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anything please, anything but the CC. that is the protestant religions professes. even the distortion of the Creed.**OMG, I cannot believe what answers I have seen on this post thus far. People who are saying capital “C”, and lower case “c” is simply utter nonsence and ignorance. There is one, ONE Catholic church, not two with upper and lower cases.
Furthermore I cannot believe the denial of these non-Catholics who inserted the word “Christian” church instead of Catholic like it was originally written.
Third, Jesus said “Universal” which was meant for his Catholic church, because, well, Catholic means Universal so why aren’t you in God’s Universal church?
I can see what Protestant pastors teach these people and what they learn from non-Catholics…pretty sad if you ask me.
“We believe in the Holy Catholic church, THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS”, I suppose you’ll tell me that the Communion of Saints means something else…oh boy…God help these people…
MDK, you are correct in what you say…**
why is universal? because she was commanded by our Lord to go and teach all men in all the earth. and that is what she does. and the CC is in every town, every state, and every country. that is why she is universal. despite of the opposition she still reigns.
our Lord said it therefore it is.
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Galatians 1:9, “As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone preach a Gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be Anathema.”**
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OneTrueCathApos
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Some of us even believe it is the logical location for the center of a reunited Church. I know that their current pope is up to the challenge of working for unity, and I hope it continues.
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grampben
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How characteristically modest of you
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wisdomseeker
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i am not talking about the sins of man. i am talking about the Church. the Church cannot stopping being the Church because people decided to leave. she remains intact and whole.
do you realize how many has left the Church since the beginning? i hope you do. but she is still here as she was 2000 years ago. despite of those who abandoned the faith, many more has come. you cannot deny in way the faithfullness of our Lord to His Church. the Church of the Covenant.
the Church does not depend on those who leaves to be the Church, she depends on the promise of Her Builder. Jesus our Lord. in way one can say that because i renounce the CC, she is no longer the CC. i hope you see my point.
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Galatians 1:9, “As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone preach a Gospel to you other than that which you have received, let him be Anathema.”**
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So, when you tell someone that certain behavior will make them seem like less of a jerk, that means you didn’t say they were a jerk now so that they would be less of one if they did what you recommended?
Is it any woner that Lutherans interpret Scripture passages in ways that conflict with other Scriptures and so the solution is to misinterpret the next passage to match, or just ignore it all together?
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LutheranDK
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Which is also nonsense. The RC church is the largest branch on the tree that is the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church
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mark_a
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Point accepted.
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MDK
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I’m in good company, then. From what you write, Christ made your ignore list as well. I will be with Christ and am not bothered by your igore-ance, but wish you would come around to the truth.
Folks, LutheranDK illustrates my point. Many Protestants don’t like the truth, so ignore those who promote it. They have also the bad habit of twisting God’s word to their own personal liking. As long as they can point back to the words in Scripture, they believe that they can twist them any way they desire. We need to continue to pray for them, along with praying for ourselves as well in God’s Church.
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mark_a
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Maybe your memory doesn’t go back as far as mine.
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mark_a
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Maybe your memory isn’t as old as mine. . .
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LutheranDK
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How awesome it would be for Christ’s Church Catholic to be one visibly, as well as spiritually!!
However, I don’t see that happening, because it would mean theological compromises, on very, VERY important issues, on all sides… No one is, nor should they, be willing to compromise on what they percieve as Truth.
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LutheranDK
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Huh?
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MDK
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Catholics go all the way back to the cross as the only Church. It was not the design of God to see other churches branch out with their false doctrine. Christ has to ask these people what is wrong with the doctrine given by Christ? What is wrong with the Sacraments given by Christ? Of course, we know nothing is wrong at all. It is good for all of us, as it was meant. False doctrine and watered down Sacraments won’t really help one as much, if at all.
In the hands of the HS, anything is possible. I hope you are wrong. I suspect you do, too.
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LutheranDK
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IndeedIn the hands of the HS, anything is possible. I hope you are wrong. I suspect you do, too.
Jon
As I said: Visible unity would ROCK! So of course, I’d love for the Church to be one. But I just don’t see it happening, because there are points of divergence theologically which are so important, indeed, so essential that compromise is out of the question.
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giggle,giggle…Oh darn it, and there was me thinking you started this thread for civil discussion of opinion!
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