Huh??? The same could be said for you also…
I don’t think so, since I have done the study and I can produce authentic and authoritative Catholic sources for whatever I debate on. If I express an opinion…I say as much.
Its a major problem today as more and more Catholics interact with others especially Protestants who know the Scriptures and Catholic teachings. Catholics who look for support for their doctrines and practices have nothing to depend on but their “own private interpretations”. Even though you are a priest you have your own private interpretations since your church has never infallibly interpreted the Scriptures.
It’s only a major problem to you and others who oppose the Catholic faith, who
sorely wish it was.
Alleging that Catholics have no Biblical basis for beliefs is ridiculous to begin with once I open that Catechism and we begin to look at the footnotes where scriptures and historical sources are cited. It basically buries any other source for teachings for Christianity.
Tell me JA4…do you really believe that someone needs to sit down and definitively interpret every last verse of the Bible?
I think so. Who would you suggest should do this for all you N-Cs? C’mon. Who do you think should undertake that task? Will they be acceptable to the rest of the myriad of n-C communities?
There are many places to go for this. Sola Scriptura is one.
Sorry, but that is not possible since SS is an unscriptural error in itself.
Got any other sources to offer?
Don’t you find it amazing that we believe in the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture, Christ died for our sins and rose again, and salvation is found in Christ alone to name a few?
Who is this “we” that you refer to? I’d say you need to move from partial to the fullness of truth.
Not so. This is where most Catholics learn about the Scriptures and yet are they?
Probably, and yet in general they come away with a better knowledge of scripture, (largely sans the chapter and verse capacity).
I suspect you haven’t heard some excellent Protestant pastors exergete the Scriptures. If you are i can direct you to a few podcast if you are interested.
Oh I know that there are some few. No thanks, I hear some on the radio and find myself correcting them as they talk. It’s just my way of playing a kind of SS “game” that no one else ever hears. (Talk about being bored while driving.)
If you have consulted any who might they be?
Well, I gave away my Strong’s and although I have several n-C Bibles…like I said I don’t use them very much. I spent over 30 years as an n-C. I don’t consult n-Cs anymore though, and in fact I’m working on an article refuting A.A. Hodge’s article on this very doctrine.
What do you think though? Do you think C
atholics have a good grasp of the Scriptures and church doctrines? In general? At least as well as their n-C counterparts and steadily improving all the time, which is as it should be. Part of that is because of this site here as well as quite a few other Catholic ones but also even more as our Pope speaks out on day to day issues that most n-Cs and their leaders remain silent on.
How is this specious of me if i’m stating something that i observe?
It is when (again) you attempt to hold the Catholics to a higher standard that you and your own faith community generally cannot measure up to. I taught n-Cs in Sunday Schools and Bible studies, and the complacency and ignorance were a constant distress. So, if personal observation is going to be an accepted point here then I submit that you really don’t wanna go there.
i do hold the Catholic church up to a higher standard because of the claims it makes and attacks it makes on Protestant believers.
The claims are correct both Biblical and historically accurate. None of the modern post reformation step children can make that claim with any credibility and the errors of SS are so pervasive that in spite of their lip service to it, in the end they actually practice some form of authoritative interpretation based upon whoever their favorite n-C preachers and teachers are.
That may be true of some but not me. I know what Sola Scriptura is and how it works.
Cool! In that case by all means enlighten me.
This is not true. Take the OT. That predates the church. Secondly, God is the author of Scripture not the church. You have erred on these 2 points.
See…here you are wrong again.
The Jewish scriptures are part of the church and came from the church in the same sense that the OT saints are also part of the Body of Christ, or else will you now tell us that those many believers and faithful are yet unsaved?
God has authored nothing at all. The Church, both those mentioned above from the OT, and the New Testament believers actually authored the scriptures by the God breathed inspiration of the Holy Spirit. I’m afraid that you are the one who is error there.
They are not the sole authority perse but they are the sole ultimate authority because they alone are inspired-inerrant. There is no other authority on earth that can make that claim and support it.
Yet the modern proponents of SS come away with gross errors in their doctrines that devolve directly from SS to begin with.
Your comment certainly upholds the premise of this thread, that the vast majority of those who preach SS do not really believe or practice it.
since, as you imply, they all sound about the same…
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