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To: metmom
Don’t be hypocritical and accept *doctrinal development8 for some thing snot mentioned by name in Scripture and not others.

How is that hypocritical? The development of doctrine is not an exercise in equivalency where one can say, "what's good for the goose..." This understanding is nothing but a modern invention.

If it works for the eucharist, the papacy, the Trinity, and a whole host of other doctrines, then it’s inconsistent and hypocritical to disallow doctrines y’all don’t like, just because you don’t like them.

It's not about liking. It's about Truth. This is just another example of the protestant penchant to substitute truth for preference. There is but one authority charged with defining doctrine and that's the Catholic Church. No other individual or organization has that authority.

But that's the crux of the matter. If one accepts doctrines that have been developed from Scripture and Tradition then they must accept the material sufficiency of scripture and yield to the traditional authority that formally defined them.

542 posted on 07/28/2014 12:34:34 AM PDT by JPX2011
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To: JPX2011
If one accepts doctrines that have been developed from Scripture and Tradition then they must accept the material sufficiency of scripture and yield to the traditional authority that formally defined them.

Bad Logic...

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.

561 posted on 07/28/2014 3:33:35 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: JPX2011
There is but one authority charged with defining doctrine and that's the Catholic Church. No other individual or organization has that authority.

Nor is that given to the Catholic church in the Bible.

And their claims of it for themselves are them pulling themselves up by their boot straps.

They cannot give themselves authority and they cannot give Scripture its authority and then appeal to it to give them the authority back.

586 posted on 07/28/2014 6:19:33 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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