###"to the non-Catholic, to be not only ridiculous, but also insulting."###
The reason is that corrections are needed for people who have never been in a Catholic Church and have no real idea of Church teaching. Most have second hand knowledge that the person has read or received from an apostate to the Church.
I raise a question to you. Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the second person of the Blessed Trinity who with the Father and Holy Spirit is one God?
As 34,000 Protestant denominations do not believe in transubstantiation, what is your interpretation of the Catholic Eucharist? Where did the Church get its approval for the Eucharist?
I raise a question to you. Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the second person of the Blessed Trinity who with the Father and Holy Spirit is one God?
I believe that the "Blessed Trinity" is a reverent way of naming what to me is simply the triune nature of God. Yes, I believe that Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit are all parts of one. Numerical position doesn't matter to me... Jesus was there in the beginning, all three were, and the last'll be first anyway, right?
As 34,000 Protestant denominations do not believe in transubstantiation, what is your interpretation of the Catholic Eucharist? Where did the Church get its approval for the Eucharist?
This, again, is Charlie-Brown's-teacher-ish to me. Are you talking about communion? Protestants take it too.
And I take issue with being called "Protestant" simply because I'm not Catholic.
Read Hebrews 11. (Romans 11 probably wouldn't hurt either.)