Okay. I can see your point here. There* can *be different interpretations of history.
But in the end, the facts are laid out for all to see.
What she said:thumbsup:
So we ask, is it a contingent, it “might” have been otherwise? But the whole of christianity is composed of contingent facts. In the abstract, everything “might” have been otherwise. Alas it was not and is not. If “if” was a fifth we could have a toast and thank God He is, and has been in control.
From the Burning Bush to Sinia, a virgin conceiving, water to wine, the cross, and His-appearence and Blessing and Breaking Bread, to Peter and Paul in Rome, Constantine an a empire won and lost, to Irenaeus the Gregories and Augustine, Catherine and Theresa to Bl John Paul II. All provide a narative stating and re-stating what it all means.
It could have been otherwise, but it wasn’t, and it isn’t. It is all contingent, which is to say it is all history, and the history of distinct people.
We take a Deep Breath and state…
I believe everything in the Word of God. be it written or handed down in Tradition, which the church either by a solemn judgment or by the ordinary and universal Magesterium. sets forth to be believed as Divinely Revealed.
I have no idea what we are talking about here. I haven’t re-read.
