What is dogma?
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Stumpmaster
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I think it is ideology expressed by some as beyond question, but I am not stating this dogmatically so go ahead and contradict me...if you dare.
How dare anyone contradict me about the meaning of dogma.
Dogma is “thee faith”
Short statements of the faith revealed by God thru Christ to the apostles!
do you believe dogma?
most people who claim the name of Christian believe 75 percent of dogma
But don’t even know it.
Short statements of the faith revealed by God thru Christ to the apostles!
do you believe dogma?
most people who claim the name of Christian believe 75 percent of dogma
But don’t even know it.
Stumpmaster
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dog·ma
(dôg′mə, dŏg′-)
n. pl. dog·mas or dog·ma·ta (-mə-tə)
1. A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a religion.
2. A principle or statement of ideas, or a group of such principles or statements, especially when considered to be authoritative or accepted uncritically: "Much education consists in the instilling of unfounded dogmas in place of a spirit of inquiry" (Bertrand Russell).
[Latin, from Greek, opinion, belief, from dokein, to seem, think; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Taste and see is the Biblical invitation.
Psa 34:8 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
If one relies solely on the dogmas of religion they are like the foolish Galatians and these verses apply:
Gal 3:1-2 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? (2) This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—
Dogmas, in the religious sense, are static beliefs about God that stand up against the inquiries and experiences of a living faith.
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Revelation isn't grace. Grace is the power to fulfill the revelation. We add faith into the revelation and wait on the Lord for His strength.
- God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things.
- God’s existence is not merely an object of natural rational knowledge, but also an object of supernatural faith.
- God’s Nature is incomprehensible to men.
- The blessed in Heaven posses an immediate intuitive knowledge of the Divine Essence.
- The Immediate Vision of God transcends the natural power of cognition of the human soul, and is therefore supernatural.
- The soul, for the Immediate Vision of God, requires the light of glory.
- God’s Essence is also incomprehensible to the blessed in Heaven.
- The Divine Attributes are really identical among themselves and with the Divine Essence.
- God is absolutely perfect.
- God is actually infinite in every perfection.
- God is absolutely simple.
- There is only One God.
- The One God is, in the ontological sense, The True God.
- God possesses an infinite power of cognition.
- God is absolute Veracity.
- God is absolutely faithful.
- God is absolute ontological Goodness in Himself and in relation to others.
- God is absolute Moral Goodness or Holiness.
- God is absolute Benignity.
- God is absolutely immutable.
- God is eternal.
- God is immense or absolutely immeasurable.
- God is everywhere present in created space.
- God’s knowledge is infinite.
- God knows all that is merely possible by the knowledge of simple intelligence (scientia simplicis intelligentiae).
- God knows all real things in the past, the present and the future (Scientia visionis).
- By knowledge of vision (scientia visionis) God also foresees the free acts of the rational creatures with infallible certainty.
- God’s Divine will is infinite.
- God loves Himself of necessity, but loves and wills the creation of extra-Divine things, on the other hand, with freedom.
- God is almighty.
- God is the Lord of the heavens and of the earth.
- God is infinitely just.
- God is infinitely merciful.
Dogma is subjective, so that, whichever religion or denomination establishes their own dogma, it is a set of incontestable doctrines and tenets of a specific faith, that are requisite to adhere to in order to belong to that specific religion.
Mariology and the office of the Papacy are dogma according to the Catholic faith, but not to the Protestant faith.
Sola Fide is dogma according to Evangelic theology, but not Catholic.
Consubstantiation is dogma according to Lutheran theology, but not Reformed.
etc....
I don’t know what you refer to in mariology?
There are no denominations only the one true church founded by Christ on Peter and the apostles and their successors Matt 16:18
There are no denominations only the one true church founded by Christ on Peter and the apostles and their successors Matt 16:18
Mariology are odious and heretical principles decreed by the Roman Catholic Church. Namely, her immaculate conception, her assumption into heaven, theotokos, her veneration, etc..
Christ did not establish his Church on Peter alone. All twelve apostles were equal in authority, and efficacy. The nefarious office of the Papacy has tried to substantiate their tyranny with this principle.
Lk 10:16
He who hears you hears me...
John 13:20
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
The prime minister hold the keys of the kingdom Matt 16:18 under the king and administers the kingdom in His person that is Peter
Yes, and He did not establish His authority in Rome, nor to a vicar of Christ, nor did God give any man infallibility via ex-cathedra, nor did He assume Mary into heaven. Nor did He ordain the intercession of the saints, transubstantiation, or Mary's immaculate conception, or indulgences, or the Crusades, ....
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