Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: irishtenor

:::If you get any group of men together, they will agree on very little and disagree about a very lot. Just because you have some church fathers agreeing about any thing, you can be certain that some sort of compromise had to occur.:::

Then you may as well throw your Bible into the garbage; based upon your logic. That same group of Church Fathers amassed the Bible and declared what is Scriptural and what isn’t. That is why you don’t have the Gnostic gospels; the Gospel of James; the Protoevangelion and so on.

Either you accept the Church Fathers declaring and defining the doctrine and the word of God or else you don’t. You cannot pick and choose based upon an inner feeling or what you had for lunch.


11,017 posted on 11/14/2007 12:01:13 PM PST by MarkBsnr (V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11008 | View Replies ]


To: MarkBsnr; irishtenor
"Then you may as well throw your Bible into the garbage;..."

As you have done by declaring the Bible is useless on it's own, requiring the mysterious and hard to define "Holy Tradition" and the "Magisterium" in order to be valid.
11,019 posted on 11/14/2007 12:10:40 PM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11017 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson