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Interesting Theory

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Lee M.

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Commenter Jonathan at Pontifications says:

Nevertheless I promise that I will join with Fr Freeman and Fr Hart when their respective Churches [i.e. Rome and Orthodoxy] are again One. No justification could ever exist for not belonging to the Great Church if and when it is reunited after the schism of 1054.

I wonder how many other Protestants (I assume Jonathan is one) would feel the same way were such a thing to come to pass.

In the past I’ve said to one of my Catholic friends that the fact that Rome and Orthodoxy make competing claims to being the “one true church” is one reason I couldn’t become a Catholic. On what principled grounds could I choose one over the other since both seem able to make equally compelling cases? But if there was reunion…

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  1. Bill

    Lee, considering one of your earlier posts, you still wouldn’t be Catholic, if the RC and GO branches rejoined. There are just too many doctrinal issues outside the competing claim of “One true Church.”

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  2. Lee

    Bill – I agree and meant the post to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek. On the other hand, such a reunion would represent a consensus between the two oldest branches of the Christian Church and would, for that reason, carry extra weight against those of us who think we have good reason to remain outside that consensus.

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