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re: loyal opposition | Hananiah |
Quote: What do you mean? He calls Peter a rock in the very same letter. Quote: No. When the pope decrees that some doctrine is to be held by all the faithful with divine and Catholic faith, the "loyal RC" is left with two choices: accept it, or cease to be Catholic.
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Posts: 147 2/1/04 4:28 pm Reply |
Re: re: loyal opposition | JasonTE |
Hananiah said:Quote: Paul calls Peter by one of his names. The fact that the name means "rock" doesn't imply a papacy. Given that Paul asserts his equality with and independence from the other apostles in the book of Galatians, and that he refers to Peter second as one of three reputed pillars of the church (Galatians 2:6-9), the book of Galatians is evidence against an early papacy rather than evidence for it. Jason Engwer members.aol.com/jasonte New Testament Research Ministries www.ntrmin.org
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JasonTE Posts: 1447 2/1/04 5:31 pm Reply |
Re: re: loyal opposition | NTRMin |
Quote: Yes, I know, I know. And you base this on Pius IX's definition of papal infallibility. How do you know that statement wasn't wrong? ES
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NTRMin Posts: 1213 2/1/04 9:09 pm Reply |
re: loyal opposition | Hananiah |
"And you base this on Pius IX's definition of papal infallibility. How do you know that statement wasn't wrong?" As on the authority of the Catholic Church.
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Posts: 159 2/2/04 5:02 pm Reply |
Re: re: loyal opposition | NTRMin |
I wrote: "And you base this on Pius IX's definition of papal infallibility. How do you know that statement wasn't wrong?" You responded: "As on the authority of the Catholic Church." I have no idea what this means. I asked you how you could be certain that Pius IX's statement wasn't just his wrong opinion. How does your statement answer my question? ES
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NTRMin Posts: 1216 2/2/04 6:08 pm Reply |
re: loyal opposition | Hananiah |
I have made one fallible decision; to embrace the Catholic Church as a package deal.
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Posts: 161 2/3/04 8:47 am Reply |
Re: re: loyal opposition | Hilasterion |
It isn't just afalible, its wrong. But it is quite a package you have ambraced; perforated so that you can easily tear off bits you don't like. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me..." John 4:34a
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Moderator Posts: 526 2/3/04 10:50 am Reply |
Re: re: loyal opposition | NTRMin |
Quote: So how does the reliability of that admittedly fallible decision differ from the decision of the Mormon to embrace the "package" of the infallible interpreters of Mormonism? And how does it differ from the decision of the Jehovah's Witness to embrace the "package" of the infallible interpreters of the Watchtower? ES
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NTRMin Posts: 1217 2/3/04 12:46 pm Reply |
re: loyal opposition | Hananiah |
Quote: The two fallible decisions differ in that my decision is tenable while theirs is not. Any church that embraces a total apostasy theory makes Jesus Christ a liar. This includes Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Iglesia ni Cristo, etc. The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches are the only Churches which are in a position to claim to be the true Church of Christ, as they are the only churches which can actually trace their origins back to the apostles. You can't just start a Church in 1880 and claim to be the one true Church of Christ. It is simply a ridiculous proposition. Also, with regards to Mormonism, their scriptures have been disproven by archeology, as there is no evidence of the advanced civilizations described by the book of Mormon ever having existed. And the Jehovah's Witnesses contradict the perspicuous teaching of the Bible that Jesus is God.
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Posts: 164 2/3/04 7:57 pm Reply |
re: loyal opposition | Hananiah |
Quote: Your contention that justification is by faith alone isn't just fallible, it's wrong (James 2:24) (James is clearly using the word "justify" in the soteriological sense, as verse 24 is the conclusion to the inquiry begun in verse 14, "can the faith save him?"). Quote: I believe in every single defined dogma of the Catholic Church, I acknowledge John Paul II as the legitimate successor to St. Peter, and if he makes a dogmatic declaration, I will accept it. I have torn off nothing.
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Posts: 166 2/3/04 8:24 pm Reply |
Re: re: loyal opposition | NTRMin |
Quote: What you really mean is that any church that embraces a total apostasy theory makes your interpretation of Jesus Christ a liar. Listen to this closely, because you consistently miss it. You cannot make the statement you just made while holding to your rule of faith. Your rule of faith does not allow perspicuity of Jesus words--they must be interpreted. You have chosen arbitrarily to adopt the RC interpretation. Do you think for one minute that Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses don't have their own interpretation of Jesus' words that completely satisfies their own system? All you're doing is appealing to sola scriptura and the "plain reading of the text" as the first principle in order to arrive at your Roman system, only to jettison it once you arrive at Rome. You are trying to have your cake and eat it too. Sorry, you're not allowed to do that. Now, see if you can answer the question in a way that doesn't rely on our principle while violating the very principle you want us to adopt. Quote: So what? Your belief in papal infallibility is disproven by Honorius, Liberius, Galileo, Joan of Arc, and dozens of other examples. That doesn't seem to stop you, now does it?
