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To: boatbums

Your answers only hold true if you are Catholic. Are you now Claiming to be Catholic and accepting all of our doctrines and dogmatic articles of faith?


885 posted on 08/15/2013 6:37:45 PM PDT by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: verga; imardmd1
Your answers only hold true if you are Catholic. Are you now Claiming to be Catholic and accepting all of our doctrines and dogmatic articles of faith?

Nope, I don't agree with you. These answers "hold true" for ALL those who share the Christian faith as taught in Holy Scripture. Using the adjective "catholic" as if it was always the proper name of the church of Jesus Christ is disingenuous. When it first started being used (late first century) it was simply to describe the universal Christian faith as announced by Jesus Christ and taught by His disciples and Apostles. EVERYTHING that belongs to this rule of faith is found in the Bible. On some of these tenets, even the Roman Catholic Church of today has held to and taught as articles of the faith. Were I living back in that time, I would certainly be part of one of the same churches as the Apostles established and the catholicity of my faith would contain the same doctrines I believe are eternal to this day. They are the ones that do not change because they are THE truth.

905 posted on 08/15/2013 10:36:56 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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