[JPX2011]

I’ve been a recipient of enough Catholic *love* in my life that I’ve had my fill. Thanks but no thanks.

Hmmm. I can't help but make the comparison between what you said and the atheist described as a wounded theist.

Being subject to Christ is not equivalent to being subject to the Roman Catholic church.

Yes it is. Christ and His Church are one.

[ealgeone]

The church yes.....not the ROMAN false church.

[metmom]

What? Christ is His Bride?

He marries Himself in heaven?

[metmom]

Yes it is. Christ and His Church are one.

If by church you mean Roman Catholicism, then you're back to that people must be part of Roman Catholicism to be saved, as the church taught for centuries.

However, the church is the body of Christ comprised of all believers, not just and only Catholics.

[metmom]

Hmmm. I can't help but make the comparison between what you said and the atheist described as a wounded theist.

So what?

Catholic behavior has not turned me against God.

Nor did it even turn me against Catholicism.

Because when I first got saved, the first church I went to was the Catholic church I was raised in.

What caused me to leave that then was the disparity I saw between what I read in Scripture and what the Catholic church taught.

And at that time, I had precious little contact with Protestantism and Protestant thought so that did not color my thought.