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To: BibChr
>>>> If the Word didn't scare you, repel you, threaten you, why would you not want to think about it?

It's not the Word that repels me, it's YOU and people like you--smug, ignorant, and arrogant, presenting a style of Christianity that was unknown in apostolic times and unknown anywhere in the world until maybe 200 years ago as the ONLY possible form of Christianity, and denying even the name Christian to anyone who belongs to the oldest and largest Christian denomination.

My Church, by contrast, recognizes that anyone who is baptized in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit is a Christian, regardless of whatever doctrinal differences may exist. This is why Protestant converts to Catholicism are not baptized. Indeed, Eastern Orthodox converts who have received all the sacraments of initiation are not given any sacrament before joining the Church, they just need to make a brief public profession of faith.

Fortunately, most evangelical Christians are not like you. They can argue differences in doctrine without saying the Pope is in Hell or "the Antichrist" or denying that I am a Christian. In other words, they recognize the importance of charity and humility.

690 posted on 04/15/2005 8:50:11 AM PDT by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Thorin

And so it ever goes. Christians point Romanists to Christ, and God's Word, and Romanists become apoplectic.

The thought of trusting Christ to save you infuriates you, the thought of accepting God's Word as sufficient enrages you -- and you feel okay about that.

You'll just have to excuse Christians for not feeling okay about it, and for praying for your soul while there's hope, regardless.

Dan


691 posted on 04/15/2005 8:56:16 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Thorin
Fortunately, most evangelical Christians are not like you.

Not taking an opinion either way, and although I am a member of Messianic Judaism, I have been in various evangelical groups for 40 years. I can tell you quite certainly that most evangelicals do not believe the average Roman Catholic is "saved". It is rather nice for you to say that Catholics don't feel the same about Protestants, but your opinion does not make it so. There are an awful lot of martyred Protestants that would disagree. Please don't tell me you are unaware of THAT history as well.
699 posted on 04/15/2005 9:37:37 AM PDT by safisoft (Give me Torah!)
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