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To: Free Vulcan

You wrote:

“The Alexandrian church from which the Copts evolved was one of the earliest founded, not long after Christ’s ascension.”

Evolved?

“Your ‘history’ is laughable as the ‘heretical’ split you talked about happened in 451, so how could they have started in the 5th and 6th centuries when they were already attending the councils centuries before that.”

The Coptic Church has been a distinct body - having chosen heresy and schism - since 451 when it refused to recognize Chalcedon. Before that time Coptic Chirstians were merely part of the Catholic Church. After that time, they were their own Church and in heresy and schism. Now, they have essentially abandoned the heresy, and they make no claim to the schism. Thus, the way to reunion is open as was admitted by Coptic leaders in the 1950s already.

“And the Latins have no authority to judge anyone as heretical either.”

The Catholic Church does. And it has.

“This has been the problem in Christianity for centuries once the Muslims finished conquering the Christian lands of Africa and the Middle East, is that the Roman church has always claimed supremacy simply because they were now the largest church.”

False. The Roman Church has led the Church since long before Islam arose.

“Nobody bought it, and nobody ever will.”

Actually everyone who was anyone of consequence acknowledged the primacy of the Roman Church for quite some time. This still happens sometimes today even among those who were taught not to believe in it. There’s even the noted episode where an Assyrian bishop researched the need for papal primacy in 2005 and later brought 3,000 of his parishioners into the Catholic Church with him in 2008: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/california_chaldeans_receive_3000_assyrian_christians_into_catholic_communion/

“All it serves is to stir up dissension among the Body, but the Latins won’t leave it alone.”

The TRUTH always divides those who seek it from those who don’t know it and don’t care for it. Study and pray more and you might learn the truth on this matter.


22 posted on 01/20/2013 9:45:55 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

BWAHAHAHAHA! Have you ever heard of Byzantium? They were the world power long after Rome fell and was a Byzantine vassal until the Holy Roman Empire came to be. The Orthodox church was the head church during that time.

Evolved yes. The Copts were formerly the Alexandrian church, along with Byzantium, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Rome. They weren’t called Roman Catholics or Latins either, but obviously the different churches ‘evolved’ into those distinct sects once Rome fell.

You also seem to forget the Orthodox-Latin split in the early part of last millenium. Are the Orthodox heretics too? There have been many church splits over the millenium, it’s not like the Protestants are the first. Your delusion that ‘the Catholic church has judged’ is more Latin delusion.

The Copts nor the Orthodox nor the Syriacs hold Rome as the head of the church. In fact in the original councils, if anything Byzantium was considered the head, but emphasis was always placed on the equality of each of the head churches.

Your ‘TRUTH’ is nothing but usual Latin headstrong arrogance wrapped in delusion. You are completely ignorant of church history.


24 posted on 01/20/2013 8:33:32 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! [You can vote Democrat when you're dead]...)
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