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To: annalex
Well, I am neither a "Protestant" nor a "Catholic" but rather an imitator of the commandments given to the disciples by the Lord Jesus Messiah, who showed them how to live it, which they were to teach to their disciples. That would be far from the system that you seem to support. If I find something so serious abut your stated doctrines or traditions that they need correcting, I don't "protest" them -- I reprove them and publicly proclaim them to be misleading or false, from the Scriptural viewpoint, with the Bible superior to any other authority, since it is the infinite infallible Holy Ghost speaking to fallible, finite (hu)man.

That is not the approach to Christianity that your system takes. Most particularly, its hermeneutic is not the literal, historical, grammatical, and cultural, that gives The Christ and His Spirit preeminence, the one employed by true Biblicists, as the Scriptures themselves insist.

No, your approach to translation and interpretation of Biblical texts is established on the Platonic allegorical philosophy worldview, brought into the Christian sphere by the Greek-trained pagan Gentile philosophers, that holds the soulish imaginations of fallible self-serving men superior to that of the plain literal sense of the Bible. They are the group of Catholic aristocracy constituting what is now called the Magisterium, who cast their non-scriptural opinions into the concrete of tradition as dogma, and are mulishly unwilling to change even though the position is absolutely crosswise both to Scripture and to common sense.

Your system indeed is the one doing the "protesting." Y'all protest against and decry literal-historical, common-sense, Biblical interpretation, and consists of charlatans who hold themselves higher in authority than the Holy Scriptures, and hold themselves forth as a "protection racket" to deliver lost souls from Hell based on adherence to their rituals and dogmas.

And anyone who exercises common sense, who is honest, would agree. Your claim about Protestants relying on:

". . . the traditions of men of their own kind they've accumulated in the past few centuries. . . ."

is so phony, when the touchstone of the Reformation was/is "Sola Scriptura," historically not tradition, that you ought to bow your head in shame.

Who do you think you're going to fool with your FR tag line? Only credulous gulls, I would say.

540 posted on 02/29/2016 9:52:08 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1

Well, you may be one of a kind, but like we said already, I do not make personal posts and do not focus on the personal. If I said something that does not apply to you, that is not personal too; just disregard that part.


581 posted on 02/29/2016 5:16:40 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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