Posted on 02/25/2015 11:50:17 AM PST by NYer
You often start your comments by saying "Catholics think that ..." followed by things (such as the above) that we do not think. I do not think that "if [you] “just read” [you] would somehow capitulate".
No, I implied that if you read it and think about it then you might know what actually follows the words "Catholics think that ...
No one who thinks dead people are dead is a Christian.
So you didn’t think that “will help you understand in a more practical, human way the Catholic perspective” ey? Practical human way? You want a “practical human way”. I’ll take the way of the Holy Spirit understanding of God’s way thank you very much.
By RCC do you mean the 'Roman Catholic Church'? The term 'Roman Catholic Church' is not the proper name of the Catholic Church and it is not used by the Church herself. The proper name of the Catholic Church is simply the "Catholic Church".
To answer your question, the term "The Catholic Church" was adopted sometime in the First Century A.D.
The earliest recorded evidence of the use of the term "the catholic church" can be found in Saint Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the Christians in Smyrna in approximately AD 110.
It can also be found in the Nicene Creed which refers to the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church." As the Creed was formalized over a millenium before the reformation, the name was not attempting to address divisions which arose much later among the Churches.
Incidentally, other Christian churches have names such as "The United Methodist Church", "The Church of England" and there's also the Southern Baptist Convention. I don't think in any of these cases they are "detaching" themselves from the word Christian in how they identify themselves to the world.
Thanks Daniel. I had a real problem with that post. Thanks for your efforts.
I agree with you, but weirdly the vatican website has about 700 hits for the term "roman catholic church"... MOST of those hits seem to come from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Kasper's old stomping grounds.
They are fascinated with that guy...
Limbo. Provided the theory was true.
Limbo was a theory about what happened to unbaptized babies at death. The difficulty the theory attempted to resolve was that, not having committed any personal sin, they could not be damned, yet, being unbaptized, they could not enjoy the Beatific Vision.
No baptized person could go to Limbo because a baptized person in the state of mortal sin would be damned, and a baptized person in the state of grace would eventually enter Heaven.
That's because he seems to be the source material for much of what FRanti-Catholics believe about the Church. I find it endlessly fascinating that one can says the same things but not credit the original source.
No one who thinks God has a mother is a Christian...
Thanks again. 😄 I am not an expert computer savy person. I can only put those little things on here, using my IPhone 5. I can't do it using my Mac. I don't know why there is a difference.
Paul is really going to be disappointed as will millions of others.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
The earliest recorded evidence of the use of the term "the catholic church" can be found in Saint Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the Christians in Smyrna in approximately AD 110.
You own a used car lot as well??? Why do you guys always refer to Ignatius' forged writings??? And Catholic is not the same as catholic...
No one has ever made that claim...You're pretty quick and loose with the false accusations...Part of the job???
No doubt Catholics worship Mary out of ignorance...Your leaders tell you it isn't worship while it clearly is...Praying TO Mary is worship...
It's no different then the Mormons or JWs.
There are some cults here, that you could to that list.
Discuss the issues do not make it personal.
Gloom, despair and agony on me. Oh, never mind. You already know. 😄
Fascinated, is not the word I would use. Obsessed is more like it.
So you're an expert on the one who can't be named as well...Are you another priest???
The 'source' is not from this generation...The source is the history of the Catholic church and the words of God, the scriptures...In fact, for years Christians has been posting the sources of their information about the Catholic religion...Much of it comes from the Catholic religion...
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