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To: ealgeone
"Again, this is why Christianity rejects roman catholic "tradition" on this topic and many others."

Christianity does not reject Catholic Tradition, heresy rejects it. Catholicism is, was and will remain the one, holy and apostolic Church from which all others split. The Church was first called Catholic in Acts 9:31 (ekklesia kath oles) before it was even called Christian in Acts 11:26.

441 posted on 04/21/2015 3:14:31 PM PDT by Eucharista
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To: Eucharista; ealgeone
>>The Church was first called Catholic in Acts 9:31 (ekklesia kath oles) before it was even called Christian in Acts 11:26.<<

Now there's a stretch I haven't seen before. "throughout all of Jedea" now somehow translates to "catholic"?

St. Ignatius of Antioch is responsible for the first known use of the Greek words katholikós (καθολικός in masculine) and katholikí ( καθολική in femenine) which mean universal, "complete" and "whole" to describe the church, writing: [http://www.socialphy.com/posts/news-politics/28716/Origin-of-the-word-Catholic_.html]

457 posted on 04/21/2015 4:01:35 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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