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To: Mad Dawg
unity of teaching would be nice

Yes, it would be nice, but the wheat and tares parable I mentioned says otherwise. Christianity will continue in its present state of wheat coexisting with the tares, until the harvest at the end of the age (aion), when the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, "...there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

37 posted on 09/23/2015 8:55:21 AM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas
So again it sort of comes back to the Ephesians and Corinthians passages about charisms, especially pertaining to teachers.

As a Catholic lay-d00d, albeit a Dominican, certainly I have experienced the tares in, ah, sheep's (or shepherd's) clothing, if you follow me. I sat agape as the deacon teaching RCIA gave a chunk o' instruction that had been specifically repudiated by J2P2 a few years prior. It was a safe bet that the deacon had not read Veritatis Splendor and probably wouldn't have cared if he had.

What he said was all tarted up in offishul sounding lingo, but the discerning (or half-awake) listener knew it came down to, "It doesn't matter what you do as long as you're sincere." But hark! I hear sweet nausea calling ....

39 posted on 09/23/2015 9:34:51 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico.)
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