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To: LiteKeeper

LOL, you have an interesting and flawed view of the New Covenant. Our Lord also founded a visible Church, appointed Apostles who had themselves the ability and authority to appoint successors and instituted the Sacraments by which the Visible Church was to minister to all the nations.

What odd authority do you claim to teach such dfalsehoods as you do?


91 posted on 02/28/2009 1:35:54 PM PST by narses (http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
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To: narses
That is your claim...I reject many of the claims of the Roman Catholic Church. I reject Apostolic Succession, and I reject the institution of Sacraments as being authoritative. We celebrate the Lord's Supper as a memorial to his death and resurrection.

And with that, we will probably need to end this debate. But, that is the position of Protestants...we reject "Romanism" and it's claims to exclusive authority within the Church. And we reject the assertion that my ordination, for instance, is invalid because I was not ordained by a celibate man who fails to meet the qualifications for a leader in the church as recorded in the Apostle Paul's letters to Timothy (chap 3) and Titus. There is valid ministry outside of the Roman Catholic Church...not the least of which is the Orthodox Church, which doesn't recognize the Pope as The Vicar of Christ.

92 posted on 02/28/2009 2:13:16 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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