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To: Dr. Thorne

If you’re not a Catholic what gives you the right to say anything about the Catholic Church? Criticize your own faith and clean it up.


48 posted on 12/02/2013 10:13:59 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet; Dr. Thorne

Is the Pope, Polish?

51 posted on 12/02/2013 11:19:47 PM PST by BlueDragon (o-wait. did i say that out loud?)
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To: NKP_Vet; Salvation; metmom; boatbums; caww; presently no screen name; smvoice; ...
Why are you, a non-Catholic, trying to tell us what the Magisterium does or doesn’t do? - Salvation

The same thing RCs are doing in trying to correct us. One could ask, what right did common Bereans have to examine the preaching of the apostles by Scripture?

If you’re not a Catholic what gives you the right to say anything about the Catholic Church? Criticize your own faith and clean it up. - NKP_Vet

We are not the ones promoting one elitist church despite it being a glass house that is overall liberal while throwing rocks at evangelicals.

While RCs presume they have the supreme authority to judge others, even though Scripture is not their supreme authority, we who hold it as such can engage in interpretation of what the magisterium says (which RCs also do) because God gave us the ability to do so, and the commission to reprove error, presuming we have repented of our personal sins.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. (Ephesians 5:11)

Moreover, your "how dare you presume to correct us" attitude is essentially the same line used by the Jews and Pharisees against those who dared reprove them Scripture, but the church did not begin under the premise that the magisterium had indisputable authority, but was established upon Scriptural substantition in word and in power.

62 posted on 12/03/2013 6:10:08 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: NKP_Vet; Dr. Thorne
If you’re not a Catholic what gives you the right to say anything about the Catholic Church? Criticize your own faith and clean it up.

As long as y'all claim to be the *One True Church* and that everyone who is baptized is by default, in reality a *Catholic* even though they don't know it, cause there ain't going to be anything but Catholics in heaven, then it IS *our*church as well and that gives us every right to criticize it.

When the Catholic church is perfect, get back to us about cleaning up our own churches.

Do you not see the irony in demanding of others the very thing that Catholics themselves are guilty of? (rhetorical question there)

64 posted on 12/03/2013 6:35:39 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: NKP_Vet

So, on that theory, I’d have to be a liberal to critique liberalism? Or a Mormon to critique Mormonism? Or a Wiccan to critique Wiccan belief? How would that even work? Wouldn’t there be a little problem with, say, objectivity?


88 posted on 12/03/2013 8:50:14 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: NKP_Vet
If you’re not a Catholic what gives you the right to say anything about the Catholic Church? Criticize your own faith and clean it up.

HMMMmmm...

It appears that your second statement is not obeying your first one.

101 posted on 12/03/2013 12:28:32 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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