Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Piper on Roman Catholic heresies

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/clarifying-my-words-about-roman-catholic-heresy

3 comments:

  1. I did not understand what Piper is trying to say.

    What do you think his point is?

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    1. I think he's trying to give a more nuanced definition of "heresy," and distinguish levels of culpability. That's fine, although I think he also errs on the side of excessive charity where Roman Catholicism is concerned.

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  2. Yeah, it seemed to me to be trying to affirm that some Roman Catholics don't know about a consistently applied denial of justification by faith alone (that that is official dogma, but average RCs don't consistently apply it - ); and that affirm other aspects of Christ's death- some kind of belief in some kind of atonement.

    But Dr. White pointed out lots of other issues that Roman Catholicism has, as we all know.

    I liked Piper's video about 2 minutes with the Pope and asking him to explain justification by faith alone, etc. that was clearer than his "clarification".

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