ArchivedCatholics vs ProtestantsYes. When you say at the end of the Apostolic or Nicene creed you are stating: I believe in one holy, catholic [universal Church that accepts anyone into ITS FLOCK] and apostolic [Church from the time of the Apostles, can only be one!] Church [Capital C recognizing the power of the Pontiff, the Sacred Magesterium and the authority bestowed on the Church by Christ] What do the Church Father's Say? Pope St. Clement I, A.D. 88-97: "Heretical teachers pervert Scripture and try to get into Heaven with a false key, for they have formed their human assemblies later than the Catholic Church. From this previously-existing and most true Church, it is very clear that these later heresies, and others which have come into being since then, are counterfeit and novel inventions." (Epistle to the Corinthians) Human Assemblies: All Churches created after the Catholic Church: Coptic, Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican, Lutheran, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons etc etc. Saint Ignatius of Antioch, a disciple of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (died A.D. 107): "For as many as are of God and of Jesus Christ are also with the Bishop. And as many as shall, in the exercise of repentance, return into the unity of the Church, these, too, shall belong to God, that they may live according to Jesus Christ. Do not err, my brethren. If any man follows him that makes a schism in the Church, he shall not inherit the kingdom of God. If any one walks according to a strange opinion, he agrees not with the passion of Christ. (Epistle to the Philadelphians) Saint Ignatius of Antioch "Let no one do anything of concern to the Church without the bishop. Let that be considered a valid Eucharist which is celebrated by the bishop or by one whom he ordains [i.e., a presbyter]. Wherever the bishop appears, let the people be there; just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church" (Letter to the Smyrneans 8:2 [A.D. 110]). Tertullian "Where was [the heretic] Marcion, that shipmaster of Pontus, the zealous student of Stoicism? Where was Valentinus, the disciple of Platonism? For it is evident that those men lived not so long ago—in the reign of Antonius for the most part—and that they at first were believers in the doctrine of the Catholic Church, in the church of Rome under the episcopate of the blessed Eleutherius, until on account of their ever restless curiosity, with which they even infected the brethren, they were more than once expelled" (Demurrer Against the Heretics 30 [A.D. 200]). Saint Pionius (died A.D. 250): "I am a Christian and belong to the Catholic Church. Would to God I could persuade all of you to become Christians, for it will be the worse for you to burn eternally after death." Council of Chalcedon "Since in certain provinces readers and cantors have been allowed to marry, this sacred synod decrees that none of them is permitted to marry a wife of heterodox views. If those thus married have already had children, and if they have already had the children baptized among heretics, they are to bring them into the communion of the Catholic Church" (Canon 14 [A.D. 451]). catholic or Catholic, doesnt matter the meaning stays the same, Catholic just emphazies the truth but does not let the lower c be broadened out. If Protestants believe this, then they are a form of Universalists, which is heresy. |
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