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To: wideawake
A thoroughgoingly false statement.
Please. Are you going to tell me that, for example, the physical assumption of Mary can be inferred from the scriptures? Can you point me to a single tradition from the early Apostolic church that states it? Citations, please. How about papal infallibility? Are you aware that it resulted from a church dispute less than 1,000 years ago and that initially the papacy rejected it (until it was decided that it might be convenient on occasion)?

18 posted on 09/25/2003 10:38:35 AM PDT by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike
about papal infallibility? Are you aware that it resulted from a church dispute less than 1,000 years ago and that initially the papacy rejected it

"Roma locuta, Causa Finita"-

"Rome has Spoken, the Case is Closed"-

St. Augustine, Fourth Century A.D.

21 posted on 09/25/2003 10:47:05 AM PDT by Clintons a commie
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To: DallasMike
Please. Are you going to tell me that, for example, the physical assumption of Mary can be inferred from the scriptures?

It certainly can.

Can you point me to a single tradition from the early Apostolic church that states it?

It depends on how you wish to define "early Apostolic church."

The surest way to assess the beliefs of early Christians is their liturgical and devotional practice.

The Dormition is one of the oldest feasts of the Church and no one ever claimed to have physical relics of Our Lady - which many places certainly would have if they believed that she had been buried like a normal person.

How about papal infallibility?

There is a well established Scriptural argument for this teaching as well.

Are you aware that it resulted from a church dispute less than 1,000 years ago and that initially the papacy rejected it (until it was decided that it might be convenient on occasion)?

This is the most deceptive distortion of the history of this doctrine I have read recently. Congratulations, I guess.

27 posted on 09/25/2003 10:55:40 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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