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I thought to start a new series of threads called "How do you view?" How do you view the Catholic Church What do you approve or disprove of their beliefs? why?
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I thought to start a new series of threads called "How do you view?" How do you view the Catholic Church What do you approve or disprove of their beliefs? why?
Unfortunately for that claim, he said, "unto thee," and not "unto thee and thy successors," and the New Testament clearly shows Peter deferring to James.I think the Catholic Church has the best claim to being founded by Christ himself. The Orthodox Church has nearly the same claim, but they reject the Petrine Primacy, when Scripture clearly has Christ giving the keys of the kingdom of heaven to St. Peter.
Close...but no cigar.I believe the Catholic Church is the church founded directly by Jesus...
I believe the Catholic Church is the church founded directly by Jesus...
They need to ordain women priests for a start and then elect a woman pope. As women bear children the prohibition on birth control nonsense would soon be kicked into touch!
Okay, I'm all about women and everything (wink) but if you want a church with women priests and a woman pope and everyone using condoms...go start your own.
"Where three or four are gathered, there's always a fifth!...:drunk:They can't provide the pope but for women clergy, gay clergy and condoms if you please, I gather that the Anglicans are the way to go.
"Roman Catholic Church" isn't really a title. It's a descriptor. This group is the part of the universal (catholic) Church centered in Rome. It's not hubris.doppelgänger;1031870 said:It's biggest problem is on display right in its name. In incredible arrogance, its leadership asserts itself to be the interpretive voice of "God" itself. The result is that authority takes precedence over direct experience and the world is carved up into pieces - "Catholic/heretic," "saved/unsaved," etc. It becomes easy for the rightness of belief and observance of the ritual to take precedence over love and listening.
Of course, that's a two-way street. Individuals have to relinquish their inheritance for the Church to have authority.
I don't understand your last sentence. It is because of the Church that Christ is mediated to the world, and, therefore, the world inherits God's kingdom.
Huh??? How do you figure that?doppelgänger;1032025 said:Rather, despite the Church, I'd say. :yes:
The Church is not a particular building, group, organization, ideology, etc. The Church is the mystical Body of Christ. It knows no particular theology or identity other than that. Everything else is so much fluff. maybe you're referring to the fluff...but I hope you're not referring to the Church.
The only reason I have any respect for the Catholic church is that they 1) at least have good intentions and 2) stuck around long enough for Protestants to appear.
And you forgot 3) Provided something for Protestants to protest!
One time they asked James Dean what he was rebelling against, and he said, "What have you got?" A latter day Martin Luther.