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To: Titanites; metmom; boatbums; caww; presently no screen name
Seriously, if you would work on your run on sentences, it might make your posts more readable

Seriously, there are no run on sentences, unless you are complaining about the proclamations of your own church.

Let's suppose that person A holds the belief that you must have faith to be saved. And let's also suppose person B claims to have no faith. In your view, has person A condemned person B to hell?

Yes. Doctrinally he has classed that person as condemned, passing judgment on the faithless, based upon what he said in the light of the authority he judges by.

"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. " (John 3:36)

"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. " (Hebrews 11:7)

What you have failed to do is to make a distinction between condemning one in the declarative sense based upon Scripture, versus claiming executive power to do execute the sentence. Yet as many RCs hold that binding and loosing extends to that, so that would apply here

With regard to the mystic body of Christ, that is, all the faithful, the priest has the power of the keys, or the power of delivering sinners from hell, of making them worthy of paradise, and of changing them from the slaves of Satan into the children of God. And God himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of his priests, and either not to pardon or to pardon, according as they refuse or give absolution, provided the penitent is capable of it. " Such is," says St. Maximus of Turin, " this judiciary power ascribed to Peter that its de cision carries with it the decision of God." 2 The sen tence of the priest precedes, and God subscribes to it. Dignity and Duties of the Priest, St. Alphonsus Ligouri, Vol. 12, p. 2. http://www.archive.org/stream/alphonsusworks12liguuoft/alphonsusworks12liguuoft_djvu.txt

506 posted on 06/10/2012 3:55:35 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a damned+morally destitute sinner,+trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212
Yes. Doctrinally he has classed that person as condemned

Person A may have a view what will condemn person B if his ways aren't changed, but person A has not condemned person B to hell, just as the Church has no power do damn anyone to hell. As was stated earlier, The Church, like all churches, has declared that certain practices and beliefs will result in damnation, but doesn't claim the ability to enforce it.

What you have failed to do is to make a distinction between condemning one in the declarative sense based upon Scripture, versus claiming executive power to do execute the sentence.

The distinction has already been made.

513 posted on 06/10/2012 5:59:44 PM PDT by Titanites
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