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Jan 13 09 1:54 PM
Do you actually think that Christs true church would be guilty of mass slaughter of born again christians and Jews?
Do you think that Christs church would have the highest percentage of pervert, pedophile and homosexual scandels of all the religions of the world?
Nope. And I don't think we do. We just get the attention when we do. It's not easy being #1.
I remember that when the priest scandal was splashed across the headlines a few years ago, I read that the Southern Baptist Convention was having a meeting to determine how to deal with pedophiles among their clergy. And how much press did that get? Only on the Catholic website I read it on. They weren't making it up, it was from a news service. It's just that the mainline press ignored it. It's more fun to pick on the Catholic Church.
Do you actually think that the true church would be steeped in ritual, oral tradition and at the same time scoff at the finality of scripture??
Yep. The ritual draws us into prayerful union with God. Oral tradition is the Tradition of the Apostles. Scripture isn't the end-all be-all. Somehow the first few centuries of Christians made it OK without a New Testament, it was all oral tradition (and the letters of the Apostles, mainly Paul's letters, when they were made available at particular churches). I'm smelling the coffee. It's indicating to me that I should be following what Paul advocated in his Letter to the Romans. Romans 16:17-18, "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple."
Except your words aren't always that good and your speech isn't always that fair. Radar
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