[Salvavida]

Appreciate your thoughts, but the verses you cite are those supporting the very basic methodology of discipleship regarding "modeling" Christ in front of those being discipled. The manner is which you exegete a text if far different from orthodox Christianity. R. Zuck is a great resource for this if you want to know what the arguments are.

But thank you just the same.

[Salvation]

Catholicism is orthodox Christianity!

Where are you getting the information you seem to want to post?

Someone who hates Catholics?

A pamplet or two?

A comic book?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Hello Salvavida,

"The manner is which you exegete a text if far different from orthodox Christianity. "

Actually, the way I exegete the text is exactly the same as Orthodox Christianity. They are HUGE disciples of the Fathers of the Church from whom we have the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth-century Christian homilies, exegetical essays, polemical writings, liturgical norms, poetry, hymnody and so forth, which together with the decress of synods and councils, are "the" sources of "big-T Tradition".

So if you add the Catholics and the Orthodox together, you have roughly 60% of the Christians in today's world. Go back, say, 600 years ago, we were more like 98% of the Christians in the world. (And the other 2% weren't non-denoms, either, they were mostly the the non-Calcedonian Orthodox.)

Now that's the "Old-Time Religion."

(Guitar chords G Maj, C Maj, D Maj)
"It was good enough for Athanasius,
and it's good enough for me!"

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