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To: LiteKeeper; sandyeggo
You have completely misunderstood, and/or misrepresented, the evangelical position on the "literal" interpretation of Scripture

It is true that every time anyone says anything about any evengelical position, an evangelical will be found who would say it is a misrepresentation. You just followed up with two posts to me that apply the same error of fundamentalist literalism to monasticism and celibacy (combined with apparent ignorance of the scripture passages concerning John the Baptist). Well, whatever the evangelical manner of scriptural interpretation is, your posts illustrate why it is inadequate and un-Catholic.

199 posted on 07/31/2008 10:36:51 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex
inadequate and un-Catholic.

Inadequate - No; un-Catholic - Yes.

BTW - John the Baptist cannot be used as a model for the monastic life. There are two passages that define the normal qualifications for a pastoral leader (1 Timothy 3; Titus 1:6-9). In both passages is references marriage as the normal lifestyle. Monasticism is a remnant of neo-platonism, not biblical theology.

215 posted on 07/31/2008 11:44:35 AM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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