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To: matthewrobertolson
Many Protestants also allude that absolute truth can only be found within the Bible. If I throw an apple up into the air, it will fall.

What a ridiculous example regarding the apple. Is this what you're learning in college?

Where is that in the Bible? Of course, one could quickly retort with the idea that the Bible only necessarily contains the absolute moral truth necessary for salvation. But many Protestants do not actually believe that – just look at the large crowds of literal creationists! To be clear, the Bible is not guaranteed to be totally historically or scientifically inerrant in a literal sense. “Inerrancy extends to what the biblical writers intend to teach, not necessarily to what they assume or presuppose or what isn’t integral to what they assert.” [Catholic Answers] And if a Protestant would like to say otherwise, he must prove his position from the Bible – which he cannot do, at least not to any definite degree. Even natural law, which exists outside of the Bible, does not encompass such. Leaders like Ken Ham could be defeated with these points.

Based on the bolded text above if you really believe this then one can never take anything we read in the Bible as truth. For example, how can we know for sure that Jesus really meant it when He said in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, the life...no one comes to the Father but through Me.

If you really believe what you wrote, then how can you be sure that Christ was really was able to do all the things recorded in the New Testament?

And I guess you do as you posted this nonsense below. This really speaks volumes about what you believe.

“[The Church] does not, in the conventional phrase, believe what the Bible says, for the simple reason that the Bible does not say anything. You cannot put a book in the witness-box and ask it what it really means.” – G. K. Chesterton

If this is what you are espousing then 2 Timothy 3:5 and 3:13 apply in this case. 3:5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these.

3:13 but evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

It is my prayer that you do not to the priesthood with this kind of false teaching you are espousing on this post.

15 posted on 03/31/2014 6:30:11 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: ealgeone; matthewrobertolson
>>But many Protestants do not actually believe that – just look at the large crowds of literal creationists! To be clear, the Bible is not guaranteed to be totally historically or scientifically inerrant in a literal sense.<<

How does that affect salvation?

70 posted on 03/31/2014 7:34:33 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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