Ecumenical Dialogue

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De_Maria said:
I am. I am just highlighting this as proof that sola scriptura and right to private interpretation of Scripture, are false doctrines.
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Well, the evils of Sola Scriptura aren’t the topic of this thread. What we agree on and how we can support each other are the topics of this thread.
 
OriginalGabrielof12 said:
There is hope for discussions of reconciliation between the aforementioned groups, when the efforts they work to accomplish becomes threatened by outside political and present day culture attacks against their common faith practices.
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You seem to be saying that ecumenism is used in a similar way to a country seeking military allies. We come together to oppose a common foe. I feel that ecumenism is best served through love of all our neighbours, and through love of all our enemies. The greatest commandments.
 
Sometimes “love of neighbor” takes
the form of concerted action by various cooperating people, which the “neighbor” does not at first recognize as “love”, but hopefully does later on.

On a personal level, this could mean family members doing an intervention on a drug addict. On an international level, Christians came together in the 1940s and imposed certain basic human values on Germany.

Today many Catholics and Protestants are looking for allies in the struggle against abortion and other evils, perpetrated by organized, powerful opponents. It is not “love” to the abortionist when we show passivity.

Prudence, and love, lead us to shift ecumenical priorities away from denominations that are cooperating with evil, and realign with others.
 
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lanman87 said:
What we agree on and how we can support each other are the topics of this thread.
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Ok.
Well, the evils of Sola Scriptura aren’t the topic of this thread.
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You seem to agree that there are evils associated with Sola Scriptura. Do you also agree that these evils are part of the problem? How can we help each other if you won’t address these evils?

I’m being sincere here. I think these are a major part of the problem. But if this is still too impolite for this thread, just ignore it. I’ll move on.

Thanks.
 
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Today many Catholics and Protestants are looking for allies in the struggle against abortion and other evils, perpetrated by organized, powerful opponents. It is not “love” to the abortionist when we show passivity.
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Rather than campaign about the things we are against, I feel we should be putting more effort into promoting what we are for. A loving marriage between one man and one woman, before God and for life.

You mention abortion, but what about the twenty thousand children who die needlessly every day; as a result of grinding poverty, preventable disease and starvation. They don’t get a mention on threads like this. What about campaigning against war and gun ownership.

I feel our disunity is the biggest witness against ‘One God’’
 
De_Maria said:
You seem to agree that there are evils associated with Sola Scriptura. Do you also agree that these evils are part of the problem? How can we help each other if you won’t address these evils?
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I apologize, I was being facetious.
 
I live in the deep south and there are protestant rainbow churches all over the place here lol.
 
My experience is that it’s the rural areas that are more conservative. Large cities, southern or otherwise, are typically way more liberal and full of those rainbow churches you speak of. Which, BTW, you are kinder in your description of those places than I am. To me, they are nothing more than social gatherings where people glorify sin and try to understand it rather than conquer it.
 
Austin is a well-known liberal outpost in an extremely conservative state.
It’s not typical of the state or the South generally (other than certain other cities like Atlanta, Nashville, Huntsville etc)
 
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That surprises me, although I take your word for it. I would’ve suspected that San Antonio would have a high hispanic (and therefore majority Catholic) population, which would be against homosexuality. I guess that’s what I get for assuming.
 
Sadly, most of the Catholics in SA are nominal and/or liberal and either don’t know church teaching or they don’t care.
 
Lenten_ashes said:
San Antonio is even more gay than Austin.
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The sexual revolution started maybe fifty years ago, with the contraceptive pill. Marriage is gradually loosing its appeal, in the UK, when a child reaches fifteen years; about half of them are not living with both their biological parents.

Marriage for life between a loving man and woman; and before God should be our priority. Good marriages are at the heart of community.
 
I think it is a beneficial practice among Christians, to engage in beneficial ways. In Constructive way. In fact most sincere religious people share certain values. Where there is a time and place to debate differences as well as a completely seperate time to promote ideas of family and marriage, etc., as Christians.
 
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