It is not unfair to say that he is a fundamentalist. In fact, this is the basic doctrine of Protestantism.
There are three parts of the classics recognized by the Catholic Church. In addition to the Bible, there are also Sacred Traditions, which are the interpretations of doctrines written by theologians of the church from the time of the Apostles. In the words of Zhongyuan Yiyi, it is similar to the "Three Biography of the Spring and Autumn Period". "The annotation results of ". In addition to this, the authoritative orders of the popes throughout the ages are the third part.
In the theory of Catholicism, these three are parallel and all have sacredness. However, Protestantism has put forward the principle of "Scripture alone" and does not recognize the exegetical achievements of the fathers of the past, nor the decrees of the church, but only the scriptures themselves. This is the so-called fundamental concept.
The biggest problem with this idea is that on the surface it only recognizes the original version of the scriptures, but in fact everyone knows that if a religion wants to operate normally, this content alone is definitely not enough. The Bible itself, very sparse in content, is certainly in need of derivative expansion.
Moreover, the original teachings in many places have various problems and must be constantly patched to make the theory self-consistent. These issues have even led to church divisions many times. In order to pursue the original teachings, all the answers and information obtained by generations of theologians who have studied, argued, and even used violence and war have been discarded. The consequences can be imagined.
Therefore, even if we deny the sanctity of exegetical works, we cannot deny the act of exegesis. The actual result is that exegesis and exegesis must be carried out again.
Without unified authority and fixed and strict procedures, the result is that not only do everyone continue to annotate the scriptures according to their own understanding, but without restraint, all kinds of random speculations have emerged. It is said that they are pursuing the original teachings, but in fact it is a chaos of demons, and no one can control anyone.
In the process of observing the operation of the church, Guo Kang could find that many times, the superficial phenomenon and the actual effect are completely opposite.
The Catholic church has a strict organization and has a strict review process for Bible interpretation to ensure that there are no problems before it is officially announced. It seems that this is a very conservative religious group. But in fact, the church attaches great importance to "advancing with the times" and often uses its power of interpretation to make constant adjustments to ensure that it can keep up with the times.
Not recognizing all existing classics other than the Bible may appear to be an anti-authoritative reform measure, but in fact it is a step backwards.
Therefore, we must be cautious when making reforms. Not all reforms are guaranteed to be successful, nor does it mean that all reforms are a good thing. Blindly attacking authority may not necessarily bring good results. This experience may not only apply to the religious field.
The emergence of Protestantism is probably inevitable in European history. As the times entered modern times, "rituals and music collapsed" in Catholic areas, and it was natural for this trend of thought to appear. Now, this trend is actually already happening.
Moreover, this trend of thought is widely spread around the world. Perhaps under their influence, the world of Tianfang Sect, which came into contact with this theory, also began to have a fundamentalist trend about two hundred years later.
The religious group of Tianfang Sect is more loose, and there is no core that can dominate the interpretation of scriptures and screen various theories. There are so many sects, and some of their teachings are more "deviant" than those of the Purple Horde Khanate: As part of the God-worshipping religion, the Purple Horde Khanate just doesn't recognize Moses, and they don't even recognize the "sealed prophet" of the Tianfang Sect. .
For example, the Alevi sect, one of the prominent schools in Asia Minor, mainly worships Ali. There are also some sects that simply believe that their leader is the sealed prophet, and that others, such as the Holy Prophet, are the pioneers of the king, not counting. Moreover, there are many such sects, found everywhere from India to Syria.
This loose situation may also make them vulnerable to the impact of fundamentalism. But having said that, it’s really hard to say who has caused more damage to the world, the original worshiping God sect or the original Tianfang sect…
However, just because it is bound to happen, does not mean that it must be accepted. On the contrary, Guo Kang can be sure that the Purple Horde Khanate will definitely not be able to accept this inevitable trend.
Because the Roman Church in the Purple Horde Khanate is itself the "Protestant" in the true sense.
The classic book currently used by the Roman Church is called the "Heavenly Father's True Sutra", which consists of three parts: the "Tao De Zhen Jing", the "Shang Shu Ancient Sutra" and the "Tian Brother's Salvation Sutra".
Among them, the Tao Te Ching was written by Patriarch Zhang with reference to Taoist classics and orthodox scriptures. "Shangshu Ancient Classics" is modeled on the format of the Confucian "Shangshu", adapting some of the "Old Testament" stories that they think can be retained, and then adding chapters from various sources from ancient Egypt to ancient Rome, and even some stories from the Central Plains. A combined collection of documents. The "Brother Tian's Book of Salvation" is compiled from the New Testament of the Bible and supplemented with a large number of Taoist theories. Even the concepts proposed in the "Taiping Jing" can be found in it...
This made Guo Kang suspect for a time that the Roman Church was created by Patriarch Zhang and others because they suffered a lot of blows in the Central Plains and in order to fully enjoy their addiction.
Later, when he learned more about it, he no longer doubted it - because he checked the information and found that Patriarch Zhang had proposed an idea that the distribution of the five patriarchal districts was too unreasonable, so he hoped to re-divide the Roman land into 36 districts. The Patriarchate, establish a more effective system to ensure the efficient operation of the church.
He had already proposed this idea as early as when the Purple Horde Khanate was still fighting against the local nobles in Bulgaria. When the Khan later took control of Dadu, he really began to try to implement it.
Since most of the old land of Rome was not yet in his hands, he also specially created a large number of "remote collar" titles. Judging from the documents, there were many senior priests at that time who had honorary titles such as "Patriarch of Africa" and "Judge of Gaul in the Mountains".
Later, probably because he felt embarrassed after dealing with other forces too much, his successor, Daochang Yin, hid these titles invented by his master.
So Guo Kang is very sure that it is indeed these Taoist priests who are doing this for fun...
Of course, this is not nonsense. After all, the organizational ability of early Taoists was really high, and their experience was of course very useful. But this also made the Purple Horde destined to be incompatible with the Protestant trend of thought - because it was too new.
Fundamentalists only recognize two books of the Bible and do not recognize other works; and the classics of the Roman Church are almost all new works written by themselves. Later, in order to be compatible with other Orthodox denominations, they began to recognize other classics. This is already a fight to the death level.
Guo Kang felt overwhelmed when he thought that he would inevitably have to fight enemies that kept popping up for this reason in the future. Of course, the Tuhuan group might actually be happier. In Rome, many people are probably worried about not having a fight...
(End of chapter)
