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To: blue-duncan

You are correct, what you posted was from #1238. I was incorrect to confuse it with the other dictionary definition posted by someone else (Zeeba?). But it was a dictionary and thus non-theological definition and it posted by Bohemund. Howeer, in #1251 Bohemund posted the proper theological definition of heresy and it was to that that I have been referring in all of my postings on heresy. It includes the elements of knowledge and pertinacity that are not found either in the Webster dictionary definition that someone else posted or the non-theological definition that Bohemund posted in 1238.

Hodge and Warfield would accept # 1251, not #1238.


1,343 posted on 01/13/2006 11:20:05 AM PST by Dionysiusdecordealcis
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To: Dionysiusdecordealcis; Dr. Eckleburg

"Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same;"

I guess based on this definition we can't be considered heretics since there is no obstinate post-baptismal denial or doubt "of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith," since we were not baptized in the Roman Catholic Faith nor have we obstinately denied or doubted "some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith," since we were baptized according to our faith. The word "catholic" is in the lower case meaning universal which would include Protestant and Baptist, otherwise the word would be capitalized to show a particular faith.

Dr. E. you can stop worrying now you are no longer, by definition, considered a heretic. Have a nice weekend.


1,347 posted on 01/13/2006 11:59:48 AM PST by blue-duncan
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