(May 18, 2015 at 5:20 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(May 18, 2015 at 3:56 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: How do you now this?
From an outsider point of view, how can I test your claim against other Christian sects, or other religions?
In other words, lets say I am an alien visiting Earth. How should I go about discerning your claims against those of the majority of humans that have other supernatural claims?
Excellent question.
The Necessity of Being Catholic (Condensed)
by James Akin
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/l...ecnum=3447
1) To be saved it is necessary to be a Christian.
2) To be a Christian it is necessary to be a member of Christ's Church.
3) To be a member of Christ's Church it is necessary to be a member of the Catholic Church.
4) To be a member of the Catholic Church it is necessary to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.
5) Therefore, it is necessary for salvation to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.
In this argument, the necessities are all normative necessities and the kind of membership being discussed is formal membership. The argument has a logically valid form (in fact, it expresses a variation on what is known as the "hypothetical syllogism" argument form), meaning that the truth of its conclusion depends only on the truth of the premises it contains.
Premise 1 is an example of the existential fallacy, unless you can demonstrate that there is such a thing as "being saved."