Oddbean

Interesting I didn’t know the Jewish part. This all, for me, destroyed solo scriptura. If the Church birthed the scriptures, then it can’t be solo scriptura. In fact the word is in some ways secondary. The Word became flesh. The very presence of God, now sacramental, is the fount of the Church. The Eucharist is the “source and summit” as JP the Great stated. So knowing the writers of the New Testament were either priests consecrating at mass or at least attending mass, it makes you look at John 6, and all the other Eucharistic passages, in a much clearer light. The Church is Christs continued presence on earth, the Incarnation continued in a way.

This is another reason I don't like calling Holy Scripture the 'Word of God' in that exact phraseology. Holy Scripture doesn't call itself the Word of God. Rather, it says the Son is the Word, and the Word became Flesh. The Holy Scriptures written by the Church are witness to the Author and Perfecter of the Faith, the Source and Summit of our Faith, the Word made Flesh, Jesus Christ Himself. We do worship the Word, which was with God, was God, and became flesh. We however do not worship Scripture, the witness of the Word.

Amen! We worship Christ, God the Son present physically, truly and sacramentally at the Mass. We are not a religion of “the book”. Christ and His Church come first. Scripture AND tradition. 🙏🏽

The Church didn’t birth the Scriptures. Vatican I, one of your own ecumenical councils, explicitly rejects this idea. Roman Catholics are so desperate that they slander their own religion just to lead more people to Satan ☠️

Sometimes it's not obvious why you bother with some of these people. They argue in bad-faith and seem to only be interested in capturing your time. They're either jews trying to lead others astray, get paid to cause confusion, or they're engaging in 'sports-team' Catholicism.

You’re right, it is 100% a psudeo-intellectual version of sports for them. It’s not about what’s true, it’s about how they can plausibly slander everyone else in a way that stupid people won’t notice. Then I, someone who went beyond the entry level polemic, come along and burst their bubble, hence the fun.

Sometimes it can be funny and entertaining. The ending is almost always the same and the patterns that lead up to the ending often follow the same trajectory though. It always seems to end with some version of: 'We're done here, good day, sir'.