Cruciform
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Catholics agree. The question is precisely how---by what means---God's authority is communicated to men.Supreme Authority is God.
Catholics agree. The question is precisely how---by what means---God's authority is communicated to men.Supreme Authority is God.
Already answered here.Most protestantism teach salvation by works as well. There are some in both that recieved the gift of faith. There are false claims from the anticatholics as well as from the anticalvinists. I've been there and most here are mising the meaning of how faith is given to the believers. The Catholic attacks from the protestants are goofy and I don't want to do that. The assurances from the Catholics are corrupt even when they say they are not.
Already answered here.
Thus merely proving my statements in Post #192 above.
Don't presume to comment concerning the Catholic Church or her teachings---things of which you've proven yourself utterly ignorant---and I'll be happy to "carry on."Carry on
Don't presume to comment concerning the Catholic Church or her teachings---things of which you've proven yourself utterly ignorant---and I'll be happy to "carry on."
Post #205.Carry on
Post #205.
Post #205.Carry on
Cruciform said,
The question is precisely how---by what means---God's authority is communicated to men.
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Notice how vehemently Cruciform tries to Defend the Catholic Church
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Note that OCT23 has no answer to the question. This is telling.tries? u wish
Cruciform, The Bible is Gods spoken-written word. God speaks to all men through it who have the Holy Spirit to understand God in it. It is not for a reserved number of men as priest, Pastors, Bishops to explicitly read from. God speaks to you through HIS Good news-Bible.
The Bible is the written element of God's word (Divine Revelation); Tradition is the unwritten aspect of God's word. St. Paul taught these two aspects of Divine Revelation in 2 Thess. 2:15, 1 Thess. 2:13, etc.The Bible is Gods spoken-written word.
God speaks to us through both Scripture and Tradition as understood according to the authoritative teachings of Christ's one historic Church.God speaks to you through HIS Good news-Bible.
Incorrect. Though all believers are "priests" in a certain generic sense, there is also a clerical priesthood whose gifts and duties are above and beyond that of the average layman.Surely Cruciform realizes that we are all priests of the Holy Spirit. Catholic priests are no more priestly than he is.
Incorrect. Though all believers are "priests" in a certain generic sense, there is also a clerical priesthood whose gifts and duties are above and beyond that of the average layman.
Already answered (Post #218).And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ... (Ephesians 4:11-12 NKJV). Paul didn't mention priests because he knew we are all priests of Jesus Christ.