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« Reply #200 on: February 17, 2016, 04:42:50 PM »
How do you explain the Great Schism then?

By the time of the schism the West was already no longer part of the Church. The  Church still exists, the Holy Spirit still protects it from error, it's just the West ha no part in that.
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« Reply #201 on: February 17, 2016, 04:44:29 PM »
By the time of the schism the West was already no longer part of the Church. The  Church still exists, the Holy Spirit still protects it from error, it's just the West ha no part in that.

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« Reply #202 on: February 17, 2016, 05:54:09 PM »
By the time of the schism the West was already no longer part of the Church.

But how could that be? Why was the West not protected by the Holy Spirit from whatever errors made it "no longer part of the Church"?

See? Your assertions are undone by even a simple application of logic that a child can understand.
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« Reply #203 on: February 17, 2016, 05:56:35 PM »
But how could that be? Why was the West not protected by the Holy Spirit from whatever errors made it "no longer part of the Church"?

See? Your assertions are undone by even a simple application of logic that a child can understand.

It seems that ad-o's god prefer exclusivity over compassion.

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« Reply #204 on: February 17, 2016, 06:25:04 PM »
By the time of the schism the West was already no longer part of the Church. The  Church still exists, the Holy Spirit still protects it from error, it's just the West ha no part in that.
I,m wondering about the widespread apostasy in much of the Orthodox East between 1917 and 1991.

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« Reply #205 on: February 17, 2016, 06:30:00 PM »
By the time of the schism the West was already no longer part of the Church. The  Church still exists, the Holy Spirit still protects it from error, it's just the West ha no part in that.

Looks like the Holy Spirit was remiss its duties.  Otherwise there'd have been no schism in the forst place.
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« Reply #206 on: February 17, 2016, 06:35:36 PM »
Looks like the Holy Spirit was remiss its duties.  Otherwise there'd have been no schism in the forst place.
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« Reply #207 on: February 17, 2016, 07:05:57 PM »
Atheism is merely unbelief in Gods one wonders therefore why you haven't STFU

You made a mistake with that sentence - you should have used the lowercase "g".

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« Reply #208 on: February 17, 2016, 07:09:03 PM »
You made a mistake with that sentence - you should have used the lowercase "g".
My apologies.

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« Reply #209 on: February 17, 2016, 07:33:48 PM »
My apologies.

No probs - I forgive you.
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« Reply #210 on: February 17, 2016, 08:00:19 PM »
It's the Christian thing to do.
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« Reply #211 on: February 18, 2016, 07:41:56 AM »
I,m wondering about the widespread apostasy in much of the Orthodox East between 1917 and 1991.

Communism did not encourage Orthodox Christianity. Many, like Peter, denied Jesus. Others did not, an example being Father Arsenie Broca, who died under communist torture less than a month before the regime fell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsenieBroca

I have visited Father Broca's grave, there was a two hour long queue of pilgrims.

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« Reply #212 on: February 18, 2016, 07:59:54 AM »
Many, like Peter, denied Jesus.
What? Even though the Holy Spirit was protecting them from error?

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« Reply #213 on: February 18, 2016, 08:24:34 AM »
What? Even though the Holy Spirit was protecting them from error?
I think the point is that truth will survive somewhere.
If it is somewhere in an institutional church then the implication is that it may not
Surface everywhere in that church similarly I think the Holy Spirit is omnipresent.

I think it was the chief Rabbi who remarked that there could not be a Judaism without Jews but that if true Christianity could be so with no Christians.

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« Reply #214 on: February 18, 2016, 02:17:29 PM »
I think the point is that truth will survive somewhere.

No the point is that Ad O. said that the Holy Spirit would protect the church from error. The Great Schism shows that it manifestly failed in that task. Given that the HS failed to keep all the Christians on message, there is no reason to suppose that it was capable of making sure that Ad O's church's traditions are true.
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« Reply #215 on: February 18, 2016, 06:00:45 PM »
No the point is that Ad O. said that the Holy Spirit would protect the church from error. The Great Schism shows that it manifestly failed in that task. Given that the HS failed to keep all the Christians on message, there is no reason to suppose that it was capable of making sure that Ad O's church's traditions are true.

Traditions are just things that have been assumed for a long time. Whether they are true or not is neither here nor there.

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« Reply #216 on: February 20, 2016, 04:20:02 PM »
No the point is that Ad O. said that the Holy Spirit would protect the church from error. The Great Schism shows that it manifestly failed in that task. Given that the HS failed to keep all the Christians on message, there is no reason to suppose that it was capable of making sure that Ad O's church's traditions are true.

Indeed. The western pontiff thought that the Holy Spirit was guiding the Catholic Church in truth and that the Orthodox Church was in error. The eastern patriarch thought the reverse, naturally enough. The result was that the leaders of both churches excommunicated each other. What a farce!
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