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To: nmh
Once more before I quit for the next few days: "Did God intend that the Bible alone should be the guide to salvation? No, because certain things in the Bible can be misunderstood, and because the Bible does not have everything God taught" - Catechism, p. 51.
WHAT catechism are you quoting from/ I turned to page 51 of my copy of the Catechism and found NOTHING LIKE what you are quoting!

Second question: What web site did you get this information from? I have news for you. It's wrong!

Third question: where does Matthew 15:1-14 refer to the Catholic Church. And I'll give you the answer: Nowhere! In fact it is a traditional Protestant interpretation to assume that when Jesus condemns the Pharisees He is somehow also condemning the Christian Church. To call our traditions "traditions of men" is (a)to condemn the Bible, since it is a tradition of ours a thing we "handed across" the generations, and (b) to assume what you set out to prove. And consequently, it may impress your friends, but it is a circular argument to us, and therefore not persuasive. You guys argue like Muslims.

In fact, you guys have your traditions and you guys depend on your traditional interpretations of Scripture. But we do not think we are Pharisees. The Pharisees were a faction of Jews who rejected Jesus. That does not describe us.

The interesting question is why you think it does.

427 posted on 03/04/2007 6:27:31 PM PST by Mad Dawg ("Now we are all Massoud.")
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To: Mad Dawg
Anyone who thinks Catholics, be they Roman or Eastern, are not Christians is deliberately uninformed.

It is bigotry of the vilest sort.

Catholics gave up burning heretics several centuries ago and they have never forgiven us.
437 posted on 03/04/2007 6:47:12 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (No stinking peanut butter.)
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