Posted on 04/01/2008 4:32:20 PM PDT by annalex
Happy Easter. Christ is risen!
Alex.
Anti-Catholicism, Hypocrisy and Double Standards
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part I: Darkness
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part II: Doubts
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part III: Tradition and Church
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part IV: Crucifix and Altar
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part V: The Catholics and the Pope
Why I Returned to the Catholic Church. Part VI: The Biblical Reality
His Open Arms Welcomed Me
Catholic Conversion Stories & Resources
My Personal Conversion Story
My (Imminent) Reception into the Roman Catholic Church
Catholics Come Home
My Journey of Faith
LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF PROTESTANTISM
"What is Truth?" An Examination of Sola Scriptura
"Have you not read?" The Authority behind Biblical Interpretation
Protestantism is, unfortunately, something that will inevitably shatter into a million pieces. Each person picks the thing that he likes best and makes it the keystone of his faith. If he’s a powerful and convincing person, then he gets others to go along, and soon this fragment of the truth has been exalted as being the Truth itself. And then somebody else finds a fragment of the truth he likes better...and so forth.
When we talk about the destruction of unity, we’re not talking about merely the destruction of an external, formal unity, but about the destruction of the unity of doctrine. And that is the fundamental problem of Protestantism and the theory behind it (and behind any and all of its multitude of spin-offs and spin-offs of spin-offs).
1) The confessional Lutheran view of the Eucharist hasn't changed an iota since Philip Melanchthon first issued the Augsburg Confession, and 2) Confessional Lutherans don't privately interpret Scripture and don't reject the authority of tradition; they only do so where that tradition contradicts the clear meaning of Scripture (which it doesn't often do).
What you and the author describe comes naturally to the modern mind. We simply don’t see any problem in endless diversity of opinion, which the democratic process integrates into a self-contradictory whole. However, this is no way to do Christianity, which has a single sacred source.
But granting that, this is not a very long time. Ours hasn't changed since the Last Supper.
AAAAAHHH! *running, arms waving* IT’S A CRISIS!! *panic, eyes rolling*
Didn’t mean to drive you to panic, sorry.
Whew! I'm O.K. now. You know how it is with us Protestants, what with no leadership and all ;)
No, not even close. Luther and the others just put lipstick on a pig. They didn't go nearly far enough.
Without a doubt the sin of the reformers was why Jesus prayed so fervently for unity. The division caused by these wayward children of the Church just adds to the wounds that Christ suffered for our sins.
I would venture to say that there is not as much unity in Roman Catholicism as a lot would like to believe.
I would venture to say that there is not as much unity in Roman Catholicism as a lot would like to believe.
Was Stalin’s work more to your satisfaction?
Someone pointed to me privately that great diversity of opinion exists, for example, on the inerrancy of the Bible among the Catholics. Some of it indeed exists. Even greater diversity exists over the reforms of the Vatican II. Moreover, our dispute with the non-Catholic apostolic sister Churches such as the Eastern Orthodox Church or even the pre-Chalcedon Churches is on an entirely different footing, and very little of it is theological.
The difference is that all these disputes are not about what we commonly hold to be the sacred deposit of faith. We agree on what Christ taught, what the sacraments of the Church are, what work the Church is supposed to be doing, where the authority of the Church is coming form, what is the authority of the scripture.
We were commanded to seek God, not blindly follow traditions of man.
Martin Luther is responsible for the loss of more souls than any other person in history
This is the strongest condemnation of Protestantism I know.
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