It is God’s word in the sense that God is the source of all truth. It is the Christian belief in the Incarnation that assures us the God uses the Church to write His words. The Church is the pillar and ground of truth. It isn’t just that God dropped a book out of the sky or that He had nothing to do with it’s writing. It is God breathed and Church written.
Well that would have been much easier!!!
Well, if it has to come straight from Jesus’ mouth, you might as well throw out the entire Old Testament, every book in the New Testament after the Gospel of John, and probably at least half of the Gospels themselves.
This is so preposterous, I don’t know whether to laugh or refute it. As others have very very easily refuted it already on this thread, I guess I’ll just have me a good laugh.
Do you mean when He said something like:
There are countless Protestant denominations, some with conflicting viewpoints on essential things that must be believed. Each of these adamantly claim that the Holy Spirit has infallibly taught them the Truth. If denom A says that Baptism is essential for salvation and denom B says that Baptism is symbolic and nice, but not necessary for salvation - and both claim that the Spirit has infallibly taught them, who should I believe? They both say believe Jesus, Jesus said Baptism is essential (denom A) and Jesus said Baptism isn’t essential (denom B). What to believe?
Could you please provide the verses that say THAT!? And while your at it, why not provide where the Bible says that it is the sole authority of faith, and which books are to be considered inspired.
NO, NO, NO! Everyone who knows, and is in the know - knows that when Jesus went up to Heaven at the Ascension, He sent down a complete KJV (without the deutero-canonicals).
Ah shucks. :blushing: My pleasure, Mr Palamas.
How about the fact that Catholics believe that Mary died still a virgin???Then my friend do not go, please stay and tell us some…just one will do! Please tell us any catholic teaching which is not grounded on the Scriptures. But it must be an authentic catholic teaching, not something someone has invented. There are a lot of alleged catholic teachings which have no reality beyond the mind of the person who expressed it
Do you believe that all things are possible with God, Arcadia? Or is your faith limited? Scripture does not deny the perpetual virginity of our Blessed Mother, only protestants. Shame on you for your disrespect of the Mother of God.
I am answering the question of Sixtus He wrote:Originally Posted by Sixtus
Where in the Bible does it claim that she did not?
Where is this in the Bible? Instead, I find that the “brothers” of Christ were the sons of Zebedee and of Alphaeus. Your next question is a good one, if you are thinking that Jesus’ mother Mary was also their mother. Did she have children with these two men, but not with her husband Joseph?
It actually comes to us through the poetry and songs of the Apostles and their early followers. But there is nothing in Scripture to contradict it.
They were mistaken that Joseph was His father - they could have been equally mistaken about his cousins, thinking they were his brothers and sisters.
If Mary had these other children, it was not with Joseph - their father’s names are listed elsewhere in the New Testament. Do a word study on their names, using a good Concordance, and you will see that I am right.
If you have trouble with the idea of prpetual virginity Arcadia, then you must also have trouble with Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead or feeding 5000 with a few loaves and fishes or the curing of the blind man or the curing of the leper. God can do anything Arcadia, even cause a young jewish girl to remain a virgin after the birth of our Lord or even open the eyes of a protestant.
No I don’t have any trouble with the miracles. However, the onus is on Sixtus who asked me to to find a practice of the RCC that is not backed up by scripture. I have done that.
Provide the scriptural cites please?
Exact wording please from scripture?
Again, exact wording?
The wording from scripture please? Thank you. And could you provide links please? Thank you.