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To: Romulus
Martyrdom for Christ ensures salvation. The early Christians assumed from this that any being martyred before they had received water baptism would still be saved. There were an estimated eleven million Catholic martyrs in the first three centuries.
130 posted on 07/31/2004 10:51:05 PM PDT by Land of the Irish
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To: Land of the Irish

Eleven million martyrs? That would be 100 martyrs on each and every day between the Ascenscion of Our Lord and the Battle of Milvian Bridge. It's a statistic that would require the wholesale depopulation of entire cities and districts. Where on earth do you find support for such a figure?

But notwithstanding your crackpot history, as I said I'm pleased to see you backing away from crackpot ecclesiology.


145 posted on 07/31/2004 11:48:31 PM PDT by Romulus ("For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.")
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