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Posted on 01/03/2002 6:26:46 AM PST by cathway
This is why there are Protestants.
This is why there are Protestants.
Actually, most Protestants I know get REALLY MAD when Catholic art or a necklace depicts Christ crucified upon the cross.
Rome rarely, if ever, chastizes its Bishops. When the Church is failing, the man at the top has to take the responsibility.
AB
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Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. [IICor 5:16]
I don't get really mad (or mad at all, for that matter), it's just a doctrinal disagreement I suppose. This is why protestants are generally not big on statues/statuettes and the like.
The only way to get rid of an article is to hit the abuse button and ask one of the moderaters to pull it. They may or may not do so, depending on your reasons for asking, etc.
The forum has a page that lists the latests posts. Every time someone replies to an article it goes to the top of that list. Thus, when I replied, I bumped your article to the top of that list. This is why we use the the terms bump and bumping when we don't really have anything intelligent to say, but want others who take a look at that list to see this post.
Also, you will note that there are a couple names typed into the "to" box. By putting their names in there they will see this article when they do their self search, and if interested they will come read it. I keep a list of names for posters who at one point made the mistake of asking to be on my list, and I bump them to various articles.
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Why?
If one desires another Freeper to read the thread, then they include that Freeper's screen name in the "to:" column when they post the comment. This is usually called a "ping"
Good article by Hand. Thank you for posting it.
"truce" bump to my own ping list.
Lets work together defending the faith, cathway. My apologies for our differences on the other thread recently.
Sincerely,
--proud2brc
Rome rarely, if ever, chastizes its Bishops. When the Church is failing, the man at the top has to take the responsibility.
The irony here is that RCs often criticize Protestants for having thousands of denominations and differing doctrines, but the practical result of the current RC policy of no sanctions for erring bishops and priests is that every priest becomes pope to his congregation.
It's practical protestantism.
It's the form of "art" we disagree with, not the subject of the art.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image ...
The Real Presence of Jesus in the consecrated species then was allowed to fade more and more even as the presence of Christ in "the people" was said to have also been rediscovered, and a new emphasis on the "priesthood of all" believers was separated from its traditional theological Catholic context and extolled in almost Lutheran tones. Indeed many priests and theologians suggested more and more that it was the celebrating congregation which "does the eucharistic action" (Bernard Cooke, The Future of the Eucharist Paulist Press, 1997 p.32).IMO, the greatest danger to Catholicism is the tacit denegration of the Eucharist from being the life-giving, central sign of our faith (cf. 1Cor10:17) -- or, to use the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church at #1327, "the sum and summary of our faith" -- to being an empty symbol. Reforms such as the removal of the tabernacle from the center of the altar to a dark, lateral niche send the wrong message about the centrality of the Eucharist to the life of the Church.
I am the bread of life. Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.Just a thought.
I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.
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