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Reasoning from the Scriptures with Catholics Ron Rhodes
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Is being Catholic somehow a handicap to my powers of reasoning? If we are truly justified by faith alone, they reasoned, all good works must remain optional for Christians. 7 Ways the New Mass Translation is Closer to Scripture. The centuries (as best as a non-seminarian can) I came away still disagreeing with much of what the RCC added to first century Christianity but I at least understood the reasoning and the very real questions and problems they were struggling with. The salvation which we believe is not proved from clever reasoning, but from the Holy Scriptures" (4:17). Prepared to defend and explain the true gospel of Jesus Christ. We commend ourselves and God's . No, the real issue concerns where one locates one's final authority: Protestants hold to the final authority of Scripture (alone) whereas Catholics hold to the final authority of the Magisterium (which stands, at least in practice, over Scripture). Catholics, in turn, hold that such teachings and practices are grounded .. With these there is no reasoning. That position, known as antinomianism, I rejected on biblical grounds. Next week we're going to look at some key facets of Roman Catholic theology and practice and examine how they corrupt and contradict the teaching of Scripture. Here is where common sense and our GOD given reasoning powers begin, based on what we know from Holy Scripture. These too teach a false Gospel “centered” around “Jesus,” just not the Jesus of the Scripture. On these questions, and other questions implied by them, Evangelicals hold that the Catholic Church has gone beyond Scripture, adding teachings and practices that detract from or compromise the Gospel of God's saving grace in Christ. It's simply Unavoidably, then, both Protestants and Catholics use their reasoning faculties to interpret their final authority, even though both would grant (I hope) that their reasoning must be subservient to that final authority. So then, the Gospel of the Catholics doesn't match up with the Gospel of the Scripture, so can there be Catholic Christians? Faith and Reasons · consecration-westminster. The reasoning you provide here is usually consider the wrong "reasons" for leaving one evangelical church or another, let alone the Catholic church for a Protestant church. Catholics and Orthodox interpret scripture in the light of tradition, authoritative church synods and councils, and theological reasoning. What makes Protestants able to offer their own interpretations of Scripture, and Catholics unable? Licensed under Creative Commons. What the Catholic Church offers, in the first place to the Gay community and to every believer is the plain truth of Scripture.