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To: Rashputin

I understand your acceptance of the Apocrypha as the Word of God, is premised upon formal acceptance by the RCC, which is premised upon believing Peter is placed as the head of the Church, and it is continued through Apostolic secession, forming a worldly power system, which you believe is ordained by God.

If there are contradictions in the Apocrypha, would this be ample evidence that the interpretation of an Apostolic secession from Peter is not the Kingdom of God, nor the Plan of God?


65 posted on 03/22/2013 1:06:45 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Cvengr
Nooooo, a major part of my acceptance of the RCC after being Lutheran most of my life is premised on there being no reason for people who are led by the Holy Spirit to have ever agreed with throwing out portions of the Old Testament.

For those of us who believe that Jesus Christ really came into this world as the real, human, living, breathing, God incarnate in human form, it's obvious that He knew portions of His Word and sacred Tradition could be lost, distorted, thrown in the trash by horny drunks, and so on, leading to tens of millions of different interpretations of what He left us. He also knew those millions of different interpretations would lead to tens of thousands of different groups claiming to be His church, therefore He instituted Apostolic succession and founded a real, physical, visible, hierarchically organized, Church as final authority on earth to keep His Word and Sacred Tradition intact.

Therefore I tend to stop reading as soon as someone tosses out overly polemical terms like, "worldly power system".

66 posted on 03/22/2013 5:18:30 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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