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Contra Stavrinides
by Frank Nelte
PART IV: THE USE OF HUMAN REASON
One major smoke-screen all the way through his presentation is the claim that we have in the past been against the use of human reasoning.
"The Church has ALWAYS reasoned."
To pick on someone who supposedly said something to the effect that ... "we shouldn't be using reasoning" is totally uncalled for. It is just a device to gain support for his ideas.
... is very artificial. It is intended to justify that his ENTIRE PRESENTATION is "below the line"! Dr. Stavrinides' claim:
"If we remain above the line, who could preach the gospel? We'd be committed to silence." (Tape #2)
... is not logical. For a start, we have about one thousand and five hundred pages of inspired text "ABOVE THE LINE". Secondly, his division is very artificial ... of course, we accept logical reasoning.
Dr. Stavrinides' ideas depend totally on reasoning "BELOW THE LINE" to the point of contradicting literally DOZENS of clear scriptures "ABOVE THE LINE". What he does is attach greater importance to what he reasons out "below the line" ... to the point where he uses things reasoned out "below the line" TO DO AWAY WITH clear scriptural statements "above the line".
THAT kind of carnal reasoning is not acceptable!
These premises all go back to the Catholic scholar Origen and through him back to the Greek philosopher Plato. Let's take a closer look at some of these premises.