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<blockquote data-quote="MichaelWitcoff" data-source="post: 1306217" data-attributes="member: 16038"><p>I agree with the sentiment that the search for too much knowledge can be a pointless burden, but I don’t think that applies to knowing which Churches have Apostolic succession and proper dogmas and which don’t. That’s a pretty basic distinction that determines whether the parishioner is partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ or just listening to a feel-good rock band with a motivational speech attached; ie, the enormous difference between Saintly wisdom and Joel Osteen levels of heresy. I don’t think God will negatively judge people who lack the capacity to make this distinction, but if you do have that - which I think every regular participant on these boards does - then being in a brazenly heretical group due to a lack of historical knowledge is really just laziness at the end of the day. All groups say a lot of true and correct things, but minor differences make a big difference - like if a plane’s gauge of where to land is off by a couple degrees, it ends up in the airport instead of on the runway.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="MichaelWitcoff, post: 1306217, member: 16038"] I agree with the sentiment that the search for too much knowledge can be a pointless burden, but I don’t think that applies to knowing which Churches have Apostolic succession and proper dogmas and which don’t. That’s a pretty basic distinction that determines whether the parishioner is partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ or just listening to a feel-good rock band with a motivational speech attached; ie, the enormous difference between Saintly wisdom and Joel Osteen levels of heresy. I don’t think God will negatively judge people who lack the capacity to make this distinction, but if you do have that - which I think every regular participant on these boards does - then being in a brazenly heretical group due to a lack of historical knowledge is really just laziness at the end of the day. All groups say a lot of true and correct things, but minor differences make a big difference - like if a plane’s gauge of where to land is off by a couple degrees, it ends up in the airport instead of on the runway. [/QUOTE]

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