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Pope's comments irrelevant to non-Catholics (CNN Opine)
CNN ^ | By Roland S. Martin

Posted on 07/14/2007 12:22:58 PM PDT by franky1

(CNN) -- Non-Catholics who are up in arms of the proclamation by Pope Benedict XVI that the only true church in the world is that of Catholicism shouldn't even bother getting upset. Just chalk it up to an old man trying to get a little attention.

For him to even suggest that only the Catholic Church can provide true salvation to believers in Christ shows that he is wholly ignorant of the Scriptures that I have known all my life.

Sorry, let me take that back. I've really only known the Bible for the last 13 of my 38 years. That's because those first 25 years were spent as a die-hard Catholic.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Ecumenism
KEYWORDS: benedict; catholic; catholicfanatic; popebenedict; poperatzinger; vatican
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To: netmilsmom

I didn’t mean they didn’t know Scripture, but just that there is lots of Scriptural foundation for the Church, for Peter and his successors, and for an organized deposit of faith that is to be protected and handed on through the Church, which opens the way to salvation by continuing Christ’s saving work (not to mention, of course, the Eucharist).

But there’s no foundation whatsoever for the principal of independent decisions on what part of Christ’s message appeals to you and what doesn’t, which is the essence of any type of Protestantism (and thus also precisely the reason there are so many different types of Protestantism!).


21 posted on 07/14/2007 3:13:34 PM PDT by livius
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To: Suzy Quzy

As I posted on another site. I don’t understand how many non Catholic Churches close down during the summer. I always felt that they were part time beliefs.


22 posted on 07/14/2007 3:16:40 PM PDT by franky1
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To: GoLightly

Show me a Bibical foundation for “every man his own Pope” and I might grant you that. But there is absolutely no foundation for the basis of all forms of Protestantism, which is that each individual has to build his own “church” based on hints that he believes he has found in Scripture. On the other hand, there’s lots and lots of evidence that Christ founded the Church to keep his teaching pure and unified and not subject to individual whims or situations, as well as to transmit this ongoing contact with him through the Sacraments (which can only be authentically dispensed through the Church as traced back to the Apostles).

Every bishop when he is consecrated receives his “episcopal pedigree,” which is a statement that he was consecrated by Bishop A, who was consecrated by Bishop B, who was consecrated by Bishop C, etc. The records were destroyed in the 16th century when the French (I believe it was) burned the Vatican, but theoretically the records of a bishop should go back to the Apostle who was the one from whom that line of bishops comes. I believe some of the Eastern Churches have at least some idea of who the Apostle from whom some of their bishops are descended. And that goes right back to the Gospel and Epistle accounts themselves.


23 posted on 07/14/2007 3:23:26 PM PDT by livius
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To: franky1

“Non-Catholics who are up in arms of the proclamation by Pope Benedict XVI that the only true church in the world is that of Catholicism shouldn’t even bother getting upset.”

All religions should claim that their teaching is the only truth available for salvation and should pray for members of the other religions for their conversion. If one is not totally convinced that his/her religion is the only one to possess the fullness of truth he/she has the obligation to look for it elsewhere. Remember that in matters of religion there is no gray - it’s either truth or falsehood. In matters of religion one can only deal with moral absolutes.


24 posted on 07/14/2007 3:24:29 PM PDT by 353FMG (America, first, last and always.)
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To: franky1
Gee, my approach to assessing people I consider moonbats is much more basic.
I simply ignore them; takes about 8 seconds, tops.

Now, if I carry on and on, in a verbal hissy fit, feel the need to go on CNN to continue my tirade, I must consider the moonbat who is the target of my anger a real threat.

Or something.

Just saying.

25 posted on 07/14/2007 3:30:17 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: nmh
As a Bible based Christian, I could never be a Catholic. Catholicisms teachings don’t match the Bible. I put God first for teachings whereas the Catholic church has made up their own religion.

So, how along ago did you make up your religion?
Strange thing.
That's exactly how muslims feel about their holy book. In between explosions, of course.

26 posted on 07/14/2007 3:32:55 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: franky1

There are Churches that CLOSE??? Come on.....that’s a JOKE right? although when Christmas fell on Sunday last year, a lot of them had NO SERVICE!!! That was WRONG!


27 posted on 07/14/2007 3:34:10 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary in '08.....Her PHONINESS is GENUINE !!!!)
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To: franky1
They're irreleveant.......really irrelevant.....I mean like......really really irrelevant. So irrelevant that I'm not even going to think about them. Well OK.....I might think about them but I'm certainlly not going to the trouble of writing about them.

OK.....so I wrote this essay about them but they're still irrelevant......OK???!!!

28 posted on 07/14/2007 4:11:49 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: Suzy Quzy

There were churches who did that every year a number of years ago. There are churches that still do it. The overall problem has always been the parishioners “lose interest” and the lack of “obligation”.

Example:

“SOUTH BARRINGTON, IL – In perhaps the most extreme example to date of churches halting ministries during the traditionally slower summer months, Willow Creek Community Church – one of America’s prototypical mega-churches – has decided to close its doors until after Labor Day.

