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Fudgiethewhale on scored.co
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1. The Apostles were men and thus were capable of sin. However, every word written down was through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and therefore is infallible and inerrant. But this does not happen anymore, as the canon is closed. Nothing new is being added to scripture.
If the Pope is reading and correctly interpreting scripture ex cathedra, then sure, papal infallibility makes sense. But it doesn’t seem like that’s what he’s doing.
2. The immaculate conception logically makes no sense. If Mary was conceived without sin, her mother St. Anne would have to be immaculately conceived, and her mother, and so on all the way back to Eve. If original sin is transferred through natural generation (which is Catholic Dogma), then the fathers (including Adam) would’ve needed to be perfect and without sin as well. (It is also Catholic dogma that she is a daughter of Adam, thus having original sin passed down onto her)
Not even St. Thomas Aquinas believed she was immaculately conceived, only that she was sanctified in the womb. St. Augustine also did not believe in the immaculate conception, but possibly believed that, by God’s Grace, was made holy and sinless after her birth.
Mary called Jesus Christ her savior (Luke 1:47), so it seems she still fell under the consequences of original sin. I could be wrong in my interpretation, though. And I’m willing to admit that.
I have many issues with Catholic dogma, though I love my Roman Catholic brethren. I just hate that certain Catholic groups have damned to hell many Protestants. The EO Church damns us both. American Evangelicals think that no Catholics are saved and that the Pope is the antichrist.
I think we all need to stop spreading so much vitriol and figure out how we can further unify the visible church.
If the Pope is reading and correctly interpreting scripture ex cathedra, then sure, papal infallibility makes sense. But it doesn’t seem like that’s what he’s doing.
2. The immaculate conception logically makes no sense. If Mary was conceived without sin, her mother St. Anne would have to be immaculately conceived, and her mother, and so on all the way back to Eve. If original sin is transferred through natural generation (which is Catholic Dogma), then the fathers (including Adam) would’ve needed to be perfect and without sin as well. (It is also Catholic dogma that she is a daughter of Adam, thus having original sin passed down onto her)
Not even St. Thomas Aquinas believed she was immaculately conceived, only that she was sanctified in the womb. St. Augustine also did not believe in the immaculate conception, but possibly believed that, by God’s Grace, was made holy and sinless after her birth.
Mary called Jesus Christ her savior (Luke 1:47), so it seems she still fell under the consequences of original sin. I could be wrong in my interpretation, though. And I’m willing to admit that.
I have many issues with Catholic dogma, though I love my Roman Catholic brethren. I just hate that certain Catholic groups have damned to hell many Protestants. The EO Church damns us both. American Evangelicals think that no Catholics are saved and that the Pope is the antichrist.
I think we all need to stop spreading so much vitriol and figure out how we can further unify the visible church.