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  1. Arsenios

    Parting

    One thing that it does teach is that every person is given a portion/talent... And that what they do with what they are given is what matters to God... God gives the talent(s)... Man takes action with the talent(s) God Gives... God gives the Gift of Salvation to those: "Who have not received...
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    I would second that - Josiah, can you cite a Christian Theologian who uses the term "Justification narrow"? Because as you are using it, you are simply describing a divine encounter one degree or another, wherein someone comes away with the conviction that God is real and one had better do...
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    That is what I suspected - The RCC at CAF has a lot of ink on what is wrong with Luther and his ideas, but no one singular big "heresy" with which they charge him... MC gave a good link to their account of Luther's bio, of which I read a paragraph, and that was enough, as they were looking to...
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    Well, MC, expecting to convert anyone on-line in a hostile debating encounter is not realistic, although hoping for simple and clear and, dare I say, honestly humble, articulations of points of view should hold more promise, mind you! :) I mean, I read your post, and thanked God that I am not...
  5. Arsenios

    "Be angry and sin not"

    Please pm me with her name that I may pray for her directly... And yours too, if you wish... WWII came to Europe ruled by Hitler, and all manner of hell was unleashed... The survivors understood that this life is not about this life, and became solid citizens... I am sorry for your greivous...
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    That is a laundry list of complaints, MC... But my real hope was for Josiah to present his understanding of the 'erroneous' Latin charges against Luther in the best light possible... He tends to set up straw man positions and then burns them cheerfully, and I was hoping he might present the...
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    So Josiah, IF CAF were to articulate from their RCC perspective the exact nature of Luther's Heresy as they understand it, then what, exactly, would they say it is or was? And what would be their reply to it? Strictly from their pov, please... Arsenios
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    Garsch! Thank-you... 'Twarn't nuttin'... I was but replying in kind... :):):) A.
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    The defense rests... Let the offenses continue!! :) I mean, sometimes less is more, more or less... Which is neither hear nor thair... Mind you... Arsenios
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    He said he was just getting tired of stupid... Arsenios
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    I think you just want to kick back, munch your pop-corn, and watch the theological MMA of the Orthodox vs the Latins! I mean, Josiah! Do you find ME to be shy? You were not making sense out of how it could be that I supported MC and your errant brand of Lutheranism at the same time, and...
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    :hiphiphooray::hiphiphooray::hiphiphooray:!!!HOORAY!!!:hiphiphooray::hiphiphooray::hiphiphooray: :) You by your name are my alter-ego! So why are you so shy? Josiah wants to know... Arsenios
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    Well, that was when the Great Schism was initiated in Constantinople... The Latins came to us angrily demanding to know WHY we had DELETED the Filioque from the Creed... When they discovered wrongly that they had added it, they insisted that they had the Petrine Authority to do so... Control...
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    Aaahhh! Transubstantiation is for us a rather petty and silly matter, easily accomodated... Yet the Mystery which it seeks to account so shallowly is profound... That Mystery is the union of God with creation in man... The Marriage of the Lamb... Arsenios
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    Massacre of St. Bartholomew's day

    The establishment of the Reformation bears these Martyrs' Witness... The West is authoritarian... The USA tries not to be... Arsenios
  16. Arsenios

    Parting

    Bossy Protestants can be annoying, 'tis true... So can bossy moralistic busybodies of any stripe... Orthodox included... But it doesn't mean they are bad persons... We disagree on this matter... We can be adults about it... We can simply be... Christians in the Love of God... Arsenios
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    Do you rejoice that he was driven off??? Lord have Mercy! Arsenios
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    Well, we had heard of this Filioque in the West, and had eliminated it whenever it showed up in the East, and were waiting for it to quell itself, which under Papal Authority it could not do... The split went formal in 1054 when the Cardinals slapped the papal Bull of Excommunication on the...
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    God bless you... I tried to read those arguments, but they are so contorted to me, and I am truely rather spoiled by the pure waters of the Orthodox Fathers, that I quickly bog down in the "proofs"... The Scholastic Tradition is one that makes the Dogma of the Faith at Rome into a kind of...
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    "Catholic Answers" Why Did Luther's Heresy Persist?

    You are right - They do not seem to want to take Luther head-on... And they seem to be reconciled to have a partial union rather than none at all... A kind of "We can all get along on the basics can't we?" But as to re-litigation of the Reformation issues, they would rather leave them and...
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