Posted on 07/12/2008 7:29:56 AM PDT by kellynla
You asked, “Correct me if I’m wrong, but as a protestant you don’t believe in the Catholic doctrine of Original Sin anyway, right?”
“Original Sin” is a biblical doctrine, not a “Catholic” one. Of course, as a Christian, I understand that all offspring of Adam are born under The Curse of sin. We are all from birth bent, in need of a Savior, including Mary. She was the mother of our Savior, but was from birth as needy of a Savior as any of us.
So, yes, you are wrong in your understanding of what Evangelicals believe about original sin.
Again, I thank God for having the patience to reform His Church, for bringing appropriate discipline at the appropriate time. May Christ increase and Mary decrease. I’m pretty sure she’d agree on that one, were she able to tear her eyes off of the Holy One and open her ears to humanity. Which, of course, she cannot, as she is dead and her spirit is consumed with the Lord at present; all those rosary prayers sent to her are therefore of no worth.
Seriously, Rome has done a lot of good (Theology of the Body, for example, is very strong), but some of the doctrines it propagated and which now it propagates are just so indefensibly unbiblical.
mockingly?
Gosh, I guess there's so many mockers 'round these parts, it's hard to get in a sincere word edgewise... :o/
I apologize.
I've been out today and will be out much of tomorrow, too. Will try to read that article when I come back. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
And have a good weekend, marajade!
Yes, there were apologies made to Galileo in 1992 and again in 2000, when Pope John Paul made a point of publically lamenting all the historical wrongs committed by "children of the Church" in its 2000 year history. But that was a formalization of a regret that was voiced centuries before.
Even after Galileo's first trial (1616) Riceloll and other contemporaries of Galileo were well aware --- and were permitted to declare without hindrance --- that neither the pope nor any Church agency had made an anti-Copernican definition of doctrine (in other words, the heliocentric theory per se was not regarded as heretical.)
Caught up in a whirlwind of academic rivalries and church factions, a weak pope (Urban VIII) nevertheless permitted a verdict that Galileo was "vehemently suspected" of heresy. (A stupid and unjust ruling, very much the product of academic rivalries and clerical factions.) The result was that Galileo was put under "house arrest" and permitted to stay in the houses of friends, always comfortable and usually luxurious. Galileo continued both his work and his correspondance, enjoying both popularity and notoriety, and eventually Urban VIII sent Galileo his special blessing, a reconciliation of the two old men. When he passed away just before his 80 birthday, Galileo was interred not only in consecrated ground, but within the church of Santa Croce at Florence.
Not exactly canonization, but neither did it take 400 years for the Church to say "Sorry."
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