Relativism is the denial of an absolute truth by accepting the possibility that different truths can exist for different people dependant on what they believe. These former Protestants did not believe in relativism, hence their decision to leave Protestantism and join the Catholic Church. Scott Hahn is not still a Protestant, he is not still of the same belief that you are, he has denied that belief.
I dont know it all and in fact it is not necessary to know it all. As a Catholic I read scripture to gain a deeper understanding of the Truth-not to find the Truth.
Great I study because I love Gods word.
I suggest you consider praying the "Liturgy of the Hours’.Great I study because I love Gods word.
I don’t know, have you been baptised in the Trinitarian form?
Sure, as an infant and as a professing believer. Both churches were orthodox in their core beliefs.
Do that a lot.
I see that you have almost 19,000 postings. Do you spend much time on the Apologetics section of Catholic Answers?
Sister,
Because all visible churches know in part. Protestants don’t believe in baptismal regeneration; therefore, both infant baptism and the one done as a professor in Christ only point to the rebirth done by the Spirit of God. Water baptism to most Protestant is an outward sign of the inward reality done by the Spirit.
It does not acknowedge any such unity. It acknowledges that they accept portions of the whole truth. Hence, disunity.
So there are a bunch of different truths then?
If you were honest, there is much disunity in the Catholic Church. Can you honestly say that all Catholics who partake in the Eucharist agree that the elements change to the literal flesh and blood of Jesus Christ? I’ve followed the thread as Mary as the co-redemtrix with the conflicting views between Catholics.
Really? I think you need to study up on some other Protestant denominations.
And this is a pretty big, core, necessary, whatever you have it, belief on which we completely disagree with you. And that unity is where?
Show me. Don’t show me Catholics who claim to be Catholics who disagree with the Church. Show me an example of disunity within the dogmatic beliefs of the true Catholic Church.
Yes, all Catholics who are in agreement with the unbending and unchanging dogma of the Church believe this. Any Catholics who do not (and face it, if they don’t, they probably aren’t Catholic) are not really Catholic and are not in representation of the Church.
Mary as co-redemptrix is not a dogmatically defined and required belief. They have permission from the Church to accept it or not. There is not grounds for disunity on this issue b/c there is no dogmatic proclomation of it.
**Ahh, but you ARE misrepresenting his comments because you only place the snippet that you want to show. You know exactly what you’re doing but you pretend to play ignorant and hide behind a false sense of charity.