Why doesn't your church tell you this good news?
You, in one post, plea for a stop to the volleys.
Then, in your next, you lob yet another s*** bomb.
You do not know what my church teaches. You continually, ever since I can remember, have misrepresented what my church teaches.
Dr. Eckleburg, please stick to posting what you do know rather than what you don't know. Catholic doctrine. Catholic practice. Catholic Teaching. All of those things fall into the latter category. If you'd truly like to stop the volleys back and forth, I'd suggest that you avoid posting about things you do not know.
Oh, and for the record, the only way one can truly understand Hebrews is reading it in light of the Church. The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
It is amazing at how members of the RCC delude themselves into believing that anyone outside their church cannot correctly understand their teachings. This delusion is even more baffling considering how many of us are ex-RCCers. We fully understand your church’s teachings, and we’ve chosen the authority of God as revealed through Scripture over the authority of sinful man through a flawed institution.
Perhaps you should consider that the issue is one of authority. The RCC teaches that there are multiple authorities (magisterium, tradition, scripture), and a group of men declaring which of them is valid and superior. Christians believe there is a sole authority, the Word of God, and that no man arbitrates on behalf of God.
Choose this day who you will serve. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
The "only way?"
Do you have any Scripture to support that? Because there's plenty of Scripture that speaks against that opinion.
And please refrain from scatological remarks. It only demeans your position, and by association, this entire religious forum.
Awww Mark that does not help !
"Rome, in the person of CLEMENT OF ROME, originally received this Epistle. Then followed a period in which it ceased to be received by the Roman churches. Then, in the fourth century, Rome retracted her error. A plain proof she is not unchangeable or infallible. As far as Rome is concerned, the Epistle to the Hebrews was not only lost for three centuries, but never would have been recovered at all but for the Eastern churches; it is therefore a happy thing for Christendom that Rome is not the Catholic Church." A. R. FAUSSET