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To: Missey_Lucy_Goosey; Kolokotronis
Well then God must be confused because the writings of the Fathers are often contradictory

The consensus patrum is not contradictory (itf it is consensus!); it is what the Church as a whole recognizes as truth. Not everything the fathers wrote is part of consensus patrum. The Church does not teach any of the writings that are not part of the consensus.

10,484 posted on 11/05/2007 6:57:21 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Missey_Lucy_Goosey; Kolokotronis
The consensus patrum is not contradictory (itf it is consensus!); it is what the Church as a whole recognizes as truth. Not everything the fathers wrote is part of consensus patrum. The Church does not teach any of the writings that are not part of the consensus.

Please define "consensus".
10,525 posted on 11/06/2007 9:24:45 AM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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To: kosta50
Well then God must be confused because the writings of the Fathers are often contradictory

The consensus patrum is not contradictory (itf it is consensus!); it is what the Church as a whole recognizes as truth. Not everything the fathers wrote is part of consensus patrum. The Church does not teach any of the writings that are not part of the consensus.

Wrong again.

The filioque proves it.

10,547 posted on 11/06/2007 3:58:34 PM PST by Missey_Lucy_Goosey
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