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To: JesusIsLord

Being Orthodox, I would in general terms agree that Rome comes up short in some areas. But Protestantism, especially of the low church Evangelical/Pentecostal/Dispensationalist variety, is just so deeply divorced from Apostolic Christianity that there is doctrinally very little commonality left. This is one of the reasons I eschew the Prot/Cath flame war threads.

It’s reached the point where they aren’t talking to each other anymore. They aren’t even debating. They are just posting, over and over again, the same (often shallow) recourse to this or that Scriptural verse or Church Father with no real hope of doing anything other than not looking theologically defenseless.

In other words they are just talking past each other and I really am not interested in that. To have a constructive debate you need to have enough in common to be able to agree on the basic ground rules, or authority in this case. Because that doesn’t exist a serious debate between Christians of the (small ‘c’) catholic tradition and the neo-Protestants (as opposed to the old liturgical and credal variety) is all but impossible.


6 posted on 03/02/2015 3:54:38 PM PST by NRx
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To: NRx

And yet here you are, day after day, Never being able to defend with scripture.


7 posted on 03/02/2015 3:57:52 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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