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To: kosta50; presently no screen name
See, this is the type of intolerance that is common to so many Protestants most Catholics, particularly the FRoman variety. Unless it is their way it is damned, cursed, and vilified.

Don't forget.....

"Outside the Church there is no salvation" 846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body: Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336

6,550 posted on 01/02/2011 9:53:12 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom; presently no screen name
See, this is the type of intolerance that is common to so many Protestants most Catholics, particularly the FRoman variety...Don't forget....."Outside the Church there is no salvation" 84

You are right. Whether there is no "salvation" outside the Church or Christ, it doesn't matter. Stated as a matter of fact it's just the arrogance of Christianity...not that Christianity stands alone in arrogance. 

It can be a comforting belief to some, boatbums—but only when expressed as a sincere personal hope rather than a condemnation of others.

6,558 posted on 01/03/2011 6:55:46 AM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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