JS: "but not the most, so take heart"
LOL! Were you referring to one of the worst of the Protestant bashers?:
"I can only conclude that this forum is worthless for true discussions between the sole remaining branches of real Christianity, Orthodox and Catholic.
Sorry if I offend my non-Catholic, non-Orthodox brethren, but frankly I'm fed up with some of the hardened, idiotic bigots on this forum."
310 posted on 6/24/02 7:15 PM Pacific by Polycarp
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.... 1500 years after Christ, someone came along who was overly scrupulous and could not bear the burden of his guilty conscience. This man was a priest, but could not control his sexual passions. He used some abuses in Christ's Church in a remote corner of Christendom as an excuse upon which to hang his revolt.
So he invented a new false gospel to assuage his guilt and foisted it on the world. Bible books that did not fit his new false gospel were simply removed on his own "authority."
... Then man questioned the authority of scripture itself, and whether God was truly Creator.
All because a man 500 years ago placed his own new false gospel of the "Bible alone" and "private interpretation of scripture" above the authority Christ Himself established as the protection against the destriction of the Gospel message Christ entrusted to His Church.
In 1930 mainstream "Bible only" protestantism fell into apostacy regarding contraception. ..
Furthermore, because mainstream protestantism and "Bible Christianity" in general condones non-procreative contraceptive sex, they have no moral authority upon which to preach against non-procreative homosexual sex. ...
... Sorry if this offends other lurkers. I'm sick of the ignorance and blindness to the brutal reality of the consequences of this so-called reformation/restoration.
52 posted on 12/23/01 11:02 AM Pacific by proud2bRC
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.... When I left Catholicism, briefly, for "bible only christianity" I quickly realized my error and sought the truth. You should do likewise.
69 posted on 12/23/01 4:29 PM Pacific by proud2bRC
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Spiritually mature people are also emotionally mature. They are quite confident and settled in their beliefs, and aren't offended or bothered in the least when others "bash" the doctrine they hold dear. In fact, they are quite willing to provide infallible Scriptural back up for all of it. And like the Bereans, they are very willing to search the Scriptures and quite open and willing to learn more from them.
They are also quite willing to be patient and bear with the more emotionally immature, too --- because they realize that it isn't possible that an emotionally immature professing Christian will have gained much in the way of spiritual maturity yet.