RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 20, 2015 at 2:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 2:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 20, 2015 at 1:53 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: For example, someone is free to believe in the story of genesis literally, or allegorically.
No, they are not...you might want to start researching your own doctrine before you post...you have a history of misrepresenting the position of the church.
You -must- believe that god literally created all that you see (from nothing), period. You -must- believe in a literal Adam and Eve, period. You -must- believe that all human beings are descended from these two "first parents", period. You -must- believe that the fall of man was an actual -event-, period. (this is all, just for starters)
You -may not- disagree, call them allegory, or provide your own interpretations....and then maintain that your positions on the matter is catholic, permissible by the church, or true. They are simply positions held by -a- catholic, and roundly, unambiguously stated to be wrong by the institution to which you, as a catholic, -claim- to defer to in matters of faith. When the church says that you may hold your own personal opinions on a matter...they are simply -allowing you-...officially, to be wrong (gee, thanks guys). As you are, for example, when you accept evolutionary biology....despite the infallible doctrines of the catholic church completely and utterly ruling it out..and yes...-in spite of-, as before -allowing you- to hold an incorrect opinion on the matter.
They're just telling you that you're allowed to be wrong, so long as in -being wrong-...you maintain that their position is true, and yours a mere opinion; -not- that your positions may be right. You are -not- free to claim any truth value for your own opinions on these matters, you -are not- free to believe in incorrect doctrine, or things contrary -to- correct doctrine, as decided by the church. Do you understand?
-Allowance for individual conscience does not confer the right of individual disobedience.
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