tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511169919755872956.post5673054248671885264..comments2024-03-19T07:42:09.164-05:00Comments on "A Humble Servant's Catholic Blog": The Reformers and their Catholic BeliefsDavid Mantheihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023682595579388008noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511169919755872956.post-83853471582486729572014-05-11T17:43:06.609-05:002014-05-11T17:43:06.609-05:00As promised: http://daves-ahumbleservant.blogspot...As promised: http://daves-ahumbleservant.blogspot.com/2014/05/one-church-working-toward-unity-in-body.html<br /><br />Please feel free to comment and make suggestions, and thank you for visiting the blog.<br /><br />In Christ,<br />DaveDavid Mantheihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023682595579388008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511169919755872956.post-76403248772190834302014-05-08T10:38:58.508-05:002014-05-08T10:38:58.508-05:00Anonymous, I'll make my next blog entry one ab...Anonymous, I'll make my next blog entry one about Christ's Church and it's one-ness. I hope that will give you a better idea of why I do what I do. Perhaps you can help me with that one to make it more positive and less as an attack. My goal is to draw people in, not to push away, and I admit that I struggle in wording things in a manner that accomplishes this. Your participation and assistance would not only be welcome, but a blessing to me.<br />I'll post the link to it here when it's completed...might be a few days.<br /><br />In Christ,<br />DaveDavid Mantheihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023682595579388008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511169919755872956.post-19391753845285347702014-05-07T21:40:32.769-05:002014-05-07T21:40:32.769-05:00I am sorry that my comment comes off as an attack....I am sorry that my comment comes off as an attack. It isn't intended that way, I assure you. I do often hone in on our common beliefs, but I believe it is also necessary to shine a light on our differences and get these out in the open and discuss them. The reason I believe it's important to do that is that Christ founded ONE Church, and it was His intention that we remain that way, united as ONE. Yet we have not. There have been divisions, and there continue to be divisions, and there will continue to be more still. <br /><br />I believe that we should be working to re-unite. But to do that, we are necessarily going to have to have the hard discussions.<br /><br />I was not making a point that if Protestants knew what the reformers believed, they would suddenly stop being Protestant. [Now in regards to the Early Church Fathers from the first few centuries...I bet there would be more consideration in that case.] My point is exactly what I stated in that opening paragraph: that without any true authority, the "self" becomes the authority in Protestantism, and there is no basis upon which to claim something is true or not true, because every person is essentially free to interpret Scripture however they see fit, or however they feel the Spirit is guiding them, regardless of conflict with others. It becomes *my* fallible interpretation vs. *your* fallible interpretation...and neither of us can say the other is wrong. And when that happens, Truth loses its meaning because Truth becomes whatever you or I say it is, even when we disagree.David Mantheihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023682595579388008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1511169919755872956.post-72564926910371033062014-05-07T20:00:28.457-05:002014-05-07T20:00:28.457-05:00"From the perspective of a guy looking in fro..."From the perspective of a guy looking in from the outside, what I see is that this “authority” you exercise is none other than your own self. In the meantime, I will rely on the Authority that Christ gave us, the “pillar and bulwark of Truth” (1Tim 3:15). "<br /><br />I must say that I am disappointed. I'm sorry, but all I see is an attack on Protestants. I am a Protestant, and many of the Protestants that I know do have knowledge of the what the earliest reformers believed. And knowing that, we are still Protestant. Imagine that. My relationship with Christ is the most amazing thing in my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. <br /><br />Why must you perpetrate the ol' Catholic vs Protestant debate? It only leads to both sides becoming offended and believing that they are right. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com