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To: Arthur McGowan

“Refinement and clarification of dogma is not the same as “invention.”
The definition of dogma is incontrovertibly true. How can that be when your denomination hadn’t even reached s decision on what the word sacraments should mean. So it was not dogma, but a new procedure of Salvation. Also noted in the definition of dogma it cannot be changed or discarded, but your Church did indeed change the sacraments as stated in the previous post. You can argue all day long, but that will not make it true. Face it the Catholic Church has had major changes on Salvation and how Grace can be obtained, it’s just a fact.

Dogma
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Why this multiplicity of definitions? Because agreement hadn’t been reached on what the word sacraments should mean. As a result, many things were called sacraments in the early Church which subsequently were not identified as such.


457 posted on 01/24/2015 7:55:03 PM PST by mrobisr
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To: mrobisr

Some examples.

There are things called “sacramentals,” the most common being Holy Water and the Rosary.

It is interesting that the one ritual most explicitly described in Scripture that fits the definition of a “sacrament” (An outward sign, instituted by Christ, to give grace.”) is the Washing of the Feet. It remains part of the Mass on Holy Thursday, but is not called a sacrament, at least in the Latin Church.


460 posted on 01/24/2015 8:31:07 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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