mutilate the sacred Deposit of Faith given the Apostles
The allusion is to the doctrines of Sola Fide, and Sola Scriptura, not in evidence in the scripture and never taught by the Apostles or by the Early Church.
mutilate the Scripture
The reference is primarily to the truncation of the Christian Canon performed by Luther, and also to the horrid translations to vernacular, such as The Message.
the message remains Orthodox Catholic
The assertion is that an unbiased reading of the scripture in any edition still renders the fundamental beliefs that are both Catholic or Orthodox: Scripture is understood through the Church; man must cooperate with grace to reach holiness; Christ leads us to Church life which we share with the Apostles. One may not get things like Assumption of Mary form the scrpture, or whetehr or not to have pews or eat fish on Friday, form the scripture. But fundamnetals of faith one will get, and that will make him 90% Orthodox or Catohlic, and not at all Protestant of any stripe.
have Romans 3:28 say "allein".
Allein, "alone", is what Luther fraudulently inserted in Romans 3:28 to justify his theories "from scripture".
and also to the horrid translations to vernacular, such as The Message.
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Hogwash. Perhaps there's a lack of understanding the degree to which the originals were in the vernacular of the people. THE MESSAGE is much more of an accurate return to the spirit, intent, tone, wording of the originals than any other translation I know of.