Abulafia
What?
I was mulling over random things in my deluded mind, when I picked up the titular Apocrypha, a collection of purportedly "Biblical" texts of dubious authenticity. These books were omitted from the Bible, due to being "heretical" or "disingenous". They were officialy omitted from the Bible, due to these claims. I then considered Papal Infallibility, the ruling of the Pope, allied by the Magisterium, on matters of faith, considered by Catholics to be "infallible". Papal Infallibility can only be applied to matters of "faith" or "morals" (the latter I believe to be a broad, subjective expanse for infallible say). The quoted verse to back up this gargantuan claim to despotic rule is:
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Consider (hypothetically):
Supose a/the book(s) of the Apocrypha were in reality, genuinely inspired and directed by God...an authentic text, by golly the canonical books have enough contradictions :yes:....that a few more discrepancies couldn't hurt, unless it competes with primary message, or such....
Secondly, the papal authority deems the Apocrypha to be untrue, with the full backing of the Pope and Magisterium, being infallible....
What happens now? Is the event erased in time, pulled down and throttled by a contradicted Omni-ridden God, a micrometer of time, reality expunged from the massive whole? Does this Papal decree undermine even time, rewritting zeitgeists and putting "genuine" prophets to the Bastille of Aeons?
This doesn't have to hold for just the Apocrypha, it can hold with genuine "miracles", and genuine "acts of God", the only thing that can chain God, is his acolytes....
Please.
I anticipate the atheistic response: That's why Papal infallibility is wrong, never was, a flaw of logic, kaput....yes, yes, we acknowledge the prejudices, please, instead point out flaws in my logic or somesuch....
Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven" (Matt. 18:18)
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"He who hears you hears me" (Luke 10:16)
Consider (hypothetically):
Supose a/the book(s) of the Apocrypha were in reality, genuinely inspired and directed by God...an authentic text, by golly the canonical books have enough contradictions :yes:....that a few more discrepancies couldn't hurt, unless it competes with primary message, or such....
Secondly, the papal authority deems the Apocrypha to be untrue, with the full backing of the Pope and Magisterium, being infallible....
What happens now? Is the event erased in time, pulled down and throttled by a contradicted Omni-ridden God, a micrometer of time, reality expunged from the massive whole? Does this Papal decree undermine even time, rewritting zeitgeists and putting "genuine" prophets to the Bastille of Aeons?
This doesn't have to hold for just the Apocrypha, it can hold with genuine "miracles", and genuine "acts of God", the only thing that can chain God, is his acolytes....
Please.
I anticipate the atheistic response: That's why Papal infallibility is wrong, never was, a flaw of logic, kaput....yes, yes, we acknowledge the prejudices, please, instead point out flaws in my logic or somesuch....