To: cva66snipe
No church is 100% right. None are, not one. Exactly. Churches (denominations) are comprised of fallible human beings. Catholic and protestant alike are run by fallible human beings.
In all Christian denominations -- Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, non-denominational, etc. -- there are saved believers and unsaved pretenders. Those of us in the body of Christ (all believers) should celebrate what we share in common (devotion to Christ) rather than argue about where we differ.
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69 posted on
06/28/2009 6:29:25 AM PDT by
alnick
To: alnick
Exactly. Churches (denominations) are comprised of fallible human beings. Catholic and protestant alike are run by fallible human beings.
We are all sinners, and no human being other than Our Lord and His Mother was without sin since the Fall. The Pope is also a sinner, just like the rest of us. We Catholics distinguish between the Pope's impeccability as a person -- they are ALL sinnes -- and his infallibility on doctrinal matters of the Church -- which has infallibility not by his own power, but by the protecting Holy Spirit, sent by Our Lord, which guides the Church's Magisterium to preserve and teach the Deposit of Faith in Scripture and Tradition. It is through the Holy Spirit that the Church Magisterium can be secured against hell ever prevailing against it, as Christ promised.
534 posted on
06/29/2009 12:37:28 AM PDT by
bdeaner
(The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))
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