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(First published in Evangelium, Vol. 3, Issue 1, July/August 2005)

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GRPL Friends

[netmilsmom]

I just don’t get why the Protestant FReepers who think that they are absolutely right in their faith, would be offended when Catholics think the same. I don’t want any leader of any denomination to let his faith in what he believes to be watered down.

I have to agree with the FReepers stating that we have a bigger enemy than each other. The Evil One is smiling at every one of these threads.

[FormerLib]

Does the American response indicate that Protestant America is more interested in religious toleration or a Christian united front than it once was?

I'd say it was more indicative of honoring the passing of a great man who allied himself with the United States in its battle against Communism.

[wmfights]

Peter (Petros) confesses that Jesus is the Christ, and Jesus responds that on this rock (petra) he will build his church. Most Protestants have insisted that Jesus the Christ is the rock on which the church is built. (Some argued that Peter as the confessor and believer in Christ stood for the faith of the church and in that sense was the rock.) Peter in his first epistle sees Jesus as the rock, calling Jesus the rock of offense (I Pet. 2:8).

424 Moved by the grace of the Holy Spirit and drawn by the Father, we believe in Jesus and confess: 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. On the rock of this faith confessed by St. Peter, Christ built his Church. From the RC Catechism.

It seems clear to me that any church that places ultimate authority in one man is not consistent with the structure of the church during the Apostolic era.

[twonie]

Check the papers for July 11. It was on the front page of two papers I saw: The catholic church has somehow declared all other denominations to be invalid, insufficient.