[SoConPubbie]

I have a regret: I think that the Counter-Reformation that started with Trent did not quite finish the job. Perhaps it was divine providence in how the Protestant heresies were permitted to linger on and devour souls to this day; perhaps it was meant to calmly find its way to the ash-heap of history by itself. But I am a fighting Christian; I wish my beloved Church could do more, for Christ.

This soul, precisely because of your so-called heresy, will make heavan, not because a Priest, the Pope, or a church tells me so, but because of the salvation Christ himself (not because of the words of flawed human beings who have titles like Pope, Priest, Paster, whatever) gives me through faith in the Gospel and Repentence. Not because of any tradition started by flawed, sinful men, but because of the perfect and Holy plan of Salvation given to me by God himself and simply presented in the Bible.

And finally, I would rather know I am going to Heaven, not because a Pope, Priest, Bishop, or Preacher tells me so, but because the Holy Spirit, as Paul wrote in Romans Chapter 8, witnesses with my Spirit, that I am a child of God.

I'll take the Salvation proferred by God through Jesus Christ, the literal change of heart and mind, the forgiveness of my sins, and the victory he gives me over the sin of my life over the traditions of your church.

[annalex]

You will go to Heaven if Christ judges you to go to Heaven; you are a child of God regardless of where you end up. It is this inability to grasp the basic Christianity, and then angrily arguing against others, that is so repulsive in Protestantism. Read the Holy Bible once in a while, please.