[HarleyD]

Protestants do NOT look at apostacy the same way as the Catholic Church looks at excommunication. Whereas the Catholic Church looks at excommunication as the cutting of of grace and has degrees of severity until people fall in line; Protestants just look at apostacy as picking up our marbles and going to another sandbox letting God sort it all out.

[GCC Catholic]

Then the comparisons I was using are apples and oranges all around. Thank you for the clarification and God bless.