RE: Why be good?
June 13, 2015 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2015 at 6:54 pm by Randy Carson.)
(June 11, 2015 at 6:38 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Yep, spoken like anyone trying to win a doctrinal war. Don't listen to them, listen to us. We are the largest group, and we took upon ourselves the winning name. So?
(June 11, 2015 at 7:23 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: I've never yet met a cathy-lick who could be convinced that the teachings of the church can be boiled down to the consensus of the winners and that it has nothing to do with the reality of the teachings.
So? So, that's not completely true.
In fact, at one point in church history, Jenny, the Arian heresy threatened to overwhelm the Church, and the number of Arian bishops outnumbered the orthodox bishops. Eventually, however, Arianism was defeated not because it wasn't the largest group but because its doctrine was simply wrong.
Now, if your "largest group" argument was true, then Arianism would have won and taken the name "Catholic Church".
And similarly, at MANY points in history, the four Eastern patriarchs were all in heresy of one flavor or another; time and again, it was the lone Bishop of Rome who led them back to the true faith.
Might has not always made right. Truth, however, has.