Posted on 10/08/2014 11:39:09 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Why would intelligent, successful people give up their careers, alienate their friends, and cause havoc in their families...to become Catholic? Indeed, why would anyone become Catholic?
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Good point. Excellent point. That's why I have so much confidence in what some call the "Hermeneutic of Continuity." If such-and-such is what serious scholars thought it meant for the first 1500 years, I give that credibility at a significantly higher notch than I give to Joe Gyro's sincere best guesses a millennium-and-a-half later.
Show me a teaching of the apostles contained in them that are lost by not including them.
Okay.
You repeatedly evade direct questions and reply to what you were not asked...as leftists are trained to do. You know, regular bully tactics.
You mean questions like, "Why do you worship dead people, statues, goddesses and crackers? Okay.
Would have been better if you'd passed giving your "response" and not replied disingenuously. There's more intellectual honesty in that.
Appreciate the input.
You still are not making a convincing case for the RCC's validity as the one true church of Jesus Christ. Certainly not a compelling case.
I'm only obligated to provide a defense. It's not up to me to convince others or make them believe. That's the work of the Holy Spirit. (1 Peter 3:15)
I don't think it should be surprising that this was why the Latin Vulgate became the preferred translation.
Can you imagine one of the apostles with that attitude? If that wasn’t putting an organization over Jesus I don’t know what is.
And thus we have the protestant modifier. Whereby the canonicity of the deuterocanoncials is reduced to, "Well I could've gotten it somewhere else."
none that I am aware of
I guess it’s because of His speaking to me personally, then that I am so happy about being a Catholic.
we have a lot of married priests in the Catholic church....those who were in the church of England and converted to Catholicism for example. The church could change that rule (celebicy) because it is just that, a church rule. I don't think they will though because it is nice to have people solely dedicated to the church and her members.
So there are no teaching by the apostles contained in them. Gotcha. What about things the apostles didn’t teach?
By clearly and honestly describing the poster’s behavior you will be told you are guilty of “making it personal.”
none that I am aware of
----------------------------------- Is Jesus alone sufficient for Salvation?
Take away the wax face and hands and I doubt anyone would say her body was "incorrupt".
the only Christians there for the first 1,600 years of Christianity....the dissenters came along then and now there are hundreds of groups of them each of which thinks they are right...sad
You didn’t answer the question.
Why did the Church turn away from the teachings of Jesus’ first Apostles and forbid Priests and Bishops the freedom to marry?
I’m talking about those who directly become Catholic Priests. I’m not asking about C of E converts.
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