Its So Fluffy--Catholic responses to the Booklet: “Answers to my Catholic Friends” by Thomas F. Heinze part 3 A Catholic reply to Protestant “[mis]- Understandings” Part 3

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Catholic responses to the Booklet: “Answers to my Catholic Friends” by Thomas F. Heinze    part 3

It is at the end of these points where Thomas Pontificates: “that each of us must decide what he will do.”

Sin has three sources:

 1. The world we live in and it’s sinful influence;

 2. Our “flesh /Passions”; 

3. and the Devil.

 All three have a part in the lack of RIGHT understanding of the Bible.

1. Those around us “naturally” influence our way of thinking [or NOT thinking for ourselves]. 

Most of us are reluctant to “buck the popular trends”

 for fear of personal embarrassment

, stemming from a lack of understanding and faith in God.

2. Our passions; this time in the form of “Pride”  is one of Satan’s favorite and most utilized tools. 

“Knowing more than; or knowing better than” God, the Catholic Church,

 Every Pope and even History, as well as the Bible all  take a lesser place of significance to Protestant secular “logic”. 

 Our “right to our own opinion” often negates and exceeds the reality of the truth

3. The Devil is Real, active, cunning, duplicitous and

 builds on all three vehicles

 to aid God in blocking RIGHT understanding of the Bible.

 God with His motive and

 satan with his own reasons.

 “One’s right” of self interpretation; despite it being clearly denied in the bible itself, is ignored and denied.

2^nd. Peter 1: 16-21  “You will do well to pay attention to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. 

First of all you must understand this,

 that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, 

 because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man,

 but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.”

Matt.13:9-12 “He who has ears, let him hear." Then the disciples came and said to him, "

Why do you speak to them in parables?" And he answered them,

 "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven,

 but to them it has not been given.” 

 For to him who has will more be given,

 and he will have abundance

; but from him who has not,

 even what he has will be taken away. “

A Catholic reply to Protestant “[mis]- Understandings” Part 3