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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Solitarius" data-source="post: 1519963" data-attributes="member: 22811"><p>If God's Church became so corrupt that new sects that teach novel doctrines entirely at variance with those that had been taught for the past 1500 years had to take its place, then Jesus Christ did not keep His solemn promise He made to S. Peter in the Gospel of S, Matthew 16:18. If this were so then one might as well become an infidel. Perhaps the Mahometans are right, the earlier Scriptures were corrupted & the Koran is the true word of God. The councils & writings of the Fathers & Doctors impart the Faith as it was given to the Apostles by Christ. Why should Mahomet be reviled by Protestants when their own heresiarchs did the same as he did, holding fast to those doctrines of the Church which pleased them & rejecting those that they didn't like? It was the Fathers of the Church that determined which books of the Holy Scriptures are to be considered inspired by God & inerrant. That brings one to another point; how can you trust the Bible? The Canon wasn't settled until hundreds of years after the Death & Resurrection of Christ. If the Church had become false & full of error (again contradicting the words of Christ Himself) in the 16th century, how can you be sure it didn't also err in earlier ages? Perhaps there are books that are inspired that no one knows of, & others now included in the canon that ought to be taken out. Luther certainly thought so. He called the Epistle of S. James an "epistle of straw" because it clearly refuted his pernicious doctrine of salvation by faith alone. The doctrine of private interpretation is pure lunacy, a delusion from the father of lies which is clearly refuted by S. Peter in his 2nd epistle 3:16. As for corruption, does the blessing of the bigamous marriage of the Elector of Hesse, or stirring up the peasants until they revolted & then telling the nobles to massacre them sound like the conduct of a man of God, a reformer of the Church? These crimes were nothing compared to the blasphemies he uttered, such as claiming that Our Lord Jesus Christ committed adultery with the woman at the well & with S. Mary Magdalene. This is a small sampling of his enormities. Calvin made God Himself a monster of cruelty by affirming that He makes some men to be damned, no matter what they do. This contradicts the entire 18th chapter of Ezechiel in the Old Testament & I Timothy2:4 in the New Testament among others. Not to mention that Calvin was branded for having engaged in unnatural vice in Noyon. These fellows resemble much more the locusts boiling forth from the bottomless pit written of in the book of the Apocalypse. They tormented men by infecting their souls with the poison of their abominable heresies. May all Protestants see the truth & renounce & abjure all heresy.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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