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Can I still be a Catholic if I don’t believe everything in line with the church?
I think the extremely terse, unhelpful answer to "...can I still be Catholic" is "no". (See also eques' answer.) The slightly longer answer is "if you don't agree with their ...
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Can I still be a Catholic if I don’t believe everything in line with the church?
I think the answers provided are valid, interesting, and helpful. So I will try not to double those, only add some details:
First, Lumen Gentium, the dogmatic constitution on the Church, explains that ...
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Can I still be a Catholic if I don’t believe everything in line with the church?
Whatever is held by the Catholic Church to be dogma, must be accepted to be a Catholic. This includes many aspects the nature of God, the Incarnation, the sacraments, and salvation.
Neither "sola ...
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How does the Westminster Confession address the paradox of the Bible canon?
The Westminster Confession, I.1, speaks first of the testimony about God in the works of his creation, but how that is not sufficient, in and of itself, to give men knowledge of God's will and his ...
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