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To: MarkBsnr; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
We don't believe the interpretations of the Bible from the rabble and the ruins of the Reformation, and we don't believe the interpretation that you happen to present to us today, as opposed to yesterday, or tomorrow.

Show us examples of anyone on this board who changes their doctrines and interpretations from day to day.

The Church of Jesus Christ, Lord God Almighty, takes precedent over Luther's any milkmaid who pulls a novel doctrine on a daily basis from the contents of the navel or the whims of the god in the mirror.

No, the RCC just changes it's doctrines en masse at councils where the church leadership gets together, changes it's collective mind on some issue, and declares it new doctrine and the old invalid.

The only difference between what you're complaining about and what the Catholic church does is that when the Catholic church does it, they give it their own stamp of approval to validate it to themselves and then go on to act as if nothing is really any different.

3,853 posted on 11/30/2010 8:37:52 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom; MarkBsnr
Met: changes it's collective mind on some issue, and declares it new doctrine and the old invalid.

Ahem, can you name any council where such happened as you state that there was a new doctrine that washed away the old?
3,945 posted on 12/01/2010 5:33:08 AM PST by Cronos (Et Verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis (And the word was made flesh, and dwelt amonst us))
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To: metmom
Let us examine the simple timeline of the Presbyterian Church here in the USA, and use it as a microcosm of the plurality of Protestantism.

img src=" http://www.spiritrestoration.org/images/Presbyterian%20Heritage.jpg">

Now extend that to all of the mainstream and multilocation denominations. Now extend that to all the independent churches with their own peculiar beliefs.

For example, there are over 400 independent churches in our community all with varying beliefs and doctrines. There is one God and one Faith. Where did they get theirs? How? If not from their navels and whims, where?

No, the RCC just changes it's doctrines en masse at councils where the church leadership gets together, changes it's collective mind on some issue, and declares it new doctrine and the old invalid.

You mean in the declaration of the Trinity and the Nicene Creed in 325 AD?

The only difference between what you're complaining about and what the Catholic church does is that when the Catholic church does it, they give it their own stamp of approval to validate it to themselves and then go on to act as if nothing is really any different.

The difference is that the Reformation ushered in the age where individual men at their own whims create churches of their own with their own made up doctrines and beliefs.

4,037 posted on 12/01/2010 5:18:36 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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