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Hmph.

I just noticed this:

“But if God had intended to save him, he would have understood the actual meaning of the words of Christ and he would have known they, like most of the teachings of Christ were hidden from the unsaved and not literal.”

You must believe in predestination.

The above statement is supported nowhere in Scripture; if anything, it shows the opposite.

Moreover, God gave us free will. If we were not free to choose then I propose the following:

“God is immoral, Jesus was a liar and Christianity is a false religion.”

And here is why:

God is not evil.

Evil is the absence of obedience to God.

Free will is a choice to obey or not obey

Man chose evil.

So it follows that if there is no free will, then we are all created puppets of God, and God is evil.

Our Lord came for the sinners, Brother.

“It’s also quite maddening to read these Protestant converts boasting of the “unity” of the Catholic Church. Never mind that the spectrum of beliefs within the “one true unchanging church” is as great as that among Protestant denominations. As long as everyone belongs to the same organization and recites the same words (which each interprets differently) then everything is just hunky-dory.”

You are certainly entitled to your opinion...

The Catholics who do not believe/obey every doctrine taught (de Fide) have effectively excommunicated themselves.

“Cafeteria” ones included.

“The Catholic Church, if it is hated by the “world,” is not hated nearly as much as Fundamentalist Protestants are. In fact, the intellectualism of the Catholic Church means it actually enjoys much respect from the world.”

Again, you are certainly entitled to your opinion; you may attempt to “document” this, but I doubt that anything of any substance will be presented.