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Recent content by Hap

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    Why I am Catholic

    Thank you StTherese and God Bless. That video sums up the reasons I came into the Catholic Church. It's great to be home.
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    Early Church Fathers on Transubstantiation

    Is there any writings from the ECF's speaking out against those who believed the the bread and wine was the body and blood of Christ?
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    Early Church Fathers on Transubstantiation

    The only point I am making is that James White argument is invalid just like the JW's argument that just because we do not find a define word to describe a doctrine at some later time in history does not disprove the concept of the doctrine.
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    Early Church Fathers on Transubstantiation

    That was the premise of his argument or one of them, he threw out more then I could keep up with, and since he was linked to this thread my point was that it was a weak argument at best. Just because we do not find the word transubstantiation until the 11th century proves nothing.
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    Early Church Fathers on Transubstantiation

    Couldn't the same be said about the Trinity, that it was not developed until the 4th century so it is not from the apostles. I have heard the JW's use that same argument.
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    Early Church Fathers on Transubstantiation

    So the silence means that everyone understood the oral teaching correctly so that's why we want find anyone speaking out against this until the reformation? I just thought there would be something out there before that time especially with the ECF's. Since I've heard that the Roman accused the...
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    Early Church Fathers on Transubstantiation

    The real presence as in the bread and wine becoming the actual Body and Blood of Christ.
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    Early Church Fathers on Transubstantiation

    Simon, do you have anything on the ECF's that explicitly spoke out against those who believed in the real presence as heretics?
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    please god listen to my prayers and give me this one gift for my angel.

    Praying for you and my you find peace
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    Please pray for my son

    My 13 year old son took a bad fall yesterday and I fear that he might have a fractured hip, he will be having a CT scan tomorrow. Please pray for his pain and the best possible outcome. Thanks Hap
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    Need very deperate prayers

    Jesus please touch Kiran and my your love sign brightly in his heart:crossrc:
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    Prayer for my son

    My son took a bad fall yesterday and I fear that he might have fractured his hip. Please pray for him Thanks, Hap
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    What change would Roman church have to make

    As long as we have an odd number of Patriarchs we would have unity with the doctrines?
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    What change would Roman church have to make

    So if the Pope became a Patriarch that would make a total of 6 Patriarchs and the possibility of a split discission at any given council...:scratch: </IMG>
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    What change would Roman church have to make

    So do the Patriarch's get together to agree on doctrines? What happens if a Patriarch disagrees with the other 4? As you can tell I do not know much about the EOC.