Just One

The Problem of Circular Authority and Trusting the Canon

Now, if you're in the scriptures, you're arguing in circles. You don't know if they're scriptures if the people who tell you they're scriptures are untrustworthy. Now, those same people also give traditions saying the apostles taught special things about marriage.

If you impeach those witnesses and say, those church fighters don't know what the heck they're talking about, you have no way of knowing that they're giving you a Bible you can trust. Athanasius gave me the same canon of New Testament I have.

Demanding One Clear Patristic Example

Show me one place where you're taught about Assumption of Marriage or Queenly Coronation. How about in the councils? Hippo, Carthage, I don't want Mr. White. You're making the assertion that they taught these same things and I'm undercutting my own self.

They didn't teach me the same things. I don't have to demonstrate that every single church father taught every single thing. How about just one of them?