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To: FreepinforTerri

First of all, please understand that I don't blast the Baptists and other low church types unless they blast us Catholic types first.

We believe that there can be one and only one baptism, anything beyond that is just dunking. It's a doctrinal disagreement. Nothing wrong with that. If one wanted to adopt the same hateful mindset of those that would say that gentle John Paul II is going to hell, one could say that additional baptisms mock the sacrament.

Likewise we say that the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist is the Transubstantiation of the bread and wine into Christ's Own Body and Blood. To have open communion, to send out little cups of grape juice instead of one bread, one cup, to deny the transubstantiation, all could be regarded as heretical behavior.

Again, I don't mind. I find Baptists to be enthusiastic, serious believers, and I think they are much needed members of the Body of Christ. I don't agree with certain individuals when they say the Pope is going to hell any more than I agree with Mel Gibson when he says his wife is going to hell (even though she is a saint) because she is an Episcopalian, as am I.

The point is we are all going to have to hang together now or we are most certainly going to hang separately, figuratively speaking, I hope.


438 posted on 04/14/2005 3:36:35 PM PDT by johnb838 (Santo Subito! Presto!)
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To: johnb838
I don't blast the Baptists and other low church types

Then you REALLY didn't mean to use THIS choice of words; right?

630 posted on 04/15/2005 6:07:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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