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To: BlatherNaut
That's not fair!! You're using the Bible against the Pope. Catholics have traditions and Petrine Supremacy, ya' know.
5 posted on 12/01/2014 11:14:08 AM PST by BipolarBob (You smell of elderberries, my friend.)
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To: BipolarBob
That's not fair!! You're using the Bible against the Pope. Catholics have traditions and Petrine Supremacy, ya' know.

And one of those traditions is that the Ecumenical Councils spoke infallibly (a tradition we Orthodox agree with, though not with their theory that the papal assent was what made the councils both Ecumenical and infallible). The Fifth Ecumenical Council explicitly condemned the view that all will be saved (called the apokatastasis) among the heretical doctrines of Origen which were condemned.

We're allowed to pray for all to be saved (indeed some commentators on the Kneeling Prayers of Pentecost hold that on that one occasion the Church corporately prays not only for all the souls confined in Hades, but even for the demons), and even hope that it might be so, but to teach that it will or must be so is heresy. And this is a point on which our separated Latin brethren have traditionally agreed.

36 posted on 12/01/2014 3:34:47 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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