Yes, because you do not avail yourself of them. However, they figure prominently in mine.
Now stop pretending like my salvation is important to you and insisting that yours is the only path to Salvation. I represent nothing more than another potential shrunken head for your Calvinist bragging belt and a further dilution of your guilt for abandoning your Church.
I thought they were part of your QUEST for salvation .. works , works, works, works... Tts 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
I see lots of Catholics showing off their convert trophies here... when a man is saved it is a work of God, not men ... Zep 3:17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing..
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.