Agreed. Catholics exercise the right of private interpretation. However, the distinction is that we are still obliged to adhere to the church's teachings.
I wholly sympathise with those who wish to stop using the term “Counter Reformation”. The Council of Trent was a reforming council - not a rejection of reformation. The Fifth Lateran Council that finished just a few months before Luther published his 95 theses was clear on the need for reformation. “Semper reformanda” is a slogan that a devout Catholic can adopt.
"To think of sacred scripture as the pure light of God's revelation; to think of sacred tradition as the lens through which the pure light of God's revelation is brought into focus and more clearly understood; and then to think of the magisterium of the Church as the eye that was ordained by God to look through the lens of sacred tradition at the pure light of sacred scripture and decide, to pronounce authoritatively what is being taught." Love it. Source?
I know we should stick together on what we have in common but truth is important. Protestantism is ironically the man-made religion from its start. It's all about oneself and your personal theology
I understand the concept of Christian liberty to be rooted in the Christian understanding of divine liberty: the freedom to be who you are (in our case, to be who we were made to be) without let or hindrance. Does God have the freedom to be anything other than love? No. Is that a constraint on his freedom? No. The liberal conception of liberty is about maximising choice - by which token, we must assume that Elon Musk is one of the freest men in the world. Christ offers us the opportunity to be who we really are - a process that almost inevitably involves innumerable mistakes and obstacles. Once we realise that’s what He’s offering, then we will be ready to endure the sufferings. The merchant sold all that he had to buy the pearl of great price. Christ endured the cross for the joy that was set before him.
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Thank you again brothers. This is valuable information about those who are not informed. God bless
Great conversation to help us have a deeper understanding of the truth of the Catholic Church that Jesus established.
When Protestants say
“The Bible alone”
They mean
“My opinion of the Bible”
or my interpretation
Agreed. Catholics exercise the right of private interpretation. However, the distinction is that we are still obliged to adhere to the church's teachings.
Here I comment, I can do no other.
I wholly sympathise with those who wish to stop using the term “Counter Reformation”. The Council of Trent was a reforming council - not a rejection of reformation. The Fifth Lateran Council that finished just a few months before Luther published his 95 theses was clear on the need for reformation. “Semper reformanda” is a slogan that a devout Catholic can adopt.
"To think of sacred scripture as the pure light of God's revelation; to think of sacred tradition as the lens through which the pure light of God's revelation is brought into focus and more clearly understood; and then to think of the magisterium of the Church as the eye that was ordained by God to look through the lens of sacred tradition at the pure light of sacred scripture and decide, to pronounce authoritatively what is being taught." Love it. Source?
I know we should stick together on what we have in common but truth is important. Protestantism is ironically the man-made religion from its start. It's all about oneself and your personal theology
I understand the concept of Christian liberty to be rooted in the Christian understanding of divine liberty: the freedom to be who you are (in our case, to be who we were made to be) without let or hindrance. Does God have the freedom to be anything other than love? No. Is that a constraint on his freedom? No. The liberal conception of liberty is about maximising choice - by which token, we must assume that Elon Musk is one of the freest men in the world. Christ offers us the opportunity to be who we really are - a process that almost inevitably involves innumerable mistakes and obstacles. Once we realise that’s what He’s offering, then we will be ready to endure the sufferings. The merchant sold all that he had to buy the pearl of great price. Christ endured the cross for the joy that was set before him.
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