> From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> JDG wrote:
> >
> > At 05:56 PM 8/8/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
> > >> In the meantime, it is a bit grating for an office-holder of
another
> > >> Church, a Church whose raison d'etre is opposition to Catholicism,
> > >
> > >no, the raison d'etre is following Jesus, the Christ, the son of
the
> > >living God.
> >
> > But following it in a way that is not consistent with the way the
Catholic
> > Church is following it.
> >
> > Look, I am explicitly using Catholic with a capitol "C", not a
lowercase
> > "c." After all, isn't it a basic truism of all Christians that they
> > believe that they are members of the true, universal, catholic
Church?
>
> It's in the Nicene creed. ("Holy, catholic and apostolic church" is
> what is said in the Episcopal church in the US. I suppose I could go
> upstairs and see what it is they say in New Zealand; I was given a New
> Zealand prayerbook as a present....)
>
> Are there some groups of Christians that don't adhere to the Nicene
> creed? If so, what is their belief on this matter?
Yes. Frex: Jehovah's Witless's.
> (Was the Roman Catholic/Eastern Orthodox split over the Nicene creed?
> Was there some other split over the Nicene creed? What were the points
> of contention?)
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