[Natural Law]

"B.B. Warfield"

An appeal to authority is only effective when the authority is universally accepted. Presenting a Protestant academic as an authoritative source in contravention to Catholic teaching and expecting Catholics to accept it is a fools errand.

Peace be with you

[boatbums]

And here I thought you at least were interested in academic pursuits! Warfield does far more than give his own Protestant bent to the development and acceptance of the New Testament. I doubt you read more than a few lines before you quit and resorted to an impulsive reaction to anything not “Catholic” based. Had you read the article, you would have noted that Warfield quotes numerous early church fathers and he doesn't say anything that can possibly be taken as against current Catholic views on the Bible. Tell me what he said that you consider “contravention to Catholic teaching”. Does he contravent individual Catholics’ false theories of there being no authoritative Scriptures until THE Catholic Church made them that way by proclaiming an "official" canon? Of course! But such a naive idea SHOULD be contravented and I doubt even Catholic theologians would disagree.

[Elsie]

An appeal to authority is only effective when the authority is universally accepted.

[Elsie]

Presenting a Protestant academic as an authoritative source in contravention to Catholic teaching and expecting Catholics to accept it is a fools errand.

While...

Presenting a Catholic pope as an authoritative source in contravention to BIBLICAL teaching and expecting rational people to accept it is a fools errand.

[metmom]

An appeal to authority is only effective when the authority is universally accepted. Presenting a Protestant academic as an authoritative source in contravention to Catholic teaching and expecting Catholics to accept it is a fools errand.

The authority of the Catholic church is not universally accepted.