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John Wesley was a holy man, and an Anglican priest his whole life. The backdrop of his life was in 17th century England, where is was almost illegal to be a Catholic. Had he been born in Italy, he would probably have become a Fransican. His Arminian teachings grew later to blossom into the...

That might be because there are few Catholics in here.....can't imagine why. :rolleyes: The charge of "One World Government" from the Pope is hate speech from paranoid fundamentalists. It insinuates that the Vatican is/will be in league with the United Nations for world domination. This shows...

Here's my $.02 Every major world religion can be reduced to a single symbol. The cross is a symbol of the Christian faith. It can be found in a majority of churches. Zillions of Christians of all flavors wear a cross in some form, not so much to remind us of Jesus, but to display an identity...

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The topic has been well answered by Angelina in the second quote...... next topic?

What is your point? What that means is, scripture is and alway has been the primary source for doctrine; is there something wrong with that?? 'prima scritura' is not 'sola scriptura'., and I think you are either very young or very confused, You obviously harbor an irrational hatred for...

Good post, marksman. Project Rachael is a non-denominational ministry. Not all abortion is induced. Some women grieve the loss of a spontaneous miscarriage. Project Rachel is the name of the Catholic Church’s healing ministry to those who have been involved in abortion. Its name comes from...

Oops. My last post was off topic. Shame on me. What is needed here is a multi-denominational perspective, in keeping with with the spirit of the non-denominal denomination where respectful dialogue is tantamount. Six Protestant pastors all from different denominations discuss their...

This is the fundamental difference between us, Nomad. My Bible is the fruit of the Church, your church is the fruit of the bible. You cannot discuss or debate reasonably. As I said in the Bereans thread, good bye. Pentacostal / Evangelical Pastor Converts to Catholicism...

It doesn't matter how you interpret "oracles". You ignore "you need someone to teach you" in the verse which refutes sola scriptura. Let me rephrase my claim. The term "apocrypha" is a term used elusively by the reformers, by most Protestants, and some Catholics to refer ONLY to the DC's when...

That's fine and dandy but there is a problem. Everybody becomes their own pope, except the Pope. :blink: In the final analysis the Protestant individual (no matter how educated, nuanced, sophisticated) is left on his own to determine doctrinal, ecclesiological, liturgical, even moral orthodoxy...

So what. Jerome was wrong. Judith was written in Greek, not Hebrew. Among which Jews? The Hellenists who didn't like Greek Jews because they weren't Hebrew enough and rejected the message of the New Testament? Apocrypha means "hidden" if memory serves correctly. They can call them "among the...

Teaching is reserved for the recognized teachers of Catholicism, that's true because it is biblical, and it is biblical because it is true. . All the teachings are available on web sites. Perhaps what you mean to say is that the Church is a teaching Church, not a learning church, which is true...

I can't be sure about this, but I always thought that the pagan Roman empire consisted of 7 Herodian dynasties withing 10 kingdoms of the known world. If that is true, it kinda blows the profits of doom and gloom out of the water, cuz they never mention it.

[/i] If you bother to read your own quote, you will see that the Apocrypha books were not accepted by the Church because of their gnostic content. There were about 12 "gospels" and "15 books of acts" floating around. You are twisting this to suggest that the Apocryphal books and the...

Let the readers see that this quote affirms the Catholic position,. The Church has never denied the importance of scripture. Nomad's use of bold font exposes his selectivity, just has he has pompously selected snippets out of context from a Geek grammar text book. "But in learning the Faith and...

The works of the flesh refers to the preoccupation with wealth, pleasure, power and honor. The world, our ordinary experiences, the things day to day…the things we think will make us happy ... The world of nature is not evil. Excesses, yes but grace builds on nature. Anything wrong with the...

Yea, go the Bereans link where Nolan gets his ego deflated. In addition, double posting is strongly discouraged in this forum. The thread was falling on the list and the reason dragonfly made a post (irrelevant at that) was to bump it up to the top of the page so Our Blessed Mom can be further...

Determining the canon of scripture was a long and complicated process. It took hundreds of years of discernment. The Bible did not fall out of the sky in 33 AD bound in black leather in the KJV. :blink: The authority that determined the canon of the New Testament is the same authority that...

Luther's Protestant Bible came out 1520 and before his Bible the Catholic Bible had been translated into Spanish, Italian, Danish, French, Norwegian, Polish, Bohemian, Hungarian and English, there was exactly 104 editions in Latin; 38 editions in German language, 25 editions in Italian language...