At 08:16 PM 8/8/04, Dan Minette wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:32 PM Subject: Re: Objective Evil
> > O.k., given your proposed definition of "Catholic", how do you define > "Protestant"? Are Protestants just simply a sect within the Catholic > Church?
Sure, that's easy. Protestants are those folks who willingly and deliberately maintain a separation from the Catholic church.
So am I correct in interpreting that as saying that {x|x is a Protestant} .union. {y|y is a Catholic} is equivalent to the set of all Christians, or, IOW, anyone who belongs to a church which worships Christ is either a Protestant or a Catholic?
(I am not attempting to provoke argument or sound stupid here, but simply to rigorously clarify what you are actually saying before making any comments.)
I, for example, make a point of the fact that I use a Catholic bible. I strongly disagree with double predestination. I tend towards the Catholic view of prayers for the dead. I chide my Presbyterian friends for minimizing the importance of the Communion of Saints.
As best I can discern, the Spirit is working from the ground up to bring the church into closer union. I do not feel the desire or the need to renounce my Catholic tradition of faith in order to be a member of a church that is not Catholic. Indeed, talking to one of the priests at St. Anthony, I found the rule is that I can be members of a Catholic parish and a Protestant church; I just cannot be an active officer of both at the same time. So, while I served as an elder, I couldn't also be a lector at the Catholic church. I could still be a member, though.
If one were solely a member of the Presbyterian church, could one become a member of the Catholic church (either dual membership or a switch of membership) without being re-baptized? Conversely, if one were solely a member of the Catholic church, could one become a member of the Presbyterian church (either dual membership or a switch of membership) without being re-baptized?
-- Ronn! :)
"Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever." -- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovskiy
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