If I were a member of a denomination - such as the Presbyterian church - I would rather tell people about the teachings of my denomination and the gospel than spend my time attacking the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church and whatever denominations and independent groups I didn't like. How about you?
1. Disagree does not equal attack. What we find in the "cults" and unfortunately at times in mainstream Christianity is a most unseemly "persecution complex" which seems to take comfort and confirmation in ignoring anything that questions their denomination's unique beliefs and twists that into confirmation that they
must be right because some think they are wrong. "How come everybody's always pic'n on pur
ME - those ignorant, hateful, divisive, unchristian, anti, bigoted idiots!!!!" Well..... Perhaps anything to evade the issue of truth. Perhaps confusing disagreement with persecution.
2. The RC Denomination INVENTED rebuking others for disagreeing with what it itself uniquely teaches. How silly for it to condemn others for what it did first. "Pot calling kettle black."
3. If a denomination declares some opinion to be DE FIDE DOGMA of it itself (such as Mary rose bodily upon her death - or was it undeath?, or that the elements in Communion undergo an alchemic Transubstantiation leaving behind Aristotelian Accidents but only if performed by a priest of the RC Denomination and perhaps the EOC if the RCC says so) then it is up to that denomination to substantiate its own unique, divisive DE FIDE DOGMA as true. Simply shouting, "well I alone now teach it!!!!
So there!!! It means all OTHERS are wrong if they teach some unique dogma!!!!) simply is an evasion of the issue, a declaration that truth doesn't matter in the sole, individual, unique case of that singular denomination. Catholics shouting: "Truth matters for all but MY Denomination!" simply reinforces the absurdity and division...... Catholics shouting, "YOU must prove YOUR unique DE FIDE DOGMAS as truth - but if you so much as indicate truth matters in the RCC, then YOU are a hateful, unchristian, unloving ANTI-Catholic!!!!" Well.... it's silly but revealing. And it gets tiring as its done over and and over and over by Catholics with the Persecution Complex and contradictory view that truth ONLY matters in the case of non-Catholics.
4. In the RCC (and also LDS), the denomination MATTERS (above everything else) and so neither seems able to say more than a sentence without speaking of self. But others don't share this extreme obsession with self, others don't share this obesession of the unmitigated, unaccountable power and lordship of self. Thus, you just won't find others going on and on and on and on and on about self we do with the RCC. Frankly, the reality that other denominations do NOT do as the RCC (and LDS) do as a very good thing.
Thank you.
Blessings to your new year....
- Josiah
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