Theology of Andrew: Ironies in the Protestant-Catholic Debate

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Ironies in the Protestant-Catholic Debate

Protestants disagree with the Roman Catholic Church because it claims to be infallible, and we all know only Martin Luther was infallible.

Protestants think the Catholics teach the precepts of men instead of the word of God, they don't follow dead tradition, they follow Spurgeon and Wesley's tradition.

The Catholic church says that they only believe in the initial doctrines of the disciples...but that Papal authority and the Papacy developed...so by following their original teachings you have to reject the Pope.

Protestants claim that salvation comes from faith not works, and then criticizes Catholics on the basis of the lives that they live.

Catholics use the bible to try to disprove Sola Scriptura.

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Quotes For Thought

"If baptism is the beginning of my life, and the day of regeneration is the first of days, it is obvious that the words spoken when I received the grace of adoption are more honorable than any spoken since....Through this confession I was made a child of God, I, who was His enemy for so long because of my sins. May I pass from this life to the Lord with this confession on my lips." - St. Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit, par. 26.

"To know Jesus and Jesus crucified is the sum total of my philosophy." - St. Bernard of Clairvaux

"Oh the extraordinary goodness of God toward man? The just of the Old Testament thank God in the weariness of long years; but that which they obtained, by means of a long and heroic service pleasing to God, Jesus gives to you in the brief time span of an hour. Indeed, if you believe that Jesus Christ is the lord, and that God had raised him from the dead, you will be saved and you will be introduced into heaven by the same one who introduced the good thief." - St. Cyril of Jerusalem

"He made us to believe in Christ, who made for us a Christ on whom we believe. He makes in men the beginning and the completion of the faith in Jesus who made the man Jesus the beginner and finisher of faith" - St. Augustine

"Nor must we trust in holiness of origin, in forefathers, or in
the gifts of God which we enjoy. We must look to the Word alone and judge thereby. Those alone who truly embrace the Word will be as immovable forever as Mount Zion. They may be few in number and thoroughly despised by the world, as were Noah and his children. But God, through these few, preserved to man the truth of that promised mastery when he had not even room to set his foot upon the earth." - Bl. Martin Luther "Commentary on Genesis"