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To: RoadTest

You are seriously implying that no one on this thread has shown Scriptural references for Purgatory? Or are you syaing because it's not named as such, that it cannot be? If that is so, then there can be no Trinity nor any Incarnation.

As far as God being impressed with anything, I will not say what He is or is not impressed with, but I imagine He knew what He was doing when He founded His Church. A Church you accuse of being a "web of lies." An accusation you have not shown a single shred of proof of.

As for the narrow path, Christ instituted the Church, you accuse Him of abandoning it. I would not want to be in yoour shoes FRiend.


211 posted on 03/09/2006 3:58:40 PM PST by Romish_Papist (St. Jude, pray for my lost cause. St. Rita, pray for my impossible situation.)
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To: Romish_Papist

Well we all have our beliefs. You think your church is the only right one - and many would disagree. I don't remember that Christ was a Christian - that church was started by people - Christ had plenty of time to start a specific religion if he wanted to...


212 posted on 03/09/2006 4:12:47 PM PST by The Worthless Miracle ("Better put some ice on that")
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To: Romish_Papist

The Sunday Christian service, as opposed to the Saturday Sabbath, is also not in the Bible.

Indeed, Saturday Sabbath is one of the TEN COMMANDMENTS!
There's nothing in the Bible that says to move the Sabbath to Sunday.
But that's when almost all Christians celebrate.
Almost no Christians honor the Biblical Sabbath day and keep it holy. Almost all Christians disregard that Commandment of the 10 Commandments, and the hundred or more times the Sabbath is stressed in the Bible.

There's no BIBLICAL authority to stop celebrating the Saturday Sabbath, and no BIBLICAL authority, at all, for Christian worship on Sunday. That's pure Catholic tradition.

You should add that to your list.

Also, the Bible DOES say, explicitly, from the mouth of Jesus no less, NO DIVORCE. Do most Christian denominations follow that EXPLICIT rule?


213 posted on 03/09/2006 4:14:14 PM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: Romish_Papist

"As far as God being impressed with anything, I will not say what He is or is not impressed with, but I imagine He knew what He was doing when He founded His Church"

Yup. But it's not the Catholic Church. It's the body of Christ, all true believers who come directly to the Father by Him, not by a priest or Pope. Jesus NEVER taught those things! There were no priests or popes in the apostolic churches.


252 posted on 03/10/2006 7:54:59 AM PST by RoadTest ("- - a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people." - Richard Henry Lee, 1786)
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