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To: Rutles4Ever

And with the Catholic's church grand record of providing the best for the people we should continue to blindly believe they are right?

Hardly.. which is why many have choosen to discern for themselves what Christ was teaching.


183 posted on 01/31/2006 7:22:04 AM PST by Almondjoy
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To: Almondjoy
And with the Catholic's church grand record of providing the best for the people we should continue to blindly believe they are right?

Which record are you referring to?

Perhaps it was the "Peasants' Revolt" in Germany in 1524-25 in which over 70,000 people were murdered -- oops, that was done by Lutherans and Anabaptists.

Or was it Henry VIII destroying all of the English monasteries -- nope, I guess it wasn't that one either. Okay, I'm confused which "grand record" are you talking about?

184 posted on 01/31/2006 7:39:08 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Almondjoy
And with the Catholic's church grand record of providing the best for the people we should continue to blindly believe they are right?

The Church is made up of human beings. If you believe that Christ did not intend for the Church to be comprised of human beings who commit sins, then how do you explain:

1) Jesus freely choosing the betrayer Judas to be an Apostle.

2) Jesus freely choosing the betrayer Peter to be an Apostle AND the shepherd of His flock.

By virtue of Judas and Peter's betrayals, Christianity would have died in the cradle if scandal were proof of bad fruit. The Church has always been peopled by sinful human beings. The teachings of faith and morals, however, are iron-clad protected by the Wisdom and inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The Church will not fall before the gates of hell. It has not, and it will not. 2006 years and counting...

186 posted on 01/31/2006 7:42:07 AM PST by Rutles4Ever ("Catholicism is the only thing which saves a man from the slavery of being a child of his age." -GKC)
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To: Almondjoy
Hardly.. which is why many have choosen to discern for themselves what Christ was teaching.

And this is a good idea because everyone receives Wisdom from the Holy Spirit infallibly? Why then so many divisions of Protestantism?

Does not compute. No controlling authority, no guarantor of Truth. Anyone up for craps?

192 posted on 01/31/2006 7:52:25 AM PST by Rutles4Ever ("Catholicism is the only thing which saves a man from the slavery of being a child of his age." -GKC)
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