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ozso said: What difference does it make when the word of mouth matched what was written down by Luke?
The next time you say something that doesn't follow what I said, and also doesn't make any sense, I won't try figuring it out.
Why do you make me recount what you wrote, surely you can remember it for yourself? You posted:
I replied:
As can be seen you brought up the "sheet story" by implication (Acts 10) when I was discussing Acts 15. You said that what Peter says in Acts 15 is the same things that is written in Acts 10, but it isn't and you know it.
No, that's not what I said.
No, it's a Catholic argument that you made and @Bob Crowley made in post #7. I've seen that argument made by Catholics countless times in other threads.
Catholocism argues that Catholic tradition is a greater authority than scripture. Therefore the magisterium went ahead and instituted unscriptural practices centuries after scripture was written.
That is not true. Veneration is applicable to creatures, such as Blessed Mary and the saints. Adoration (worship) is rightly given to God alone.
The saints are not dead, have you never read what Jesus said to the Sadducees?
I've seen that posted by other Catholics several times in other threads. And my response is no one ever communicated with anyone who died in all of scripture. Except for when Saul contacted Samuel through witchcraft. Every single example of prayer is directed towards God the Father alone. Catholocism also cites Psalm 103:20. Ironic using scripture to explain the institution of unscriptural practices. Even though it fails to do so.
Then why do Catholics practice the unscriptural traditions I listed? It is plainly clear it is not because scripture tells them to, since it does not, but because the magisterium tells them to.
Really? What about Jewish prayers for the dead and what about 2 Maccabees 12? You would benefit from reading a Catholic bible instead of sticking to the Jewish Tanakh + New Testament that most Protestants use.
Wasn't your own argument all about semantics? Honestly, how can I have a conversation with you when on one hand you say that worship and venerate are the same thing when in fact they are not and when I point that out you accuse me of arguing semantics!
