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I have founded out that reason is not an very conforting friend sometimes, cause reasoning is limited. In CCC 1136(795,1090) about the liturgy, it says that it is;Christus Totus who is performing the heavenly liturgy…WHAT IS THAT!!? It is not biblical anyway!!!
It is not what the Scriptures says anyway, but it is the philosophical wiew of point based upon the Summa of Thomas of Aquinas
philosophy. And i quote Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, an evangelical Calvinistic Methodist: “Philosophy has always been the cause of the church going astray, for philosophy means, ultimately, a trusting to human reason and human understanding. The philosopher wants to encompass all truth; he wants to categorize and explain everything, and that is why there are no more important passages in the Scripture for us at the present time than the First Epistle of Corinthians, starting in chapter 1, at verse 17, and going right the way through to the end the of chapter 4, with especial reference to chapter 2. The apostle’s whole contention in those chapters is that things were going wrong in Corinth because they were beginning to bring back faith in human wisdom, philsophy; and this point is to show that this is diametrically opposed to the preaching of the gospel.He says he has become a fool for Christ’s sake:‘If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him be a fool, that he may be wise’ (1Cor.3:18).Here ‘a fool’ means that you do not trust to philosophy nd human wisdom. This is really a most important matter.
Martin Luther used to refer to: ‘that old witch’, Lady Reason’ , and those of you who are familiar with his writings know how he constantly emphasized this point, that reason is an old witch. He was concerned about this, of course, because it was the essence of his argument against Rome. It is true still that the trouble with Roman Catholicism is that they say they believe the Bible. Let us grant that they do, and that they are quite sincere in saying that, but what, then, is the trouble? The trouble is that they have added Aristotelian philosophy on to their belief in the Bible, and that ultimately they are interpreting the Bible in terms of Aristotelian philosophy. That is the great characteristic of the Summa of Thomas Aquinas, and it was the result of this that the evangel, the true gospel, had become entirely hidden. So it is not surprising that Luther should have contended so strongly against this very matter, and this is not, by any means, confined to Luther either.” (Dr.Martin Lloyd Jones in ‘What is an evangelical?’ The Banner of Truth Trust 1992, reprinted from Knowing the times.)
It is not what the Scriptures says anyway, but it is the philosophical wiew of point based upon the Summa of Thomas of Aquinas
philosophy. And i quote Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, an evangelical Calvinistic Methodist: “Philosophy has always been the cause of the church going astray, for philosophy means, ultimately, a trusting to human reason and human understanding. The philosopher wants to encompass all truth; he wants to categorize and explain everything, and that is why there are no more important passages in the Scripture for us at the present time than the First Epistle of Corinthians, starting in chapter 1, at verse 17, and going right the way through to the end the of chapter 4, with especial reference to chapter 2. The apostle’s whole contention in those chapters is that things were going wrong in Corinth because they were beginning to bring back faith in human wisdom, philsophy; and this point is to show that this is diametrically opposed to the preaching of the gospel.He says he has become a fool for Christ’s sake:‘If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him be a fool, that he may be wise’ (1Cor.3:18).Here ‘a fool’ means that you do not trust to philosophy nd human wisdom. This is really a most important matter.
Martin Luther used to refer to: ‘that old witch’, Lady Reason’ , and those of you who are familiar with his writings know how he constantly emphasized this point, that reason is an old witch. He was concerned about this, of course, because it was the essence of his argument against Rome. It is true still that the trouble with Roman Catholicism is that they say they believe the Bible. Let us grant that they do, and that they are quite sincere in saying that, but what, then, is the trouble? The trouble is that they have added Aristotelian philosophy on to their belief in the Bible, and that ultimately they are interpreting the Bible in terms of Aristotelian philosophy. That is the great characteristic of the Summa of Thomas Aquinas, and it was the result of this that the evangel, the true gospel, had become entirely hidden. So it is not surprising that Luther should have contended so strongly against this very matter, and this is not, by any means, confined to Luther either.” (Dr.Martin Lloyd Jones in ‘What is an evangelical?’ The Banner of Truth Trust 1992, reprinted from Knowing the times.)
) Me, too.