Heavy Hearts

Why did you tell me that I can post my reply only to shut down the comment section so I could not do just that?

You left your 'parting shot'. You had the last word when you left your response. I told you, I have no more time for this. Your 'faith' is 'so simple' that "even a child can understand scriptures" yet you have to spend a week mining your resources and perhaps getting outside help to craft your answers it's gone past far enough and just maybe it isn't 'that simple'. SIMPLISTIC is really the more accurate word. Re-read the answer that you took the trouble to screen-shot. You have my final rebuttal. if you want to score that as a "win" for yourself go ahead. Don't care. I have other things to do.

You're mischaracterizing the argument I am having with you. I have a life of my own which is why it would sometimes take a week to respond

Furthermore, that parting shot you allowed me hardly qualifies as a response and you know that.

And while I understand that you don't have the time, you know that you simply ask me to give you time as I have allowed you prior.

What you are really doing is running away from this debate, masking it as a fruitless exercise reasoning with a wall, dealing with simplistic argumentation which you no longer have time for, rather than admit that you no longer have an argument to use.

Proof of that is that you could no longer rebut my interpretation of scripture.

HomerD, if I am right, you are not only imperiling your eternity, but the eternities of your friends and families.

You are running away, HomerD; again if I am correct, what possible excuse can you give to the Lord when you slapped Him on the face by rejecting His free gift of salvation bought by His blood (Galatians 2:20-21 & 3:10-13)?

<Proof of that is that you could no longer rebut my interpretation of scripture.>

Circular reasoning does not an argument win, and that is where this has all come back to. One big meandering circle.

1. Refusing the heresy of Sol Scriptura and Sol Fide is not rejecting Christ and His gift of salvation. I have eyes to see and ears to hear. What two strange gods you have chosen to worship!!!!!!

2. I am not going down a rabbit-hole of sol scriptura when, I will repeat yet again, that Sol Scriptura breeds conflict: of translation, interpretatin, and even what is accepted as 'inspired'. Sol Scriptura has modern Bible Scholars ever searching for archeological evidence of 'more accurate', 'more historical', 'new evidence', 'the original (this or that), "why does this conflict with that in such-and-such fragment", "did Jesus really say and do (this, that , the other?) "Who actually wrote "this, that or other?" Opening up EVERYTHING to question when many things crucial to faith ought not be questioned, such that if one wants to follow Sol Scriptura to the letter one would be left without any faith at all. I am sure you are aware of the so-called 'skeptic's bible' on line that atheists and anti-theists are fond of quoting what they interpret as contradictions and inconsistencies. "As they interpret" is the key here. And you interpret as "you interpret", and I don't (and the Church does not interpret the Bible and faith as you do). That being stated, again, what exists in the Catholic Church's deposit of faith is NOT contrary to ANYTHING in the Bible because the Church is the authority on interpreting Scripture. Not you, not Martin Luther, not John Calvin, not John Wesley, not Mary Baker Eddy, nor Joseph Smith, or any other denominational founder. That, by itself should be your sign, Victor, that Sol Scriptura is a false doctrine of division and not of the Holy Spirit. Sol Scriptura isn't even stated explicitly in the Bible!. Sol Fide, again, implies that everything begins and ends with faith, ignoring human response and will to the stirrings of the Holy Spirit and also says nothing about the importance of the other theological virtues of hope and charity (the greatest being charity) But you know that passage already and choose to ignore it.

As for this comment <HomerD, if I am right, you are not only imperiling your eternity, but the eternities of your friends and families. >
Don't find yourself guilty of presumption. Read Ezekiel 18.

SHM.

With that, I bid you farewell.