Monday, October 8, 2012

Monday 27: "there are some who ... wish to pervert the Gospel of Christ."

if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed!

In keeping with the Lord's command, the Gospel was handed on in two ways:
- orally "by the apostles who handed on, by the spoken word of their preaching, by the example they gave, by the institutions they established, what they themselves had received - whether from the lips of Christ, from his way of life and his works, or whether they had learned it at the prompting of the Holy Spirit";
- in writing "by those apostles and other men associated with the apostles who, under the inspiration of the same Holy Spirit, committed the message of salvation to writing".
-- CCC 76

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