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To: Cronos
You don't often find a Pentecostal preacher who converts to Catholicism, but it does happen.

< shrug>. The claim is the same -- continuing, authoritative, extra-biblical revelation.

6 posted on 09/19/2011 5:40:25 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("We are assailed by two sects...." John Calvin, Reply to Cardinal Sadoleto, 1539)
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To: Lee N. Field
"< shrug>. The claim is the same -- continuing, authoritative, extra-biblical revelation."

You have a mistaken idea here.

You will get the correct idea of Catholic doctrine from the Catechism (Link):

Paragraph #66: "The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Paragrph #73: "God has revealed himself fully by sending his own Son, in whom he has established his covenant for ever. The Son is his Father's definitive Word; so there will be no further Revelation after him."

Catholics believe that public revelation ended at the death of the last Apostle, which would have been the death of St. John at about 100 AD.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify this.

9 posted on 09/19/2011 7:07:35 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Show me one who loves: he knows what I mean." St. Augustine)
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