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To: jo kus; annalex
If someone finds I have misrepresented the Catholic faith and is able to show that, I must humbly submit my obedience to this teaching.

Well, well. I guess we don't have "free will" after all. ;O)

This is precisely what I stated in post #5705:

While I wrote this tongue-in-cheek, it is a circular argument. I will agree there are certain core truths of the scripture. These can only be confirmed through the hard evidence of the scripture. All other teaching is suspect.
5,987 posted on 05/09/2006 4:52:08 AM PDT by HarleyD ("Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures" Luk 24:45)
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To: HarleyD
I guess we don't have "free will" after all. ;O)

My will remains free - it is my intellect that depends on the Church's teachings... I can freely disregard what my intellect tells me as true if I choose not to believe the Church. This explains why Protestants refuse to come home. The intellect tells them the Church is true, but the will refuses to believe it is so.

Regards

5,991 posted on 05/09/2006 6:00:03 AM PDT by jo kus (I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart...Psalm 119:32)
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To: HarleyD; jo kus

do you understand by now that the apostolic succession is quite simply, transmission of apostolic authority from bishop to bishop, starting with one of the Apostles, through the sacrament of the Holy Orders? The intellectual ability to preach is only loosely connected to it.


6,009 posted on 05/09/2006 2:20:32 PM PDT by annalex
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