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How did I know this was somebody lauding the Magesterium of the Roman Catholic Church, before I had even finished reading it?
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely, is the answer to the Pope's pretensions to be the world's last absolute monarch, with a hotline to God.
It is the Bible and Nicene Creed which will ensure that the various branches of Christianity remain recognisably the same religion, inspite of their differences.
I take it you didn't care to read through the thread. Don't worry I commit the same mistake all to often i here.
Well that being said, you know that I didn't say it had to be Rome?
As I said to keep Christianity from getting secularized and privatised we should and must keep an open theological dialogue.
I'm not a found of ecumenism as practiced today, but I'm fully behind true ecumenical work. Testing the arguments and reasoning for our doctrine and theology in a multi denominational theological forum of some sort.
This is not possible with arrogant and "infallible" faiths of the lone wanderer.
If you have read my thread you'll see that it's a rather transparent way of looking at theology and I even highlight the tragedy of unchallenged normative theology in the church and for the church herself.
The Catholic church as any other church need to be able to discuss, defend and in some cases if proven wrong by good theological arguments found in scripture (or in tradition, as part of a inner dialectic exercise) articulate a new and improved doctrine.
We need not to barricade ourselves, but to engage in a qualified dialogue.
What the church, be that lutheran, Catholic, orthodox etc ultimately choose to go with is for the authorities themselves to decide, but we must have a free and honest discussion forum if not we'll stagnate, then die as a normative source of moral in society.
This is not possible with the extremists who singlehandedly claim superiority and personal infallibility.
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