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To: mrobisr

The Council of Trent did NOT “make it official” for the first time. The CoT restated the Church’s teaching because it was being denied by the Protestants.

Teh Council of Trent also said that Jesus rose from the dead. Are you going to argue that it took the Catholic Church 1500 years to “invent” the Resurrection?

Many anti-Catholic propagandists make the same blunder: They find an instance where the Church’s teaching is restated, and they proclaim that THAT is the moment when the teaching was “invented.”


180 posted on 01/21/2015 9:34:32 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
Many anti-Catholic propagandists make the same blunder...

THAT was a genuinely humorous line, Art. Guess we know that you're loyal RCC to the bitter end, eh? There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth at the end, we're told.

Jesus is the only Way to be reconciled to God, Art. Not membership in the RCC or any other man-made enterprise.
186 posted on 01/21/2015 9:41:31 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: Arthur McGowan

Normal deflection from you and just words no proof. The CoT did indeed say that you must have the sacraments for Salvation and that Grace by itself wasn’t sufficient (official)or be anathema. Words like establish, present, enact, and new mean that it was NOT official in the past! Yes denied by the Prots, but that’s not the reason it was made official by the Catholics. Your Church made them official because it was hemorrhaging parishioners by the thousands. The brainstorming CoT came up with the idea of making people fear losing their Salvation by making all the sacraments and absolute and the Church the only way to do that or be anathema. I’m not a propagandist, but you are either willfully ignorant of your Church history or intentionally deceitful you pick.

See presiding, adhering to the teaching of the Holy Scriptures, to the Apostolic traditions, and to the unanimous teaching of other councils and of the Fathers, has thought it proper to establish and enact these present canons;

Canon 1. If anyone says that the sacraments of the New Law were not all instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ, or that there are more or less than seven, namely, baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, penance, extreme unction, order and matrimony,[1] or that any one of these seven is not truly and intrinsically a sacrament, let him be anathema.


315 posted on 01/22/2015 7:20:05 PM PST by mrobisr
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