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To: vladimir998

The Church says there is one path, the Church. That self serving twaddle almost need not be refuted.

Christ said “Noone comes to the Father but through Me” But Protestants also worship G-d, and count on Christ for the redemption of sin, so they do come to the Father through Christ.

When priests sin, that properly reflects on the Church who trains and employs them. Judge a tree by its fruit. Get the beam out of your own eye before you try to remove the mote from anothers.


73 posted on 09/19/2010 7:49:46 AM PDT by donmeaker ("Get off my lawn." Clint Eastwood, Green Ford Torino)
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To: donmeaker

You wrote:

“The Church says there is one path, the Church.”

Actually the Church says the one path is Christ - and Christ sent the Church.

This is pointed out in different ways in the CCC, even in reference to prayer:

CCC 2664 There is no other way of Christian prayer than Christ. Whether our prayer is communal or personal, vocal or interior, it has access to the Father only if we pray “in the name” of Jesus. The sacred humanity of Jesus is therefore the way by which the Holy Spirit teaches us to pray to God our Father.

You might want to read this: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c2a2.htm#I

“That self serving twaddle almost need not be refuted.”

In other words, you can’t do it. The twaddle is yours and yours alone.

“When priests sin, that properly reflects on the Church who trains and employs them. Judge a tree by its fruit. Get the beam out of your own eye before you try to remove the mote from anothers.”

You judge a group by its founder and saints not just its sinners. I would much rather be judged by the fact that Christ is our founder while yours is...well, whoever it is. And quite frankly whatever abuses have existed in recent years in Catholic diocese have been found in Protestant sects again and again as well. I don’t judge Protestant sects by the fact that they have sinners. All groups have sinners. I do judge them by the fact that every last Protestant sect was founded by men, and none of them were founded by Christ.


77 posted on 09/19/2010 10:56:11 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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