[narses]

“You don’t take the CCC seriously?”

Of course I do, it is your many odd and goofy opinions about the teaching of the4 Church that I find laughable. BTW I note en passant that you do not mind grabbing passages of the CCC when you think (in error) that they prove your thesis, and yet when they are clear proof your rambling opinions about the Catholic belief is flat out wrong, you decline to look. Odd how that spiritual blindness thing works, eh?

[CynicalBear]

>> you do not mind grabbing passages of the CCC when you think (in error) that they prove your thesis, and yet when they are clear proof your rambling opinions about the Catholic belief is flat out wrong<<

Prove it.

[CynicalBear]

>>Of course I do, it is your many odd and goofy opinions about the teaching of the4 Church that I find laughable.<<

My opinions?

Just as the Old Testament is full of foreshadows of the New Testament (typology), Catholics believe the Bible is clear that the New Jerusalem of the Book of Revelation is not the historic city of Jerusalem. We do not believe that present day Israel is the same spiritual entity as the historic Israel before the time of Christ. After the crucifixion, the curtain of the Jewish sanctuary was torn in two (Mk 15:37-39, Lk 23:44-46, Mt 27:51) which was God tearing his cloths. At that point, a transfer of authority happened and we believe that the fledgling Church became the New Israel. [http://www.davidmacd.com/catholic/why_did_the_catholic_church_move_to_rome_from_jerusalem.htm]