Tuesday, July 15, 2008

My questions to Protestants...

While at work today, I composed a list of questions that I feel necessary to ask of Protestants/Evangelicals/Related Schismatic Factions when I am in dialogue with them about matters of theology.

1) If Christ is the One True God, would it not make sense to have One True Church?
2) Having answered that, is Christ divided?
3) With that, can you explain why there are 30,000+ Protestant denominations?
3) How can you endorse and practice sola scriptura when the Bible did not become widespread until the 15th century with the advent of the printing press?
4) Since sola scriptura necessitates the rejection of so-called "human traditions," how do you explain the Bible? Where in the Bible does it say to actually ASSEMBLE the Bible? Nowhere that I can find it in Scripture.
5) Where in the Bible does it say that faith alone will save you?
6) If everything in the religious life is to be Bible based, then where can I find the outline for a marriage ceremony? (Hint: most of a marriage ceremony is pagan)
7) Assuming Christianity is a "fellowship," why am I, a Catholic, not part of it?
8) If the Canon of Scripture was set down in 397 and affirmed several more times before Martin Luther edited Romans 3:28 and took out what displeased him, why is the Catholic church accused of adding to the Bible?
9) If you accept the Bible as infallible/inerrant/perfect, then how do you come to terms with the fact that it says the Earth is flat with 4 corners, that bats have feathers and hares/rabbits chew a cud, not to mention the fact that the order of creation is different (but close!) than what the fossil record shows us?
10) Where does it say that if you accept the Good Lord, Jesus Christ, as your personal Lord and Savior that you are saved forever, regardless of works?
11) To add emphasis to point number 4, where in the Bible is the Trinity explained or the Eucharist mentioned by that name? (Hint: Christ revealed these things to us, but we Christians, more specifically the Catholics, wrote a doctrine to explain them)
12) If none of the theology that exists in Protestant/Evangelical/Fundamentalist circles existed before the advent of Calvin and Luther, then how is it that the Catholic church is accused of creating man-made traditions?

Well, that is my piece for the night. I am going to play a little bit of Quake while I wait for Quake III to transfer over so I can play my brother.

-N8

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