To: SoothingDave; HarleyD
We're supposed to believe that every independent Baptist Church and every one of their pastors is "identical in belief and practice"?
Not at all. No more so than you are to believe every "Catholic" Church and every one of their pastors is "identical in belief and practice".
21 posted on
03/31/2004 2:44:42 PM PST by
OLD REGGIE
((I am a cult of one! UNITARJEWMIAN) Maybe a Biblical Unitarian?)
To: OLD REGGIE; drstevej
Not at all. No more so than you are to believe every "Catholic" Church and every one of their pastors is "identical in belief and practice". I'd agree with you. Most self-identifying Catholics are formal or material heretics in one way or another. I don't exempt myself. But we can know whether or not we hold heretical beliefs because the Church has a codified body of doctrine to which Catholics are obligated to assent.
A resource for the scholarly types: Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma
52 posted on
04/01/2004 7:45:54 AM PST by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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