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To: Alex Murphy; NYer; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; Frumanchu; HarleyD
"The Catholic Church, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote the Bible."

Anybody care to comment?

That's an absolutely true statement when all the term are properly interpreted in light of what the Bible teaches.

"for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1:21)

"God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; " (Heb. 1:1,2)

Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Peter, Paul, James, Luke, etc were all members of God's one holy covenant people (Catholic church).

The error, of course, is in believing the "catholic church" is limited to a particular sect with its headquarters in a certain Italian city.

39 posted on 12/18/2007 3:39:50 PM PST by topcat54 ("The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love.")
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To: topcat54

“Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Peter, Paul, James, Luke, etc were all members of God’s one holy covenant people (Catholic church).”

“From the time Jesus left earth (30 AD) until the second half of the second century (150 AD), there was a struggle between two factions. One was what one might call Pauline Christianity and the other Judeo-Christianity. It was only very slowly that... Pauline Christianity triumphed over Judeo-Christianity.”


40 posted on 12/18/2007 3:44:53 PM PST by Soliton (Freddie T is the one for me! (c))
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To: topcat54
Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Peter, Paul, James, Luke, etc were all members of God's one holy covenant people (Catholic church).

You will have to excuse some of us. We just presumed when the author of the article said,"The Catholic Church, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote the Bible" that he meant the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and not the God's one holy covenant people Catholic church.

The error, of course, is in believing the "catholic church" is limited to a particular sect with its headquarters in a certain Italian city.

The error would be the author's capitalization of "Catholic Church" if he meant to say "catholic church." Capitalizing it indicates that it is a denomination headquartered in Rome, and not the universal church (church catholic).

44 posted on 12/18/2007 5:00:16 PM PST by Between the Lines (I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations.)
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To: topcat54
a particular sect with its headquarters in a certain Italian city

Have you seen my pictures of Rome?

73 posted on 12/18/2007 11:23:15 PM PST by Gamecock (Aaron had what every megachurch pastor craves: a huge crowd, that gave freely, and lively worship.)
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