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To: NKP_Vet
“It is not that the Church rejects Protestants, it is that she rejects the notion that there is more than one church”.

You’re starting to see the Light.

It is what you assert as if seen that is refuted, but which you seem not to see.

1,734 posted on 10/11/2013 11:39:33 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

Christ’s church HAS NEVER BEEN a body of invisible people. It is a very visible body of Christians and has been for the last 2,000 years. It is called the Catholic Church. All others are ecclesial communities, with the exception of Orthodox faiths, Orthodox faith communities are called “churches,” though separate from the Catholic Church, as they have retained apostolic succession, the ordained priesthood and the Eucharist. Because of those close bonds, they merit the title of churches and are seen as “sister churches” of specific Catholic churches. Yet, Christian communities “born out of the Reformation” do not share that union as they do not enjoy apostolic succession in the sacrament of orders.These ecclesial communities which, specifically because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood, have not preserved the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery cannot, according to Catholic doctrine, be called churches in the proper sense.


1,736 posted on 10/11/2013 1:17:08 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: daniel1212

There is a difference between Seeing the Light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX5tfRdkoY0

and Feeling the Heat...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Py2LZNb79Q#t=0m48s


1,738 posted on 10/11/2013 1:51:37 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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