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I don't get it. Only Catholics suffer from being CINO's???? Are all Protestants pious by default????? Absolutely not. At least in my opinion. In any congregation you might name and by their own standards of Christian faith, it would be virtually impossible to consider more than a third as being saved. For instance, the fictional purgatory invented by Origen misleads those in the church of Rome (and other universalists) to believe vainly that they will eventually be saved no matter what, a virtual univeralism that is only one of the errors introduced to Christians in the period in which the Roman church became the agent of the Roman empire. These doctrines are worldly notions that are shared by many inside and outside the church of Rome. Many, perhaps most, Protestants today share one or more of these errors which are in direct conflict with scriptural teachings. One may look at the ancient Roman church and have some understanding and sympathy for their circumstances and their good intentions in promulgating such doctrine. But thier good intent does not excuse them for having substituted the ideas of man for the truth of God. The same may be said of any denomination or church who strays from the steady light of sola scriptura.