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To: blue-duncan
Don't flatter yourself. The real good I see coming out of this is that your arrogance has probably united most of the different Protestant and Baptist sects here by showing how small our differences are compared to your heresy.

Well no. Firstly, God's Church (both Western, Catholic and Eastern, Orthodox arms) are both in unison about His teachings. Secondly, thanks to God's loving care to save all of mankind, most Christians are Catholic or Orthodox and many others belong to Protestant Churchs that retain Scriptural, Apostolic teachings in line with the Catholic/Orthodox. The groupings left out follow heresy and their leaders would be heretics for leading people away from the path of Christ.

Next, I've only seen Calvinists and Baptists here. The sole Lutheran disagreed with your point of view and I'm sure conservative Anglicans would disagree with the wrong teachings you follow as well.

Furthermore, while we Catholics (Latin as in the case of Annalex and me and also Eastern Catholics like NYer) and Orthodox (Greek, Russian etc.) and others can say for a FACT that what we say represents Apostolic Church teachings and is believed in by The Church. Your own teachings are your own with divergences per person on individual interpretations.

I see a house divided and sheep led astray with many sheep then forming smaller groups and just getting further away from the shepherd (Christ) and His flock (The Church)
1,312 posted on 01/13/2006 3:09:58 AM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11. Restore Hagia Sophia!)
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To: Cronos; P-Marlowe; HarleyD; zeeba neighba; Forest Keeper; Dr. Eckleburg
"Furthermore, while we Catholics (Latin as in the case of Annalex and me and also Eastern Catholics like NYer) and Orthodox (Greek, Russian etc.) and others can say for a FACT that what we say represents Apostolic Church teachings and is believed in by The Church"

Actually, what you are saying is you believe as FACT what your respective churches say is truth. Thank God, Luther and those men of faith before him and after let in the Light of the Truth of the Word that set us free from the bondage of spiritually, stifling clericalism. It may seem like spiritual anarchy to you but it is really unity in the essentials but not uniformity in the non essentials.
1,321 posted on 01/13/2006 5:48:43 AM PST by blue-duncan
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