Posted on 05/20/2008 7:45:05 AM PDT by NYer
Well said Doc.
Anna, do you have another understanding?
Two heresies not mentioned are Easter and Christmasshalom b'SHEM Yah'shuaBoth are not scriptural; but are Pagan feasts introduced in the fourth century
And still those fables (sola fide, sola scriptura, etc.) live on.
ROFLMTO
I’m sure he was, but being born again was what he needed.
Yes, it certainly is.
You don’t have to. He knows the Lord Jesus Christ as His saviour and his salvation. He’s already been set free from the burden of sin and not knowing if he’ll ‘make it.’
Not mine either.
Where?
SECOND QUESTIONWhat is the meaning of the affirmation that the Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church?
RESPONSE
Christ “established here on earth” only one Church and instituted it as a “visible and spiritual community”[5], that from its beginning and throughout the centuries has always existed and will always exist, and in which alone are found all the elements that Christ himself instituted.[6] “This one Church of Christ, which we confess in the Creed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic […]. This Church, constituted and organised in this world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the successor of Peter and the Bishops in communion with him”.[7]
In number 8 of the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium ‘subsistence’ means this perduring, historical continuity and the permanence of all the elements instituted by Christ in the Catholic Church[8], in which the Church of Christ is concretely found on this earth.
It is possible, according to Catholic doctrine, to affirm correctly that the Church of Christ is present and operative in the churches and ecclesial Communities not yet fully in communion with the Catholic Church, on account of the elements of sanctification and truth that are present in them.[9] Nevertheless, the word “subsists” can only be attributed to the Catholic Church alone precisely because it refers to the mark of unity that we profess in the symbols of the faith (I believe... in the “one” Church); and this “one” Church subsists in the Catholic Church.[10]
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FIFTH QUESTION
Why do the texts of the Council and those of the Magisterium since the Council not use the title of “Church” with regard to those Christian Communities born out of the Reformation of the sixteenth century?
RESPONSE
According to Catholic doctrine, these Communities do not enjoy apostolic succession in the sacrament of Orders, and are, therefore, deprived of a constitutive element of the Church. These ecclesial Communities which, specifically because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood, have not preserved the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic Mystery[19] cannot, according to Catholic doctrine, be called “Churches” in the proper sense[20].
RESPONSES TO SOME QUESTIONS REGARDING CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE DOCTRINE ON THE CHURCH (footnotes at source)
Our enemy is Satan...You fight Satan with the Sword of the Spirit...And what is the Sword of the Spirit??? It's the Scriptures...The world of God...There is NOTHING outside of the Scripture that can be used for a weapon against Satan...
That alone, is Scripture Alone, enough for me...
And if you don't believe in Faith only as Paul teaches it, I can't imagine you would even know why Jesus died on the Cross...
uh, thanks for sharing.
Did he?
All I see is his full screenname: "annalex."
How do you figure you can understand the scripture if you don't believe the scripture???
Ann is my wife. I am Alex.
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