Each person is responsible to God for relationship with Christ, matters not what your particular organized religion says to you.
It`s your responsibility to make sure you have asked Jesus into your life, to turn from sins, and to ask Jesus forgiveness if/when we do sin.
If a particular Church tells you at some point that it`s OK to start aborting God`s unborn children etc, that is not going to give you a pass because the hierarchy said it was OK
Speaking as someone who has left organized religion, but has a daily personal walk with Jesus, I can only encourage others to do the same.
There is no gray areas, when it comes to social issues, under no circumstances can we approve of taking any unborn child’s life, Jesus and the Bible covered all this, homosexuality is a abomination etc
Giving mere mortals improper titles such as Reverend,Your eminence, The Holy Father etc etc
There is only 1 Holy Father and that is The Lord Jesus Christ
I have been in such a quandry over whether the Catholic Church = the Vatican. That is, should I consider all the failings of the Pope and the Vatican as a reason to reject the Catholic church due to its imperfect leadership? Similarly, I come to the same question about my country: America = America’s Govt. All the failings, improprieties and illegalities perpetrated by my Govt. means my country sucks, too??? What do we do to bring it back to where it’s supposed to be? Walk away like you did because there is no way to change the Church from within? Walk away from my country because of the same reason?
May I suggest that you read Why We Love The Church by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck?
There is only 1 Holy Father and that is The Lord Jesus Christ
I think that you mean that God the Father is the Holy Father. Jesus Christ is his only begotten Son.