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To: mas cerveza por favor; OLD REGGIE
What is your point. No where does the council say Honorius' letter was infallible.

Your answer to OLD REGGIE illustrates the circular reasoning that I've been talking about. Of course they didn't say Honorius' letter was infallible, for the simple reason that they didn't believe in papal infallibility! The concept was unknown to them, as evidenced by several hundred years of church history after Honorius. You have post 19th century glasses on which render you apparently unable to see the historical facts that Councils and Popes subsequent to Honorius, as Philip Schaff puts it, "... believed that a Pope may err ex cathedra in a question of faith and that one of them at least had so erred in fact."

Your interpretation of the historical facts is anachronistic. Your defense amounts to, as I've said, a "he didn't really mean it infallibly" excuse.

Cordially,

2,455 posted on 11/17/2010 4:19:26 PM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: Diamond; OLD REGGIE
Your answer to OLD REGGIE illustrates the circular reasoning that I've been talking about.

You are switching topics. OLD REGGIE tried to say that the council passage implied that Honorius' letter should be considered infallible from the Catholic perspective. Are you supporting OLD REGGIE's contention?

2,464 posted on 11/17/2010 4:38:09 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
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To: Diamond

Bingo!


2,472 posted on 11/17/2010 4:44:10 PM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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