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To: count-your-change
That certainly has produced nothing but a structure that must inevitably must subjugate Scripture to tradition. Example?

Would you be kind enough to rewrite this sentence? I'm not sure I take your point.

Also, if you are asking about the Magisterium as an alternate to Sola Scriptura, please forgive my misunderstanding your question.

Perhaps it would be easier to think of Church governance like civil governance. Trying to maintain the Church using nothing but the Bible would be analogous to running the country using a Constitution, but doing so without any judicial mechanism.

And before one is tempted to note that Jesus is the head of the Church, let us recall it is beyond dispute there are many issues on which our Lord simply as decided not to give any clear direction.

249 posted on 02/06/2012 8:18:21 PM PST by papertyger
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To: papertyger
“Would you be kind enough to rewrite this sentence? I'm not sure I take your point.”

Perhaps by illustration.

The Catholic church has as dogma that Mary was assumed bodily into heaven. Pope Pius XII made an infallible pronouncement and thus belief in the dogma is required of Catholics.
Tradition has it this occurred about A.D. 48. This would've a momentous event occurring before most of the NT was written down.

Yet not one word concerning it, not a hint, not the slightest notice is recorded in the Scriptures.
But corporeal assumption into heaven is not ignored as a subject since Paul said that flesh and blood cannot inherit the heavenly kingdom. (1 Cor. 15:50)

Paul makes the point that the physical, corporeal, corruptible body must be given up for the spiritual body for entrance into heaven in that same 15th. chapter.

The majesterium has spoken infallibly. Paul has spoken with the authority of Christ's revelation to him.

Will Scripture be made subject to tradition?

250 posted on 02/06/2012 10:44:41 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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