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Recent content by Oblio

  1. Oblio

    The Scriptures and Authority

    Because at best what she said is not what we believe or practice. Also, in order to 'prove' we do not follow God, she implies a false dichotomy, as if we must either follow His Church, or Him, not both. Since we follow the Church, we must not be following God. :doh:
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    The Scriptures and Authority

    It's a false dichotomy because you used the phrase 'instead of', as if one must either believe one or the other. One can believe both/and rather than either/or , a common evangelical misunderstanding and dilution of Christian theology. And before you say 'that is not what I meant ...', at the...
  3. Oblio

    The Scriptures and Authority

    Instead of trusting God and the Holy Spirit to enlighten them, they'll submit to one church or the other. I'll leave aside your implication that the Holy Spirit is an adjunct to God :)
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    The Scriptures and Authority

    False dichotomy, a logical fallacy. Holy Tradition IS the expression of the Holy Spirit working in His Church.
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    "Strong Bible Based/Bible Believing ____"

    The phrase 'Bible believing/Bible based church' necessarily implies the existence of churches that do not fulfill that requirement. In my experience the phrase is evangelical doublespeak for 'non-Apostolic' traditions. Not that they are accurate in their assessment, but that is their usage.
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    The Scriptures and Authority

    The point is that the 'word' used does not matter, it is the idea that our Lord taught us that matters. That idea is preserved by His Church. Modernists (and post modernists) distort that view or use linguistics and 'academics' as their tools to forge novel ideas foreign to the Gospel.
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    Augustine; more or LESS (C)atholic?

    While you are at it stz, explain to us what symbol means to you.
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    Augustine; more or LESS (C)atholic?

    Then please explain it to us. My contention is that you do not understand it. Your online exposition will either prove your don't, or at least get you to actually find out what it means, rather than regurgitating an anti-Apostolic Strawman that you have been taught.
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    The Scriptures and Authority

    It's not really relevant. The relevant point is that evangelicals interpret the word to mean the neutered modern definition, rather than hold to the original intent of Jesus words as transmitted via the Holy Tradition of the Church.
  10. Oblio

    The Scriptures and Authority

    Certainly not Early Modern English, and definitely not post-modernism English.
  11. Oblio

    Augustine; more or LESS (C)atholic?

    Transubstantiation is not the issue.
  12. Oblio

    Augustine; more or LESS (C)atholic?

    Clearly you are not studied on the issue that you pontificate on. Do you even know what the doctrine of transubstantiation is ?
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    Augustine; more or LESS (C)atholic?

    St. Augustine said it, your doubt of jckstraw's knowledge of the Saints of the Church is IMO folly and foolishness.
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    The Scriptures and Authority

    Otto Linguistic Mystic :cool:
  15. Oblio

    most misquoted bible verses

    The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. (1Co 15:56 KJVA) Often mis-quoted (or paraphrased) as 'the sting of sin is death ...'