reply to post by colbe
you shouldn't post from Catholic writings, the Catechism while you reject her, very hypocritical and confusing.
I was obliged to quote from Roman Catholic writings, because I was trying to remind you of the teachings of your own community on the subject, since
you were clearly forgetting what they were.
You love Paul, so do I. He said in Phil 2, with fear and trembling WORK out your salvation. Proof Salvation does not come only through the
death of Our Lord on the Cross.
The point is that the death of Christ on the Cross is the absolute MINIMUM for salvation, in Christian teaching.
If Christ had not died, nobody would ever have been able to save themselves.
The whole of Christianity agrees on that point, including the Catholic community, as I was demonstrating by quoting your own catechism and other
teachings.
That is what Paul is talking about, and that is what "human wisdom" is incapable of understanding.
In other words, the conflict in this chapter is between God and the world.
Can we focus on that conflict?
Those for God on one side- those against God on the other side.
You claim to love Paul. Let me point out that most of the first chapter of 1 Corinthians is a direct personal criticism of yourself- or it might as
well be.
He complains that the church-members in Corinth are obsessed with quarrelling about the differences between their groups. He indicates that this is
because they are not focussing on what really matters, namely the death of Christ on the Cross, which is what separates all of them from the
unbelievers.
Well, that’s you, isn’t it? Exactly!
You are obsessed with quarrelling and nit-picking about differences between Catholic and Protestant and apparently incapable of raising your sights
from the mud to contemplate the Cross, which is the essential mark of the Christian faith, the difference between Christian faith and unbelief, the
subject of this passage, and the subject of this thread.
You are behaving exactly like the stupid quarrelsome people in Corinth.
You’re even using one of the same slogans! (“I belong to Peter”, v12).
So there you are, an entire chapter in the New Testament devoted to trying to explain to Colbe where Colbe is going wrong!
Is there any chance that you can stop quarrelling with fellow-Christians, just once, and focus on the more important conflict between God and the
world?