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I do not disagree about the Spirit's role in imparting right interpretation.

HOWEVER, there is a peril. If we disagree about the Bible, instead of wasting time going over this and that text, why don't we just cut to the chase and say, each to the other, "Well, you are carnally minded."

End of discussion. And they call MOI divisive!

On the flip side, we do not teach adult converts some doctrines in full until after their Baptism. It's called "Mystagogy." The notion is, kind of, that there's no point in talaking about the Trinity and, for example, some parts of Christ's "high priestly prayer" in John's gospel before one is certainly granted some fruits of the Spirit, which granting we think tales place in Baptism, however long it takes that gift to come to the surface.

However, my point, which seems to have driven at least one person away, is that driving people away through needlessly pugnacious rhetoric is simple not consistent with all that Paul said about his ministry. Sure we all know that Jesus, Peter, and Paul were sometimes confrontative. We also know that they weren't always confrontative.

947 posted on 07/07/2010 7:39:45 PM PDT by Mad Dawg ("Be kind to everyone you meet, for every person is fighting a great battle" -- St. Ephraim)
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To: Mad Dawg

consecrated to Mary

What does that mean?


950 posted on 07/07/2010 7:48:42 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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