This would go with world peace. The Roman church has the power right now to create world peace. It might not be a lasting peace but it would be long enough to get the job done.
What would make you Catholic?
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This would go with world peace. The Roman church has the power right now to create world peace. It might not be a lasting peace but it would be long enough to get the job done.
glassjester
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Would you have believed Jesus to be the Christ when He walked the earth in the first century?
glassjester
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Brother Vinny
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I don't know--too many variables. I like to think I would. If I was born in the same place--Tulsa, Oklahoma--then probably not, unless the Mormons are right about things. Am I a Gentile or a Jew? Again, there are a lot of variables.
Brother Vinny
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Sure. One of us--or neither of us--believes things about Jesus that are objectively true.
No. I was responding to Robert Pate. Go back and re-read.
There is nothing, absolutly nothing in the New Testament about a Catholic church in Rome.
John wrote to the seven churches in Asia, Revelation 1:11.
Nothing to a church in Rome. Why is that?
genuineoriginal
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And the opposite argument is that since you have idols, you cannot be Christ's Church.
Right now the biggest evidence that proves without a shadow of a doubt that the Catholic Church is not and never was the Church founded by Christ is the idols.
Therefore, it is not possible to convince me until you remove the idols.
glassjester
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So if all the statues (and paintings and stained glass windows?) were removed from Catholic churches... you'd convert?
Brother Vinny
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This is an odd thread. Just about all of the participants here are convinced by the Church as it currently stands is not Christ's Church, mainly because of how it currently stands. The obvious answer is the Church would have to become more "Protestant," to a degree in which the Catholic Church would lose much of its present identity.
Catholicism isn't going to do that, and Protestants aren't going to swim the Tiber unless they're somehow convinced the Catholic Church is more biblical than their own (and that using their biased interpretations of the text).
I just don't see the point. Maybe God likes a Christianity of many shades and hues.
Catholicism isn't going to do that, and Protestants aren't going to swim the Tiber unless they're somehow convinced the Catholic Church is more biblical than their own (and that using their biased interpretations of the text).
I just don't see the point. Maybe God likes a Christianity of many shades and hues.
glassjester
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There's nothing about Robert Pate either. Yet you are real. And you are (I assume) genuinely who you claim to be.
Do you believe that every theological truth is contained in the Bible?
glassjester
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Probably not...
Brother Vinny
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Well, He's certainly taking His time getting us to convert to the true Church.
Which, by the way, is the Eastern Orthodox.
God's gonna be so ticked at you--missed it by this || much.
genuineoriginal
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The next problem preventing my conversion would be the Augustinian Heresies.
Cruciform
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Is that what Jesus has done regarding your chosen recently-invented, man-made non-Catholic sect? :think:
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lifeguard at the cement pond
Cruciform
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Why do you assume that there would or must be?
republicanchick
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he who points his finger at others has 3 pointing back @ himself
the sins of ANY church have NOTHING to do with the TEACHINGS of the Church
Logic 101
But this is especially true in the Catholic Church. Jesus abides in His Catholic Church, tangibly. IF people ignore him, it is by choice and has nothing to do with how awesome Jesus is
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Brother Vinny
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EOC, est. circa 33 AD. As valid a claimant as anyone to Christ's sandals, wouldn't you concur?
Cruciform
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musterion
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Not me. Satan could fake that.