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To: Frumanchu
My point remains: you presume your institution is the sole possessor of the fullness of Christian truth in order to prove it.

That is totally incorrect. All I am saying is that much of Protestantism is based on the presumption that the Church was WRONG for 1500 years.

162 posted on 08/26/2009 1:18:18 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee; Frumanchu
All I am saying is that much of Protestantism is based on the presumption that the Church was WRONG for 1500 years.

As anyone can see by reading the Bible, much of the church at Rome was wrong for centuries.

The WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH reminds us concerning the church that there will always be a remnant, sometimes more visible, sometimes less...

IV. This catholic Church has been sometimes more, sometimes less visible.[8] And particular Churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the Gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them.[9]

V. The purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error;[10] and some have so degenerated, as to become no Churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan.[11] Nevertheless, there shall be always a Church on earth to worship God according to His will.[12]


173 posted on 08/26/2009 3:38:25 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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