“Well thanks for the response. I still don’t know what Church you belong to, despite your post here.”
SAY IT ISN”T SO CTrent!!! Knowing Christ’s Gathering - as God identifies in Scripture - is the only thing that counts. Examine your soul to be sure you are in the faith, as John wrote.
“Not sure what you mean in the context of pagan. In another thread, I mentioned that St. Paul quoted from pagan Greeks in 3 places. He was quoted in Acts 17:28 “In Him we live, move and have our being” which is a quote from Epimendes. He also quotes the Greek poet Menander in 1 Cor 15:33 and in Titus 1:12 he again quotes from Epimendes. Now, in 3 places St. Paul has quoted from Pagan Greek Poets. Of this, Saint Thomas Aquinas writes “One who is learned in Sacred Scriptures accepts truth wherever he finds it. This is why Paul, on several occasions, refers to the sayings of pagans.”
Paul repeated a common saying to lead his listeners to the truth. GOD saw fit to include this in Acts. If God included it, I certainly don’t argue with it. It does not follow that anything outside inspired Scripture has equal authority to Scripture. All truth may be God’s truth, as the saying goes, but all truth isn’t equal to Authoritative, Inspired Truth.
“I was frustrated with the ping fest from some of the other posters who chime in and hijack a thread and take it to where they want it as opposed to where two posters have the taken their take or perspective on the thread.”
Understood. It may be partly that Mediterranean temperament too! I’ve inherited half of one...
amoreperfectUnion:
Oh I am ok with where I am at. I am in the faith expressed in the Nicene Creed. I will hold to that faith, thanks anyway. I will not push you any longer on the Church thing, it is obvious you are not going to respond
“Paul repeated a common saying to lead his listeners to the truth. GOD saw fit to include this in Acts. If God included it, I certainly don’t argue with it. It does not follow that anything outside inspired Scripture has equal authority to Scripture. All truth may be God’s truth, as the saying goes, but all truth isn’t equal to Authoritative, Inspired Truth.”
Ok, so the mere fact that something is from pagan thought and practice does not negate it, so you agree here. So St. Paul used Greek Pagan Poetry, St. Augustine used Plato, and St. Thomas Aquinas used Aristotle. So the notion that the Catholic Church has used Greek Philosophy in its theology has somehow tainted the faith is perhaps not true. You do freely admit in 2 of his letters [1 Corinthians and Titus] and also in Acts, St. Paul quotes from Greek poets.