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To: Maedhros
catholic whining

Your Particular Judgment will, to put it mildly, be interesting.

6 posted on 10/17/2002 6:13:44 PM PDT by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
Your Particular Judgment will, to put it mildly, be interesting.

1. I am a Christian

2. I am not Catholic, but Methodist.

3. From http://www.godonthe.net/cme/methdist/art_xpln.htm

Article 5.-Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation

[Unofficial explanatory comments]

This is a statement of the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura: all information necessary to be saved is contained in the Old and New Testaments. This is a direct refutation of the Catholic doctrine that the Apocrypha are canonical and that Roman Catholic Church tradition, edicts of Roman Catholic Church councils and certain declarations of the Pope and Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals are equal to the Bible in authority and acceptance of these additional teachings are necessary for salvation.

The Apocrypha are seven books and several additions to certain Old Testament books, written during the Intertestamental period, i.e., the period between the Old and the New Testaments. They provide useful historical information but contain historical errors and teachings that contradict the Bible, e.g., prayers for the (physically) dead and the giving of alms to obtain remission of sins.

4. I apologize if my comments were percieved as anti-Christian or anti-Catholic. To clarify: (a) The article is Catholic in its outlook, (b) it has a whiny tone, independent of the fact that it is Catholic (i.e. I'm not saying Catholics are whiny), and (c) I find it boring.

Over and out.

7 posted on 10/17/2002 8:27:20 PM PDT by Maedhros
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