(July 25, 2014 at 5:55 pm)Purplundy Wrote:(July 25, 2014 at 4:43 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: Matthew 24:34: Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.Jesus was talking about his Resurrection and the destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 AD, not Obama being the Antichrist and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Admittedly, Matthew wrote this down AFTER those things had happened to comfort Jewish Christians, so I don't hold that passage up as some sort of prophecy. But I can't prove that Jesus didn't say it, either.
(July 25, 2014 at 5:51 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: From what evidence, though, can you say that the Catholic Church's teaching is infallible?I was just saying that that is what it teaches. The Catholic Church endorses itself as infallible. Yeah, yeah, yeah, circular logic.
However, the Catholic Church isn't a warehouse of cold hard facts. It just teaches people what they should do to live a moral life. And since "love thy neighbor" is completely out of the realm of science or logic, a subject that the Church does not make claims about, the Church hasn't said anything factually untrue, nor has it said anything factually true.
*Cough* Galileo *Cough*
*Cough* Everything to do with the Virgin Mary *Cough*
*Cough* Implausibility of the Resurrection *Cough*
I could go on...
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
