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To: NYer
...What does the Catholic Church mean by the phrase, "Outside the Church there is no salvation"...

You have to go inside the building.

6 posted on 06/28/2008 3:44:30 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Me no bottom man. Me top man.)
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To: FReepaholic

The “church” is just people who have been saved by Jesus Christ. That is all the “church” is - Christian people; and as nice as Christian people are, they have no power to save anyone. Only Christ saves, and that is his business, through the Holy Spirit drawing them to the person of Jesus Christ - the temple not made with human hands.

The idea that some organization of men, doing rituals, making pronouncements, collecting money and sometimes misusing it, some of them engaged in sinful behavior and some of them hiding it, can save anyone defies common sense.

Now I imagine that I’ll be advised to go and wash my mouth out with soap and water for telling the truth.


13 posted on 06/28/2008 4:03:50 PM PDT by Twinkie (TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT !!!)
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