@markgray72@OrthoProvoc@JayDyer@GodLogic_GL The Scripture is a collection of sacred writings recognized by a religious community as divinely inspired and spiritually authoritative. We can also go with The Scripture meaning the books of the Bible. It doesn't change a thing, as you have neither.
@deusestbonus@Catholicizm1 "In the first place amongst these there are the Muslims, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind."
- The Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium 2.16
@Echopapa201@NEWDISSIDENTRW@PiraatBlud67 The Brand represents enduring the suffering, confronting seemingly inescapable fate, and choosing to keep fighting despite overwhelming despair. It's not as simple as being marked to get killed off by demons.
@Rusty459937@JayDyer@YouTube These Churches have an authentic doctrine, but it is static, petrified as it were. They remain faithful to the tradition of the first Christian millennium, but they reject later developments on the grounds that Catholics decided upon these developments without them.”
@Rusty459937@JayDyer@YouTube “Cardinal” Joseph Ratzinger, The Ratzinger Report, 1985, pp. 161-162: “Q. We have already referred indirectly to the Eastern Orthodox Churches. What are relations like with them? A. ‘Contacts with them are only superficially easier; in reality we are faced with grave problems.
@NoFriendOfWorld@JayDyer You are selectively appealing to the Bible against icons, but the very canon was established by the Church. If you reject the Church's authority, you have no coherent basis for treating the canon as authoritative while simultaneously rejecting the Church's teaching on icons. COPE
@ne172_@turambaru I disagree, King Peter I of Serbia wasn't absolute monarch yet he was greatest ruler we ever had. The country experienced major economic and state development.