I quibble, Quix, with your methods of debate, your reading of Scripture, your understanding of Sacred Tradition and your use of ALL CAPS in some of your posts.
I don’t, however, have any doubt that your want to love, serve and know the Lord with all your heart, mind and soul. That fact forces me to remember that in the end, you, I and even the Calvinist are brothers and sisters in Christ and While it is important to speak the Truth, as we each know it, it must be done, as Paul said, “in love”. So a little HUMOR keeps me and my fallen self in line. ;)
Thanks for your charity and even handeness in such an assessment.
I’ve been persistently amazed that my . . . fiestiness, pointedness, fierceness has always gotten the reactions when all such is perhaps as often as not interspersed, wrapped up with, entangled with at least some ATTEMPTS at humor. LOL.
OF COURSE such camps will fiercely disagree—else we’d all be in the same camp! Sheesh. No surprise there.
OF COURSE we’ll all have some fierce things to say else we’d be wimpy cohorts of our persuasions and not bothering much with anyone else at all anyway.
OF COURSE we’ll be human and flawedly so in our communications . . . none of us are Jesus . . . or even Mary or Calvin, for that matter.
OF COURSE the more intense amongst us will be ranting, raving, pontificating at the top of our fingers else we’d be sucking our thumbs reading our commentaries or some such.
It’s better than being luke warm.
But I don’t know of any RC’s hereon—even those I might be tempted to consider heavily under demonic delusion—I can’t think of any I’d exclude from the class of all those I’d seek to help with whatever charity available to me, if I could and God’s priorities for me and my resources allowed such.
I have a LOT of warm compassionate caring feelings for even those most fiercely and bitterly hostile to me hereon. That is a serious priority to me.
At some level, the other is just noise. I think it is, on occasion, IMPORTNT BIBLICAL noise one is duty bound to share in some contexts . . . but still . . . overmuch, probably, just noise.