At a meeting I had last night an issue came up, and so today I was reflecting upon the matter of regarding the central importance of the Word of God within the Catholic Church and how Christ has given the Church the task of interpreting and transmitting it within the proper historical context of its Sacred Tradition(*). So I cam up with these illustration (click on them to see them larger):
As countless intellectual converts from Protestantism to the Catholic Church(**) will tell you, the study of Church history is one of the greatest draws out of the confusion of Protestant denominationalism back to the Church when we discover that the Catholic Church(***) is the original Church.
*For example, it was the Sacred Tradition from which the bishops at the end of the 4th century drew from to know which books were generally used in the Early Church to choose the Old Testament Septuagint (46 books, not 39) and the New Testament.
**You didn't realize that there are a lot of Protestant and intellectuals and ministers becoming Catholic? That's because it's something that strongly anti-Catholic Protestant pastors don't like to address! Visit: www.chnetwork.org.
***The term "catholic" pertaining to a Church led by united bishops administering a common Eucharist literally thought to be the glorified flesh of Christ was already being taught by the disciples of the Apostles (see Ignatius of Antioch) clarifying the Apostolic teachings.
As countless intellectual converts from Protestantism to the Catholic Church(**) will tell you, the study of Church history is one of the greatest draws out of the confusion of Protestant denominationalism back to the Church when we discover that the Catholic Church(***) is the original Church.
*For example, it was the Sacred Tradition from which the bishops at the end of the 4th century drew from to know which books were generally used in the Early Church to choose the Old Testament Septuagint (46 books, not 39) and the New Testament.
**You didn't realize that there are a lot of Protestant and intellectuals and ministers becoming Catholic? That's because it's something that strongly anti-Catholic Protestant pastors don't like to address! Visit: www.chnetwork.org.
***The term "catholic" pertaining to a Church led by united bishops administering a common Eucharist literally thought to be the glorified flesh of Christ was already being taught by the disciples of the Apostles (see Ignatius of Antioch) clarifying the Apostolic teachings.