I have show you that, contrary your assertions, veneration of Mary has been around since the first Century. Fortunately I am not shackled with the realtively new (and False)doctrine of Sola Scriptura so i can look at other sources rather than my own personal interpretation of Scruipture. If not I would ask you, using the same requirments you gave me, to prove the Trinity.
I can understand him not wanting to give too specific an answer. In my case it was 4 years in the mid-west. I also have a minor in Theology from a mid-west university. Theological Study at a Catholic Insititution if tougher than what i am sure reformissionary faced as we could not merely answer every question with “my peronal interpreation of scripture proves me right.”
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. I think the degree was 96 credit hours. I was working full-time and had children and in school full-time, so I think I was in school from '97-2002. Before that I earned a bachelor’s degree in Biblical studies from Colorado Christian University. I graduated from both schools with honors. Do you want to see my transcripts and particular grades too?
Catholic friends, this statement is a HUGE misrepresentation of what I believe & do. HUGE. Every time you all make a similar statement it just shows you don’t understand and don’t care to understand.
Once Saved Always Saved as Catholics have TOLD ME I believed is not what I believe. If you want to know if I believe it or what I believe, that would be more meaningful than assuming we all believe it in the way you have been told we do.
You and I disagree on how to interpret John:6. how do we resolve that?
Yet many Protestant denominations do believe in OSAS. How do we resolve that?
Ha. You can’t point to someone living during the writing of the Scriptures as unable to point to their own writings. The Apostles were there so that we would have the NT Scriptures!
No.
What about it? Are they a true church? Yea. He didn’t attend a Southern Baptist seminary associated with my particular denomination. But what difference does that make? Why bring up a random church?
Because it’s biblical. They have a mistaken aspect of covenantal theology that creates this error. It’s a hang up that I think would not be there if the Catholic church hadn’t changed the biblical mode of baptism long ago. But we stand united on the gospel and neither of us mean baptism in the magical, removal of original sin way that Catholics do. So they are good friends. Some of my favorite Christian writers and friends are baby baptizers. United on the Gospel.
Biblical in who’s opinion? And if we disagree about it(like you disagree with the multitude of Protestants who say OSAS is biblical) how do we resolve it?
Getting a little testy there aren’t you?This is to everyone, not just Linda. – I’m happy for everyone here who spends all day and night on a forum. Good for you. I have a life outside the forum. So if your stuff gets missed or not answered for a while, too bad. And this goes double for something that is easily found if you use the links I already provided. I’m not going to feel bad about enjoying my family or doing my job or watching the Blackhawks lose (though I think that will change come Friday!).
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. I think the degree was 96 credit hours. I was working full-time and had children and in school full-time, so I think I was in school from '97-2002. Before that I earned a bachelor’s degree in Biblical studies from Colorado Christian University. I graduated from both schools with honors. Do you want to see my transcripts and particular grades too?
By understanding the Bible for what it says, not what we want it to say. There will always be people who disagree and chose to let presuppositions and powers taint their understanding. It’s the Scriptures that we have been given to change people. We know that there were many false teachers all through Scripture. The Gospel, NOT the Catholic Church, is the power of God for salvation. Christians/Churches are the vessels of the Gospel.
Be carefull here, statements like these may cause one difficulty, I assume you still have both of your hands and both of your eyes.
Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you.
Well said, Let us explore the idea of “let’s open the Scriptures” for a moment.
That’s a great question and I appreciate you asking it. I’ll answer, and I’d like you to answer your own question for me too. What would it take for you to convert to Protestantism?
1 Timothy 3:15.
Good questions. 1. I would give them a Bible, not make them buy their own.
2. I don’t put much weight on different publishers with different goals using the name “Holy Bible.” What makes it holy is God’s inspiration. I write Holy Bible on a blank notebook and that doesn’t make it from God. So I would tell them there are Christians who accept other books that aren’t God-breathed.And yet if we DO let the Bible speak for itself it points directly, and by Christ’s own words toward an authoritative Church on Earth. In this I point to Matthew 18: 15-18.