User talk:Dunfermline Scholar

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Thanks for your note on Papal Authority. The article is better as a redirect. I think you should redirect the talk page as well: anyone interested can get "why" from the history.

On "what Catholics believe" (or perhaps "what Roman Catholics are supposed to believe") your version (rather than the one in the article) is the one I have always heard expressed, in particular when I went to find out a bit more before letting one of my children go to a Roman Catholic school. However I am sure you would agree the "counter arguments" are a bit more complicated. --BozMo talk 09:48, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. Since you raise your personal view I mention mine. For what its worth I don't have a good enough grasp of either argument to support them or not (although for pragmatic reasons I am an Anglican Catholic I suppose not a Roman one). The bits which are least transparent to me in both sides of the argument are to do with the convergent rather than absolute nature of language as a means of expressing truth. This is more problematic for the Biblical than the RC viewpoint, but not trivial for either. Also complicated it the bit concerning the nature and effect of the "other comforter" versus the church as the essential nature of faith. Most RCs I have met miss these bits as they are so implicitly embedded. --BozMo talk 17:38, 3 January 2008 (UTC)