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To: conservonator; lupie; OLD REGGIE; topcat54
First place after the Jews

That's not what the text says.

If the RCC intends for the text to read according to your interpretation, they will have to rewrite the text.

253 posted on 07/11/2007 1:22:42 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
From the Catechism: (again...)

The relationship of the Church with the Jewish People. When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People,326 "the first to hear the Word of God."327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews "belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ",328 "for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable."329

840 And when one considers the future, God's People of the Old Covenant and the new People of God tend towards similar goals: expectation of the coming (or the return) of the Messiah. But one awaits the return of the Messiah who died and rose from the dead and is recognized as Lord and Son of God; the other awaits the coming of a Messiah, whose features remain hidden till the end of time; and the latter waiting is accompanied by the drama of not knowing or of misunderstanding Christ Jesus.

Why do you insist on misrepresenting what the Church teaches? If what you believe the text to say it actually said, I would believe it since I'm a faithful Catholic, in fact I would be posting AMEN!!! to your assertions, but you're wrong, either out of ignorance or malice I have no idea, but suffice it to say, if you were correct in your interpretation of this issue, we would not be having this exchange.

257 posted on 07/11/2007 1:31:09 PM PDT by conservonator (Pray for those suffering)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; conservonator; lupie; topcat54
If the RCC intends for the text to read according to your interpretation, they will have to rewrite the text.

You are missing something:

There is no teaching of the RCC that is so clear it cannot be denied, interpreted, or reinterpreted as desired.

259 posted on 07/11/2007 1:32:37 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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