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Absolutely no accountability or responsibility.

TO MAN. Christians are accountable to The Almighty God ALONE through HIS WORD ALONE. Clean, cut and pure. However, the RCC subjects must forced themselves, if need be, to obey their confessors/'man' and accountable to them by man made teachings.

Just not Catholic and that's all that counts.

Nope, not Muslim either - your brothers according to your 'I'm all your's, Mary' Pope. Being Christian is all that counts. Because Christians follow Jesus, The WORD - and His Holy Spirit inspired WORD is ALL that counts. It's ALL about JESUS OUR SAVIOR.

They are aware of the choice they make a

We choose LIFE. "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you LIFE and DEATH, the blessing and the curse. So choose LIFE in order that you may live, you and your descendants, Deut 30:19

We made the correct choice. We chose God's will and it seems you chose differently - man's will. There are only two choices.

and its risks, challenges, responsibilities and implications; they make an informed choice rather that rebel to rebel.

There is no risk in choosing God's will. The risk is not choosing it. It presents a challenge only from satan and our armor, His Word, is our weapon - as he hates The Word. God's Word is alive and active and sharper than a two-edge sword. He counterfeits The Word with man made teachings to deceive. He came to kill/rob/destroy and he certainly rob many of their salvation which is his goal. Whatever Jesus wants - he wants. I've been bought with a price, so I am sealed and in the palm of the Hand of God. So he can't rob me of what I ALREADY have. It is Finished! I have eternal LIFE and His Blessings.

So what are those implications of being blessed that comes with choosing LIFE? Just from those who chose the opposite/death as they are jealous and envious - as they say we aren't blessed, we aren't saved. And that only makes me laugh. Their deceptive man made teachings tell them otherwise, they have nothing they can be sure of. Death and the curse is a poor choice.

So you see - GOD'S WORD REIGNS - God blesses HIS own - His children walk in His Blessings. As we chose LIFE - We chose Jesus as HE is the ONE Way, ONE Truth, ONE LIFE. Jesus is THE WORD, THE TRUTH.

But we do not see that here.

You aren't supposed to - it was designed that way. "But the natural man without the Spirit cannot receive these Truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand them, for only those who have The Spirit can understand what the Spirit means." 1 Cor 2:14

Praise God for HIS Spirit inspired WORD! Thank You, JESUS!

""But the natural man without the Spirit cannot receive these Truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand them, for only those who have The Spirit can understand what the Spirit means." 1 Cor 2:14

That's exactly why heretics do things like throwing out seven books of the Old Testament before they even start to spin their new religion from whole cloth. They know that unless they first trash the Bible people might be led by the Holy Spirit to read those portions of Scripture and in doing so recognize that they've been led away from Christ and His Truth rather that to Him. You know, the way Luther wanted to throw out James because it clearly tells Christians "not by faith alone".

It's sad, but those who believe "Thy Will" and "My Intellect" are exactly the same things are always substituting their own intellect for the Truth and therefore subscribe to fallacies and heresies like "Sola Yourselfa" and "Sola Fee Pay" types of doctrines. They're floating in a lake of their own pride and that's exactly what leads to tens of thousands of different little religions each claiming to be the only real church and spinning out things like the Blab it and Grab it Gospel. The health and wealth doctrine is based every bit as much on someone's personal interpretation of Scriptures as the many distortions of The Word regularly posted here are. Those who pretend that Christ either lied or was too stupid to say say what he meant and could not possibly mean exactly what He said spin endless distortions and even premeditated lies to suit their own intellect. And in every case back their little heresy up with their own personal interpretation of Scriptures, their own new interpretation that contradicts the interpretations that have been held by Christians for close to two thousand years.

Those who clearly call Christ a liar by denying that Christ founded His Church and that Christ lied when He said He would be physically present in the Eucharist are a perfect example of what I Corinthians 2:14 is talking about, people totally blinded by their own pride and refusing sight when it's offered because they're enjoying their hallucinations so much.