“Why should the opinions of an Anglican priest matter?”
Well, he’s a notable scholar - as recognized by everyone.
“He’s not a Protestant.”
Anglican = Protestant. Hence, in America, the former name of the Anglican Church was “Protestant Episcopal Church”.
“If you cannot even name what those “novel” or “false” doctrines are, what’s the point of your continued comments?”
I can name them. I see no reason to name them other that to say “His” since it is well known what doctrines he invented.
“You’ve made no secret of your contempt and disgust of “Protestants” and “Protestantism”.”
Actually Protestantism and Protestant anti-Catholics. The average Protestant is just a well-meaning person who doesn’t know better.
“Using Free Republic’s Religion Forum for your own personal diatribe soapbox seems like a waste of time if you think anyone will be swayed by such tactics.”
I think that is a very telling comment coming from someone who has - over the years - spent hundreds and hundreds of hours posting anti-Catholic comments.
“They won’t be. It’s just that simple!”
Actually, two Protestants, both anti-Catholics too, have converted that I know of. I only know this because they told me. This was while I was posting elsewhere before FreeRepublic but I posted in the same fashion that I do here. Also, many Catholics private message me about how much they appreciate my defense of the faith. Your comments about my supposed tactics of whether or not they sway anyone are completely irrelevant to me.
I can say I appreciate what you bring to the RF. It's been an inspiration to me and helped me to grow in my faith both in knowledge and spirit.
So, you acknowledge you're doing the same thing? Your own words condemn you, then. I'm not anti-Catholic just anti-CatholicISM in the areas where this religion has perverted the gospel of the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. You cannot name one doctrine Luther supposedly "invented" that cannot be proven to have been at one time a doctrine held by the earliest Christians and backed up by sacred Scripture.
I've also said repeatedly that I don't follow Martin Luther - the man's been in heaven for the last five hundred years! I think it is sad, but comical, that his name gets dragged out on these threads like some kind of talisman to ward off anything a "Protestant" - by your own definition - might have to say on ANY topic dealing with Christianity. I'll gladly swat it down when I see it. Though, with some Catholic anti-Protestants, it won't matter how many times their false statements are obliterated by facts they'll lob them out the very next chance they get as if they don't know any better - even though they've been corrected numerous times. I don't think they are "well meaning", just deceptive.
Newsflash....the Roman Catholic church doesn't own "Christianity", the appellation "church", the Bible, the Apostles or the tenets of the faith. If they happen to still hold to those that have been believed always, everywhere and by all, then we are in agreement. For those novel and modified areas, I will disagree and I can defend WHY I do. When I do, it is out of charity, not contempt, disgust or hatred. It is God's will that all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. It is a spiritual battle I will gear up for when I sense His call.