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To: Dr. Eckleburg
I have a friend who is an ex-Chatolic. He said that Church puts Christ 1st but so much 2cd that number Uno was nearly hidden.

I also am grateful: RC priests on Prager's Religion on the Line years ago always said yes to the question "Is Jesus God?"; I was never quit certain as to how a protestant would answer.

As anyone not a Jew is a Gentile; it seems any who claim to be a Christian who is not C is considered a P; even if they deny fundamentals of the Reformation.

The Bible is so clear that we are to kneel to none but Christ, and that Christ has already paid for our sins in total, once for all time.

Yes to the power of the lazy 8.

There is absolutely nothing for us to do but Phil 2:12-13; dare not a single soul who claims to be in Christ separate 13 from 12.

415 posted on 01/25/2007 5:49:49 PM PST by Dahlseide (TULIP)
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To: Dahlseide

"As anyone not a Jew is a Gentile; it seems any who claim to be a Christian who is not C is considered a P; even if they deny fundamentals of the Reformation."

It's a little bit more complicated than that. Catholics view any church that grew out or splintered off from the churches that separated from Rome in the Reformation as Protestant. So, for example, because the Quakers separated from the Puritans, who separated from the Anglicans, who separated from the Catholics, all three would be considered "Protestant" by the Catholics, even though the Quakers are not really protestant, and are really more mystics than anything else. Likewise, the Mormons, who agglomerated from adherents of other Christian sects, are Protestants in the Catholic view.

However, the Eastern Churches that separated from Rome before the Reformation: the Orthodox, the Monophysites and the Nestorians - these are not "Protestants" at all.

The Monophysites and Nestorians are simply heretical cults. The Orthodox are Catholics, in disunion with Rome.

From a Rome's eye view it's not so simple as "any Christian who isn't a Catholic is a Protestant". It would be fairer to say that any Western Christian who isn't a Catholic is a Protestant, because once the whole West was under the Patriarch of Rome.


422 posted on 01/25/2007 6:11:13 PM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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