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NTRMin Posts: 1218 2/3/04 8:51 pm Reply |
re: loyal opposition | Hananiah |
Quote: No, Jesus' words are clear here. The true church will always remain somewhere. The reason I don't include Protestants in this list is because Protestants usually maintain that some remnant of true believers remained while the institutional church apostasized. Mormon's, Jehovah's Witnesses, Iglesia ni Cristo, etc, beleive in total apostasy. Quote: My rule of faith most certainly does allow it. The Bible contains some things which are hard to understand and need to be interpreted (2 Peter 3:16). Not everything in the Bible needs interpreting. I don't need the Church to tell me that fornication, idolatry, adultery, and drunkeness are wrong; that's quite obvious from the plain teaching of the Bible. I do, however, need the Magesterium to help me reconcile all the seemingly contradictory statements about how we acheive salvation. A short list compiled by Jacob Michael: [Moderator's note: DELETED: Don't try this again] Quote: No, I am using one principle throughout; when the Bible is clear, go by it's plain teaching; when it is difficult, look to the magesterium. Quote: Whether these examples disprove papal infallibility is still subject to debate. I plan on listening to a few debate tapes on the subject, and I will decide if they do in fact disprove papal infallibility.
Edited by: NTRMin at: 2/3/04 10:02 pm |
Posts: 171 2/3/04 9:33 pm Reply |
Re: re: loyal opposition | NTRMin |
Quote: Are they really? Or maybe you’re just not aware of alternative interpretations. The Mormon and JW will point out that when Jesus says, “I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it,” he doesn’t have in mind the longevity of the church, but rather the certainty of the resurrection. They will point out that Jesus doesn’t use the word “hell” here (as though he is referring to the Devil’s attempt to destroy the church). Rather, he uses the word “hades,” which means “grave” not “hell” (see Gen 37:35 and elsewhere). Therefore, Jesus’ point is not that Satan will attempt to snuff out the church but fail; his point is that those in the church will not finally be overcome by death—they will in the end rise to conquer death. It is in this way that the gates of the grave will not overcome it. If they are right on this, then you really don’t have a basis for your assumption that “the true church will always remain somewhere.” That’s simply a gratuitous interpretation from the standpoint of your rule of faith. Quote: This is the Protestant view, not the Roman Catholic view. All I need to do to show your inconsistency in this is to point out the clarity of a passage like 1 Tim 2:5 (“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”), or the biblical teaching regarding contacting the dead or praying to anyone else but God, at which point you will no doubt quickly retreat back to the real Roman Catholic view. Quote: Maybe they seem contradictory to you—but they are not contradictory to us. Your ineptness at reconciling these passages merely betrays the "unlearnedness" and "instability" of the interpreter rather than the imagined need of an infallible interpreter. Again, your idea of what is clear and what is not clear is entirely arbitrary and baseless. I wrote: Quote: You responded: Quote: Who decides for you when the Bible is clear? I have already pointed out that passages you thought were clear may not be so after all. You have decided to go with the Roman Catholic Magisterium for help. But on what basis? I have already shown you that the Matt 16 passage can be interpreted another way. You simply started with what you thought was the only interpretation of that passage, looked around for a church that you thought supports and fulfills your interpretation of that passage, and concluded that everyone else must be wrong. How do you know for certain that you have rightly understood that passage to begin with? How do you know that it’s not really the Mormons who have been right all along, and that you’re just self deceived? I wrote: Quote: You responded: Quote: LOL: and that’s just what the Mormons will say to you regarding passages like Matt 16, Matt 28, etc. By the way; under Roman authority, you are not at liberty to decide for yourself whether these examples disprove papal infallibility. You are rather commanded to submit unquestioningly to the dogma of papal infallibility. Where do you get the notion that you are at liberty even to make such a decision? Are you a Modernist by chance?
