I am a non Catholic Christian.
This fool of an author is saying a ‘beating’ awaits me because I don’t agree with him and, I might add, his buffoon of a Pope.
And I’m not sure if this thread is supposed to be non argumentative but that’s flat out nuts when the premise of the article is that many of the wonderful, Christian folks right here at Free Republic are headed for a beating because we don’t agree with a religion whose tenets ultimately has led them to have a leader who equates Allah and God.
It doesn’t say that at all. Read it. By the way, those are the words of Jesus, not his.
I honestly can’t see how you came up with this from that article.
Well, that about sums it up.
No beating awaiting you. The Church teaches and the author is repeating thar God looks into hearts and those who according to their best efforts try to find God and his will for us, fail to find the one true Church will be saved. Read it again.
Thank you. That is 100% right.
The “fool of an author” said: “Since the Lord alone sees into our heart, he alone will be our just judge.” Works for me.
It come be worse...
"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours."
--Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)