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To: Steelfish

You cannot legislate the Word of God.

It is what it is and is forever settled.

Heretics.


5 posted on 06/19/2014 6:56:10 PM PDT by bobo1 (progressives=commies/fascists)
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To: bobo1

Thank you for encouraging me to look up the difference between heretic and apostate (and schismatic, along with them).

Heresy is a sin because of its nature it is destructive of the virtue of Christian faith. Its malice is to be measured therefore by the excellence of the good gift of which it deprives the soul. Now faith is the most precious possession of man, the root of his supernatural life, the pledge of his eternal salvation. Privation of faith is therefore the greatest evil, and deliberate rejection of faith is the greatest sin. St. Thomas (II-II, Q. x, a. 3) arrives at the same conclusion thus: “All sin is an aversion from God. A sin, therefore, is the greater the more it separates man from God. But infidelity does this more than any other sin, for the infidel (unbeliever) is without the true knowledge of God: his false knowledge does not bring him help, for what he opines is not God: manifestly, then, the sin of unbelief ( infidelitas) is the greatest sin in the whole range of perversity.”


14 posted on 06/19/2014 7:59:08 PM PDT by SpirituTuo
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