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To: Songcraft

Excellent example of ‘muddying the water’ BTW.


231 posted on 01/03/2019 12:18:42 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
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"Excellent example of ‘muddying the water’ BTW."


Exactly which of those very simple words in that post didn't you understand, Brother Elsie?   Your response honestly brings to mind these words that the Lord said:


       "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they, seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand."   Matthew 13:13


However, I'll be happy to make it even more simple for you, Elsie, so that you should be able to grasp it more easily.

Right from the very beginning of the Church, there have always been prominent Church Leaders who have not always seen eye to eye at first, about various teachings of the Church, as evidenced by this very clear example in the Bible, which illustrates the initially incompatible private interpretations (of the Scriptures and the words of Jesus Christ) between the Apostle Paul and the Apostle Peter, who held opposing views at first concerning the new Church teaching involving Non-Jewish converts.   This is described and documented in the Bible at

       Galatians 2.

The Church resolved that question as she resolves all such questions, through prayerful consideration by the Church leaders (aka, the "Magisterium"), under the absolutely necessary guidance and powerful protection of the Holy Spirit, as promised by Jesus Christ.   Out of that process, the Church ended up eventually with a brand new formal doctrine, which stated officially that Gentile converts to the Church do NOT have to adopt Jewish customs and practices (such as circumcision) when becoming Christians.

If you really want to know the truth, look at the actual teachings of the Church, which were carefully hammered out by the leaders of the Church (the "Magisterium"), under the very necessary guidance of the Holy Spirit, as ordained by God.   Those official Church teachings and doctrines can be found here in the "Catechism of the Catholic Church", not in long lists of random, dubious, conflicting quotes from various "Catholic" individuals, who express a view that somehow contradicts the actual teaching of the Church, like the list you provided, Brother Elsie.

239 posted on 01/05/2019 10:23:18 PM PST by Songcraft
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