Reminding our Separated Brethren about "Catholic Beliefs"

1962Missal · #1 May 26, '04, 8:33 am

Maybe our separated brethren need to be reminded what they owe to Holy Mother Church.

There is only one God. (De Fide)

God is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. (De Fide)

In God there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Each of the three persons possesses the one (numerical) Divine Essence. (De Fide)

The Second Divine Person proceeds from the First Divine Person by generation, and therefore is related to Him as Son to a Father. (De Fide)

The Holy Ghost proceeds from the will or from the mutual love of the Father and of the Son. (De Fide)

All that exists outside of God was, in its whole substance, produced out of nothing by God. (De Fide)

God was moved by His Goodness to create the world. (De Fide)

The world was created for the Glorification of God. (De Fide)

God alone created the World. (De Fide)

God, through His providence, protects and guides all things that He has created. (De Fide)

The first man was created by God. (De Fide)

Man consists of a material body and a spiritual soul. (De Fide)

Every human being possesses an individual soul. (De Fide)

God has conferred on Man a supernatural destiny. (De Fide)

Our First Parents became subject to death and the dominion of the Devil. (De Fide)

The Devil possesses a certain dominion over mankind by reason of Adam's sin. (De Fide)

Jesus Christ is True God and True Son of God. (De Fide)

Christ was truly generated and born of a daughter of Adam, the Virgin Mary. (De Fide)

The God-Man Jesus Christ is to be venerated with one single mode of Worship, the absolute worship of Latria which is due to God alone. (De Fide)

Christ was free from all sin, from original sin as well as from all personal sin. (De Fide)

The Son of God became Man in order to redeem man. (De Fide)

Fallen man cannot redeem himself. (De Fide)

Christ offered Himself on the Cross as a true and proper sacrifice. (De Fide)

Christ by His sacrifice on the Cross has ransomed us and reconciled us with God. (De Fide)

Christ, through His Passion and Death, merited reward from God. (De Fide)

On the third day after His death Christ rose gloriously from the dead. (De Fide)

Christ ascended body and soul into Heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. (De Fide)

Justin

bernie · #2 Jun 15, '04, 8:34 pm

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Originally Posted by 1962Missal

Maybe our separated brethren need to be reminded what they owe to Holy Mother Church...

Justin

Didn't you forget one? Miss Mass and you'll go to hell (it's a mortal sin, remember)? Oh yeah, Protestants didn't go for that one...

...Bernie

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Mfaustina1 · #3 Jun 18, '04, 8:14 pm

They also need to be reminded that they have the Bible because of the Catholic Church as well and that it never should have been tampered with such as the removal of the deuterocanonicals. Can any Protestant legitimately challenge this? I have yet to see this. - Mfaustina1

mrS4ntA · #4 Jun 18, '04, 8:27 pm

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Originally Posted by Mfaustina1

They also need to be reminded that they have the Bible because of the Catholic Church as well and that it never should have been tampered with such as the removal of the deuterocanonicals. Can any Protestant legitimately challenge this? I have yet to see this. - Mfaustina1

Interestingly on that note, a poster in another board I know said this (and paraphrased):

It's interesting to see that many anti-Catholic Protestants use a play on numbers to equate the Vatican and the Vicar to the number 666 in the Bible (which, by the way, referred to Nero, D'oh!)
Now before the Lutheran reformation the OT contained 73 books which include apocrypha and deuterocanonica. "7" and "3" are considered "perfect" numbers in Christianity, are they not? (as opposed to "6", which is why it's been used for the number of the Devil).
Luther took out 7 books out the OT, and what did that leave them? "66" books of OT. Hmm....we can answer a number play with a number play if we want too, hmmm?

Buckeyejoe · #5 Jun 27, '04, 10:32 pm

Remind the seperated bretheren that they are even seperated from one another with 30,000 different denominations!

Before the Reformation all of Europe was Catholic...So the Reformation was really a civil war, religiously speaking, so it was catholic against Catholic.

Isn't it tme the catholics, like the prodigal son, came home to the Catholics. This foolishness of twisting doctrines is nothing else but a childish little game. When you don't have the Truth all the "duct tape" in the world won't patch a false doctrine together.

Thanks