exPBTrat said: “Just 38 more reasons why I’m grateful to be a practicing Catholic...we have the Doctors of the Church that sort this stuff out.”
“They’ve been working on this since the 1st Council of Nicaea and are still in business today. With the reciting of the Apostles Creed all Catholics agree to fall in step with the official teachings...or face the eternal consequences.”
It is in this that ALL of us can seek answers. The Roman Catholic Church has kept the lineal knowledge and studied the “Doctors of the Church” in whom many Protestants have rejected through ignorance, arrogance, or whatever. Too many Protestants go back only to the Protestant reformation for their “Doctors of the Church” and some do not even go that far.
What NYer posted is, in my view, merely a Catholic version of the lists I’ve seen “Bible only Protestants” post here. And I believe NYer did it as an example for all of how both sides can play the same game. And how it is destructive to both sides and Christian unity. For those who call NYer a “destructive troll,” I put forth that he/she can be alleged to be “destructive” only if you also condemn those Protestants who post similar lists as “destructive trolls.”
My bottom line is that NYer is no more a destructive troll than those whom leveled that accusation.
Sorry...It has been proven that some of your doctor's writings have been forged, especially your first doctor, Ignatius...
RIIIIGHT... following the traditions of men.
Very good and true post.