[Catholicguy]

<> Amen, brother. I have never met a real Catholic who didn't believe in the real presence. Few of our brethren are acquainted with theolgy and doctrine per se, but that is not what we will be judged on.

I am trying to recall the great Saint and intellectual who was speaking about his own judgement and the praise others gave him for his intellect and knwoledge. He reminded them that his and their judgement would not be an examination of Doctrinal or theological knowledge

It is not what we know, it is what we do that matters. All the Heresiarchs were smart, and look where it got them. <>

[drstevej]

<>Few of our brethren are acquainted with theolgy and doctrine per se<>

Why?

<>It is not what we know, it is what we do that matters.<>

Are not right doctrine and right living connected?

"A right conception of God is basic not only to systematic theology but to practical Christian living as well. I believe there is scarcely an error in doctrine or a failure in applying Christian ethics that cannot be traced finally to imperfect and ignoble thoughts about God.

It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current today [1961] is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity ... The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved often of a thousand moral problems."

-- Dr A. W Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy