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To: verga

Nope. Just a knowledge that, as seen clearly in this thread, there is a firm belief in Confession before death, Baptism and numerous other “acts” in order to gain entrance to Heaven. As for needing anything from the vatican to prove that God deals with individuals and saves individually, the vatican is no authority on God. I’ll go to Scripture for that, thanks.


146 posted on 03/09/2011 11:08:31 AM PST by JLLH
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To: JLLH
... the vatican is no authority on God.

There is the final distinction... authority. To whom has it been given and how do we know? It was given to the Apostles by Christ and we can see it in the New Testament as they wielded it. They were not commanded by Christ to write a book so the faithful would have something to follow (and be patient for Guttenberg to come along 1,500 years later so everyone can finally have one). They were commanded to grow Christ's Church and this Church has authority (1 Tim 3:15) as shown by the Epistles--letters written for reproof, correction, and encouragement.

We can see in the beginning of Acts that the Apostles had the authority to bestow Apostleship to replenish their numbers and they had the authority to define doctrine (Acts 15) binding on the whole Church. This is the basic nature of the Catholic Church you spurn and the authority it still bears.

149 posted on 03/09/2011 11:27:14 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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