[JPX2011]

It's a pretty good deal for someone who's selfish. They don't know what their married parishioners are going through then. There's nothing like experiencing something to give you compassion and understanding for others in the same situation.

The doctor need not have the disease to cure it

But it does serve to highlight an important concept within the protestant mind. The relativistic notion that experience = truth. An individual cannot know the truth of a thing unless they've experienced a thing. A rather relativistic and rationalistic notion.

[metmom]

But it does serve to highlight an important concept within the protestant mind. The relativistic notion that experience = truth. An individual cannot know the truth of a thing unless they've experienced a thing. A rather relativistic and rationalistic notion.

No. Truth is truth and stands alone, outside of anyone's experience of it.

It is objective and not subjective. You either line up with it or not.

[Iscool]

The doctor need not have the disease to cure it

HaHaHa...Is that what your (current) popes say to Jesus when they read 1Tim 3???