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From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: Objective Evil
> At 08:16 PM 8/8/04, Dan Minette wrote:
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> >From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:32 PM
> >Subject: Re: Objective Evil
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> > > 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?
There is also the Eastern Orthadox, which split earlier. Protestant
usually refers to those Christian churches that split from Rome from Luther
and Henry VIII on.
> (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.)
>
>
> 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?
One could become a member of the Presbyterian church by publicly declaring
faith in Jesus. In order to join a Catholic church, a Christian of another
denomination needs to go through a fairly long process of study. It was
one year for other Christians, and it may be more now.
Dan M.
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