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To: kosta50

****Which is what the Orthodox and Catholics on these treads have recognized long time ago about the Reformed, which is that, with this kind of theology of Calvin, the Reformed are on the fringes of Christianity, if not completely outside of it, like the LDS or the JW.****

Rather, we are on the fringes of Catholicity. We believe in Jesus as our savior, but we do not believe in the Catholic church.

Catholics are on the fringe of Christianity.


6,019 posted on 06/01/2008 9:22:56 PM PDT by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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To: irishtenor; Forest Keeper; aruanan; MarkBsnr; stfassisi; Dr. Eckleburg

Should have pinged you also. Sorry.


6,020 posted on 06/01/2008 9:24:58 PM PDT by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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To: irishtenor
Rather, we [the Reformed] are on the fringes of Catholicity. We believe in Jesus as our savior, but we do not believe in the Catholic church. Catholics are on the fringe of Christianity

No you believe that Jesus is your savior but also that God is the source of evil and sin. You are right, the catholic faith never taught that and never will.

6,037 posted on 06/02/2008 7:01:07 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: irishtenor
Rather, we are on the fringes of Catholicity. We believe in Jesus as our savior, but we do not believe in the Catholic church

Well, I agree on both accounts. Except that you forgot (?) to reply in context of my post, which was in reference to the fact that the Reformed theology makes evil a creature of God.

Catholics are on the fringe of Christianity

Keep telling yourself that; you may even believe it. But, if "Christianity" is what the Reformed teach then I would gladly agree. In Catholicism/Orthodoxy God is never associated with evil, but in the Reformed theology He is the source of it.

6,091 posted on 06/03/2008 3:54:24 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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