Once you are a Catholic — you are always a Catholic. You will have to answer for your absence when you die and meet the Meter of Justice, Jesus Christ and answer the question about why you left the one, holy, catholic and apostolic faith.
BTW, I don’t like your name at all. We are not “puny humans”; we are ALL made in the image and likeness of God.
How did you come up with that name?
“Once you are a Catholic — you are always a Catholic. You will have to answer for your absence when you die and meet the Meter of Justice, Jesus Christ and answer the question about why you left the one, holy, catholic and apostolic faith.”
He’ll probably tell me something like “Well Done, Good and Faithful servant, for not only did you die trusting in me instead of in the Catholic Church, but you also could tell the difference between a quote from Augustine and a medieval Catholic Bishop.”
Christians don’t belong to the church, the Body of Christ, they ARE the church, the body of Christ.
Therefore, they cannot leave it because they are it.