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1 posted on 06/21/2014 5:30:13 PM PDT by Renfield

I don’t know!

Please tell us.

2 posted on 06/21/2014 5:38:12 PM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")

As one half of a happy Catholic-Orthodox marriage, I can't help thinking of the split of the OC's and the RC's as a painful divorce situation. We were made to be together, and together we were for 1000 years. And then divorced for 1000 years. There is no theological reason for this scandalous divorce to continue (as I see it): it is displeasing to God, and bad for the whole world because ... well, here's why:

John 17:21
"That they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me."

Why doesn't the world believe that Jesus is the One sent by the Father? Because we are not one. We have had the Body of Christ torn apart for 1,000 years.

There have been offenses on both sides. I don't want to wrangle about "He did first" and "No, she did worst," like two ex's fighting. I just want the family together again in love.

"... so that the world may believe that You have sent me."

3 posted on 06/21/2014 5:43:26 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("I said, Pray (Pray!) Ah yeah, we pray! (Pray!) We got to pray just to make it today." MC Hammer)

Chrstianity was defined by Christ ... not Constantine at Nicea!

6 posted on 06/21/2014 8:18:59 PM PDT by teppe (... for my God ... for my Family ... for my Country ....)

The lead paragraph neglects to mention the Arian heresy which seriously divided the Church. The need for a council was because of the heresy. Pretty basic early Church history stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arius

7 posted on 06/22/2014 3:15:50 AM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)

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