“The church leadership took a look at where attendance and giving were last summer, and when you look at the numbers, the case for closing shop just makes a lot of sense,” said Willow Creek Senior Pastor Bill Hybels. “For years we’ve been trying to justify the expense of operating throughout the summer when schools are closed and people are on vacation. We just couldn’t do it any more. If people are going to put their spiritual growth on hold until September anyway, why should the church fight it?”

http://www.holyobserver.com/detail.php?isu=v02i02&art=willowcreek


29 posted on 07/14/2007 5:16:03 PM PDT by franky1
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To: franky1

OMG....I had NO idea....what are they thinking??? That God doesn’t CARE if they go to Church every Sunday??? That is unbelievable.


30 posted on 07/14/2007 5:33:29 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary in '08.....Her PHONINESS is GENUINE !!!!)
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To: netmilsmom; P-Marlowe

Actually, he didn’t say they’d make it to heaven.

He said they were defective and not really churches. That means that the folks who attend there are less likely to get the “real deal.”

Without the real thing, they’ll spend a long time in hell or it’s kissin’ cousin, Ma Purgatory.

BTW, I entirely reject the Pope’s position. It is borne of aggressive denominationalism.


31 posted on 07/14/2007 5:48:26 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: ALPAPilot

What gets me is that these documents are carefully crafted, reviewed, prayed over, revised, considered, and finally published. This a-clown fires off this rant calling the Pope names and accusing him of attention seeking.

The depth of the Holy Father’s intellect contrasted with the shallowness of the man’s protest could not be more clear.


32 posted on 07/14/2007 5:49:16 PM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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To: huldah1776

I heard it said once that the problem with theology is that we can know everything except the most important things. I leave the mechanics of salvation it the hands of the most high God, and His Son Jesus Christ.

I have to admit though, that I thoroughly enjoy the sparring with the protestants on here. A bit of a guilty pleasure.


33 posted on 07/14/2007 6:13:14 PM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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To: livius; huldah1776
Thank goodness - I’m not sure killing people in church would be a real missionary draw, so to speak!

It never actually says he killed them... it says they dropped dead. It doesn't say the Lord killed them either. They could have had heart attacks.

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land? Act 5:4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. Act 5:5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

34 posted on 07/14/2007 6:18:28 PM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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To: franky1

I used to dread the summer in church when I was a kid because week after week it seemed like the same old thing until Advent finally arrived. Now, having been busy in the church for the last 9 years, I find the summer to be a blessed time of peace and tranquility.


35 posted on 07/14/2007 6:21:41 PM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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To: netmilsmom; P-Marlowe; Alamo-Girl

Likewise, I have posted that the Pope stated that Protestants are defective and that their churches aren’t properly churches. One reason given for this is because they don’t have the actual Eucharist.

Now, you answer me, since you think I’m a liar. (That’s a personal attack by the way. Is it just possible that I have a different opinion on this than you?)

Here’s the question: Is an unbeliever comes to church is his eternal soul safer if he is in a Roman Catholic Church or in a Protestant Church? Why or why not?

I would suggest about my previous thread that it could be re-opened. It has simply been closed for now. It is no more or less rancorous than the thread about “The Nativity” movie and Mary. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it opened again. If not, I can always post another.

I would also suggest that I was absent when it was closed, so I was not the one who started the “flamefest” to which you refer.


37 posted on 07/14/2007 6:42:45 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins

>>Now, you answer me, since you think I’m a liar. (That’s a personal attack by the way. Is it just possible that I have a different opinion on this than you?)<<

No. Slander is slander. It’s not an opinion, it is the deliberate misrepresentation of someone’s words, in print, that does harm to that person’s reputation.

You continue to say this...
>>Actually, he didn’t say they’d make it to heaven.<<

It’s slander. One Protestant lady called you on it on the closed thread. You are intentionally misrepresenting the document to cause harm. The first time can be a mistake, now it is intentional.


38 posted on 07/14/2007 6:53:45 PM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: netmilsmom; P-Marlowe; Dr. Eckleburg

CORRECTION, 3rd asterisked paragraph:

Likewise, I have posted that the Pope stated that Protestants are defective and that their churches aren’t properly churches. One reason given for this is because they don’t have the actual Eucharist.

Now, you answer me, since you think I’m a liar. (That’s a personal attack by the way. Is it just possible that I have a different opinion on this than you?)

***Here’s the question: ***IF*** an unbeliever comes to church is his eternal soul safer if he is in a Roman Catholic Church or in a Protestant Church? Why or why not?

I would suggest about my previous thread that it could be re-opened. It has simply been closed for now. It is no more or less rancorous than the thread about “The Nativity” movie and Mary. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it opened again. If not, I can always post another.

I would also suggest that I was absent when it was closed, so I was not the one who started the “flamefest” to which you refer.


39 posted on 07/14/2007 6:54:28 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: netmilsmom

See my corrected post in #39. I had a typo in the first post.

I more than supported all my points in the previous thread.

In a court of law, Levada’s diocese WAS convicted.


40 posted on 07/14/2007 6:57:07 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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