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To: adiaireton8

No, many miracles happened not found in Scripture, I just question why a big event such as the Assumption was never emphasized by John or any other Apostles. My whole point in this discussion. It took over 1900 years to be dogma, why so long?

Is a person damned to hell because one questions the Assumption?


1,209 posted on 04/22/2005 11:09:09 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: rollo tomasi

Is a person damned to hell because one questions the Assumption?

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NO!!! (frantically waving arms jumping up and down!!!)
Question by all means PLEASE Question. The Bereans were commended for their not accepting every doctrine as truth but QUESTIONING!!!


1,216 posted on 04/22/2005 11:35:15 AM PDT by BriarBey ("He Who Does Not Remember History Is Condemned To Repeat It")
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To: rollo tomasi
It took over 1900 years to be dogma, why so long?

Apparently because it was largely unknown.

Is a person damned to hell because one questions the Assumption?

The ground for believing a matter of faith is the authority of the source of the matter. If the Church states that something is infallibly true, to doubt it is to doubt the authority of the Church, and thus to doubt the ground for all the doctrines of the faith. The doctrines of the Church are not known in the way in which scientific truths are known, through evidence, experimentation, induction, abduction, verification, etc. They are known by believing in the authority (and hence trustworthiness) of their source.

-A8

1,219 posted on 04/22/2005 11:59:54 AM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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