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To: D-fendr

Do you have a source for that ditty, or did it come out of your own thought patterns? As for the anti-Protestant content, I would say whoever wrote it has a false understanding of how we think. Had the RCC stayed faithful to the authority of the Divinely-inspired Scriptures - as was voiced by most of the ECF - , there may not have even been a need for the Reformation. But God STILL works in the hearts of man.


3,588 posted on 11/23/2011 4:32:37 PM PST by boatbums ( Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. Titus 3:5)
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To: boatbums; Natural Law
Do you have a source for that ditty,

It is from shortly upthread, from an long excerpt posted to you concerning an excerpt you posted. I'd also posted it before upthread with slightly more of the paragraph, thus.

"A Protestant believes in no infallible authority; he is an authority unto himself, which authority he does not claim to be infallible, if he is sober and sane. He is after truth; and whatever he finds, and wherever he finds it, he subjects it to his own private judgment. He is free to accept or reject, as he pleases. He is not, cannot be, absolutely certain that what he holds is true; he thinks it is. He may discover to-day that yesterday's truths are not truths at all."
I really like this author, Stapleton, very grateful to have found him on this thread, thanks to you. The more we see from him, the greater the context, the more impressive his insights, and more good sense is made of the snippets posted to denigrate him or the Church.
3,673 posted on 11/26/2011 2:36:47 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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