Ahh THE MISCONCEPTIONS

[Jaime]

PS I'll be praying for your meeting on Tuesday.

[dairygirl4u2c]

Actually Jas is being lawyerly with his definition of "change". If the real presence is true, and people did not kneel at first, then put two and two together and kneeled, then sure the doctrine "changed", but the essential elements did not. If someone were to say the doctrine changed, people would say "but doctrine cannot change!". The distinction between "changed" and "developed" is put out there as implied. If you want to be a lawyer about it, then sure you can say that developing is changing, but you're missing the point.

Also, Jas mentioned that the CC is only infallible in the essentials, but that a lot of other Churches are have those beliefs. Does that mean that he believes that the CC cannot error in fundamental doctrine or? The CC teaches that it does err as a people but does not err as a teaching of official doctrine.

Edited May 6, 2006 by dairygirl4u2c

[Franimus]

[quote name='Jesuspaidtheprice' post='973258' date='May 6 2006, 02:50 AM']
I'd like to think that I don't have that many misconceptions. I don't know all there is to know about Catholic history or the faith. But I know enough to know that Catholics are divided, even on what truth is, no less than Protestants are. Look at the debates you've had between the two camps you call traditionalists and charismatics. It seems even in Catholicism a wide variety of beliefs are permissible. I just don't get why some Catholics remain Catholics with how critical and negative they are of the Pope. It's a lot better to just be out on your own than to live without love.

Peace.
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Actually, I kind of agree with that last statement. I think that many people need to learn to love, above all. I've heard it said many times that the Bible is the book of love; that the one word to sum up the entire bible is Love. We just need to teach others to love, and from there, everything else will follow. I said I agree with your statement because I'd rather see a Protestant who is truely in love with God than to see a bitter Catholic. Ideally, I'd first teach the Catholic to love, and then teach the Protestant the truth of the Church. Please do not misinterpret what I have said.