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To: af_vet_1981
Why do you care about the one holy apostolic Catholic Church ?

The one that calls G-d a liar? That says that the Torah is a collection of myths that formed over time and redacted constantly until it reached its final form? That says that J*sus could suspend the laws of nature but when G-d A-mighty created the universe from nothing He had to follow "natural laws" that didn't even exist? That says the church fathers were experts when commenting on "new testament" miracles but when they assumed Genesis was true they were merely "men of their time?"

How can any sane person not view such an organization with contempt regardless of how old it is or who founded it . . . especially when it falsely proclaims that its teachings are absolutely unchanged from the beginning?

What do you lack ?

I like to think I lack the chutzpah to call G-d a liar. Does that answer your question?

40 posted on 01/27/2016 10:47:13 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
like to think I lack the chutzpah to call G-d a liar. Does that answer your question?

No. If one were raised Fundamentalist Protestant, converted to Catholic, and then renounced Jesus as Messiah to dabble as a Gentile proselyte in Judaism would it be reasonable to infer such a one may not be a sure and certain interpreter of the holy scriptures, and was still in need of true answers to the soul's burning questions ?

The Old Testament

121 The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired and retain a permanent value,92 for the Old Covenant has never been revoked.

122 Indeed, "the economy of the Old Testament was deliberately so oriented that it should prepare for and declare in prophecy the coming of Christ, redeemer of all men."93 "Even though they contain matters imperfect and provisional,"94 the books of the Old Testament bear witness to the whole divine pedagogy of God's saving love: these writings "are a storehouse of sublime teaching on God and of sound wisdom on human life, as well as a wonderful treasury of prayers; in them, too, the mystery of our salvation is present in a hidden way."95

123 Christians venerate the Old Testament as true Word of God. The Church has always vigorously opposed the idea of rejecting the Old Testament under the pretext that the New has rendered it void (Marcionism).

41 posted on 01/27/2016 11:06:55 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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