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To: Springfield Reformer; daniel1212
... ad hominem. You woo us with insults?

Nothing personal. It is a common feature of Protestants that they argue for their illusions by bypassing, skipping through and generally ignoring the parts of the Holy Scripture that do not fit their templates. Neither would I describe evangelization as "wooing". I am under an obligation to teach all nations "to observe all things whatsoever" Christ commanded the Church. Note that: "all things". Not some things you indeed observe, but all things that the Catholic Church observes. Therefore, I repeat, read the Holy Scripture because God really, really, means what He says.

48 posted on 04/19/2014 10:02:00 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: Springfield Reformer
A charge of selective use of Scripture mostly describes RC apologetics and is so corporately duplicitous that it borders on insolence. And if anything much describes RCs not "ignoring the parts of the Holy Scripture, it is that of compelling texts to mean what simply is not there in that text or in the light of all of Scripture.

Faced with the absolute absence of even one prayer to anyone in Heaven but the Lord, or of anyone but the Lord Jesus being the heavenly intercessor btwn God and man, hearing and answering, and without any insufficiency in access or efficacy, while believers have direct access to the Father by Him, and zero examples that show anyone but the Lord being able to hear incessant mental prayers in Heaven sent from earth, then RCs invoke believers on earth praying for each others to justify reasoning that they can do what we only see God being able to do. After all, the Scriptures do not say they cannot (or play pool with planets....).

And angels and elders simply offering up the prayers of saints as a memorial at the time of judgment is sppsd to support them actually hearing prayers addressed to them and sanctioning it, and while the absence of any prayers to angels in Heaven is said to be due to overreaction to laws against witchcraft! And they think this passes for Scriptural warrant for a most common Catholic practice that is utterly absence in Scripture.

Then they demand we take Jn. 6:53,54 literally, which to be consistent means no Prots can be saved who deny the Catholic Real Presence, which is inconsistent with what V2 teaches, but which is subject to interpretation. While they are further inconsistent by refusing to take literally the many other texts that refer to eating and drinking figuratively, including water being the blood of men and men being bread.

Then they invoke 1Tim 1:15 as somehow meaning the church of Rome is the supreme authority on Truth, or Mt. 16:18; Luke 22:32 and Jn,.20:23 as teaching Peter would be the first of a line of infallible popes ruling supreme over all the church.

And then there are the incredible examples of thinking of Mary above that which is written.

Scripture is simply a servant for Rome to support her as desired, not her master.

56 posted on 04/19/2014 7:44:31 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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