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To: Petronski

OK.

What sources (other than the Bible) do you believe are direct revelation of God to us, instructing us what to believe and how to behave.

And what besides faith in Jesus do you believe will save us from our sins?


26 posted on 04/29/2009 4:29:15 PM PDT by Marie2 (Jesus, take the wheel)
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To: Marie2
What sources (other than the Bible) do you believe are direct revelation of God to us, instructing us what to believe and how to behave.

The Sacred Traditions of the Church He founded for us.

And what besides faith in Jesus do you believe will save us from our sins?

Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. --John 6:53

27 posted on 04/29/2009 4:33:02 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: Marie2
And what besides faith in Jesus...

Wait: "besides?"

No. "...in addition to..."

28 posted on 04/29/2009 4:34:10 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: Marie2

>> What sources (other than the Bible) do you believe are direct revelation of God to us, instructing us what to believe and how to behave. <<

The Catholic Church upholds public revelation, as made known to us through the bible and sacred Tradition, as being what we are obliged to believe. But the bible is not separate from sacred Tradition, for sacred Tradition commended to us what constituted the bible, and the bible preserves the sacred Tradition.

Protestants misunderstand Catholic faith in the bible and Tradition, supposing that they are at odds with one another, but it is sacred Tradition which informs us how to understand the bible, and the bible which confirms to us the veracity of the sacred Tradition; they are purely interdependent, coming as they do from the same public Revelation of Christ.


36 posted on 04/29/2009 8:16:10 PM PDT by dangus
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