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Subject: Living with our fallibility Author: XOX [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10:40:35 11/15/04 Mon I read this interesting article, and it set as a good reminder on how fallible we are in following our faith. On living with our fallibility On March 12 2000 the Pope marked the new Millennium by making a public apology for some of the notorious "mistakes" perpetrated during the last thousand years by the Catholic Church. The list of crimes confessed proved controversial. It included the Crusades and the Inquisition. Protestant Christians, especially those who like to designate themselves as "Bible believing", may be tempted into smug self-congratulation by this brave initiative from the Vatican. So it seems an appropriate moment to invite them to engage in a little historically informed self-examination too. For the fact is that Christians of all traditions have repeatedly used the Bible to support doctrinal and ethical positions which they later have had to confess to be mistaken. If to be a Christian is to live with the knowledge of one's sinfulness, it is equally to live with the knowledge of one's fallibility. arianism transubstantiation "biblical" cosmology racism slavery sexism & ... homophobia ... is this the end of biblical authority in the Church? It gives us something to think about. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]