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To: aMorePerfectUnion
And yes, I lay the opening of the door to Oneness Pentecostals and Jehovah's Witnesses at his door because when it comes to "anyone can interpret any which way" it ends up as "a little knowledge of something is a dangerous thing" - instead of opening themselves up fully it becomes "my interpretation is the greatest"

You do realize that the Jehovah's Witnesses are a rehashing of what Arius taught right? This was one man who impetuously became a priest and then didn't read through the earlier heresies who opened up the pandora's box

189 posted on 11/07/2018 6:23:29 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos; daniel1212
And yes, I lay the opening of the door to Oneness Pentecostals and Jehovah's Witnesses at his door because when it comes to "anyone can interpret any which way"

You've built a straw man here and now tear it down. Not a valid argument.

Daniel112, you should see this.

196 posted on 11/07/2018 6:44:51 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Cronos; aMorePerfectUnion
And yes, I lay the opening of the door to Oneness Pentecostals and Jehovah's Witnesses at his door because when it comes to "anyone can interpret any which way" it ends up as "a little knowledge of something is a dangerous thing" - instead of opening themselves up fully it becomes "my interpretation is the greatest"

You can only wish that the Roman model for unity fostered more and stronger unity than when Scripture is strongly esteemed as the accurate and wholly inspired word of God, with its basic literal hermeneutic. For the reality is that official church statements are not the Scriptural basis for determination of what she believers, versus what she otherwise says and does and effects .

And beyond the smoke and mirrors and pomp and ceremony, Catholicism is an unholy amalgamation of variant beliefs, from far Left liberal to ultra traditional. All of which for decades Rome has manifestly considered such members in life and in death.

Consistent with this, her own Bible Scholarship abounds with liberalism, as has been manifest for decades in the notes and helps of her own official American Bible.

Yet RCs would have us leave conservative evangelical fellowships and become brethren with the likes of Ted Kennedy RCs.

Meanwhile, for decades (if less so now) evangelical-types have testified to the greatest degree of unity in basic beliefs asked of them in poll after poll, and manifest such a conservative unity that they are the most targeted religious groups both liberals and Catholics alike.

And it is hardly RC leadership that effectively contends against cults such as you mention, but it has been Bible Christians who are found to be most active contending against them. And rather than these cults being like evangelical churches in seeking to be faithful to what the flock finds Scripture teaching, they actually basically operate more like the RC model, in which leadership presumes a level of ensured veracity above that which is written of leadership, and such hold to the most serious errors.

Thus while we certainly have our problems, your charges fail critical analysis, and its remains that Rome is the most manifest deformation the NT church, with Catholic distinctives not being manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels), which is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation.

262 posted on 11/08/2018 5:18:10 PM PST 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: Cronos
You do realize that the Jehovah's Witnesses...

Who really cares about their 'theology'?

It is their FALSE PROPHECIES that have exposed them as FRAUDS.

286 posted on 11/08/2018 7:08:21 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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