How Can The Pope Be Infallible?

[littleflower+JMJ]

phatmass.

you got questions....we got answers!!!

hahaha you know us mulls!!

ask and you shall recieve... :D (cont. to read flowery's signature)

luv ya mulls!!! :D :D :D

+JMJ

[BLAZEr]

Correction:

Phatmass.

Even if you don't got questions . . . we got answers!

Edited November 3, 2003 by BLAZEr

[littleflower+JMJ]

Correction:

Phatmass.

Even if you don't got questions . . . we got answers!

oooookay blazer ..........

that will work too

i think

hahah :P

[Seatbelt Blue]

Oooh.  Short, powerful, insightful.  I like.  Mind if I use??

Not at all.

A little elaboration, though.

An infallible book, no matter how perfect, has it's infallibility negated if it cannot be taught perfectly and infallibly, by the simple fact that we fallible people are pretty much guaranteed to screw something up.

After all, the Bible can't scream "you're misinterpreting me!" Rather, a fallible teacher will continue proclaiming his sensible error, and lead many astray.

But if the teacher is infallible, the book's infalliblity is given wing, and is able to be an accurate source of doctrine.

[Donna]

Hello, Monica, how's life?

Just want to add that:

Doctrine = teaching (as in a teaching or tenet to be believed of the faith).

Dogma = defined doctrine (or defined teaching).

When it comes down to "what must we believe in order to be Catholic?" the short answer is dogma's of the faith.

The infallibility of the Pope comes in him being the vessel, so to speak, in

the definition of a doctrine (which is dogma).

Infallible = it cannot fail.

So it is the definition (of a doctrine) which cannot fail.

Edited November 3, 2003 by Donna

[Robyn]

Monica...I like your way of thinking...:)

[littleflower+JMJ]

and that kind of thinking comes from biased, anti-catholic sources, and is lacking truth.

:huh:

[ICTHUS]

Monica...I like your way of thinking...

You like her way of thinking, even when everything she originally asserted has been refuted?

[Robyn]

Monica...I like your way of thinking...

Monica...

You have a great mind. I pray you find your answers.

[Katholikos]

Monica...I like your way of thinking...

Monica, Robyn, your way of thinking, unfortunately, if followed to its logical conclusion, is the path to atheism.

The basic premise of Protestantism (Sola Scriptura) is that the Holy Spirit guides each individual with a sincere heart to "all truth" in interpreting the Bible. You believe, then, that 33,820 interpretations of the same book are true, the work of the Holy Spirit.

But you don't believe that 2 + 2 has more than one correct answer, do you? No, of course not. Yet you believe there is no singular Truth to the questions concerning mankind's salvation. Or, if you believe there is, you also believe that you have it and Catholics do not. Even though what you have is just another interpretation of the Bible.

Logically, if everything or anything can be true, then nothing is T-R-U-E.

Hmmmmm. That's very odd thinking inDouche.

Recommended reading: The Logic and the Foundations of Protestantism, by Brian W. Harrison, at http://www.chnetwork.org, click on Converts, then on Harrison's name.

Pax et bonum.

[Anna]

You like her way of thinking, even when everything she originally asserted has been refuted?

They neither listen, think about, nor respond to the refutations. They just cling to their errors.

However, by their questions, we grow in our Faith and the ability to defend it, so our efforts are not in vain!

If they refuse the blessings of Truth, those blessings just come back to us. Either way, we are building up the Body of Christ.

Pax Christi. <><

[Robyn]

I think we are just often misunderstood.