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To: kosta50; Cronos; Dr. Eckleburg; zeeba neighba; blue-duncan; HarleyD; Gamecock; Kolokotronis
The problem is that your interpretation of the faith is different, radically different from the truth known to the Christian world from the beginning.

It is what Paul taught. It is what Jesus taught. It is revealed throughout all of scripture.

It is not the Church that bows to the traditions of men, but rather the Protestants who place individul interpretation as nothing short of absolute truth.

No the Protestants simply believe that the scriptures are inerrant and perspicuous and that traditions which render the word of God of no effect are to be rejected.

908 posted on 01/10/2006 5:54:25 AM PST by P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe
No the Protestants simply believe that the scriptures are inerrant and perspicuous and that traditions which render the word of God of no effect are to be rejected.

The essence of the scriptures, that is God IS inerrant. However, the Protestant tradition lends itself too easily to each man making his own theology. That is a problem. With individual members of Protestant groupings like the Rev. Billy Graham, I can see Holy men, but with the group as a whole I can say it's wrong.
915 posted on 01/10/2006 6:32:16 AM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11. Restore Hagia Sophia!)
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To: P-Marlowe
Protestants simply believe that the scriptures are inerrant and perspicuous

If that were true, we would all be singing the same tune. If the Protestants were right, there wouldn't be thousands of their denominations each claiming what you just said.

and that traditions which render the word of God of no effect are to be rejected

And the final judge as to what is of no effect is...?

916 posted on 01/10/2006 6:38:52 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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It is what Paul taught. It is what Jesus taught. It is revealed throughout all of scripture

Then why are there so many denominations and disagreements as to what is Truth? The whole Protestant idea of sola scriptura emphasizes personal interpretation as the ultimate avenue to the correct interpretation of the Scripture. Is that not the ultimate in arrogance and pride and self-love?

918 posted on 01/10/2006 6:52:32 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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