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You're overstepping, which you might have guessed. Of course no one knows our hearts except God. And the Scripture doesn't even give us full clarity in terms of trying to ascertain whether someone really believes in Christ, so how can we now, well after the fact, deign to pronounce limits to...

Just don't forget about Orthodoxy Keypurr. That's all I'm saying. You're fixated on Catholicism, but Orthodoxy is as equally Trinitarian as Catholicism, and just as ancient.

Agreed. I think this reflects the idea in Matthew 16:18 perfectly: "I will build my church (the elect); and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."

Don't forget the Orthodox churches Keypurr. Catholicism and Orthodoxy together comprise 60% of all the world's Christians, and it's only in the other 40% where we find anybody who doesn't believe that God is the Trinity. And Catholicism and Orthodoxy are the only Christian traditions that date...

Political ideologies form the forms of government. Monarchism forms monarchies, liberalism forms liberal regimes, socialism forms socialist regimes. Monarchs can't rule based on libertarian ideology (which is a bent of liberalism---a bent towards anarchism---as opposed to conservatism, which...

Catholicism doesn't conflict with any of that. Where did I say that. I never read anything like it in my post you replied to either.

For this thread that was a pretty long post. Tell me what I ignored in particular, that prompted this comment.

What about absolute monarchists, or absolute democrats? Both of them conflict with the liberal institutions constitutionalism, separation of powers, civilian control of the military and the rule of law. Can you be a Christian and believe in absolute monarchism? Don't forget that for most of...

The word 'elect' is a dog whistle to Calvinism. But it's always just a synonym for Church. If instead of reading so much into the word elect when it appears in Scripture, Calvinism just reads it as a synonym for Church, then Calvinists would all just be Catholics and Calvinism would be...

There's no trouble with the rendering of LOGOS as the Word, but let's see some other variants of the rendering and see if it brings any clarity: Original In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. The Voice In the...

That "new capitalism" plays out in the market and in the courts. Both of which are beyond the reach of lawmakers.

Then, that's the world today. Think about it---what's the alternative? That God wills that men do not have the ability to reject Him, right? And all the evidence is inconsistent with that theory, so we know that theory is flatly, categorically, and in binary, false. So therefore its...

Wouldn't you say then, that it was God's will that there be just One undivided Church for near 1000 years? Because that is what actually happened.

John 10:30 I and my Father are one John 14:9 he that hath seen me hath seen the Father

Wanting to know, about the bishops: Who are these guys? Who made them who they are? Where did they learn all that they teach? All the answers are in the Scripture, if you'll only neglect your own tunnel-vision when you read it.

To know the history of the Church, how it all began, including of course the earthly ministry of Christ, but also the beginning of the Apostles' ministry in actually establishing the Church on earth, which occurred during their lifetime, many events having actually been recorded in Sacred...

Thanks for demonstrating that the US suffers from a dramatic murderer problem, that we have to do something about!

That appeal is as automatic in California as their electoral votes going for the Dem candidate in the presidential elections every four years is (exception only for Repubs whose name ends in Reagan).

I agree with your scriptural example, that this was a playing out of Matthew 18:17 Thumb. ==PS Also, your example definitely shows that the Apostles were concerned with the behavior of Christians, according to Paul here explicitly, how we behave should influence how we are treated by other...