To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (23798 ) 7/21/1998 9:29:00 AM From: Rambi Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Last post to you, Emile. I'll try once more to explain to you where you're going at this all wrong and how you offend believers and non-believers alike. Sadly, you won't even consider my words and that, Emile, is arrogance.peccator et sanctus . Are the writings of Luther, Calvin, free from error? Are you superior to them? There are many disagreements in the writings of brilliant and spiritual men. Christian doctrine is NOT simple. if it were simple there, would have been no need for the many conventions that hammered out the creeds of Christendom. Why did the Church Fathers find it necessary to write the Nicene, Chalcedon, Athanasian creeds et al. in order to combat heresy? Perhaps we need to add to another name to that list that includes Montanism, Pelagianism, Monism et al... we can add Emilism, the heresy of believing that one knows with absolute certainty everything that can be known about Christian dogma, while simultaneously having none of the charity that characterizes the Christian believer.
