Our beliefs on Christianity are so significantly different that they do not describe the same Christian faith. There is precious little Christ in your Christianity. Further, there is absolutely nothing you can post that will influence my beliefs and I have no hope of changing yours. The more I see of the extreme forms of Protestantism the more I am convinced that its Christian title is at best a charade. Paulian? Bibliologian? maybe, but not Christian.
That'd be funny if it weren't so sad coming from someone whose church adds popes, priests, saints, angels, Mary, sacraments, holy water, rosaries, etc to the mix.
Our focus is on Jesus and Him alone and for that we're criticized and condemned.
We say we confess to Jesus and are told that that's not good enough, we have to go through a priest.
We say we trust in Him alone for our salvation, and are told that that's not good enough, we have to trust in our own good works added to His death.
We pray right to Jesus and not to saints and angels and Mary and whoever, and we're told there's precious little Christ in our Christianity?
Christ is all and in all. In Him I live and move and have my being, and that's precious little Christ in my Christianity?
Precious little Christ is found buried under all the religious trappings of any organization which adds anything to Christ.
Who would have thought that focusing on Jesus wasn't good enough?
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, or depth nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:34-39.
The very meaning of being a saved, secure Christian is given above.
Who shall separate you from God? Not receiving the sacraments? Not confessing your sins to your priest? Not participating in the Mass? Not performing good works? Not praying to Mary to intercede for you?
No you are correct. They do not describe the same Christian faith.
You could not be more wrong. But it is not up to me to open your eyes to the truth of God's grace. It's between you and him.