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To: boatbums
It is the Roman Catholic Church which USES Holy Scripture to "prove" its authority.

What language do you have to be told that is incorrect before you "get it?"

584 posted on 05/28/2012 7:08:00 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: papertyger
It is the Roman Catholic Church which USES Holy Scripture to "prove" its authority.

What language do you have to be told that is incorrect before you "get it?"

I understand English extremely well. What is it you think I'm NOT getting? That the Catholic Church doesn't use Scripture to prove the doctrines it espouses? Just take a look at your own catechism some time and see where they try to do just that. Take a look at the various posts of Catholics on this and other threads where the subject of Scriptural integrity and authority is discussed. You will see exactly what I am talking about. Without Scripture - where the words and teachings of Jesus Christ both while here on earth and in heaven are recorded - try to prove the assertions of the Catholic Church about practically anything it states as dogma. That is my point. Though I disagree with many of its interpretations, it is disingenuous to suggest the Catholic Church does not need Scripture to back up its claims.

If even Jesus Christ proved his authority and purpose by appealing to Holy Scripture - He said, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." (John 5:39) - then what possible justification could the Catholic Church present that makes them above Scripture?

612 posted on 05/28/2012 9:59:08 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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