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To: CynicalBear

The Catholic Church has been converting pagans for the last 2,000 years.


144 posted on 09/14/2014 9:09:01 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet
>>The Catholic Church has been converting pagans for the last 2,000 years.<<

And incorporating their pagan beliefs and customs into Catholicism.

If the candles which were formerly distributed at the Saturnalia are now identified with the feast of the Purification of our Lady? What, I ask, is there so surprising if holy bishops have allowed certain customs firmly rooted among pagan peoples, and so tenaciously adhered to by them that even after their conversion to Christianity they could not be induced to surrender them, to be transferred to the worship of the true God?" (Baronius, "Annales", ad ann. 58, n. 77). (as cited in Thurston, Herbert. "Lights." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. Nihil Obstat.October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.21 Dec. 2009 )

Even though God said not to.

9 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations...12 For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming. (Deuteronomy 18:9,12, DOT)

147 posted on 09/14/2014 9:21:44 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: NKP_Vet
The Catholic Church has been converting pagans for the last 2,000 years.

Not when it allows syncretism, that they can incorporate their pagan beliefs into Catholicism.

155 posted on 09/14/2014 9:29:59 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: NKP_Vet
The Catholic Church has been converting pagans for the last 2,000 years.

Conversion is not regeneration. The Catholic Church does not and cannot save anybody. Regeneration, saving a person, giving a human new spiritual absolute life is a sovereign power that God arrogates exclusively to Himself.

246 posted on 09/14/2014 11:39:17 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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