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AgnosTheist
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More realistic and charitable than the Catholic’s.
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Sean_Boyle
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We are one Church, whether you like it or not. You are united to the Catholic Church by your christian faith, as separated brethen. Christ’s earthly presents is the Catholic Church. Being a christian unites you to the Church in that belief at least to a portion of it.
The simple equation goes like this, no Church equals no Christ. No Church equals no form of christianity.
Note the capital letters being used…
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BrianH
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Whether I like it or not?
I do notice your capitilization and have participated in discussions about that before.
The power of punctuation…
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Mannyfit75
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Do you believe as Catholics, that Mary is the Mother of God, a Perpetual Virgin, Immaculate Conceived without Sin, that Jesus was her only child?
Answe yes or no.
Do you believe that the Pope is the successor of St. Peter, which now Pope Benedict XVI as the universal head of all Christianity, whom Jesus appointed according to Matthew 16:18?
Do believe that baptism is necessary and it is more than symbolic meaning?
I care for the most part that Jesus Christ established One Church build upon Peter. We were not meant to be left as orphans. I don’t think the authority of the Church ended at the death of the last Apostle. It continued today through the bishops and Popes.
Of course, you differ your opinions on this. You are a Lutheran.
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Mannyfit75
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Explain yourself. I like details.
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Steadfast
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Christ is not divided.
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Mannyfit75
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Nope he isn’t. Protestant churches however are.
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BMSODM
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Catholic charity’s…Explain yourself. I like details.
Our members—a network of more than 1,700 Catholic Charities agencies and institutions nationwide—provide help and create hope for more than 7.8 million people of all faiths a year.
As one of the largest social service networks in the country, Catholic Charities agencies serve 4.1 million people living below the poverty line. That’s 1 in 10 people living in poverty. These agencies understand the consequences of poverty first-hand, and also know the solutions for helping individuals get on a path to self-sufficiency.
Feeding the Hungry
A warm meal or an extra bag of groceries to make ends are just some of the hunger-related services provided by Catholic Charities. In 2006, over 6.3 million people received food services—accounting for nearly half (47 percent) of the services provided by Catholic Charities nationwide.
In the last several years, nearly every Catholic Charities agency in the country providing emergency assistance has reported an increase in the demand for to help people meet their most basic needs—mortgage and rent assistance, utility assistance, food, clothing, medical supplies and prescription drug assistance, shelter, transportation, community information and referrals, and other services. In 2006, some 1,384,18,101 people received basic need services from their local Catholic Charities agencies.
By providing a safe and affordable child care, support for homebound seniors, employment training, health care, and other vital services, Catholic Charities work to build stronger communities. In 2006, some 3,618,993 people received community support services from their local Catholic Charities agencies.
Whether they are finding a loving home for a foster child or helping a person overcome substance abuse, Catholic Charities offer a wide variety of programs and services that help strengthen families. In 2006, some 1,093,339 people received family strengthening services by local Catholic Charities, including 468,844 who received counseling and mental health services.
Catholic Charities agencies are responding to an increasing demand, especially among families, for housing services. Whether it was housing counseling, help with home repair, rent or mortgage assistance, temporary shelter, or transitional housing, 474,999 people received some type of housing-related assistance in 2006.
Should I keep going or is this not the fruit you are looking for either…
Just one branch of the charity the catholic church performs
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Steadfast
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Please note that I said Protestants err when they divide over nonessentials, and “feelings” are non-essentials.
The real difference is over the insistence that the church is essentially an institution and the idea that it is essentially a community, a communion of saints.
It certainly is an institution, but the RCC errs when it emphasizes this over communion and it does exactly this when it castigates its separated brethren over their fragmentation.
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Steadfast
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Steadfast
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Protestants subscribe to the Apostles and Nicene creeds and are baptized with water in the triune name.
Are we not also part of His Body?
Are we not also part of His Body?
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Pixie_Dust
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Isn’t that what St Paul is talking about here? Exhorting them NOT to fragment?
Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment. (I Corinthians 1:10)
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Steadfast
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If you don’t know the difference between exhortation and uncharitable snarkiness, I am not sure I can help you.
Paul didn’t say, “we’re over here, you’re over there.” He encouraged Christion to stay on the same side.
This is vastly different than what “Apologists” of every variety usually end up doing.
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BMSODM
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Any Beleiver is a part of the Body, but we must remember a Believer is someone who obeys,The question is what part of the Body do you want to reside in?
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Pixie_Dust
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Not all protestants do, though. Some reject any form of creed and some baptize in the name of Jesus only. Is the Holy Spirit schizophrenic?
That’s not my call to make. God is the one who will separate the sheep from the goats.
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Steadfast
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If your answer is “Yes, Protestants are part of the Body of Christ” then don’t worry about the rest of it. It’s one thing to discuss differences and quite another to crow and bleat.
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Steadfast
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P_D, those who reject the Trinity have left the reservation.
Jesus Only modalism is also heterodox.
These people aren’t Protestant anymore than the Cathars were Catholic.
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mercygate
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My condolences! In my former denominaton (Episcopal), the novel addition of “experience” to the three-legged stool became the touch point for all the moral upheaval that has caused such degeneration. “My” *experience, “*my” spirituality, “my” sexuality.Probably some,
not a whole lot. Methodists do not seem to care about Catholics, they bash teleevangelists a lot…if anything
a dinner table, we have a buffet, but anyway
Yes we hold to scripture, tradition, experience, and reason.
Lately, I am hearing “experience” being touted among Catholics to advocate similar positions.
In Theology of the Body JP-2 approaches the human experience from the “personalist” position. Very different from idiopathic “experience”. 
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BMSODM
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Thats you choice, Free will is a funny thing. Its not a question of worrying, its about knowing the COMPLETE TRUTH. If you content with receiving just Milk(Partial Truth) then so be it, but I prefer the Meat.
Oh yeh… Arent we to Love God with ALL our MINDS?
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Steadfast
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My faith is that the Church belongs to Jesus, it’s His Body and He will guide it into all truth.
The Church is every believer everywhere and in every time.
I see no need to ridicule or deride others who belong to Him as well.
I believe my church to have the truest and surest expression of the faith once delivered to the saints, but I don’t suppose thereby that all others are not Christian and I certainly don’t presume to whack them over the head with every mistake they’ve ever made in order to aggrandize myself.
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