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To: A.A. Cunningham
No, but I find the statement that the views of non-Catholic Christians are non-scriptural to be profoundly offensive.

The Roman Catholic Church did not write the Scriptures, no matter how much they like to teach you that they did.

73 posted on 08/18/2004 1:34:54 PM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: lugsoul
The Roman Catholic Church did not write the Scriptures, no matter how much they like to teach you that they did.

The Roman Catholic Church, under the guidance of the Paraclete, as promised by Christ Himself, determined the canon of the Bible in 405 Anno Domini. That is a fact, despite what the revisionists have taught you. Even Luther admitted that:

"We are obliged to yield many things to the Papists(sic) - that they possess the Word of God which we received from them, otherwise we should have known nothing at all about it."
Commentary on St. John, Chapter 16

Later reaffirmed by St. Augustine:

"I would put no faith in the Gospels unless the authority of the Catholic Church directed me to do so."
Contra Epistolam Manichaei, 5, 6.

The Church, not Scripture, established by Christ is as St. Paul wrote:

"But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." 1 Timothy 3:15

Additonally the Roman Catholic Church is the Church that Ignatius of Antioch wrote of in ~107 Anno Domini in his Letter to the Smyrnaeans:

"Where the bishop appears, there let the people be, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church."

90 posted on 08/18/2004 2:10:25 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: lugsoul
No, but I find the statement that the views of non-Catholic Christians are non-scriptural to be profoundly offensive

Well, you guys do have *some* Scriptural views like....uh,...the Trinity? And um....well, there might be one or two others, though I hear some of you guys aren't even big on the Trinity anymore.

The Roman Catholic Church did not write the Scriptures, no matter how much they like to teach you that they did.

Wow, what a great strawman!

107 posted on 08/18/2004 2:29:31 PM PDT by Conservative til I die (I'm pro-tax cut, pro-life, pro-war, pro-free trade, and pro-capitalism...but I'm really a Communist!)
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