[daniel1212]

Then Rome is free to make up whatever it wants. It's circular reasoning. How does the RCC say it's true? Because they've declared it to be true.

Well, even a good liar is limited by what serves credulity, and thus Rome is limited to what traditions she can give a semblance of support for - even if it is not actually seen in Scripture - and i am quite certain that if it were not for those pesky chapter-and-verse Protestants, then Rome would have come up with even more traditions of men, though perhaps not having to resort to the egregious extrapolations often seen in attempting to support them from Scripture, mainly in condescension to evangelicals

“Still, fundamentalists ask, where is the proof from Scripture? Strictly, there is none. It was the Catholic Church that was commissioned by Christ to teach all nations and to teach them infallibly. The mere fact that the Church teaches the doctrine of the Assumption as definitely true is a guarantee that it is true.” — Karl Keating, Catholicism and Fundamentalism (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1988), p. 275.

[ealgeone]

So if we measure these things against scripture and find no support they should be tossed. We are told by Paul if I remember to test every spririt and if it's different than what they taught it is accursed.

this would apply to the RCF

Btw....I think the indulgences were official....if not then silence is acceptance.