*IOW you were disobedient? *
No. Where do get this from anyway?
I obeyed my parents as a child, attending all the Church related things asked of me.
You keep giving the “disobedient” response to my statement of never having believed CC claims.
What does belief have to do with obedience?
Do you seriously go around informing your friends and colleagues of CC doctrines and dogmas and then tell them they are being “disobedient” if they don’t believe CC claims are Truth?
Paul said
[Rom 1:]
18* For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20* Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;
This quote, if anything, implies that Truth as been clearly perceived since the creation. CC approved scripture came about millions of years later.
CC texts can therefore not be the Truth referred to. They can be an imperfect human attempt at describing it however.
How then can one deny the sacraments and Church that He established.?
Not believing the texts chosen by the CC are the actual undistorted “Word of God”, why should I believe any indirect claims of the CC that are based on the assumption of bible inerrancy?
You said
- beilief should follow reason (actually anon, faith is a gift. and nobody is denied if the ask)
- a rational person could conclude the CC claims are true.
Therefore, since God is the one who gives faith, and started the Catholic Church, and made specific claims/promises to His Church, and He gurantees all He says is accurate, because no untruth is in Him, and He will NOT lead anyone astray,
what part of accurate do you not believe?
The CC came up with the collection of human authored texts it calls the Bible. Any and all claims made in these texts are human authored.
Where is any proof that God actually made any of these claims attributed to Him by various human authors?
Sacraments aren’t magic. But it is true that clergy MUST be validly ordained or they have zero power to effect certain sacraments
Magic as a noun is defined in my dictionary as “the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.”
As an adjective: “used in magic or working by magic; having or apparently having supernatural powers.”
– These are the primary definitions, not some rare, obscure, alternate usage.
Surely you’re not claiming that there is nothing supernatural going on in what the CC calls sacraments?
So the question is not magic vs. no magic; but rather effective magic vs. pretend magic.
I can believe someone like Padre Pio would be effective.
Others who have been merely defined as priests I doubt anything happens at all other than a possible placebo effect.
Yes, I know the CC has defined that idea as heresy, but of course, what else would they claim?
Paul said it clearly in the quote above
In the end, i.e. when one dies, no one has any excuse. God doesn’t sandbag anyone.
Paul, of course, was just Paul - not God. Paul believed what he believed and he may have said and written what was alleged he said and wrote.
That doesn’t change my original comment at all.
And as I previously quoted from Peter, Peter anticipated those who would come along and charge the Catholic Faith with myths. And as he says, those people have already fallen and put their election in jeopardy.
Your previous quote from Peter - back in post #330 was this:
. 16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.