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To: SeekAndFind; redleghunter; Springfield Reformer; kinsman redeemer; BlueDragon; metmom; boatbums; ...
We are both evangelical Christians with strong ties to the Catholic Church and deep respect for it.

Then the greatest concern should be that of the term "evangelical" being divorced from its historical emphasis on doctrine and conversion, including from Catholicism, and rejection of it as a valid church (though not without salvific Truths). And to a version of evangelical which is too often guilty of the same failings, and presents Catholicism as an esteemed true church they are in union with, despite its greatly liberal membership .

Rather, in both doctrine and morality those who seek to conform to the faith of the NT church as per the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what it believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels), need to be separate from both liberal Protestantism - which tends to be closest to Catholicism - and from the latter as regards spiritual fellowship, though contending for the core Truths and morality we agree on (at least Rome does officially).

I come far enough behind the purity, probity and passion of the prima NT church without being dragged back into a basically dead entity.

133 posted on 09/18/2018 9:49:49 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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Or from “orthodox” or “Conservative” Judaism, another even deader religion, from which the RCC absorbed its polity and clergyism that points it away from the NT model.


153 posted on 09/18/2018 12:37:59 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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