Do Budge and Eutychus agree on theology?

[chris]

go get them Father!

[peach_cube]

[quote name='Eutychus' post='1049271' date='Aug 23 2006, 10:14 PM']
Not to belabor the point, but they do wear silk dresses.

Evangelicals would laugh a preacher out of the pulpit who showed up gussied up like those dandies, with watered silk, lace, and such.

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Never been to an Evangelical Luthern service have you?

[jswranch]

[quote name='Eutychus' post='1049271' date='Aug 23 2006, 08:14 PM']
Not to belabor the point, but they do wear silk dresses.
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[img]http://www.frommyheart.org/view/uploads/jesus10034517.JPG[/img]

Sounds like the same type of outfit Jesus wore. I guess Catholics and other [s]Protestants[/s]Christians are guilty of trying to be like Christ.

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[Theologian in Training]

[quote name='jswranch' post='1050847' date='Aug 26 2006, 02:16 AM']
[img]http://www.frommyheart.org/view/uploads/jesus10034517.JPG[/img]

Sounds like the same type of outfit Jesus wore. I guess Catholics and other [s]Protestants[/s]Christians are guilty of trying to be like Christ.

[img]http://www.stjames-hamptonhill.org.uk/images/Inside/BrianR.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.choir-robes.com/choir-robe-styles/ontario.jpg[/img]
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Fancy

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Eutychus' post='1048683' date='Aug 23 2006, 05:41 AM']
I also find it ludicrous that the RC poster seems to hint that ALL Catholics believe what Rome teaches. There is just as wide a range of beliefs inside the Catholic Church as anywhere else. On PAPER you might have a claim to uniformity of belief, but in REALITY, there is more outright hostility and divergent beliefs betwen a militant Opus Dei Catholic, and a Minnesota Far Left liberal Catholic. Not to mention the VAST differences between other countries and here and there.[/quote]

It's easy to perceive that. There are, of course, some valid disagreements within the faith (for instance, whether the Blessed Virgin actually died or not), but there really aren't any on a doctrinal level. The Church is an organism. Like any organism, there are cells which grow too much, too quickly, and, if I may anthropomorphize individual cells, think quite a bit of themselves, to the point that they get quite large and begin spreading. In anatomy, such things are usually called cancers. No one who has a severe case of skin cancer says, "I'm 95% human and 5% cancerous," or, "I'm human, but I have cancer," as if cancer somehow takes away from humanity. So it is in the Church. I do not mean to call dissenting individuals a cancer, although their false doctrines certainly are, but they simply aren't really part of the Church. The Church, therefore, says, "I am Catholic...I believe universally," and it doesn't matter what the dissenters say they are (even if they insist that they are Catholic) any more than it matters what cancer would say (even if it insisted it was human).