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To: GoLightly; kawaii
We share the same foundation as you, but not the entire edifice.

Right. Like the Mormons you believe that already the first generation of Christians after the Apostles had fallen into complete apostasy and utter error, since you reject and deny the authority and teaching of the bishops (e.g. St. Ignatius, St. Polycarp) who were ordained by the Apostles. For you, the gates of hell prevailed in one generation. (The Mormons try to rescue their position by saying that the gates of hell didn't prevail because the Church was preserved during this time in North America, claiming that Christ came to North America and preached the gospel to the Native Americans.)

-A8

283 posted on 05/11/2007 4:18:48 PM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8
you believe that already the first generation of Christians after the Apostles had fallen into complete apostasy and utter error, since you reject and deny the authority and teaching of the bishops (e.g. St. Ignatius, St. Polycarp) who were ordained by the Apostles.

Complete & utter error? Quite a reach you're making there.

From "The Apocalypse Of Saint John": But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaites, which I also hate.

Know who he was or any of the particulars about his heresy?

For you, the gates of hell prevailed in one generation.

Wrong. For me to believe that, I'd have to accept your definition. Since I don't, She still prevails.

(The Mormons try to rescue their position by saying that the gates of hell didn't prevail because the Church was preserved during this time in North America, claiming that Christ came to North America and preached the gospel to the Native Americans.)

That's nice, but we don't make that claim.

284 posted on 05/11/2007 4:44:35 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: adiaireton8; GoLightly

im still waiting for the complete list of Christians with zero breaks.

Protestants like to think hundreds of years worth of folk were abandoned by the holy spirit and damned to hell.

that sounds like god right?!?!

or maybe it’s something else entirely that made up that premise


303 posted on 05/12/2007 3:22:01 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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