17. Authority of Interpretation
INFERNAL INTERNET
My dear Helbib,
It is always so delightful to hear about fallen-away Catholics who see it as their duty to steer other poor Catholics out of the Church. Dave Nimbus is just such a self-righteous soul. Thank badness, he is also an ignorant baffoon. Keep everyone naive about personal interpretation of the bible. One television minister uses his bible to speak of the MAN Jeezus on earth and the Khrist in heaven, positing two sons, an ancient but still tasty heresy condemned by the Church. An hour later another minister uses the same quotations to speak about how G-d became a human being in the incarnation. Both thought they read the bible correctly, but the former was dead wrong and the latter had stumbled upon the truth.
Why are there so many competing Protestant churches? It is because they ultimately disagree about what the bible actually teaches. There is not even any structure in the Protestant churches to determine authoritatively what books are inspired and which are not. Nothing stands over the bible to give it meaning and proper interpretation in Protestant circles. Here are some questions you must prevent your client and his friends from asking. I know how the Catholic Church selected the New Testament books-- how did the Protestant church? Why did they not reconsider some of the books that the Catholic Church originally rejected? Ultimately, they put back in most of what the Catholics had already decided on, despite Martin Luther's many deletions. Each minister and believer is sincere and thinks he is right; but the bible alone does not suffice to end clashes in interpretation.
These self-made churches might think they do not have popes and bishops, but it is only because they have erroneously taken this authority upon themselves. The Baptists have recently had a major heresy battle over theology in one of their most prestigious seminaries. It has literally split their faith community. Lutherans are divided by synods and will not receive communion together. The Episcopalians change G-d's teachings every time a few of their bishops have a conference. No, without some kind of divinely authorized authority, protected by the H. S., error is bound to arise. Jeezus gave that authority to the Catholic bishops and to the see of Peter to insure that from age to age the Good News would be preached without compromise. The secret you must keep is that, in many ways, Catholics are far more biblical than Protestants, even if they are poor at quoting chapter and verse. Jeezus forbids divorce in Matthew and yet how many Protestant churches ignore Khrist's hard command? At one time all Khristian communities condemned divorce; now only the Catholic Church demands perpetual monogamy and condemns successive or serial polygamy, which is really what the multiple adulteries in remarriages is about. Oh, don't you just love nuptial bliss? Muhahaha!
Jeezus says in the bible that unless you eat his flesh and drink his blood you can have no life whatsoever, and yet how many refuse to come to his altar, not for fellowship bread, but for the resurrected L-rd really present? Again, this is omitted in violation of a Scriptural command from Khrist himself, "Do this in remembrance of me."
Sorcery (pharmakeia) is condemned by St. Paul, a reference to abortifacient potions; and yet how many look the other way regarding abortion and contraception, treating fertility as a disease to be medicated away? I could go on and on. The Catholic Church takes unpopular stands because she will not betray Jeezus and his Gospel. You must convince your subject and his victims that it is precisely for the opposite reason. All are encouraged by the Catholic Church to read the bible; blast the Church for keeping the bible away from her people! The Catholic Church admits that people may find special messages in the bible that God wants them to hear PERSONALLY in their minds and hearts; stress that the bible can only say what the Pope says it says and nothing more! Eliminate the objective nature to the Gospel so that it can mean things contrary to the revelation given. Shun any expertise in languages and good commentaries. Grant no respect to past Catholic authorities and how they have interpreted passages [tradition]. Give no recognition to the teaching Church's guidance about some meanings as vital to knowing the bible, as people should.
It is ever so sweet. Defectors from the Church have opted for indoctrination over the truth.
Keep up the successful work, the World Wide Web is ours,
Slubgob
My dear Helbib,
It is always so delightful to hear about fallen-away Catholics who see it as their duty to steer other poor Catholics out of the Church. Dave Nimbus is just such a self-righteous soul. Thank badness, he is also an ignorant baffoon. Keep everyone naive about personal interpretation of the bible. One television minister uses his bible to speak of the MAN Jeezus on earth and the Khrist in heaven, positing two sons, an ancient but still tasty heresy condemned by the Church. An hour later another minister uses the same quotations to speak about how G-d became a human being in the incarnation. Both thought they read the bible correctly, but the former was dead wrong and the latter had stumbled upon the truth.
Why are there so many competing Protestant churches? It is because they ultimately disagree about what the bible actually teaches. There is not even any structure in the Protestant churches to determine authoritatively what books are inspired and which are not. Nothing stands over the bible to give it meaning and proper interpretation in Protestant circles. Here are some questions you must prevent your client and his friends from asking. I know how the Catholic Church selected the New Testament books-- how did the Protestant church? Why did they not reconsider some of the books that the Catholic Church originally rejected? Ultimately, they put back in most of what the Catholics had already decided on, despite Martin Luther's many deletions. Each minister and believer is sincere and thinks he is right; but the bible alone does not suffice to end clashes in interpretation.
These self-made churches might think they do not have popes and bishops, but it is only because they have erroneously taken this authority upon themselves. The Baptists have recently had a major heresy battle over theology in one of their most prestigious seminaries. It has literally split their faith community. Lutherans are divided by synods and will not receive communion together. The Episcopalians change G-d's teachings every time a few of their bishops have a conference. No, without some kind of divinely authorized authority, protected by the H. S., error is bound to arise. Jeezus gave that authority to the Catholic bishops and to the see of Peter to insure that from age to age the Good News would be preached without compromise. The secret you must keep is that, in many ways, Catholics are far more biblical than Protestants, even if they are poor at quoting chapter and verse. Jeezus forbids divorce in Matthew and yet how many Protestant churches ignore Khrist's hard command? At one time all Khristian communities condemned divorce; now only the Catholic Church demands perpetual monogamy and condemns successive or serial polygamy, which is really what the multiple adulteries in remarriages is about. Oh, don't you just love nuptial bliss? Muhahaha!
Jeezus says in the bible that unless you eat his flesh and drink his blood you can have no life whatsoever, and yet how many refuse to come to his altar, not for fellowship bread, but for the resurrected L-rd really present? Again, this is omitted in violation of a Scriptural command from Khrist himself, "Do this in remembrance of me."
Sorcery (pharmakeia) is condemned by St. Paul, a reference to abortifacient potions; and yet how many look the other way regarding abortion and contraception, treating fertility as a disease to be medicated away? I could go on and on. The Catholic Church takes unpopular stands because she will not betray Jeezus and his Gospel. You must convince your subject and his victims that it is precisely for the opposite reason. All are encouraged by the Catholic Church to read the bible; blast the Church for keeping the bible away from her people! The Catholic Church admits that people may find special messages in the bible that God wants them to hear PERSONALLY in their minds and hearts; stress that the bible can only say what the Pope says it says and nothing more! Eliminate the objective nature to the Gospel so that it can mean things contrary to the revelation given. Shun any expertise in languages and good commentaries. Grant no respect to past Catholic authorities and how they have interpreted passages [tradition]. Give no recognition to the teaching Church's guidance about some meanings as vital to knowing the bible, as people should.
It is ever so sweet. Defectors from the Church have opted for indoctrination over the truth.
Keep up the successful work, the World Wide Web is ours,
Slubgob
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