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To: adiaireton8
think that the Catholic position is that we are learning, *deepening* our understanding of the deposit of faith

Individually, we do grow, I would agree. Doctrines do develop, but it is, as you say, 'deeper' rather than new knowledge; deeper understanding of the same belief, of the same teaching; change without change (I like the way you ut it).

A true Church can only 'discover' more of what it already knows.

The process of deepening our faith will continue, no doubt, in the life to come, indefinitely, for God is infinite and eternal.

15,101 posted on 05/23/2007 11:05:38 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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15,119 posted on 05/24/2007 7:57:17 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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