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To: metmom

Amazing they can put this together but not in the “2000 year” existence of their denomination have they bothered to put together a verse by verse exegetical position on the verses of the very book they claim to have given us.


59 posted on 11/28/2017 4:35:11 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
Amazing they can put this together but not in the “2000 year” existence of their denomination have they bothered to put together a verse by verse exegetical position on the verses of the very book they claim to have given us.

You are contradicting yourself here. You constantly bash the Catholic Church for dictating to Catholics how they must interpret Scripture--allowing no freedom of thought or freedom of interpretation.

NOW you are admitting that the Catholic Church does NOT, and NEVER HAS, dictated to Catholics an official, binding interpretation of every verse of Scripture. In other words, Catholics are free to interpret practically all verses in Scripture according to their learning and intelligence.

So, you are now bashing the Catholic Church for NOT doing the thing you routinely bash the Church for doing.

To my knowledge, the only verse in the Gospels which the Church has DEFINED as having a certain meaning (i.e., it is the institution by Christ of the Sacrament of Penance), is in John, where Jesus tells the Apostles that he is giving them the power to forgive sins, and the power to JUDGE whether or not to forgive sins.

(No one has ever explained how Jesus expected the Apostles to make these judgments if people were not going to CONFESS their sins.)

555 posted on 12/02/2017 3:11:55 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hj3e8cKZWiY)
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