Edited by: NTRMin at: 2/3/04 10:44 pm |
NTRMin Posts: 1221 2/3/04 10:38 pm Reply |
re: loyal opposition | DTKing |
You wrote: The reason I don't include Protestants in this list is because Protestants usually maintain that some remnant of true believers remained while the institutional church apostasized. Ambrose (c. 339-97): Many times have the clergy erred; the bishop has wavered in his opinion; the rich men have adhered in their judgment to the earthly princes of the world; meanwhile the people alone preserved the faith entire. John Daillé, A Treatise on the Right Use of the Fathers (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1856), p. 197. Latin text: Plerumque clerus erravit, Sacerdos mutavit sententiam, divites cum saeculi istius terreno rege senserunt; populus fidem propriam reservavit. In Psalmum David CXVIII Expositio, Sermo 17, §17, PL 15:1446. Jerome (347-420): The Church does not depend upon walls, but upon the truth of its doctrines. The Church is there, where the true faith is. But about fifteen or twenty years ago, heretics possessed all the walls of the Churches here. For, twenty years ago, heretics possessed all these Churches. But the true Church was there, where the true faith was. See William Goode, The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice, 2nd ed., (London: John Henry Jackson, 1853), Vol. 2, p. 344. Latin text: Ecclesia non parietibus consistit, sed in dogmatum veritate. Ecclesia ibi est ubi fides vera est. Caeterum ante annos quindecim aut viginti, parietes omnes hic Ecclesiarum haeretici possidebant. Ante viginti enim annos, omnes Ecclesias has haeretici possidebant. Ecclesia autem vera illic erat, ubi vera fides erat. Breviarium in Psalmos, Psalmus CXXXIII, Migne PL 26:1223. Jerome (347-420): After these proceedings the Council [i.e. the Synod of Ariminum] was dissolved. All returned in gladness to their own provinces. For the Emperor and all good men had one and the same aim, that the East and West should be knit together by the bond of fellowship. But wickedness does not long lie hid, and the sore that is healed superficially before the bad humor has been worked off breaks out again. Valens and Ursacius and others associated with them in their wickedness, eminent Christian bishops of course, began to wave their palms, and to say they had not denied that He was a creature, but that He was like other creatures. At that moment the term Usia was abolished: the Nicene Faith stood condemned by acclamation. The whole world groaned, and was astonished to find itself Arian. NPNF2: Vol. VI, The Dialogue Against the Luciferians, §19. Hilary of Poitiers (c 315-67) included in his work Against Valens and Ursacius the following letter from pope Liberius to Ursacius, Valens and Germinius, where the pope in exile (Liberius) condemns Athanasius... Quote: So much for the presupposition of unbroken succession. The modern day Roman notion of papal infallibility doesn't permit the kind of loyal opposition that people like Athanasius and Hilary took against pope Liberius in their day. DTK
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adelphoi Posts: 205 2/3/04 10:53 pm Reply |
Re: re: loyal opposition | JasonTE |
In light of Hananiah's most recent definition of the gates of Hades prevailing in Matthew 16, I want to remind everybody of what Hananiah said previously on this subject: pub84.ezboard.com/fntrmin...c&index;=16 As David King has said in previous posts, Hananiah sometimes changes his arguments in the middle of a discussion. He's doing it with Matthew 16. He'll argue at one point that the gates of Hades would prevail if any non-apostolic teaching was found in an early source such as Ignatius. But, after I gave him examples of Ignatius and other early fathers contradicting Roman Catholicism, Hananiah changed his argument. He's now claiming that the gates of Hades would prevail if there weren't any believers anywhere on earth (pub84.ezboard.com/fntrmin...c&index;=46 ). Yet, in a previous post, he accused me of arguing that there were times in church history when only ignorant laymen were saved, and he said that such a view would contradict Matthew 16. But now he says: "No, Jesus' words are clear here. The true church will always remain somewhere. The reason I don't include Protestants in this list is because Protestants usually maintain that some remnant of true believers remained while the institutional church apostasized." (pub84.ezboard.com/fntrmin...c&index;=46 ) Which is it? Does Hananiah include Protestants among those who contradict Matthew 16 or doesn't he? This is one of the difficulties in interacting with people like Hananiah. Their arguments keep changing in the midst of the discussion. Jason Engwer members.aol.com/jasonte New Testament Research Ministries www.ntrmin.org
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JasonTE Posts: 1449 2/4/04 5:43 am Reply |
re: loyal opposition | Hananiah |
Quote: I argued that the gates of hell would prevail if a concept which entailed the wholesale perversion of the Gospel, such as baptismal regeneration, or apostolic succession (with the correlarly that one must belong to a specific institution to be saved) was universally accepted in the early sources. Quote: Indeed it would, in my opinion. This is essentially the same standard as the previous. Quote: I would argue that Protestants do, in fact, contradict Matthew 16. However, I do not include you among those who make Jesus a liar because you at least attempt to reconcile your ecclesiology with that promise, and reject total apostasy theory. Likewise, I think you contradict James, but I do not accuse you of making James a liar because you attempt to reconcile his words with your theology.
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Posts: 173 2/4/04 1:15 pm Reply |
Re: re: loyal opposition | JasonTE |
Hananiah said:Quote: No, not only is that not what you said at first, but it's not even what you said after you changed your argument the first time. When I explained to you that some of the earliest fathers either don't mention apostolic succession or define it in a way that contradicts Roman Catholicism, you claimed that it was sufficient for two early fathers (Clement of Rome and Ignatius) to refer to some type of apostolic succession, even if it wasn't the same as the Roman Catholic concept. The fact is, you've repeatedly changed your argument on this subject, and the argument has been irrational in every form it's taken. Jason Engwer members.aol.com/jasonte New Testament Research Ministries www.ntrmin.org
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JasonTE Posts: 1450 2/4/04 5:06 pm Reply |
Re: re: loyal opposition | Robin |
Quote: That's taken completely out of context Hananiah. Peter was explaining to believing Jews that the law was not destroyed. Take a look at verse 17. Psalm 129:5
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Member Posts: 89 2/5/04 6:30 am Reply |
I don't mean to be unkind, but this is muddled thinking. | justabrother |
The concept of "loyal opposition" does not come from Roman Catholicism. It comes from the British form of government. How in the world does one stand up to the RC church and say, "The way I disagree with you is just like the way the Toreys disagree with the Labor party when it is in power. Like them, I am still loyal to the crown, but I just disagree and think you are wrong." ??? That didn't work out so well for Hus, did it? Mark
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Member Posts: 60 2/6/04 9:10 pm Reply |
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