"a martyr's damnation" is a senseless oxymoron, a contradiction of words.
This page alone - #782-800, has 18 posts, with 16 different topics. Generally, its about scriptural authority and interpretations etc. Wycliff is a standard anti-Catholic derailer, a favorite bat to beat Catholics with. Returning fire with reformers' atrocities and the discussion amounts to bar room brawl and a waste of time. Protestants today are not accountable for the bad things of centuries ago, but the Christian Taliban holds Catholics today accountable for every apparent sin ever committed over a 2000 year period.
Wycliff did not "pay with his life", he died of a stroke at the age of 64, while saying Mass. An English translation of the Bible was approved shortly after. But anti-Catholics do not want the truth. A stack of encyclopedias and scholarly references cannot change the way the anti-Catholic thinks. Wycliff is a rabbit hole anyway. This is a case where the froth flying from the rabid anti-Catholic's mouth gets in their eyes.
Solas 3, 4, 5 were borrowed from Catholic teaching, they are still there. They were not new scriptural insights.
If "faith alone" means faith formed in hope and charity, then it is a faith formed according to scripture. If "faith alone" is not formed with the other cardinal virtues, it is a man made tradition. Guess what definition the reformers chose.
"Bible alone theology" or sola scriptura is not found anywhere in scripture, and proven to be the most destructive principle to come out of the reformation. Even Luther had his regrets.
This page alone - #782-800, has 18 posts, with 16 different topics. Generally, its about scriptural authority and interpretations etc. Wycliff is a standard anti-Catholic derailer, a favorite bat to beat Catholics with. Returning fire with reformers' atrocities and the discussion amounts to bar room brawl and a waste of time. Protestants today are not accountable for the bad things of centuries ago, but the Christian Taliban holds Catholics today accountable for every apparent sin ever committed over a 2000 year period.
Wycliff did not "pay with his life", he died of a stroke at the age of 64, while saying Mass. An English translation of the Bible was approved shortly after. But anti-Catholics do not want the truth. A stack of encyclopedias and scholarly references cannot change the way the anti-Catholic thinks. Wycliff is a rabbit hole anyway. This is a case where the froth flying from the rabid anti-Catholic's mouth gets in their eyes.
Solas 3, 4, 5 were borrowed from Catholic teaching, they are still there. They were not new scriptural insights.
If "faith alone" means faith formed in hope and charity, then it is a faith formed according to scripture. If "faith alone" is not formed with the other cardinal virtues, it is a man made tradition. Guess what definition the reformers chose.
"Bible alone theology" or sola scriptura is not found anywhere in scripture, and proven to be the most destructive principle to come out of the reformation. Even Luther had his regrets.
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