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Err... I must have missed it, sorry, but where exactly have you seen any Catholic response "pitting" the Gospels against the rest of scripture?? At no post have I seen that. All that I have seen is Catholic posters pointing out that in many Calvinist groups you read from the Epistles almost to exclusion and do not read the Gospels.

We read from the OT, NT (Gospels + Epistles) each Sunday and during the week and we read through the entire Bible, so no we do not pit or see contradictions. And, no, we do not believe that true Baptists (I'm saying that because I discount Westboro as a baptist group), Presbyterians (except the gay PCUSA) or Evangelicals (except the Benny Hinn, Word of Faith, Jesse Duplantis, Creflo Dollar etc) believe that either (I can't say all Protestants as Seventh Day Adventists are pretty dicey and ditto for many of the other groups even you would say are Protestant, forget about Mormons, JWs, Christian Scientists etc.).

Err... I must have missed it, sorry, but where exactly have you seen any Catholic response "pitting" the Gospels against the rest of scripture?? At no post have I seen that.

Rnmomof7 is right, they are throughout this thread, many many times. When I made this comment I was specifically thinking of Wagglebee's response to the post prompting my response. From Wagglebee's 10231:

On the contrary, The Reformed® typically offer their distorted interpretations of Saint Paul's epistles and pretend it's the Gospel.

.......So, in a MONTH OF SUNDAY MORNING those attending this den of iniquity have not heard A SINGLE VERSE FROM THE GOSPELS. Repent and flee to the Church which our Lord founded where the Gospel is read at EVERY MASS.

Both of these statements clearly pit God's word AGAINST God's word. In the first, God's word through Paul is depicted as fully inferior to God's word through the Gospel writers. And the context is as in a GENERAL STATEMENT, NOT referring to a particular topic on which certain scripture is more specific. This idea that some of the Bible is generically better BY NATURE than other parts of the Bible is confirmed in Wagglebee's second statement. Therein, Wagglebee makes it clear that his view is that ANY passage from the Gospels is automatically superior to any other passage in scripture, REGARDLESS of the topic. The CCC, at least on its face, totally rejects this view by acknowledging that ALL scripture is inspired by God and none is "truer" by nature than other scripture. Wagglebee specifically criticizes the CCC's idea by inviting the poster to flee from any church that reads God's word from certain parts of the Bible as opposed to others in a given month.

All that I have seen is Catholic posters pointing out that in many Calvinist groups you read from the Epistles almost to exclusion and do not read the Gospels.

It would simply make no sense for a Calvinist group to do that. We say openly that all scripture is God's good and perfect word. No scripture is truer than other scripture so there would be no reason to avoid any of it. If you look at our views concerning Sola Scriptura you will see that our authority is ALL scripture, not just parts of it. No distinction about parts of scripture being superior is ever made in any Calvinist document I am aware of.

We read from the OT, NT (Gospels + Epistles) each Sunday and during the week and we read through the entire Bible, so no we do not pit or see contradictions. And, no, we do not believe that true Baptists (I'm saying that because I discount Westboro as a baptist group), Presbyterians (except the gay PCUSA) or Evangelicals (except the Benny Hinn, Word of Faith, Jesse Duplantis, Creflo Dollar etc) believe that either ...... (emphasis added)

But if I'm following you, you just said that many Catholics are observing that Calvinists read from epistles but not from Gospels. That would indicate an opinion that Calvinists elevate epistles over the Gospel books. We do not. It is ALL God's perfect inspired word.