[stfassisi]

First Principle Form of Protestantism - Sola Scriptura What are the essentials of Protestantism? It is not to know what some of those essentials are, because in over four hundred years, going on five hundred years, they have remained I would say, quite constant, in other words, those basic premises of Protestantism have not basically changed. And in Latin that’s why they got started first sola scriptura: Scripture alone. How do we know God’s mind and will from Scripture alone? Sola scriptura, by Scripture alone. Only the written revealed word of God is necessary, not just for salvation, but to know everything that God wants us to both believe, and to do. It is all contained in the Bible. Historically, that position could not have, could not have been assumed, no way, until the discovery of print. Usually we assign about 14, 1465 as the beginning of the print age. And the first printed book, as I am sure we all know, was the – Bible. Well, Luther and his followers identified all of God’s revelation with that written book. As over the years, I’ve been telling people, the more bizarre, the more incredible, the stranger an idea is – talk about human nature – the more believers you are liable to get. Imagine claiming the law of God, revealed Truth, is in a written book. When until less than a century before the rise of Protestantism, there were no books in existence. There were manuscripts, but no books.

[stfassisi]

Father Hardon wrote much of his material in the presence of the Blessed sacrament.

This will probably stir some.
I,m posting this and I will be gone for a few days til Sunday

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[IrishCatholic]

bookmark for later reading.

[east1234]

bookmark

[tmp02]

interesting. No scripture given for support. No biblical or extra biblical (God spoke or showed to me) ...hummmm.

Solo Scripture means that God can not change. If He does speak to you, He WILL NOT say anything different than what He has written in the Bible (spelling?) If a book or person claims to have favor with God and speak the voice of God and contradict the Bible, then one of the sources IS NOT from God. You pick.

[Augustinian monk]

"For Protestants it does not really, really, make a difference whether Jesus Christ is really God or not."

What a bufoon this guy is!

[Frumanchu]

Interesting that you posted the excerpt you did. It is a horribly inaccurate representation of the doctrine of sola scriptura. The statement about it not really making a difference to Protestants whether Jesus was truly God or not only confirm the fact that this is hardly anything approaching a scholarly study.

[adiaireton8]

I do not understand why Fr. Hardon ties Calvin to Pelagianism. Does he mean that Calvin goes to the opposite extreme? Calvin strongly opposed Pelagianism.

And how exactly, does Fr. Hardon think Calvin is guilty of Manicheanism? Thanks.

-A8

[sionnsar]

and Halloween has become a clown’s day, an object of, well, of something to be laughed at because Martin Luther broke with the Catholic Church on that first Halloween of Protestantism.

With this much ignorance (about Samhain, Oidhche Shamhna) displayed this early on, I was not encouraged to read what followed.

[Diva]

It's sounds very much like a transcription from a taped recording of a class he taught. He spoke the way it is set down and this can be somewhat confusing when you read it. Of course there are no bookmarks, the man was brilliant and if he said he had read Luther's unpublished works, he did, and in the original Latin.