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To: wmfights
If you are convinced by Scripture that these apparitions are not Mary does your differing viewpoint affect your salvation?

I don't see how the scripture can say anything about marian apparitions (except, theoretically speaking, the one to St. James). However, if, hypothetically, I find a disagreement between parts of what the Church teaches, for example, a contradiction between the scripture and some other part of the General Revelation, then I will conclude that I do not understand the teaching in question. If however, I had stubbornly refused to acknowldege my limitation and insist on my own interpretation of the revelation, then I indeed would have committed a grave sin which absent absolution would lead to my eternal damnation.

2,648 posted on 12/21/2006 12:32:13 PM PST by annalex
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To: annalex; wmfights
grave sin

Perhaps I should identify the sin by name, it is the cardinal sin of pride and a violation of the First Commandment.

The superstition of Sola Scriptura leads to that sin often.

2,651 posted on 12/21/2006 12:40:25 PM PST by annalex
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