To: Pyro7480
Silly person...don't put words in my mouth. I never said Catholics were pagans.
However, the practice of attributing characteristics and practices to Mary that are not in the Bible can lead to bad theology, by Catholic, Protestant...whomever.
To: what's up
Sorry. Sometimes I see similar things all the time that I forget who said what. I think the issue is that of the Bible itself. Who decided what was going to be in the Bible and what wasn't? Humans decided that. Before this was decided, there were probably a lot of sources for early Christians about Jesus, the people who knew Him, and the first leaders of the Church. The Early Church Fathers referred to them. So it is obvious that even though the Bible and its components are divinely-inspired, it doesn't mean that teachings that derive "outside" of it must automatically be excluded. Later humans decided to take some books out that didn't go along with their theological perspective. Depending on your point of view, this was a good idea, or a bad one. So as you can see, the issue(s) are very complex.
52 posted on
06/26/2003 7:49:52 PM PDT by
Pyro7480
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To: what's up
See #42.
To: what's up
Then again, ignoring the literary nature of the Bible is a bad practice. Reading Paul is like reading one side of an exchange of letters. Some letters attributed to Paul have a very different voice. My(Methodist) wife is making a project of reading the Bible through. She made an interesting comment: that so often the story just stops abruptly. That's why she prefers reading the Old Testament to the New.
77 posted on
06/26/2003 8:28:52 PM PDT by
RobbyS
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