Why Evangelicals are Returning to Rome

CIC ^ | April 2008 | Bob DeWaay

[swmobuffalo]

“Again with the Calvinism.”

And again, you brought it up. I haven’t.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I actually have the temerity--the unmitigated uppity gall--to insist that I be able to define what I believe

That you do.

As we Bible-believing Christians have the right (and the duty) to disagree with the errors of Rome while asserting the truth of God's word.

[Petronski]

You clearly referred to Calvinism when you said this:

...the “truth” that a bunch of guys twisted around to suit themselves and then foisted on the world ever since?

Or perhaps you were referring to Machenism?

[Petronski]

Catholics are Bible-believing Christians.

Catholics have the right (and the duty) to disagree with the errors of New Jersey while asserting the truth of God's Word.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Face it, Petronski. Your joke didn’t make any sense and it just wasn’t funny.

[swmobuffalo]

“The NT wasn’t put together for 300 years after Jesus was taken up to Heaven.”

Ah, another man made fallacy. The letters of the Apostles were circulating the churches as soon as they were written. They had the “Old Testament” scriptures already.

I’m not interested in the “teachings of the Church”, I’m interested in the teachings of Christ, in His words and the explanations of Peter, John, Paul, Luke etc.

If you’ve got a “manual”, then I suggest you get a Bible and start reading.

[Petronski]

Only you called it a joke.

[Petronski]

I’m interested in the teachings of Christ, in His words and the explanations of Peter, John, Paul, Luke etc.

Good Catholics, all.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Only you called it a joke.

Nope. I called it a "bad joke."

[Dr. Eckleburg]

AMEN!

[Petronski]

It wasn’t a joke, good or bad. Only you think it was a joke, indicating that it DID make sense to you.

You understood what I meant, even to the point of understanding that it was not funny. Your only error is thinking it was intended to be funny.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

LOL. Yeah, and the Russians invented the television and the three-speed blender and time-release Excedrin.

[swmobuffalo]

“Good Catholics, all.”

No more Catholic than I am. I’m beginning to think that some think that before Christ ascended, he waved a magic wand and dubbed them all “Catholic”. There was NO Catholic church in the first century.

[Petronski]

That was a nice compact list of stuff you got wrong.

[Petronski]

There was NO Catholic church in the first century.

Your absolutism is misplaced. There was NO church BUT the Catholic Church in the first century. It was His plan.

[MarkBsnr]

***The church at Rome wrote the Bible!!!***

For the tragically simple, the situation is this:

The Bible was put together by the Church about 300 years after Jesus ascended, not by a rabble of accountants in 1936.

[MarkBsnr]

***therefore it does not call itself “the only true church.”***

Just as well, since it isn’t the True Church. I’m not sure why any members would stay since it isn’t.

[Petronski]

The Gospels, Old Testament, Epistles, etc. existed before then, but they were written by Catholics—inspired by God—, preserved by Catholics, and assembled into the Bible by Catholics about 300 years after His Ascension.

[Petronski]

Just as well, since it isn’t the True Church. I’m not sure why any members would stay since it isn’t.

At least OPC isn't lying about that.

[MarkBsnr]

***I do. Every word based on Scripture.***

Cherry picked and not related. Even satan can quote scripture for his own purposes. Especially his minions on earth.

***You’ve asked this twice now. Perhaps you think I’m afraid to answer it or something. Nope.***

Nice of you to answer it once. How do you handle that passage in the WCF? Do you ignore it?