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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

The Roman Catholic claim to fame is based on the idea that they are the inheritors of an unchanging tradition taken straight from the Apostles from day one. IOW, the diversity of views, even with Popes contradicting current RCC teachings, certainly disproves this notion. The tradition shouldn’t be different from one Bishop to another or one Pope to another, and it shouldn’t take more than a thousand years before someone even uses the phrase “Transubstantiation,” as opposed to consubstantiation, or some other iation, in a Council, and another few hundred years for them to even define what that meant (and even after that, there was disunity in their understanding of what Trent even taught on the matter).

I will congratulate you on your admission of your misunderstanding of the Magisterial office. Individual doctrinal opinions do not a Church make. It is the Church who gathers the opinions and decides on doctrine. It is not the individuals, as in the however many thousand Protestant denominations, who decide what Christ wants us to believe.

This is the first admission of misunderstanding that I have seen you make since you have rejoined FR under another name. I must pat you on the shoulder and call you George.

31 posted on 05/10/2013 7:01:20 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)

Individual doctrinal opinions do not a Church make. It is the Church who gathers the opinions and decides on doctrine.

44 posted on 05/10/2013 7:44:28 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

“I will congratulate you on your admission of your misunderstanding of the Magisterial office. Individual doctrinal opinions do not a Church make.”

And I am sure you will find for me where those Popes and Bishops were condemned by the Magisterium they were a part of. After all, they were teaching contrary to the long-held tradition of the church.

“This is the first admission of misunderstanding that I have seen you make since you have rejoined FR under another name. I must pat you on the shoulder and call you George.”

Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen you resort to pathetically weak arguments followed up with an Ad-hom.

57 posted on 05/10/2013 8:40:59 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans

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