Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!husc6!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tp0x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Carl Price) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Importance of sacrifice Message-ID: Date: 5 Aug 90 22:59:32 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu >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. Such logic is only faulty if one fails to recognize a temporal dimension to the definition of "Catholic Church". Since the Catholic Church can trace its unbroken tradition back to origins which were identical with the first body of believers in Christ, those who repudiate the Catholic Church today would have also to repudiate the first- century Christianity if they failed to recognize this temporal aspect. But they do not. They claim that there came a falling away; that the Catholic Church is the apostacy predicted in 1 Tim 4:3; 2 Tim 4:3,4; the whore seducing the nations, the city on seven hills of Rev 12 (notably vv 9 & 18). If the Catholic Church today is not the same as the Church of the first century, the decisive change to apostacy must have taken place during time. After the completion of the canon of Scripture, probably -- or else God would have left his people without any standard of authority. TP