Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Roman Catholics low view of scripture

Just a thought, if Rome says that the they believe in the infallible inerrant word of God in principle why don’t they put that into practice? Rome decided one day at the council of Trent that tradition was equal with scripture, so now the infallible church can assert that scripture is infallible. In effect putting human reason above scripture. The reason that they wanted tradition equal with scripture was so that they could justify the bogus things they where doing. For example lent, with obvious origins in Babylon pagan cults it’s just not biblical, but since the Catholic Church was doing it they needed a way to justify such actions. There are so many other examples but you get the picture.

This brings up another point if we need constant revelation from the Pope ex cathedra (from the throne) does this mean that’s Christ’s total work is not yet completed? That Christ is still not finished his work? That everything in the bible is only part of what we need to know? is this Christ God, you would think that God would be able to once and for all give mankind a revelation of everything that He demands from us! No apparently Christ wasn’t quite sure when he said "it is finished” (john 19:30 He must have meant something else or when he said "scripture cannot be broken” (john 10:35) Rome must assume he meant...”well it could be because the Holy Spirit is still ministering to people to give revelations about me, but I don’t really know for sure”. This Christ seems a bit clueless does He not?

Another thing even yet is that the if the Holy Spirit is still revealing Christ’s ministry to fallen man what is he, a 'helper'? Is man so good already that all he needs to interpret something is a bit of help from an old friend? Or is he so utterly blind (rom 1:18-20) that the only way he can see any shred of proof is from the complete regeneration from the Holy Spirit and even then his innate sin nature still remains (rom 7:14-25). Can this type of person clearly make new revelation something that is equal as scripture? No.

The Roman Catholic Church gives people an easy believism gospel that snags weak willed individuals into their snares. They then fill them with such un-biblical doctrines as purgatory, tradition or new revelation, man being born neutral, neither bad nor good, not children of wrath (eph 2:2) not born in iniquity (ps 51:5) not deceptively wicked (jer 17:9) not blinded by sin (rom 1:18) being able to comprehend spiritual matters. Them being neutral it’s only fair that they could as any self willed individual reason about spiritual matters (1 cor 2:14) etc. One could easily go on but these few examples should suffice for now.

1 comments:

Laverne said...

Good for people to know.