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I don't think you'd actually hear someone saying something like this today, despite the fact that the theological divide between protestant and Roman Catholic r

I don't think you'd actually hear someone saying something like this today, despite the fact that the theological divide between protestant and Roman Catholic remains what it has been. I'm a non-denominational protestant, but my family is good friends with a Roman Catholic family down the street... we do have so much in common with them, despite our disagreement as to whether justification and righteousness before God is conferred on the basis of faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.

nyokodo 5y ago
> despite our disagreement as to whether justification and righteousness before God is conferred on the basis of faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. There is a strong tendency for Catholics and Protestants, when we all chill out and sit down carefully making distinctions about Justification, to find we agreed all along but had different language to describe the same thing.[1] I suspect it extends to other doctrinal issues and areas of genuine disagreement become much more productive when said attitudes and practices are adopted. I also strongly suspect that most areas of disagreement between Christians are persistent symptoms of European Renaissance politics with theological rationalization. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Declaration_on_the_Doctrine_of_Justification https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Declaration_on_the_Doc...