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To: annalex
when information is offered to him, would dismiss it as “rah-rah”?

Misinformation is more like it. I dismiss it as "rah-rah" because you offer no PROOF other than you can tell me "that the same Church Christ promised to build in Matthew 16:18, that spoke in the multitude of tongues in Acts 2:11 is the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church" and I am supposed to take your word for it because you can repeat it over and over.

42 posted on 06/28/2014 3:09:41 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Obama - The Scandal a Week President.)
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To: BipolarBob

I read the Fathers of the Church daily. They lived in the pre-medieval period, many before the First Council of Nicaea (AD 325). While I detect differences of opinion between them, the center of gravity, so to say, of their teaching is the Catholic doctrines we hold today, that distinguish us as Catholics today. The Early Church had the Holy Liturgy that culminated in the Eucharist, which was held to be real body and blood of Christ. It had hierarchical clergy, often celibate, tasked to teach the Gospel and lead into the Sacraments. It venerated saints and prayed to crucifixes and icons. Some things changed since then, because the times changed, — like the availability of books in vernacular, — but the Catholic core beliefs are in evidence in the Holy Scripture and in the writings of the Fathers of the Church.

So that is the proof. It may not be convincing to you, but then I suggest you examine your faith critically and ask yourself what evidence do you have that your belief system has anything to do with the Church of the Apostles founded by Jesus?


44 posted on 06/28/2014 3:25:35 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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