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To: Quester; conservonator
Protestants regard none of the differing opinions on the points you have mentioned as violations of our unity.

To what unity do you refer? You conveniently skipped conservonator's questions:

    Is baptism symbolic or efficacious? That is an essential. Is Christ present in communion? That is essential. Did Christ die for all men or some preordained men. That is essential.

Care to give a plain spoken answer to his questions?

124 posted on 04/01/2004 2:54:37 PM PST by Titanites (DN IHS CHS REX REGNANTIUM)
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To: Titanites; conservonator
To what unity do you refer?

To Protestant unity.

Protestants have as much a right to define the bases for their unity as Catholics do for theirs.

You conveniently skipped conservonator's questions:

I didn't conveniently skip conservonator's questions ... I purposely skipped them ... because they serve no purpose in advancing this discussion.

I will repeat ... by the definition of Protestants, ... per our study of scripture ... any difference of belief that Protestants have regarding the questions you have raised do not violate Protestant unity.

We do not throw anyone out of the Protestant church just because their belief regarding these matters are not identical.

I realize that such a thing is antithetical to the Catholic way ... but, that's, in part, why we are Protestants.

134 posted on 04/01/2004 8:59:00 PM PST by Quester (The mills of God may grind slowly, ... but they grind exceedingly fine.)
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