Posted on 02/25/2024 2:19:36 PM PST by ebb tide
"And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. | |
2 | "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. |
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3 | "And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias; that he may turn the hearts of the fathers unto the children, and the incredulous to the wisdom of the just, to prepare unto the Lord a perfect people. |
4 | "As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed for ever. |
5 | "To perform mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy testament, |
6 | "Be glad in that day and rejoice; for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For according to these things did their fathers to the prophets. |
7 | "Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets. |
8 | "Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. |
9 | "Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchres. |
10 | "Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 20 "And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. [Matthew 8:21] "For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. | ||
27 | "He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. |
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So how is a Roman Catholic supposed to know what is the "correct interpretation" of the texts????
They can't so it makes it easy for Catholics to tell a non-Catholic that whatever interpretation of Scripture they use or make, they are wrong.
Then the Catholics can take the unsupportable position of being the only ones to be able to *correctly* "interpret" Scripture, when that has not ever been dogmatically done by Rome except for those few verses.
So what the Catholic apologist is left with in the vast majority of cases is their own personal interpretation of Scripture.
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