Just stating the facts. It’s so wrong as to be comical to assert that the Roman church resembles ANYTHING Christ ever hinted that he wanted to create.
It’s like in math class as a kid, when you learn to check your work. The first step is to just look and see if your answer even makes sense. If you are dividing 9 by 2, you don’t need to know 4.5 is the answer to know that .0045 is incorrect.
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.
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Just stating the facts. It’s so wrong as to be comical to assert that the Roman church resembles ANYTHING Christ ever hinted that he wanted to create.
>>So you had a personal conversation with Jesus mano y mano?
What’s comical is that Evangelicals think their American Evangelicalism is akin to the early Christians.
Any study of early Christian culture, belief, and practice will show that white American Protestism has virtually nothing in common with them.
Perhaps the liturgies might be different from what the early Christians believed, but they would recognize far more in Catholic teaching than they would in Evangelicalism.