/lit/ - Literature

>>17483686
A heresy is just a religious opinion that differs from the opinion of your chosen religious authority (gatekeeper)

>>16355284
>The Urantia Book is noted for its high level of internal consistency and an advanced writing style

It is far too coherent and sophisticated to be nonsense.

>>14852504
Yes.
But the various Church teachings are incomplete, partially erroneous, and fallible.
Urantia corrects this greatly, and upsteps the spiritual wisdom and truth that any Church dogmas or doctrines may contain.

>>14400070
>Papism

>>14370063
'Heretical' just means 'different religious opinion'.

If you are going to follow a source of religious truth, make sure its an enlightened source.
For instance, the Catholic church likes to think it is the only source of religious truth, that its infallible. This leads to all kinds of weird stuff like inquisitions and heresy etc etc

Its hierarchy is an absolute spiritual monarchy culminating in the Bishop of Rome, who pretends to be nothing less than the infallible Vicar of Jesus Christ on earth. It proudly identifies itself with the whole Church of Christ, and treats all other Christians as schismatics and heretics, who are outside of the pale of ordinary salvation.

But this unproved assumption is the fundamental error of the system. There is a vast difference between Catholicism and Romanism. The former embraces all Christians, whether Roman, Greek, or Protestant;
the latter is in its very name local, sectarian, and exclusive. The holy Catholic Church is an article of faith; the Roman Church is not even named in the ancient creeds. Catholicism extends through all Christian centuries; Romanism proper dates from the Council of Trent. Mediæval Catholicism looked towards the Reformation; Romanism excludes and condemns the Reformation. So ancient Judaism, as represented by Abraham, Moses, and the Prophets, down to John the Baptist, prepared the way for Christianity, as its end and fulfillment; while Judaism, after the crucifixion of the Messiah, and the destruction of Jerusalem, has become hostile to Christianity. 'Catholicism is the strength of Romanism; Romanism is the weakness of Catholicism.'

In Romanism, again, a distinction must be made between the Romanism of the Council of Trent, and the Romanism of the Council of the Vatican. The 'Old Catholics' of Holland and Germany adhere to the former, but reject the latter as a new departure. But the papal absolutism has triumphed, and there is no room any longer for a moderate and liberal Romanism within the reign of the Papacy.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds1.vi.i.html

>>13301677
butthurt Traditionlist: the post?

>>13236604