No, they're not "hunky dory" and no they are not now nor ever have been "church teaching". Nor is concubinage, sodomy, blackmail or slavery although these may have been practiced at certain times by certain people. These are scandals. Neither is it Church teaching when Bergoglio says "save the rain forests".
"Teaching" refers to the deposit of faith handed down from the Apostles.
“Teaching” refers to the deposit of faith handed down from the Apostles.
Not provable. There is no evidence any Apostle ever taught or believed half of Rome’s ideas.
Nor any other believer before 100 ad.
Lots of evidence the pagan religions of Greece and Roman Empire believed and practiced these things.
I know I’m a major gadfly.
So we’re in agreement then that it’s the teaching of the Apostles (who were taught by Jesus) and in the case of pre-Christ, the law and prophets that matters, yes?
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