Foudroyant, do you really need an official Catholic source that says that we don't pray to the saints the way we pray to God? That's something so obvious that a source beyond the universal assent of Catholic apologists is unnecessary.
If you're looking for a dogmatic proclamation about a specific Greek word, you're asking for something absurd: we're in the business of preaching Christ, not writing dictionaries, and the answer is so obvious in the first place that such a document shouldn't even be necessary. If using this one Greek word instead of another undermines the practice, why would we go out of our way to use that one Greek word instead of a more innocuous and accurate one?
At best, you're demanding that Tab prove a negative about something extraordinarily obscure. He's absolutely right that the burden of proof is on you. Produce your evidence, accuser.
If you're looking for a dogmatic proclamation about a specific Greek word, you're asking for something absurd: we're in the business of preaching Christ, not writing dictionaries, and the answer is so obvious in the first place that such a document shouldn't even be necessary. If using this one Greek word instead of another undermines the practice, why would we go out of our way to use that one Greek word instead of a more innocuous and accurate one?
At best, you're demanding that Tab prove a negative about something extraordinarily obscure. He's absolutely right that the burden of proof is on you. Produce your evidence, accuser.
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