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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

“When you find Luther’s “Bible alone” theory in the Bible, let me know.”


Wow, you literally say this in every thread. Have you noticed that? I feel bad for Catholics. They’re so Bible-illiterate that they only have one or two catch phrases to use when they’re baiting Christians for not being idolaters just like them.


76 posted on 10/15/2013 6:34:33 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (If anyone tells you it's a cookbook, don't believe them.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Why? Because it’s the Achilles heel of Protestantism.

Which Bible should we follow? The Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant Canon? “The Bible” can’t answer that question. The answer to that question requires an extra-biblical authority.

Similarly, it’s logically impossible for any passage in the Bible to refer to the entire Bible, because the books of the Bible weren’t collected until long after each of the books were written.

So Catholics find it ironic that Protestants criticize Catholic doctrines that aren’t explicitly stated in the Bible. even though Luther’s doctrine of “the Bible alone,” as the sole rule of faith, isn’t in the Bible.

You may not understand this argument, but that won’t prevent me from making it, when Protestants accuse Catholics of holding extra-biblical doctrines.


80 posted on 10/15/2013 6:56:17 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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