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To: Nikas777; RobbyS; Claud; Kolokotronis; NYer; Petronski; Mad Dawg; Campion; annalex; Pyro7480
You must not know that the Orthodox Church only accepts the pronouncements of at least the first 7 Ecumenical Councils as infallible.

That doesn't matter around here.

Here is the preferred version of history as portrayed by most anti-Catholic/Orthodox:

In the early Church, they all read their Bibles every day. The Epistles and Gospels were widely reproduced and Saint Timothy (who some here believe wrote the Epistle addressed to him) told them what order to put everything in and then they were bound together.

On Sundays, they would eat crackers and grape juice while thinking about Jesus. Sometimes, they would jump in the water and this was called baptism, but this really wasn't that important. They ALL understood that Jesus really didn't care all that much for His mother and simply told John to look after her as an afterthought. They also knew that Jesus enjoyed mocking his Disciples, He did this by switching from Aramaic to Greek in order to confuse them.

During this time, the city of Babylon was actually the greatest threat to Christianity, not Rome. So Peter went to Babylon.

Everything was going well and everyone knew how to interpret Scripture until the year 325 when the Emperor Constantine declared himself pope and incorporated the ROMAN Catholic church. He then held a council where he said that everything the "Bible-believing" Christians was wrong and he said they were heretics.

142 posted on 08/31/2009 10:25:43 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
Jesus enjoyed mocking his Disciples, He did this by switching from Aramaic to Greek in order to confuse them.

You are forgetting much of the Bible. Jesus also made fun the disciples by calling them offensive names, pretending to be a cannibal, and telling them to throw away their stuff.

162 posted on 08/31/2009 11:15:43 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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