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Originally Posted by alwayslearning
But I was not required to do that. I was not excluded. I was warmly welcomed in all the churches I listed in my previous email and partook of the Lord's Table with them. That is my experience.
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So in my post I said that if we knew nothing else we would have to conclude that the group was not a sect. But that is not this case, we do know something else. You told us the name of the group. We know that the Catholic Church does have other requirements.
So does your experience trump their documented requirements?
In Ohio a man was recently arrested for kidnapping three women and holding them as prisoners for 10 years. Now suppose at the trial someone comes out and says I knew this man, he didn't treat me this way. As a member of the jury does that trump what he did to the three women?
So yes, your experience is relevant, but as far as I am concerned it is trumped by the decrees of the Pope.