Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius: what did he really about the "ancient" Baptists

http://www.angelfire.com/ms/seanie/forgeries/hosius.html ^

[Lady In Blue]

Bumping for a later read.Thanks.

[ThomasMore]

I know just as many who have left the Catholic church for worshipping everything but God.

Any well-formed Catholic worships none other than the Triune God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This has been and is the constant teaching of the Catholic Church. Bad to no catechesis invariably leads one away from the fullness of truth. As for your statement, you simply have an incorrect understanding of the Catholic faith.

[ThomasMore]

power-hungry, money-lusting, murderous leaders

There's been sin in the Church from the beginning. Lets start with Judas. BTW, sex, silver and power are not just Catholic sins. Look at your past protestant brothers and sisters. They burnt, raped and pillaged at an equally abhorant rate. So now that we all know that sin exists and persists even in the body of Christ, what does that have to do with Christian doctrine?

[Romulus]

And then, you even kept the Word of God out of the range of the common man.

Would this be the common man who was illiterate or the common man who was too poor to afford five years' wages to purchase a handwritten bible?

There were dozens of vernacular bibles produced, with full church sanction, from the earliest times. The Douai-Reims version (the first authorised translation in modern English) was published before the KJV.

You've been taught a lot of things that aren't so. If you're going to go onto the net to argue these things, you owe it to yourself to re-examine things for yourself.

[ThomasMore]

Until then, I say purgatory is a horrendous heresy.

Do you believe that nothing impure can enter the kingdom of heaven? see Rev 21:27; Eph 5:5; 1 Cor 3:15

If God took you right now, do you think you are perfectly pure and totaly sanctified?

[ThomasMore]

I don't appreciate being damned to hell.

No one damned you to hell!

[rwfromkansas]

I am not pure, but Christ is my substitute.

[Havoc]

Oh, brother..... I like the part where they talk about canon 6 and how it doesn't affect the authority the Pope stole or how canon 6 was forged by the church to say something different at one time in an attempt to establish that the Pope might have any power.... Pretty sad.

[Havoc]

Prove Catholicism existed in name prior to 450 ad.

[ThomasMore]

I am not pure, but Christ is my substitute.

That isn't what the scriptures say.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Oh then, Can I assume you are the coward "Eddie Egan?"

[history_matters]

Please check your freepmail .

[vmatt]

HAVE YOU RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YOU BELIEVED?