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To: Elsie
Translation:

We are Saved by Grace,

and Kept by Works.

Salvation history doesn't lend itself to slogans very well. The Church takes much greater pains to explain deep theology in such bodies of work as the Summa Theologica, Papal Encyclicals, the homilies and writings of the Doctors of the Church, et al, than can adequately be explained through trite jargon. When you try, you set up straw men arguments that are nothing but nonsense... they make you feel superior to your target but truly say nothing about the subject.

If you want to attack Church theology, I recommend you read an actual body of work rather than tracts about bodies of work you've never read.

196 posted on 03/19/2015 6:44:07 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: pgyanke
Salvation history doesn't lend itself to slogans very well.

Ha ha HA!!

Sola Script... ring a bell?

How about all of your endless HAIL Marys???

283 posted on 03/19/2015 12:10:20 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: pgyanke
The Church takes much greater pains to explain deep theology in such bodies of work as the Summa Theologica, Papal Encyclicals, the homilies and writings of the Doctors of the Church, et al, than can adequately be explained through trite jargon. When you try, you set up straw men arguments that are nothing but nonsense... they make you feel superior to your target but truly say nothing about the subject.

In reality, I find RCs are typically rather ignorant of what their church teaches, and the degree of interpretation such are is subject to, and what magisterial level it belongs to, as seen by her sects, esp. with the apparent contradictions among the plethora of prolix publications by prelates.

RCs also have a great deal of liberty to interpret Scripture in ways to support Rome, while censuring us for engaging in "private interpretation, which they wrongly interpret 2Pt. 1:20 as condemning!

Yet the weight of Scriptural substantiation is not the basis for RC assurance of Truth, but which based upon the novel premise of perpetual ensured magisterial infallibility.

399 posted on 03/19/2015 4:27:28 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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