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To: BillyBoy; Mrs. Don-o

I’ve been guilty myself of not treating Catholics fairly due to disagreements over doctrine and practices. However, I am working on being able to disagree without being disagreeable to the extent that is possible. I find that often I can learn things even from people with whom I fundamentally disagree about some issue.

Part of the learning process is to realize that people cannot (and should not) be coerced into their beliefs. Persuasion is good. Even fear can be a reasonable motivator to seek God and be sure about what you believe and why. But ultimately salvation is the work of God. We should seek to be obedient to Him and listen to His voice, but only He can change anyone’s heart whether they are Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, atheist, or something else.

I’m thankful we do not live in a day when various groups within Christianity are ready to burn each other at the stake over disagreements.


66 posted on 09/17/2018 4:19:53 PM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: unlearner

Amen to that.


67 posted on 09/17/2018 4:21:24 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (It ain't what they don't know that's a problem, it's what they do know that ain't so." - Will Rogers)
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To: unlearner
I’m thankful we do not live in a day when various groups within Christianity are ready to burn each other at the stake over disagreements.

The office of the Inquisition is still open. It's just under a different name now.

On 21 July 1542, Pope Paul III proclaimed the Apostolic Constitution Licet ab initio, establishing the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, staffed by cardinals and other officials whose task it was "to maintain and defend the integrity of the faith and to examine and proscribe errors and false doctrines." It served as the final court of appeal in trials of heresy and served as an important part of the Counter-Reformation.

This body was renamed the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office in 1908 by Pope Pius X. In many Catholic countries, the body is often informally called the Holy Office (e.g., Italian: Sant'Uffizio and Spanish: Santo Oficio).

The congregation's name was changed to Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (SCDF) on 7 December 1965, at the end of the Second Vatican Council. Soon after the 1983 Code of Canon Law came into effect, the adjective "sacred" was dropped from the names of all Curial Congregations,[b] and so the dicastery adopted its current name, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith

70 posted on 09/17/2018 4:42:45 PM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: unlearner
I am Scripturally double minded:


Proverbs 26:4-5 New International Version (NIV)

Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
    or you yourself will be just like him.
Answer a fool according to his folly,
    or he will be wise in his own eyes.


99 posted on 09/17/2018 6:15:49 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: unlearner

100 posted on 09/17/2018 6:17:34 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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