The Seventh-day Adventist-Roman Catholic Dialogue

The Seventh-day Adventist-Roman Catholic Dialogue - Part 15
Stephen Korsman (Roman Catholic)

Hi !

It is clearly useless reasoning with you. You have taken many texts and twisted them to mean something they simply cannot mean. You refuse to debate the clear meaning of Matt 16:18 that states that Peter is the Rock on which the Church is built. Many times you have grossly misinterpreted what I say. After going back to check if I made ambiguous statements, all I can conclude is that you are deliberately twisting my words. I do not have the patience to go and rehash everything I say to make it crystal clear so that you cannot put words into my mouth as you are doing, especially in this last response.

If you can only twist or ignore the Bible verses I provide, and provide none of your own, then that is sad. Paul clearly gives a description of the heirarchical structure of the clergy, but as I noticed and pointed out last time, you are clearly willing to ignore certain texts if they don't fit your own personal world view.

As for second hand Bible study - that is EXACTLY how the Bible describes learning about the truth. The very fact that the Apostles gave sermons and preached, explaining the Bible to the hearers, shows that this method works. Naturally first hand Bible study is just as important, and I partake of that method too. However God has given us the gift of OTHER people's studies, and made them available to us, and I think it is wise to acknowledge the previous work done and benefit from that too. Your method of ignoring all other Bible study done in the past, and being your own interpreter of the Bible, has been proven to have disastrous consequences, visible in this dialogue too.

This dialogue is going nowhere, and I am quite sick of your twisting of my words and those of the Bible, so I am going to leave it here. And follow the biblical advise of Titus 3:10-11 and Luke 10:10-12, which give general instruction to Christians (not only clergy, as you falsely claim I said) as well as specific instruction to the circumstances described. Unless any follow-up arguments contain material of sufficient integrity (not the moral type, note) I will not continue this dialogue.

God bless,
Stephen
--
The owls are not what they seem
Stephen Korsman
skorsman@global.co.za
http://home.global.co.za/~skorsman/

Stephen Korsman is a Roman Catholic
John Mann is a Seventh-day Adventist