Posted on 11/14/2014 1:01:10 PM PST by millegan
Five points in the article are:
1) Authority and literal sense of the Scripture
2) The reality of sin and Hell
3) The absolute unicity of Jesus for salvation
4) The future Second Coming of Christ
5) A willingness to be fools for Christ
My observations as a Catholic:
1) I think most Catholics believe in the literal sense of the Scripture, but are not well educated in Scripture to begin with. The result of centuries of the Church telling Catholics that we needed the clergy and monastic scholars to “interpret” it for us.
2, 3, and 4) Catholics absolutely believe in those. They are incorporated in the Apostles Creed that we say at Mass every week.
5) I will concede that in recent years our Protestant brothers and sisters have proven more willing to put themselves out there, outside of their comfort zones, in the effort to evangelize others.
if it is pejorative it is usually “funnymentalist” :-)
https://archive.org/details/fundamentalstest17chic
THE FUNDAMENTALS
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ALL THE ENTIRE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL VOLUMES OF ESSAYS THAT CRETED THE TERM FUNDAMENTALIST
That’s a very incomplete list of what was included in the original essays called THE FUNDAMENTALS
What are the 5? Don’t want to give clicks to the site (supposing it isn’t yours?).
Thanks.
We need the Church to interpret Scripture for us.
Look at the shattering effect that private interpretation has done to the unity of Christendom, which Christ desires, and to the proliferation of errors, up to and including the rejection of the Trinity.
"Listen to the Church."
"He who hears you hears me."
--Jesus
Thanks for posting.
If Catholics are being called to "take seriously" the five fundamentals, doesn't that mean the author considers them to be less serious about orthodoxy i.e. more theologically liberal than Protestants?
Then the list comes down to one thing that Catholics need to take seriously, where fundamentalists are better:
More frequent reading of the Bible.
Yes, we hear the entire Bible every three years during Mass. After 53 years of going to Mass, the Bible has been read to me 17 times. I’ve read it twice on my own.
But I’m unable to quote Bible verses like the fundamentalists can.
He knows which ones are his, and no one can take them from him!
Even though I am vehemently against the institution of the HRCC, I love my Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ.
It is possible to totally disagree philosophically without condemning Christians to hell. How? Leave judgement up to the JUDGE! It's not our job!
That's an old canard, and one easily disproved by matching your lexionary to a list of chapters and verses in the Bible itself.
Assuming you attended daily mass faithfully for three years (after which the Lectionary reading cycle ends), you only heard 13.5% of the Old Testament (3378 verses), and 71.5% of the New Testament (5689 verses). That's 9067 out of 33001 verses mentioned in the chart, i.e. you heard 27.5% of the entire Bible (excluding Psalms). But good job on the personal reading!
We need the Church to interpret Scripture for us.
Not if the church is wrong on its interpretation as is the catholic church on Mary and the concept of mortal and venial sins....and that's just for starters.
wow....the ignorance.
Seems to me that the catholic church focuses too much on man’s sin rather than the grace of God through Christ Jesus.
I realize that sounds like a blanket statement, don’t mean it to be. Protestants certainly have quirks as well.
There was this sense that folks were attempting to earn their way into heaven by doing everything just right or doing enough. God doesn’t see us by our works, but solely through His son’s atoning blood. God doesn’t say, well well well Servantboy, you screwed the pooch today. I’m not sure your gonna make it. My child, to come into my good graces once again, you must.....
I dunno...freedom comes through the knowledge that God is not mad or sitting at the edge of His throne looking down waiting to poof someone into ashes if they screw up or fail to tow the line.
Jesus PAID for our sins. We ARE healed through his stripes. There can be no double jeopardy once one surrenders to His lordship.
God loves us and accepts us JUST THE WAY WE ARE! Sanctification begins at the time of surrender and God promises to never leave us nor forsake us. His Holy Spirit begins a transformation in the believers life, sometimes takes days, sometimes years or months to reach the point God wants us to be.
We cannot add to or take away from the free gift of grace.
Nothing against your blog, but it is considered bad form to excerpt.
Then I’ve read it twice in its entirety, and by going to Mass weekly for 53 years, I’ve read 71.5% of the New Testament 17 times.
But my original point remains.
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