Racism of the soul eclipses all other bigotry, born from the heights of vainglory where one presumes their soul innately superior to others. This arrogance shatters human dignity, distorts the moral order, and enthrones the self on a false pedestal. It relentlessly seeks to crush lesser souls under the weight of its conceit.
@j_divis@GodzillaBort@grok@EricMFriel@ThoughtfulSaint Assuming a nature is not the same as changing his divine nature. So no, he did not. I've already fully dismantled your bogus theology on the identity of God here:
https://t.co/9avN5pyd8Y
No. We do not agree. Not in the slightest. You believe that your father was given form. You believe that all have no origin in the sense that intelligence has always existed. Your god(s) underwent change in order to progress to godhood. The true God that I believe in has no change and has always existed as God apart from creation as Being. Your views only allow the Father to be placed within creation and erases the Creator-creature distinction. The question must be asked what caused that change in the first place?
@axeldenabias@danilosud3@CapturingChrist Yeah. More or less. They can never identify the who, what, where, when points of the great apostasy. It's no different than Islam. In fact, it's mormonism borrows heavily from Islam in its origins and defense.
@Yes_Dice I’m talking about what it is. It is the act or process of being made holy, purified, or set apart for a special purpose. I’m not talking about why it’s necessary to begin with. And I’m done talking to a child.
Silly Goose, your comparison fails because a catechism and the Book of Mormon are fundamentally different things. A catechism does not claim to be new revelation, new scripture, or an addition to the deposit of faith. It is a summary of doctrines already taught by the Church. The Book of Mormon, by contrast, claims to be an additional revealed text.
Further, Scripture never teaches that divine revelation would be confined to a future collection of books called "the Bible." The apostles transmitted the faith both orally and in writing (2 Thess. 2:15). Therefore, explaining apostolic doctrine is not the same as adding to it.
As for Catholicism resembling Judaism, Christianity is the fulfillment of Israel. Christ did not abolish the priesthood, sacrifice, covenantal worship, or sacred authority established by God; He brought them to their perfection. Continuity with biblical religion is evidence of Christianity's authenticity, not an argument against it.
@Yes_Dice Catechism is much like the Book of Mormon. Just something added because God says do not add to the Bible. Catholicism resembles Judaism more than you’ll ever know.
The Catholic Church was founded by Christ and is the ordinary means of salvation. The sacerdotal priesthood is necessary for the valid administration of those sacraments entrusted to the Church, through which the faithful are sanctified and progressively conformed to Christ. At the center of this sacramental economy stands the Eucharist, the source and summit of the Christian life, which is truly, substantially, and sacramentally the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. Through participation in this mystery, the faithful are united more perfectly to Christ and nourished unto eternal life.
That does not address the original argument.
You claimed a catechism is comparable to the Book of Mormon because both add to God's revelation. A catechism does not claim to be revelation at all, whereas the Book of Mormon explicitly does. The comparison therefore fails.
As for the law being written on the heart, that does not eliminate the need for teaching or authoritative interpretation. Scripture repeatedly warns that men distort doctrine, misunderstand Scripture, and fall away from the faith. If the law written on the heart were sufficient by itself to guarantee right belief, there would be no heresy, apostasy, false teachers, or doctrinal divisions. Yet the New Testament is filled with warnings against precisely these realities.
In fact, your argument proves too much. If the law written on the heart were sufficient in the sense you are proposing, there would be no sin at all, for every person would naturally and infallibly follow God's will. Clearly that is not the case. The law may be written on the heart, but man remains capable of error, disobedience, self-deception, and rebellion.
That is precisely why Christ established a teaching Church, appointed shepherds, commanded the apostles to teach all nations, and instructed the faithful to hold fast to apostolic tradition. The existence of divine truth within the heart does not negate the need for divinely instituted authority to teach, preserve, and defend that truth.
@Yes_Dice They use a Bible verse to say one needs to look at a wafer and say it’s the presence of the Lord. A wafer made by the hands of man. If you are born again then Christ’s presence lives in something greater than the Eucharist, He lives inside believers made in the image of God