“Have you ever considered that some persecutions you face are because you’re NOT following the will of God?
Of course, don’t we all constantly check ourselves?
I am always taking my Spiritual “vitals:”
But you persist in remaining outside The Church. You persist in rejecting what God’s One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church teaches. This is pride, AG. If you are indeed as so singularly spiritual as you claim to be, then there is nothing other than pride which keeps you from embracing the Truth of The Faith as preserved in The Church since Pentecost.
The early centuries of The Church saw the rise of multiple, soul destroying heresies. The world today is seeing among people professing to be Christians but rejecting The Church, a resurgence of those heresies and some we have never seen before. Because we are marginally civilized and on account of our surrounding Anglo Saxon culture, we try to be polite and convince ourselves that one form of “Christianity” is as good as another because, as was posted earlier, “we are all united in Christ”. A-G, that’s simply untrue; its heresy. The Fathers understood the consequences of heresy and who heretics were. They called them “Enemies of God” and preached that those who are alive in Christ cannot hold communion with those who are spiritually dead.
Jesus never used the word(meme) heretic..
Only prideful arrogant men in Rome and to be honest other places do that..
The Kool Aid in Rome has a strange taste..
Forgive me Kolokotronis, but in my view the pride in this case is all yours. AG is not "outside The Church." Unless you mean to say that The Church itself is God, displacing God Himself.
I'll hazard she doesn't believe that any more than I do.
Churches, however divinely inspired, are still human institutions, and so susceptible to sin, to judgments made by fallen human nature....
I do not place my safety in human institutions. And I doubt AG does either. That seems to be the point you continue to miss.
BTW, I don't think this makes me a "disrespecter of churches," let alone of God.
Quite the contrary!
And so I join my dearest sister in Christ in saying: All glory be to God!
I think you will be very surprised at who is in heaven, Kolo. Why, you might even see A-G, Dr. E, Quix, Manfred, Marysecretary and others who disagree with you. Hope we see you there too, sincerely so.