tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-853207333094285361.post504763897822954713..comments2023-10-20T06:41:31.943-07:00Comments on Visits to Candyland: Why Be Catholic: An Exercise for EvangelicalsElena LaVictoirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18108910015959872763noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-853207333094285361.post-17222678780526304142008-04-24T08:07:00.000-07:002008-04-24T08:07:00.000-07:00Just for fun, I asked my dh, a retired librarian, ...Just for fun, I asked my dh, a retired librarian, if he could think of any reasons why there couldn't have been a system of people copying out the Bible for distribution during the Dark and Middle Ages.<BR/>"I thought there was- monks in monasteries."<BR/>"No, ordinary people."<BR/>His reasons: high illiteracy rate, lack of Bibles to copy, scarcity of materials, time and opportunity.<BR/><BR/>One of the problems with the 'parallel Bible churches' theory is that perhaps the people who hold it are imposing their own 'event horizon' on history. without an accurate understanding of what life then was really like, this is easy to do. And I'm not suggesting that it's deliberate- I think it's mostly an unconscious failure of imagination.Salhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13201226644704622876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-853207333094285361.post-47557879297351163822008-04-24T08:01:00.000-07:002008-04-24T08:01:00.000-07:00It just reinforces that the true father of the Pro...It just reinforces that the true father of the Protestant Reformation was not Luther or Calvin or Zwingli, but Johannes Gutenberg.<BR/><BR/>I also like to blame Eli Whitney for the American Civil War.;-)Barbara C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03568254165279635079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-853207333094285361.post-37168319683075342442008-04-24T06:21:00.000-07:002008-04-24T06:21:00.000-07:00If sola Scriptura were God’s plan for how people s...<I>If sola Scriptura were God’s plan for how people should form their theology, then it would be something the average Christian could feasily implement. Otherwise sola Scriptura would simply be something for the Christian elite, the Christian illuminati, and it should not be used by the common masses, who would have no hope of putting it into practice. They should not try to implement sola Scriptura, for they would certainly go wrong, but instead should listen only to the sola Scriptura elite for their information about what the "Bible only" says.</I>\<BR/><BR/>Isn't that, in a sense, what some people do anyway? They believe they have some divine ability to interpret the bible better than anyone else? That they know better; that they "see" what others don't? And, since they know so much, you should listen to them and not interpret it on your own?<BR/><BR/>Discussions about Pagan traditions (Christmas, Easter, etc), head coverings, dresses vs pants, wifely responsibilities...isn't that all based on interpretation, and expressed in a manner that suggests that if you do differently, you have interpreted incorrectly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-853207333094285361.post-67087680517412290702008-04-23T19:48:00.000-07:002008-04-23T19:48:00.000-07:00Excellent Elena, I really enjoy Jim Akin!!Excellent Elena, I really enjoy Jim Akin!!Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01038639159416547700noreply@blogger.com