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1 | catholic and protestant salvation view | Eph 4:3 | Reformer Joe | 49178 | ||
"Thankfully Joe the buck doesn't stop with you. :-)" Well, I can agree with you there. "And as you know, the door swung both ways on condemnations in those days." Yes, but that doesn't address the material question I addressed. Was Trent wrong about us Protestants? Are we anathema? Is the Catechism right when it says I am basically a Roman Catholic, although a separated one in denial? So whom should I believe? The 19th ecumenical council (ratified by Pius IV), or the 1994 Catechism (given the nod by John Paul II)? I really do not intend to take an ad hominem stance, Emmaus. I simply cannot grasp how one can hold to the infallibility of the Church of Rome and reconcile these two crystal-clear official dogmatic documents. If you can help me out in seeing the harmony between the two without minimizing what either of them say, I remain fully open to let the buck pass to you... --Joe! |
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2 | catholic and protestant salvation view | Eph 4:3 | Emmaus | 49181 | ||
Joe, I don't think I will successfully clarify the issue for you. The best I can say is that the anathemas were against those promoting the dissentions of the day. And the anathema, I am sure you will find this hard to accept) is sometimes called "the charitable anathema", because thay is meant not to be a verdict of eternal damanation ( which can only be decided by God), but a breaking of fellowship in the hope that the one excommunicated will see the error of his ways and repent. This is still done today in Protestant Churches as well as the Catholic Church. Emmaus |
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