“To commit heresy, one must refuse to be corrected. A person who is ready to be corrected or who is unaware that what he has been saying is against Church teaching is not a heretic.”
What if I listen to all the things that I, a non-Catholic am doing wrong and still refuse to then become Catholic, believing it to be wrong-headed and depending too much on tradition and extra-biblical texts?
I would say you aren’t a Heretic, because truly teaching the Church requires more than just a statement of fact. The Catholic Church condemns the use of contraception, but if all I tell you is that you can’t use contraception, have I really “taught or corrected” you. In our sound-bite culture, we take the short road, rather than the real work required for it.
Same for witness and evangelization, all too often we take the easy way.
>>What if I listen to all the things that I, a non-Catholic am doing wrong and still refuse to then become Catholic, believing it to be wrong-headed and depending too much on tradition and extra-biblical texts?<<
I would say that men can say whatever they want, but in the long run, none of us truly know the Mind of Our Lord.
It’s not up to me, is it?
Then you are lost and going to hell (LOL).