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To: MarkBsnr; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
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.

Have you actually read some of the beliefs put forth by some of the Orthodox and others on these threads?

Do those beliefs represent Orthodox teaching, or are they the whims of made up doctrine and beliefs?

Things like soul annihilation, Christ was a myth, the Bible is full of magic, not even knowing if God exists, denying the miracles of rising from the dead and walking on water, denial of transubstantiation, etc....

These folks claim to represent Catholicism and condemn Protestantism for it's many factions, and yet, we have here people who claim to be Catholics bragging about the unity of Catholic doctrine, each believing what he wants without regard to what Rome teaches.

4,041 posted on 12/01/2010 5:44:05 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Have you actually read some of the beliefs put forth by some of the Orthodox and others on these threads?

Some of them.

Do those beliefs represent Orthodox teaching, or are they the whims of made up doctrine and beliefs?

You'll have to point them out one by one and I can answer them one by one. I've been wrong before, myself, and been corrected not only by Catholics, but by non Catholics as well. However, the Faith is the Faith and, well, is.

Things like soul annihilation, Christ was a myth, the Bible is full of magic, not even knowing if God exists, denying the miracles of rising from the dead and walking on water, denial of transubstantiation, etc....

You deny transubstantiation. Are you one of those of whom you speak?

These folks claim to represent Catholicism and condemn Protestantism for it's many factions, and yet, we have here people who claim to be Catholics bragging about the unity of Catholic doctrine, each believing what he wants without regard to what Rome teaches.

The Faith is the Faith, regardless of departures of any individuals. Even the great Augustine departed from the Faith for a time. Some of the Church Doctors were condemned because they adopted non Christian beliefs. The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops. No matter, the Faith goes on.

4,056 posted on 12/01/2010 6:32:06 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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