DesertRhino:
and you can tell us what Christ wanted and created. that is the problem with American Fundies, No understanding of the Incarnation. As Pope Benedict stated in Spirit of the Liturgy, Incarnational Theology means we don’t do as we please. On the contrary, it binds us to the history of a particular time. Outwardly, that history may seem fortuitous, but is the form of history willed by God.
The history that God willed is for Christ to become incarnate in the context of Roman-Greek culture, not American yahoo Protestant culture. The history of Christianity and Doctrine is expressed in the Church Fathers, both Latin-West and Greek-East, and that is Catholic and can also be claimed by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
tsk, tsk
Follow your bureaucracy,, follow your pope, knock yourself out. We pray for our separated bretheren who have fallen into error. It’s not that we generally doubt your salvation (which we are warned by the bible not to do). It’s that we think you are incorrect about some things, and are wasting time kissing the ring of some guy on earth.
“The history that God willed is for Christ to become incarnate in the context of Roman-Greek culture”
I think I read somewhere that Christ was born as a Jew. I think they also had a culture...