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To: RoadTest
These false doctrines weren't believed even by Catholics for several centuries, but were added at long intervals and then made dogma. If any of you Catholics believe that these dogmas like infallibility and transubstantiation go back to the beginning you had better check your history. They came along much later.

Infallibility and transubstantion, among many other doctrines, were not formally declared to be doctrines until it became necessary to do so, due to some challenge or other. That's how some beliefs that had been around since the Apostles were not explicitly declared to be doctrines until many centuries later, at which point they were not invented but declared to be doctrinal.

I'm surprised you didn't know that.

136 posted on 03/09/2006 12:38:21 PM PST by Steve0113 (Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -A.L.)
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To: Steve0113; RoadTest
I'm surprised you didn't know that.

Are you really?

Most former Catholics (I once was found, but now I'm lost) have a deeply shallow understanding of their former religion.

SD

140 posted on 03/09/2006 12:42:44 PM PST by SoothingDave
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