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You, Titanites, accuse me of reading your mind. No, I'm reading the words you've published. Consider this discussion, which you started on Free Republic, that included the following paragraph:

"... I myself have been moving in the direction of Rome for the last several years. I am very pleased to be able to announce that I intend to be received into the Church on May 26th, at St. Louis King of France parish in Austin. My own story is quite different from Frank’s, although our reasons for entering the Church of Rome are strikingly parallel."

You published that. You did. It's the testimony of someone who is excited about "Rome," about "the Church of Rome," about "Roman Catholic doctrine." He references Rome 10 times in his testimony, and Jesus he mentions only 2 times.

While I want to find unity with my brothers and sisters in Christ, I do need to oppose such promotion of a denomination over the promotion of Jesus.

Again, I affirm the premise of this particular discussion: Those who follow Christ should find our unity in Him.

(I should be surprised by the negative responses to my comments, but I'm not. Some people find their identity more in their denomination than in Jesus, and when someone comes along to promote Jesus over denomination, they become unsettled ...)

He references Rome 10 times in his testimony, and Jesus he mentions only 2 times.

SOP.

As we've learned on Free Republic, Roman Catholics and their pope Ratzinger, believe all non-papist churches to be "defective." So Rome wants it both ways. Rome wants other faiths to think kindly of them and not give them a hard time, but Rome does not display that same acceptance of Protestant churches.

We preach the Gospel and all we hear from Roman Catholics is that the church and its magisterium are superior to the word of God.

Christ answered such false beliefs...

"And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city." -- Mark 6:11

As Greg Bahnsen wrote:

"The Reformation is dying daily in our day when the Ecumenical Movement, and other forces like unto it, wish to soften the antithesis with Rome, today. I want to assure you that it's not my pugnacious debating nature that makes me say we must exalt that antithesis and guard it. It's my love for the Lord Jesus Christ and the purity of His word.
"Rome has not essentially changed. Rome declared that what it said at the time of the Reformation was infallible and could not change. Declared it to be irreformible truth. Rome has not changed and precious truths of God's word are still worth upholding even at the cost of unity even at the cost of being considered "troublemakers" in the religious world. We need to guard the antithesis against the destructive error of Rome." -- Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen, From a tape, THE REFORMATION, October 28, 1990.

"...guard the antithesis against the destructive error of Rome."

AMEN!