If the Scripture interprets itself then why are there tens of thousands of denominations? Why don’t Protestants agree on Baptism and Holy Communion? Why do some Protestants say you must speak in tongues to be Baptised with the Holy Spirit and others who say that you must “accept Christ as your personal Savior” to receive the same Baptism? The point is, it is ok to question int
Roughly speaking, calling the sacrifice “perpetuated” is equivalent to calling it “once for all”.
If the Scripture interprets itself then why are there tens of thousands of denominations? Why don’t Protestants agree on Baptism and Holy Communion? Why do some Protestants say you must speak in tongues to be Baptised with the Holy Spirit and others who say that you must “accept Christ as your personal Savior” to receive the same Baptism? The point is, it is ok to question, if you are open to looking objectively at the Church who determined the Tradition of the Canon of Scripture you are using.
You shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet. The Roman Catholic Church does not teach that the pope is infallible, but rather that every ex cathedra statement made by the pope is infallible.
and I stated that I am willing to look at how Catholocism views it…
There have been popes who were downright evil men. Some kept mistresses. That is not prevented by the infallibilty. What is prevented is these evil popes teaching errors in faith and morals. These popes with mistresses never said it was ok for the pope to do that. Compair it to a secular king who might write it into law.
Gotcha. But what about the ex cathedra (is that right) proclomations he makes? Would his actions make those invalid, or do they still stand since he was elected as a successor of peter?
Of course we all matter. We are all different parts of the body. The priests are the ears - they can hear God. But hearing is no good without doing - some of us are hands that give and make and build, and others are feet that travel to different places, bringing God’s word to people who haven’t heard it before, etc. We are all different, and we are all important.
I agree 100%. Straight our of Corinthians. We just disagree on who the ears may be. But hey, I’ll take that.
Thank you for that very clear and simple explanation.
No more than the fact that a judge does something illegal would cause his rulings in court to become invalid.
No. First of all, there have only been a relative handfull of ex cathedra statements made. IN the nearly 2000 year history of the Church, there have been between 3 and a few thousand, depending on how you count them (not important). Next, if the Church limited any positions to saints, we would have vanished years ago from lack of leadership. If we were limited to only those who never sinned, the Church ended with Christ ascending into heaven.
So, does the rcc throw his pronouncements out?
You can write the Bishop a letter and formally reject the Catholic faith. The Church will note your defection. Theologically speaking, I don’t think you can un-become Catholic, because you can’t undo the ontological change from Baptism or Confirmation. You can be a really bad Catholic with your formal defection noted by the Bishop, but you will remain Catholic ad aeternum.
Exactly that is why I made this comment in my earlier post:
No, not as far as I’m aware.
Kinda like the Hotel California. When I became a Mason they tried to tell me the same thing. Once a Mason, always a Mason. Maybe they think so but it ain’t true because I control what organizations I belong to not the other way around. And no magic happens when one becomes Catholic.
I have heard this before, can you please tell me what are these ¨rules and regulations¨that made you feel so overburdened? If anything Catholics have less rules than their Protestant brothers and sisters. Can´t smoke, cant drink, women can´t wear pants, blah blah blah. Could you give me a list and how they so overburdened you? All I can think of is going to Confession twice a year? Is that a burden to you? Maybe its because I grew up as a Post Vatican II Catholic. But I just dont get this statement. Glad you happy in your new religion. But I have a personal relationship with Christ and I will never believe that he was a liar when he said you must eat my flesh and drink my blood. Nor do I believe that the very men who learned from the apostles and whose writings exist to this day, were liars when they talk about the Eucharist being the very body and blood of Jesus Christ. That my friend is a personal relationship.
It really isn’t worth discussing because it is not true.