Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Importance of sacrifice Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 90 18:07:05 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA Lines: 35 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article johnw@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) writes: > >This was precisely my reason for leaving the Catholic Church. All the other >"Catholic vs. Protestant" issues are peripheral. How do you reconcile the >once-for-all sacrifice of Calvary with the Mass repeated again and again? >When Paul (or whoever it was who wrote Hebrews) said that one sacrifice was >enough, he was not assuming his readers would think along the lines of "with >God there is no time; therefore, all the Masses performed in time are >a-temporally connected with the One Calvary Sacrifice, and so we do have >only one sacrifice after all." Paul was talking about temporal stuff, and >was referring to the fact that Christ's sacrifice was the end of all the >Jewish sacrifices, which happened in time. Since your descision hinges so much on the book of Hebrews, I feel compelled to ask you why you think the book of Hebrews is part of the Bible? Yes, I grant that *all* sacred scripture is the inerrant Word of God. But where does is say that the Book of Hebrews is part of Sacred Scritpure?? I'll tell you where it says it: in the Catholic Cannon of the Books of Sacred scripture. So, you see, your logic is faulty: you believe that the book of Hebrews contrdicts the Catholic faith. But it is exactly the Catholic faith which defines that the Book of Hebrews is among the inspired books of Sacred Scripture. How do you know that the Book of Hewbrews might not have been placed into the Bible because of the "traditions of men?" chris --