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To: CynicalBear
Could you be a little more obtuse?

I could. But if you need me to spell it out for you then so be it. For any authentic Christian tradition to be so it must possess a certain quality of sameness with apostolic tradition. This is the argument you put forth. Continuity with that which was. On the face of it, not a problem. We Catholics do the same.

The problem comes when the protestant interjects their notion of what is the 'same' into the equation. Sameness inherently means identical. Or, it means whatever the beholder of sameness determines. Which ultimately is a function of what end of the telescope one is looking through. So, unless the protestant is prepared to accept only that which is identical, particularly in scripture, then they must be prepared to eject all the solas which are not identical to what was expressed in scripture.

As for the rest. We've all heard the following phrase, "Men and women: equal in dignity, but not the same." Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture perform the same function. Equal in dignity but not the same. Two distinct phenomena. Complementary. That is how God operates. Sameness as a function of Truth is a fiction. No wonder nobody has been able to "prove" anything to you.

376 posted on 10/09/2014 7:45:33 PM PDT by JPX2011
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To: JPX2011

And you still can’t show that what the Catholic Church teaches is what the apostles taught. Accursed is what we are told to consider those teachers.


378 posted on 10/09/2014 7:49:44 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus in)
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To: JPX2011
That is how God operates. Sameness as a function of Truth is a fiction. No wonder nobody has been able to "prove" anything to you.

Approaching blasphemy, some gobbledegook, and a personal slur. How deep can a man's arrogance reach?
383 posted on 10/09/2014 8:13:17 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: JPX2011
For any authentic Christian tradition to be so it must possess a certain quality of sameness with apostolic tradition.

Which you, and all your follow travelers, have FAILed to show.

448 posted on 10/10/2014 6:35:42 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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