister Lucia dos Santos