From: "Jensen, John T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WDIT? I suggest you pass on to Terry that he seems eager to learn, and I wish him luck. He faces an uphill battle trying to get past all that stuff he believes, but others have rejoiced to find the fulness of Christ in the (Roman) Catholic Church, and he can, too, if he get out his Bible (and his history books) and studies it (and them) for himself instead of assuming that he understands the issues already. His salvation is too important to leave in the hands of his own wisdom (without any mention of child-molestation :-)).
As Cardinal John Henry Newman, another convert to the Catholic Church, said at the end of his "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" - the work he wrote to finally work for himself whether the RCC was or was not the Body of Christ: "And, now dear Reader, time is short, eternity is long. Put not from you what you have here found; regard it not as a mere matter of present controversy; set not out to refute it, and looking about for the best way of doing so; seduce yourself not with the imagination that it comes of disappointment, disgust, or restlessness, or wounded feeling, or undue sensibility or other weakness. Wrap not yourself round in the associations of years past; nor determine that to be truth which you wish to be so, nor make an idol of cherished anticipations. Time is short, eternity is long." Nunc dimittis servum tuum Domine, Secundum verbum tuum in pace, Quia viderunt oculi mei salutare TUUM. jj John Thayer Jensen, System Administrator Computing Service, School of Business University of Auckland Room 256, 15 Wynyard Street voice: +64 9 373-7599 ext 87543 FAX: +64 9 373-7696 mobile: +64 21 049-7702 quickdial: 60001 http://staff.business.auckland.ac.nz/~j.jensen ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
