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  1. MoreCoffee

    Do you believe that denominations existed in the fourth century?

    Yes, but wasn't saint Paul condemning the Corinthians for having factions like that? It is not as though saint Paul approved of them, right?
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    Do you believe that denominations existed in the fourth century?

    Are you suggesting that the chap in question in Luke 9:50 was starting a new denomination of christians?
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    Saint Augustine on the Church.

    Are you claiming that the Church n Rome made some significant theological changes around the time of the first council of Nicea?
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    Do you believe that denominations existed in the fourth century?

    Weren't they the product of the 5th century (431 & 451 AD)?
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    Saint Augustine on the Church.

    The first two posts in this thread ought to be treated as the original post. Both are quotes from Saint Augustine's The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love written some time between 419 AD and 422 AD. An Enchiridion is a "hand book". The work is also called The Augustine Catechism. (online source)
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    Saint Augustine on the Church.

    CHAPTER XVI. Problems About Heavenly and Earthly Divisions of the Church 60. It is more important to be able to discern and tell when Satan transforms himself as an angel of light, lest by this deception he should seduce us into harmful acts. For, when he deceives the corporeal senses, and...
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    Saint Augustine on the Church.

    CHAPTER XV. The Holy Spirit (56) and the Church (57-60) 56. Now, when we have spoken of Jesus Christ, the only Son of God our Lord, in the brevity befitting our confession of faith, we go on to affirm that we believe also in the Holy Spirit, as completing the Trinity which is God; and after...
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    Can you be sinless for even one second?

    Can you be sinless for even one second? yes no do not know do not care other
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    Can one be sinless for any amount of time in this life?

    Some here advocate theologies which appear to deny that sinlessness can exist in any human being for any measurable amount of time. Do you believe that way too?
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    Do you believe that denominations existed in the fourth century?

    In the history of ideas do you think that the concept of denomination existed in the fourth century AD?
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    Other dimensions and other universes.

    Here's a sci fi story about the concept of alternate universes in which alternate laws of nature exist.
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    The Communion of Saints

    I hoped so but then Josiah chipped in and now you too. The agenda never dies it seems.
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    The Communion of Saints

    When the Nicene Creed was written there was just one holy catholic and apostolic church with the church at Rome counted as first in prestige, even though many heresies were abroad and some schisms also. Paganism had the majority of the population. There were no denominations. The concept of...
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    The Communion of Saints

    532 The Evangelist St. John, writing to the faithful on the divine mysteries, explains as follows why he undertook to instruct them in these truths: That you may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship may be with the Father, and with his son Jesus Christ. This fellowship consists in the...
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    Catholic Only The Church.

    "I Believe the Holy Catholic Church" 525 Finally, with regard to the Church, the pastor should teach how to believe the Church can constitute an Article of faith. Although reason and the senses are able to ascertain the existence of the Church, that is, of a society of men on earth devoted and...
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    Catholic Only The Church.

    Figures of the Church 521 The figures of the Old Testament have great power to stimulate the minds of the faithful and to remind them of these most beautiful truths. It was for this reason chiefly that the Apostles made use of these figures. The pastor, therefore, should not overlook so fruitful...
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    So... What are YOU doing?

    Why so much pie?
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    Wake up; what you say about the Catholic Church creates a bad reputation for CH.

    Yes Catholics wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
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    Seeking perfection.

    Yet God said of Job "Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil." And Enoch pleased God.
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    Seeking perfection.

    What do you make of that? Must saint Paul continue as a blasphemer and a persecutor and an arrogant man to fulfil this "I am" as you are reading it?
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