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To: LevinFan
"For me, I will treat His written word with reverence and trust."

Are you sure you aren't Catholic?

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

I. CHRIST - THE UNIQUE WORD OF SACRED SCRIPTURE

101 In order to reveal himself to men, in the condescension of his goodness God speaks to them in human words: "Indeed the words of God, expressed in the words of men, are in every way like human language, just as the Word of the eternal Father, when he took on himself the flesh of human weakness, became like men."

102 Through all the words of Sacred Scripture, God speaks only one single Word, his one Utterance in whom he expresses himself completely:

You recall that one and the same Word of God extends throughout Scripture, that it is one and the same Utterance that resounds in the mouths of all the sacred writers, since he who was in the beginning God with God has no need of separate syllables; for he is not subject to time.

103 For this reason, the Church has always venerated the Scriptures as she venerates the Lord's Body. She never ceases to present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God's Word and Christ's Body.

104 In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, "but as what it really is, the word of God". "In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them."

II. INSPIRATION AND TRUTH OF SACRED SCRIPTURE 105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit."

"For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself."

106 God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more."

107 The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."

108 Still, the Christian faith is not a "religion of the book." Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, a word which is "not a written and mute word, but the Word is incarnate and living". If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, "open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures."

Peace be with you

211 posted on 07/03/2012 2:51:58 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law

“”For me, I will treat His written word with reverence and trust.”

Are you sure you aren’t Catholic? “

I don’t care about titles. I started in a Pentecostal church, then a nondenominational. Now I’m in a Assembly of God, which is a form of Pentecostal.
I’ve disagreed with the RCC, and with the Protestant doctrine of the Salvation Prayer as nothing but formula.
There are good people within the Catholic church, and evil people. Same with any church.

I’m a believer in the continued gifts of the Spirit, including healing and tongues. I pray in tongues daily and am surrounded by like minded people. But many protestants are as against that as the traditional RCC. But I’ve heard that not all RCC are against tongues either.

I will listen to any man I think is Godly. If his words line up with scripture, then they are true. if they counter scripture, they are false. All else can be argued until the Second Coming.


221 posted on 07/03/2012 3:06:24 PM PDT by LevinFan
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To: Natural Law
108 Still, the Christian faith is not a "religion of the book." Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, a word which is "not a written and mute word, but the Word is incarnate and living". If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, "open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures."

Just a couple of posts back you said it was the magisterium was your teaching authority...

Now you post something which says that the Holy Spirit is the teaching authority...

One thing's for sure...You guys are consistently inconsistent...

288 posted on 07/03/2012 7:44:16 PM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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