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To: Bainbridge

You wrote:

"I am earnestly waiting for a Roman Catholic to correct the poster who sarcastically referred to " that resurrection thing". Perhaps it could be you."

Why would a Catholic need to correct the poster who wrote that? Was it not a perfectly logical rejoinder? Yes, actually it was. The fact that it was sarcastic is unimportant since he was merely showing that the Protestant poster was sarcastic. After all, Christ said "body" and "blood". He didn't say "bread" and "wine" after they became His body and blood. So who was really be sarcastic here?

We don't deny the Resurrection, but you demand we apologize for sarcastically drawing someone's attention to it. You have a Protestant who denied a Christ founded sacrament, a miracle, a great gift where the Savior gives us His flesh and blood under the appearance of bread and wine and you're whining about what a Catholic said even though it in no way denied the Resurrection?

Protestants deny the Eucharist for the same reason they don't like the crucifix: they struggle with the Incarnation. Deep down many Protestants are little better than Docetians.


19 posted on 09/27/2006 4:57:11 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: vladimir998
No, it was not a perfectly logical rejoinder( in spite of your posing and then answering your own question, a rather unimaginative way of making headway in your argument.)A logical rejoinder might have had something to do with a Biblical defense of the belief that bread and wine actually change into something else at the "sacrifice of the mass " as is the topic of the thread.
That is, however, not what poster # 6 did. He stuck out his tongue and made a face.
Sort of like you yelling " Docetist " on your way out the door.
This sort of thing is not serious evangelism and only establishes a tone that I find is a very consistent aspect of the Roman Catholic posters.
22 posted on 09/27/2006 6:00:45 AM PDT by Bainbridge
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To: vladimir998
And, it ought be pointed out they reject the form of Worship Commanded by Jesus. Among other things, Jesus came to Teach man how to Worship God as God desires to be worshipped. God Himself, Jesus, showed and Commanded us to offer the Sacrifice of the New Covenant and to eat the New Covenant meal.

Sadly, protestant worship has nothing whatsoever to do with the New Covenant Commands. The Heresiarchs abandoned Sacrifice, they jettisoned the Eucharist, the foreswore Apostolic Succession, repudiated the Sacramental System etc etc etc.

Outside of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, which have preserved Apostolic Succession and the Eucharist, there are no other Churches. There are fine christian communites in varying levels of union with the Church Jesus established, but, they are not churches and their protestant worship services, while preserving some of the form, have abandoned the content. It was a revolution within a form. Quite radical. Quite fatal.

25 posted on 09/27/2006 6:12:12 AM PDT by bornacatholic
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To: vladimir998

Thank you friend! Spot on to what I intended!


63 posted on 09/27/2006 5:43:19 PM PDT by Americanchild (..and deliver us all from Islam! Amen!)
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