So priests don’t get a call from God to go into the priesthood?
That explains a lot.
Metmom queries:
“So priests don’t get a call from God to go into the priesthood?â€
Response
Yes, priests do. But the call is to preach ONE truth since God established ONE Church that existed for over 300 years even before the Church fathers assembled the written word of God we call the Bible.
This explains why pre-eminent Lutheran and Episcopalian theologians who were also leading pastors, upon realizing the error of what they were preaching converted to Catholicism.
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Boatbums inquires:
Was there “no heresy prior to the Reformation?
Response
Yes, and the Catholic Church refuted those heresies, in the same way as it does the cluster of heresies spawned by the curse of the Reformation that has allowed each Tome, Dick, and Harry and semi-literate neighborhood First Baptist; First Emmanuel; First Christ: First XYZ pastor to stand behind a podium and display “his†or “her†own view of scripture not unlike Jeremiah Wright and David Koresh.
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KinsmanRedeemer writes:
“Explain the worldwide, regional, and even local contradictions in Holy Roman Catholic “churches”â€
You are mistaking local customs of worship with Catholic doctrine.
Response:
We have ONE Catholic Faith. It’s called the Credo and it is recited in every Mass in every city, village, and town, and every corner of the world.
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HossB86 writes:
CCC 841 ….teaches Roman Catholics and Muslims worship the “same, merciful God....”?
Response
This is precisely the kind of shallow nonsense that is the staple stuff of Bible Christians. When you take stuff like this just as you throw out Biblical quotes- out of context, it reduced serious learning to sham.
Do you have a CCC on hand?
PART ONE, Page One of the CCC “THE PROFESSION OF FAITH”
Article 9....”I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church” pg 197 You would have to start here then proceed to the following page’s................
Paragraph III “The Church is One Holy Catholic and Apostolic!”:
Title of sub section I
“THE CHURCH IS ONE” pg-214
Title of sub-section II
“THE CHURCH IS HOLY” pg-218
Title of this sub section III, is..............
“THE CHURCH IS CATHOLIC” 830-838 pg 220-222
This proceeds to............
“The Church and Non-Christians” ...........and its starts............
839 “Those who have NOT yet received the Gospel are related to the people of God in “various ways.” page 222
Then of course this elaborates from 839-845 and ends there pages 222-224.
Then this is picked up immediately with.............
“Outside the Church there in No Salvation”
Then of course this elaborates from 846-848.pages 224-225...........then to..
“Mission- a Requirement of the Church’s Catholicity” 849-856 pages 225-226..............then to..
Sub Section IV
“THE CHURCH IS APOSTOLIC” 857-862 pages 227-229
The CCC is a book of 800 pages including the index, and just like the Bible it cannot be read Sola Scriptura. It must be understood in context/content. Otherwise it becomes ones own pretext.
So then the section in question here is “The Church and Non-Christians” and to clearly understand this you much clearly understand the pre AND post sections in context with the entire CCC.
“The Church and Non-Christians”
839 “Those who have NOT yet received the Gospel are related to the people of God in “various ways.” page 222