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To: kawaii; Alamo-Girl
....there were no actual Christians for 1500 years but there was some sort of intangible church sans actual people....

show the unbroken church protected by the Holy Spirit Christ promised to send, which Scripture records arriving on Pentecost, from 33 AD to present.

Show the unbroken line of Christians practicing waiting to baptize until adulthood, show the ones reading scriptures, show the ones who felt the eucharist was just symbolic and would say so [to avoid persecution!], show the ones who justified wars as ‘Christian’.

kawaii, I find your arguments growing more and more odd, especially since, in an earlier post, you claimed to have been raised Presbyterian, only converting to Russian Orthodoxy later in your life.

Where are you coming up with the idea that all (or even many) Protestants believe this stuff? I don't know of any Presbyterian denominations who believe or teach these ideas (but then again, I don't get out much, so it might just be me). I can think of a number of Campbellite groups that might, but you weren't raised in their churches, so that hardly counts. You're attempting to hang all Protestantism for beliefs that (should) run counter to your own religious upbringing. I would hope that you'd at least give credit where credit is due, re the Presbyterians.

198 posted on 05/11/2007 11:44:53 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (FR Member Alex Murphy: Declared Anathema By The Council Of Trent)
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To: Alex Murphy

i claim to have been forced to attend a presbyterian parish. i was encouraged to ‘make up my own mind’ and ‘be baptised when i felt it was right’. meantime said presbyterian parish commited and continues to propagate foul heresies.


199 posted on 05/11/2007 11:49:12 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: Alex Murphy
I would hope that you'd at least give credit where credit is due, re the Presbyterians.

Well let's see they denied that one folks should confess their sins to eachother. They let a transvestie serve on the board of deacons, and his wife teach Sunday school, and called for Gay marriage.

Perhaps I'm not giving them enough credit indeed.
200 posted on 05/11/2007 11:51:41 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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