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To: Iscool; Notwithstanding; CynicalBear
"You want me to search for your Apostolic traditions???"

Per your request in #140, Notwithstanding gave you a link to a document containing Church Tradition in written form and noted that you are able to search that document.

As you can see from the response you made from being given exactly what you asked for, a simple sentence far less complex than many in the Scriptures, and embedded within a very straightforward context, can and often is misinterpreted due to a preconception on the part of the reader.

That example speaks volumes about the reality of what happens when every individual bases their belief on Scripture alone interpreted by Scripture alone.

Christ said he is the Word, but Sola Scriptura asserts that you can each one individually determine what the Word is for yourself, then determine everything else based on your own individual interpretation of the Word. Yet time and again very simple things said here are mischaracterized, misinterpreted, and misunderstood, even though they are written in the original native language of the majority of if not all of those commenting.

Sola Scriptura is a carefully crafted way to divert those who do find Christ from the path He would have them follow which weakens the Church. And to divert millions upon millions from ever finding Christ by legitimizing tens of thousands of interpretation falsehoods for those searching to fall into, falsehoods explained away by saying the true Church is invisible.

Party on Invisible Church dudes.

165 posted on 02/09/2011 2:06:00 PM PST by Rashputin (Barry is totally insane and being kept medicated and on golf courses to hide the fact)
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To: Rashputin
>> Christ said he is the Word, but Sola Scriptura asserts that you can each one individually determine what the Word is for yourself, then determine everything else based on your own individual interpretation of the Word.<<

That is not true. Sola Scriptura only says that if anyone establishes a dogma of faith it must be proven by scripture. The Catholic meaning of Tradition is that even if it isn’t in scripture but it is told us by the Church it is true regardless of whether it is in scripture or not. An example would be the assumption of Mary.

167 posted on 02/09/2011 2:17:01 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: Rashputin
Per your request in #140, Notwithstanding gave you a link to a document containing Church Tradition in written form and noted that you are able to search that document.

I didn't ask for your church tradition...I ask for the tradition that you guys claim was handed down orally from the Apostles to your religion...

And of course you guys can't produce any because there isn't any...It's a farce...

178 posted on 02/10/2011 5:48:32 AM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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