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To: Trailerpark Badass
Let me ask you: if there is some teaching, uttered by some obscure priest centuries ago, that is in error, that I don’t acknowledge, much less practice, I am still condemned, because I consider myself “Catholic?”

No, and that is not being argued here, for instead the issue is of the premise of the Catholic church as the elitist one true church to whom all are to submit, and her distinctives, and of Traditional RCs condemning us evangelicals for reproving her. We are even accused of hating Mary for protesting the exaltation of her as a demigoddess.

And if you do not affirm the Catholic church as the uniquely one true church then the TradCats will also attack you, while insofar as you affirm Catholic distinctives which are not manifest in the the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed, then you can expect us to challenge these beliefs, consistent with Jude 1:3. Love for God, His Truth and souls requires it.

As for me, I find my hands full enough with Christ’s two commandments, which seem to entail continuous, life-long attention.

Me also, but which extends to worship in Spirit and in Truth, and to the glory of God, and to the welfare of others, thus "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." (Jude 3)

179 posted on 06/23/2018 8:33:57 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

Fair enough. I’m sure I believe things that many Catholics would cringe at. Some might be doing that right now. I’ve never thought, nor remember being taught, that Protestants were not saved. That would not bode well for my Presbyterian father.


183 posted on 06/23/2018 8:53:33 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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