To: adiaireton8; kawaii
I think what kawaii means to say...I think you are trying to put words in kawaii's mouth. Kawaii was not speaking esoterically about having a difference of opinion about what God said, but rather he is accusing protestants of worshipping a wholly different God, i.e., an idol of their own making.
I knew exactly what kawaii was saying and the sentiment that went with it. He does not believe that Protestants and Catholics worship the same God. Yet he does not seem to condemn the idea that Catholics and Muslims worship the same God. I know that they don't, but there appear to be a number of Catholics (and even Popes) who are woefully ignorant of that fact.
137 posted on
05/11/2007 9:07:24 AM PDT by
P-Marlowe
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To: P-Marlowe; kawaii
If kawaii wants to insist that Protestants worship a different being than do Catholics and Orthodoxy, instead of saying that the Protestant *concept* of God is different than the Orthodox concept of God, then so be it. I'm trying to inject some charity here. When we disagree about the *concept* of God, we don't have to jump to the conclusion that the other person is an idolator (i.e. worshipping some other being besides the one true God). We can grant that the other person is still worshippping the one true God, but with misconceptions about the nature of that one true God, or misconceptions about how the one true God should be worshipped, etc.
-A8
139 posted on
05/11/2007 9:14:44 AM PDT by
adiaireton8
("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
To: P-Marlowe; kawaii
I knew exactly what kawaii was saying and the sentiment that went with it. He does not believe that Protestants and Catholics worship the same God. Yet he does not seem to condemn the idea that Catholics and Muslims worship the same God.Knowing that they (Catholics) sing to the tune of another gospel, kawaii may know more about this than we assume...Seems his argument would be more with other Catholics, not us...
140 posted on
05/11/2007 9:19:09 AM PDT by
Iscool
(OK, I'm Back...Now what were your other two wishes???)
To: P-Marlowe
I think you are trying to put words in kawaii's mouth. Kawaii was not speaking esoterically about having a difference of opinion about what God said, but rather he is accusing protestants of worshipping a wholly different God, i.e., an idol of their own making.
Indeed. That or specifically Satan, through his influence on their perversion.
144 posted on
05/11/2007 9:31:59 AM PDT by
kawaii
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