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Cafeteria Christianity (view source)
Revision as of 21:16, December 22, 2016
, 21:16, December 22, 2016→Proof texts: quote Eck at Diet of Worms to Luther, from Life of Luther, by Martin Luther
::"A text without a context is a pretext for a prooftext" <br>—<small>''Evangelical Protestant scholar Dr. Donald A. Carson, who attributed this saying to his father''.</small>
::"A text without a context is a pretext for a prooftext" <br>—<small>''Evangelical Protestant scholar Dr. Donald A. Carson, who attributed this saying to his father''.</small>
When cafeteria Christians are confronted with Bible verses that contradict the results of their prooftexting, they typically [[fallacy of invincible ignorance|ignore]] such Bible verses. If they do respond, they switch quickly from "The Word of God is the Word of God, and it says what it says" to "Yes, that's what it says, but what it means is ...."
When cafeteria Christians are confronted with Bible verses that contradict the results of their prooftexting, they typically [[fallacy of invincible ignorance|ignore]] such Bible verses. If they do respond, they switch quickly from "The Word of God is the Word of God, and it says what it says" to "Yes, that's what it says, but what it means is ...."
Conservative Christian historians and [[Christian apologetics|apologists]] are mindful of this statement from the year 1521:<blockquote>
"...there is no one of the heresies which have torn the bosom of the church, which has not derived its origin from the various interpretation of the Scripture. The Bible itself is the arsenal whence each innovator has drawn his deceptive arguments. It was with biblical texts that [[Pelagianism|Pelagius]] and [[Arius]] maintained their doctrines. Arius, for instance, found the negation of the eternity of the Word—an eternity which you admit, in this verse of the New Testament—''Joseph knew not his wife till she had brought forth her first-born son''; and he said, in the same way that you say, that this passage '''enchained''' him. When the fathers of the [[council of Constance]] condemned this proposition of [[John Huss]]—''The church of Jesus Christ is only the community of the elect'', they condemned an error; for the church, like a good mother, embraces within her arms all who bear the name of Christian, all who are called to enjoy the celestial beatitude."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/luther/lutherbyluther.html#secondnarrative|title=Life of Luther (Luther by Martin Luther)|author=Martin Luther|publisher=}}</ref>
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