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To: caww
This is all very interesting. It's pretty to look at. Nice and shiny. Here's the money quote, "Thus it is true, in a certain sense , that some Catholic rites and ceremonies are a reproduction of those of pagan creeds." It all comes down to the most basic question doesn't it? What it is, versus what does it look like?

Once again proving that for a protestant, the order of the day is style over substance.

403 posted on 09/15/2014 2:59:25 AM PDT by JPX2011
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To: JPX2011
....”It all comes down to the most basic question doesn't it? What it is, versus what does it look like?”.....

No, it ALL comes down to how God sees it and says about it according to His written word....not how man wants it to be otherwise according to his own traditions and/or all the ‘add ons’ Catholicism may want to attach in order to justify false practices and rituals.

406 posted on 09/15/2014 3:35:48 AM PDT by caww
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To: JPX2011

...”for a protestant, the order of the day is style over substance”.....

For a Christian it’s about substance without forgetting style too has it’s place. Jesus taught using both...


407 posted on 09/15/2014 4:04:23 AM PDT by caww
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To: JPX2011
Once again proving that for a protestant, the order of the day is style over substance.

Oh...

I see...




446 posted on 09/15/2014 5:46:26 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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