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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Dr. E, I don't want to offend you, but I believe many things were drilled into your head, too. There is a reflexively anti-Catholic doctrine strain in so many of the Reformed, and I have an aversion to that because it is supremely anti-itellectual and false, in my view.

Zwingli and Calvin's aversion to pictures of Jesus is an excessive reaction to the excesses of Rome. The Incarnation is recapitulative (sp?;word?). There is no reason to find picutures of Jesus, who did live as Homo Vere after all, more offensive to the Faith of the apostles, than the divorce which we allow and condone outside of Jesus' qualifiers or the disgraceful way in which we do not truly honor the Sabbath.

To be reflexively anti-Catholic doctrine, is to embark upon a Romishess of one's own. We often become that which we hate because we don't have the capacity to admit our own error.

We are never going to see eye to eye on this, so we'll just have to agree to disagree.

78 posted on 05/15/2007 11:40:25 AM PDT by AlbionGirl
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To: AlbionGirl
To be reflexively anti-Catholic doctrine, is to embark upon a Romishess of one's own. We often become that which we hate because we don't have the capacity to admit our own error.

I doubt I could disagree more with you than these two sentences.

I thank God for my "anti-Catholic doctrines." And as part of my sanctification, it becomes more reflexive every day, by the grace of God.

You say you believe this is "anti-intellectual." I say it is Scriptural. You say it is "false." I say it is true.

But we don't have to merely agree to disagree. We both should search the Scriptures and find the answer because it is not a small thing.

Rome, however, would not give us this advice. More's the pity.

83 posted on 05/15/2007 11:59:39 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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