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To: Kolokotronis; count-your-change; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; ...
Most Christians on earth accept the notion of infallibility residing in the person of the Pope.

Wrong. Most CATHOLICS on earth accept the notion of infallibility residing in the person of the Pope.

Being Catholic does not necessarily equate to being Christian and being Christian does not equate to being Catholic.

Believers were called Christians first in Antioch. Not called Catholics. Called Christians....

6,238 posted on 12/29/2010 5:01:03 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom; count-your-change; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; ...
mm, most Christians, in fact, the overwhelming majority of them, are Catholics.

Your comment, however, interests me as it seems emblematic of the distinctly American protestant attitude that Eastern Christians deserve the death and destruction that we and our Mohammedan friends are and have been dealing out to them...since they are not really Christians. Am I right, mm?

6,242 posted on 12/29/2010 5:57:56 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: metmom; Kolokotronis

“”Believers were called Christians first in Antioch. Not called Catholics.””

Yes they were called catholic’s,mm.

Please post other historical writings from someone who lived in Antioch that prove the following wrong?

“See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Christ Jesus does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles. Do ye also reverence the deacons, as those that carry out the appointment of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic Church.” Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Smyrneans, 8:2 (c. A.D. 110).

...and Ignatius of Antioch believed in the True Presence in Eucharist completely opposite of protestant heretics denying it


6,246 posted on 12/29/2010 6:26:07 PM PST by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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