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To: wmfights; wagglebee
affect your status in the RCC

I am not in any orders such as monks or priests. The only "status" I worry about is my salvation. Obedience to the teachings of the Church, big and small, is an element of that. Of course, obedience requires participation of a questioning mind, but it also requires a will to understand the mind of the Church. In other words, testing of the message of the Church for internal consistency -- against the Scripture as you do or more broadly in its entirety -- is a step toward sanctified life, but if it becomes a sport, then it is a stumbling block rather than a useful step.

2,625 posted on 12/21/2006 10:01:04 AM PST by annalex
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To: annalex
"...testing of the message of the Church for internal consistency -- against the Scripture as you do..."

What happens if, try as you might, you are convinced the church is wrong. In this case the apparitions that the RCC says are Mary. If you are convinced by Scripture that these apparitions are not Mary does your differing viewpoint affect your salvation?

2,642 posted on 12/21/2006 12:07:41 PM PST by wmfights (Romans 8:37-39)
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