Pontificator quote
Below quoted from the blog of The Pontificator:
"If both Catholicism and Orthodoxy are deemed apostate religions, then the revelation of Christ, if there ever was one, is irretrievably lost: the Church that was given the stewardship of this revelation has disappeared from history. It cannot be recovered by archaeology and certainly cannot be recovered by picking up a Bible: the only hermeneutical matrix in which the writings of the Bible can be read as Christian Scripture has disappeared along with the Church. One can, of course, create a new Bible-based religion, but it will not be Christianity. One can also create a new religion based on the Nag Hammadhi documents. It might be an interesting and edifying religion, but it would not be the same religion that originally lived by those documents."
posted by Michael Krahn @ 9:05 PM
4 Comments:
who's saying they want to declare them as apostate relgions? maybe they started out right and got stuck in the mud. it happens to the best of us.
The Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Chrurches are in fact considered apostate religions by mainstream Protestantism. Apostacy defined as "the abandonment of a previous loyalty" is exactly what they are accused of.
This "getting stuck in the mud" you speak of is an interesting metaphor. Can you expand on it a bit?
"abandonment of a previous loyalty"? which one? i'm sorry... i just don't understand the big words.
And if there was a previous loyalty, that was abandoned... then why should the documents that were "solidified" then, before the loyalties were abandoned (if that is so), disappear?
Yeah - see I just didn't get what it was saying.
"getting stuck in the mud" - I would define this as starting out right, jumping on the bandwagon, then forgetting to get off at your stop.
God gives people a revelation of something. They have a part of the truth (as you have mentioned you used to believe), but they think it's the whole truth. They become dogmatic.
Or, you start out right. Culturally, you are right. Then culture changes, but you don't, because you thought what was cultural was holy. Because it is really hard to differentiate sometimes. Honest mistake. And you still wear your head coverings.
...type-thing...
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