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To: Hermann the Cherusker

"The Catholic Church doesn't care a whit what it says or does not say in the Bible about attending Church. The Catholic Church KNOWS what Jesus and the Apostles left it in the Deposit of Faith, and this includes the obligation to attend Mass every week on Sunday"

The pharisees and Sadducees also cared not what the OT said about the right way to live depending instead on their Oral tradition and those written down in the Talmud.
Christ by using the actual old Testament exposed their follies.

By denying the ultimate authority of the Bible to expose the inevitable errors that creep in in every human run religious institution including Catholicism, Catholicism opened itself up to open scism as in the Reformation, and to the current sinful excesses that it suffers from today...but don't worry I'm not just describing Catholicism...the mainline Protestant churches are just as guilty and suffereing from their gross error as well.


442 posted on 06/28/2005 8:16:19 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Even when a dog discovers he is barking up a wrong tree, he can still take a leak on it!)
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To: mdmathis6

Where is there an infallible Table of Contents to assure me the books you believe constitute the Bible are actually the right books - no more and no less?

I'd hate to be missing out on some inspired words, or to include as inspired things that were not.

And also where does the Bible say attending Church weekly is wrong or not required? Christ confuted the Pharisees by pointing out how their rules nullified the commandments. The obligation to attend Mass weekly glorifies the Commandments to not "have strange gods before me" and "keep holy the sabbath day". It hardly confutes or nullifies these verses to require people to come to Church.

It amazes me that a suppsoedly Bible literate Protestant could make such a basic error of comparison.

Christ said "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition?" and "you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition."

But where does the Catholic Church void the 1st and 3rd Commandments by requiring we worship God in Church every Sunday? Is this not a manner of fulfilling the commandments, not voiding them?


451 posted on 06/28/2005 8:41:22 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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