To: NYer
It simply is not appropriate to attribute moral culpability to those who belong to materially heretical or schismatic churches. Since this was a single paragraph after a discussion on protestants, are all of us God fearing, bible beleaving, Jesus following Christians who are NOT Catholic to surmise that the Roman Catholic church views us all as members of heretical churchs? i.e. is this sentence inclusive of ALL protestants? i.e. non-Roman catholic, non-Orthodox Christians?
5 posted on
01/29/2006 4:15:27 PM PST by
AgThorn
(Bush is my president, but he needs to protect our borders. FIRST, before any talk of "Amnesty.")
To: AgThorn
Since this was a single paragraph after a discussion on protestants, are all of us God fearing, bible beleaving, Jesus following Christians who are NOT Catholic to surmise that the Roman Catholic church views us all as members of heretical churchs? i.e. is this sentence inclusive of ALL protestants? i.e. non-Roman catholic, non-Orthodox Christians? I'll be your huckleberry.
Yes.
Think about it - in terms of the Catholic Church. In our view, all other denominations came after the formation of the Catholic church. Lutherans, Baptists, Presbys and Methodists were all born of movements and persons working years after the establishment of the Catholic Church.
The Bible, holidays and many of the beliefs of these various denominations all stem from Catholicism - and the differences of belief all stem from the ideological differences of individuals (Wesley, Calvin, Luther, etc.).
7 posted on
01/29/2006 4:49:03 PM PST by
AlaninSA
(It's one nation under God -- brought to you by the Knights of Columbus)
To: AgThorn
Since this was a single paragraph after a discussion on protestants, are all of us God fearing, bible beleaving, Jesus following Christians who are NOT Catholic to surmise that the Roman Catholic church views us all as members of heretical churchs? i.e. is this sentence inclusive of ALL protestants? i.e. non-Roman catholic, non-Orthodox Christians?That's exactly what they teach...And during the middle ages, if you refused to bow to the pope, you were murdered, burned at the stake, babies were killed in front of their mothers, etc...That is not a 'church' I care to belong to...
11 posted on
01/29/2006 6:27:28 PM PST by
Iscool
(Start your own revolution by voting for the candidates the media (and gov't) tells you cannot win.)
To: AgThorn
We Christians teach that only Catholics and Orthodox have/are Churches.
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