“It would be great if protestants were willing to actually tell us what church they belong to so that they can’t hammer ‘personal attack’ everytime we challenge ‘personal’ beliefs.”
But in that you would overcome the purpose of using screen names, staying out of the personal realm, and dealing objectively with the doctrine or belief instead of the personality.
There is a certain percentage of us who feel that right is right and wrong is wrong without regard to the organization that espouses the idea and it is the message that should be dealt with not the poster.
Calling a poster a “troll” and a “vicious anti-catholic spammer” or something of like nature is not a “challenge ‘personal’ belief”.
Plus that wouldn’t keep them from personal attacks anyway.
As demonstrated by the response to those who DID reveal their denominational affiliation.
Cause once you affiliate with one, they expect you to be with it forever and then they go and find every loonytoons who ever even mentioned said denomination in passing and challenge with “So and so said this and he’s a such and such, why do you agree with him?”
If I thought for one minute that the Catholics were sincere and asking the question in good faith, it wouldn’t be so much of an issue, but precedent shows that it’s nothing more than religion baiting. I’ve seen FRoman Catholics actively trying to pit one non-Catholic against another on these threads.
Not playing.....
Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ, not of works and anyone who is a born again believer is a member of the body of Christ and my brother or sister IN Christ.
FReepers do not see daily articles on what Fred Luter Jr said or did, and that Baptists alone were worthy of the title "church," but this is a RC practice, and then some complain when challenged, and some seem to long to the "good ol days" of the Inquisitions with all its means of making sure Rome is not challenged.