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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
"Listen to the Church." --Jesus

Why do you keep posting a comment made by Jesus in a discourse of His as a command to be obeyed?

Where did Jesus GIVE that instruction to believers? Posting it as if it were will lead someone to the wrong interpretation of that passage.

What Jesus said when He spoke those words, is: Matthew 18:15-18 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

For all the criticism non=Catholics receive about cherry picking verses and taking them out of context, there is simply no way anyone is going to one up this abuse of Scripture.

Taking a fragment of a sentence and posting it as a command of Jesus' is the ultimate in cherry picking verses to support a doctrine.

It will lead to deception.

16 posted on 12/13/2014 10:58:44 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

On the last day all of us will face the JUDGE.

But what if on the last day the JUDGE asks you this question:

While you were on earth did you love my Mother?

What will your answer be?


26 posted on 12/13/2014 1:45:40 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus")
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