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To: FourtySeven
>> At least answered in part as that post demonstrates from reason alone how there is a need for an infallible authority apart from Scripture.<<

Your entire premise of post 34 is fallacious. The infallible authority on earth is the Holy Spirit NOT the Catholic Church. The Holy Spirit is given to individual believers who, as I have shown, are responsible to consult scripture as to the veracity of any teacher. The Catholic Church has usurped the place of the Holy Spirit in the lives of it's followers. So your entire attempt at putting the Catholic Church in place of the Holy Spirit is anti scripture.

397 posted on 04/29/2015 7:45:36 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear

Ok. Explain please how any of the premises in post 34 are erroneous. I’ll post them again for review:

Argument 1

Premise 1: God exists.

Premise 2: God is omnipotent.

Premise 3: The Holy Scriptures teach the truth.

Premise 4: The Holy Scriptures cannot be infallibly interpreted by any human authority today.

Conclusion: God does not want the truth contained in the Holy Scriptures to be known infallibly (or He does want the truth to be known but has not provided the means - an impossibility give premise 2)

Argument 2

Premise 1: The truth can be known..

Premise 2: God does not want the truth contained in the Holy Scriptures to be known infallibly. (Conclusion of Argument 1)

Conclusion: Therefore, God wants the truth in the Holy Scriptures to be known ONLY fallibly.

Overall Conclusion

Since God wills the gospel message to be known only with the possibility of error (that is, fallibly), then God wills the possibility of error in communicating His truth. The conclusion therefore is that God has contradicted His very being by willing something that cannot be; namely, willing something other than the truth.


398 posted on 04/29/2015 7:48:22 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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