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To: Matchett-PI

Romanist is frequently used as a derogatory remark.


244 posted on 01/15/2005 2:22:08 PM PST by CouncilofTrent (Quo Primum...)
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To: CouncilofTrent
"Romanist is frequently used as a derogatory remark."

Used by whom---those that don't appreciate efforts to damned them to hell with novel curses?"

"If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone, meaning thereby that no other cooperation is required for him to obtain grace of justification, and that in no sense is it necessary for him to make preparation and be disposed by a movement of his own will: let him be anathema" (Council of Trent, Session 6, "Decree on Justification," Canon 9)."

It was not until 1546, at the Council of Trent, that the Roman Catholic Church officially declared the Apocrypha to be part of the canon (with the exception of 1 and 2 Esdras and the prayer of Manasseh).

It is significant that the Council of Trent was the response of the Roman Catholic Church to the teachings of Martin Luther and the rapidly spreading Protestant Reformation, and the fact that the books of the Apocrypha contain support for the Roman Catholic Church's teaching of prayers for the dead and the justification by faith plus works, not by faith alone.

In 1546, at the time they affirmed the Apocrypha to be within the canon, the Roman Catholic Church said that they had the authority to constitute A LITERARY WORK to be "Scripture". ..." Wayne Grudem [paraphrased from Systematic Theology-Zondervan]

246 posted on 01/15/2005 3:34:09 PM PST by Matchett-PI (Today's DemocRATS are either religious moral relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
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