Thank you for posting the entirety of the Decrees on Justification.
no where do its words SPECIFY that only Former Catholics are to be damned
- An anathema is a formal excommunication; only God has the power to damn someone. The penalty of "anathema" does not exist in canon law since 1983.
- Any textbook of canon law will tell you that canonical penalties only apply to those within the church. In fact, you'll also find that in texts of dogmatic theology like Ludwig Ott's Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma
- I'm always delighted to learn that you have enough time on your hands to attempt to become expert in the theology of my religion as well as that of your own. I find that I have very little time available to study Protestant theology, and need to spend my scarce free time studying the scriptures and learning to love the Lord. I hope you understand.
An anathema is a formal excommunication; only God has the power to damn someone. The penalty of "anathema" does not exist in canon law since 1983. Any textbook of canon law will tell you that canonical penalties only apply to those within the church. In fact, you'll also find that in texts of dogmatic theology like Ludwig Ott's Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma
I'm always delighted to learn that you have enough time on your hands to attempt to become expert in the theology of my religion as well as that of your own. I find that I have very little time available to study Protestant theology, and need to spend my scarce free time studying the scriptures and learning to love the Lord. I hope you understand. That is the current definition as given by Rome, not the original greek rendering which by usage at Trent says nothing about "excommunication
Trent was directed at many that were already "excommunicated" . They just wanted to add some hatred and curses on those that would follow Christ and not Rome
anathema
a thing devoted to God without hope of being redeemed, and if an animal, to be slain; therefore a person or thing doomed to destruction a) a curse b) a man accursed, devoted to the direst of woes
As seen in its usage here
Act 23:14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
And here
1Cr 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
Your churches attempts to cover its ruthless hatred of the reformers is hollow