What I mean by targetted is that, the only archive that I can see as connected to this blog is one that looks only at catholic beliefs in contrast to calvinism. The harshness I noticed when I looked back into some of the blogs with one user called 'catholicguy'. (I have since tried to go back and copy and paste from it, but couldn't find the blog again, do they 'expire' after a certain date?) I don't know much about either the catholic or calvinistic religion, but because of the obvious contrast, it makes me curious to find out what the opposite angle is on all this. The one article I have been reviewing specifically is the article on Sola Scriptura, the bible alone. One question that I have noted as being raised among the catholics on this issue is, where does it say that in the bible? One catholic put it to me this way, "To paraphrase Protestants, only those doctrines taught in the Bible are to be trusted for our theology. This statement is logically self-destructive! The simple fact is that (according to the protestant critieria) this statement cannot be trusted, because it is not taught in the Bible. The protestant view of the Bible is unbiblical!
Then the catholic likened it to the following examples:
"Another example of this error is the relative hedonist who says,"There are no moral absolutes," The hedonist is in logical trouble because that very statement is a moral absolute. He is saying it is a moral absolute that there are no moral absolutes. His system self-destructs. What he is really saying is "There are no moral absolutes...except for this one." The Protestant is in the exactly same logicaly invalid position as the hedonist. Nowhere does the Bible teach that Scripture is the sole authority for faith. Authoritative? Yes! Only scripture? No! The very concept is unbiblical. The Protestant is really saying, "Only doctrines explicitly grounded in the teaching of the Bible are ultimately trustworthy-except for this one."
What is your take on this I am extremely interested!
God bless!