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To: adiaireton8
Did He come down from heaven and become incarnate again in each of those years? Or did He did He allegedly come down *spiritually*, as claimed the Montanist heretics, and Joseph Smith?

My point is that there is only one Church, and in that Church are Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, and anyone else who has Christ as his savior and Lord.

Is your salvation dependent upon your membership in the Roman Catholic Church?

181 posted on 07/23/2007 11:50:22 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe
You didn't answer my question. Any heresy or sect can claim Christ founded it. But this was precisely how the early fathers refuted the heretics; the heretics could not trace their origin back to the incarnate Christ. Only the Catholic Church can trace her origin back to the incarnate Christ.

Is your salvation dependent upon your membership in the Roman Catholic Church?

Membership in? No. Communion with? Yes.

-A8

184 posted on 07/23/2007 11:56:23 AM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: P-Marlowe; adiaireton8; kawaii
My point is that there is only one Church, and in that Church are Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, and anyone else who has Christ as his savior and Lord

Then, by that formula, you must consider LDS as part of that One Church, and I know you don't.

231 posted on 07/23/2007 2:18:25 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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