I think you believe I accept the original premise...that would be wrong. But I do believe Romans teaches us willful rejection is damnable.
“I think you believe I accept the original premise...that would be wrong.”
I did not think you did.
“But I do believe Romans teaches us willful rejection is damnable.”
That is what I thought you were saying. So, you believe that the Roman Church believes that God damns all, let’s say, Orthodox people who willfully reject, better yet, vocally scorn, the hierarchial system of the Roman Church? I can guarantee to you that if Orthodox hierarchs believed that is what Rome teaches, they wouldn’t waste five minutes talking about reunion with +BXVI and +BXVI, knowing that, wouldn’t be wasting his time with them.