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To: imardmd1

“I’m afraid that you are not ready to be honest with that same Holy Ghost who without the Bible is mute. I can show you fifty ways in which ROMANISM departed from The Faith once delivered to the saints.”

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Are you talking about Roman Catholicism when you say Romanism?


59 posted on 09/03/2012 12:39:01 AM PDT by stpio
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To: stpio
Are you talking about Roman Catholicism when you say Romanism?

Yes, it is one form of "catholicity" of which Hellenic catholicism, Lutheran catholocism, Russian catholicism, Episcopalian catholicism, Methodist catholicism (under which I was born, "baptized," and raised), etc. are examples of those who cling to the "catholic" form embodied in the baptismal formula, often incorrectly called "The Apostles Creed." which was formally written down according to Rufinius of Aquileia, about 400 AD.

Personally, I believe deep down of every article in it except that one word "catholic," which was invented as an invisible church, articulated, and first endorsed by the Bishop of Hippo in the same time frame as Rufinius.

You will note, though, that the first statist Roman religion came into being under Constantine as one method of unifying his empirate, and it was of the one ruled by the Bishop of Rome.

Hence, Romanism.

Practical fact shows that it is not the only global denomination, hence the term "Roman Catholic" is an oxymoron, dear stpio.

You will note that the word "katholou" occurs only once in the New Testament Majority Textform, and that in Acts 4:18, where its use has nothing to do at all with an ekklaysia.

With respect --

60 posted on 09/03/2012 6:00:20 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them NOT!)
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