Martin Luther famously pointed out during his trial in Worms, 1521, that this is not what Christian churches do:ChatGPT: deductive closure
Deductive closure refers to the principle that if a set of propositions (or beliefs) includes certain statements, then it must also include all the logical consequences of those statements. In other words, a set is deductively closed if, whenever a proposition can be logically inferred from the set, that proposition is also included in the set.
Formal Definition:
A set of propositions S is deductively closed if, for any proposition p, if S logically entails p (i.e., S⊢p), then p is in S.
Example:
If a person believes:
"All humans are mortal."
"Socrates is a human."
Then, by deductive closure, they must also believe: 3. "Socrates is mortal."
Importance:
In Epistemology: The idea of deductive closure is often discussed in relation to knowledge and belief. Some argue that if you know something, you must also know all its logical consequences, but this leads to problems like logical omniscience (humans don't always recognize all logical consequences of what they know).
In Formal Logic: Deductive closure is important in formal systems where all provable theorems must be included in the system.
Unlike Islamic doctrine, which is the deductive closure of the Quran, Christian doctrine has never been, and will never be, the deductive closure of the Bible. Christian doctrine consists of what its clergy has invented and will be inventing in the future. Christianity is literally a clerical invention. As Martin Luther pointed out, the resulting Christian doctrine is highly contradictory.Martin Luther: Unless I am convinced by Scripture and by plain reason and not by Popes and councils who have so often contradicted themselves, my conscience is captive to the word of God. To go against conscience is neither right nor safe. I cannot and I will not recant.
Christianity is not the axiomatization of the Bible.
Hence, Christianity is simply not the religion of the Bible.
Christianity is in fact not even the religion of Christ.
The true nature of Christianity revolves around the belief that you should viciously persecute anybody who refuses to believe in your glaring contradictions:
Look at what happens when you refuse to believe in their bullshit!Decet Romanum Pontificem
Nevertheless Martin himself—and it gives us grievous sorrow and perplexity to say this—the slave of a depraved mind, has scorned to revoke his errors within the prescribed interval and to send us word of such revocation, or to come to us himself; nay, like a stone of stumbling, he has feared not to write and preach worse things than before against us and this Holy See and the Catholic faith, and to lead others on to do the same.
He has now been declared a heretic; and so also others, whatever their authority and rank, who have cared nought of their own salvation but publicly and in all men’s eyes become followers of Martin’s pernicious and heretical sect, and given him openly and publicly their help, counsel and favour, encouraging him in their midst in his disobedience and obstinacy, or hindering the publication of our said missive: such men have incurred the punishments set out in that missive, and are to be treated rightfully as heretics and avoided by all faithful Christians, as the Apostle says (Titus iii. 10-11).
Our purpose is that such men should rightfully be ranked with Martin and other accursed heretics and excommunicates, and that even as they have ranged themselves with the obstinacy in sinning of the said Martin, they shall likewise share his punishments and his name, by bearing with them everywhere the title “Lutheran” and the punishments it incurs.
On all these we decree the sentences of excommunication, of anathema, of our perpetual condemnation and interdict; of privation of dignities, honours and property on them and their descendants, and of declared unfitness for such possessions; of the confiscation of their goods and of the crime of treason; and these and the other sentences, censures and punishments which are inflicted by canon law on heretics and are set out in our aforesaid missive, we decree to have fallen on all these men to their damnation.
We would make known to all the small store that Martin, his followers and the other rebels have set on God and his Church by their obstinate and shameless temerity. We would protect the herd from one infectious animal, lest its infection spread to the healthy ones. Hence we lay the following injunction on each and every patriarch, archbishop, bishop, on the prelates of patriarchal, metropolitan, cathedral and collegiate churches, and on the religious of every Order—even the mendicants—privileged or unprivileged, wherever they may be stationed: that in the strength of their vow of obedience and on pain of the sentence of excommunication, they shall, if so required in the execution of these presents, publicly announce and cause to be announced by others in their churches, that this same Martin and the rest are excommunicate, accursed, condemned, heretics, hardened, interdicted, deprived of possessions and incapable of owning them, and so listed in the enforcement of these presents.
No one whatsoever may infringe this our written decision, declaration, precept, injunction, assignation, will, decree; or rashly contravene it. Should anyone dare to attempt such a thing, let him know that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.
Written at St. Peter’s, Rome, on the 3rd January 1521, during the eighth year of our pontificate.
