(April 24, 2015 at 7:59 am)Alex K Wrote:(April 24, 2015 at 7:36 am)Mr Greene Wrote: The protestant attempt at self justification will be to pull some Calvinist BS out of their orifices.
They then make claims about putting words in Jesus' mouth blatantly ignoring the additions to the Lord's Prayer that they made.
They'll also make claims about the bible being superior to the church, despite the fact that the Catholics compiled it from those texts that could be 'interpreted' to support trinitarianism whilst those texts that did not were declared to be apocrypha.
That right there is the killer, isn't it.
Actually, no. One might accept the idea that Catholicism was basically correct over 1500 years ago, but that does not entail the belief that the organization is still right. A lot can change in over 1500 years, and so it is unreasonable to conclude that the Catholic Church is right now even if they were absolutely perfect 1500 years ago. That seems to be basically Martin Luther's attitude, that the Church had been right, but was corrupted over time. That justifies no longer following it.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
