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To: DouglasKC

Another post by the non-Christian cult The United Church of God

http://carm.org/ucog


55 posted on 04/15/2013 7:34:38 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: nonsporting
Matt Slick, blogger, Arbiter of who is or is not a cult or Christian?
64 posted on 04/15/2013 7:57:22 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: nonsporting
Another post by the non-Christian cult The United Church of God

Well..........you can call them what you want but at least they understand the problem....which is:

To support the idea of a three in one Godhead you must use terms not found in the Bible; You must rely on false scripture....based upon twisted interpretations that contradict extremely clear scriptures. Then....you have to create a convoluted theory that no one really understands....forcing its adherents to declare it a mystery!

Most ancient religions offered their own form of a multiple godhead and this influence was quickly picked up by the early church fathers (many of whom came out of paganism itself). Here's what the Catholic Church says about the situation:

"In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together…. The Vatican Council has explained the meaning to be attributed to the term mystery in theology. It lays down that a mystery is a truth which we are not merely incapable of discovering apart from Divine Revelation, but which, even when revealed, remains hidden by the veil of faith and enveloped, so to speak, by a kind of darkness" (Const., “De fide. cath.”, iv). (Joyce G.H. The Blessed Trinity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV Copyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton Company).

And...........

"In order to articulate the dogma of the Trinity, the Church had to develop its own terminology with the help of certain notions of philosophical origin: “substance,” “person,” or “hypostasis,” “relation” and so on." (Catechism of the Catholic Church. Imprimatur Potest +Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Doubleday, NY 1995, p. 74).

What does your church say about it?

65 posted on 04/15/2013 7:57:24 PM PDT by Diego1618 ( Put "Ron" on the rock!)
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To: nonsporting

CARM? Seriously?

LOL! - Like the Weekly World News. Or The Globe!

Is CARM available at the grocery check-out aisle?


66 posted on 04/15/2013 7:59:43 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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