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.
While TOTALLY giving their Bad Popes of History a summary pardon with a wave of the superior hand.
Am I the only one who has noticed just how sensitive Catholics are about their religion? Don’t joke about papa pope or cast doubt on their saints or their traditions lest you hurt their feelings. I’ve had comments and private messages letting me know how upsetting my comments were. Well, the truth is I will never kneel and kiss the slippered toe of the pope and pretend to accept and respect their system as merely another branch of the Christian tree. But why do they even want or need me to?
I could care less what any man thinks of my local congregation, my pastor, the Christians of yesteryear I am fond of, or the doctrines I hold dear. They can say men I am fond of like Huss, Luther, Calvin, Knox, Edwards, and Spurgeon were heretics (and they have) and it just rolls off my back. Frankly, I don’t even care what they think of The Lord Jesus Christ because the opinions of another have no impact on what I know to be true. The Lord has been and remains very real in my life. I wish everyone believed the truth and I am sad for those who don’t, but I need no outside affirmation whatsoever. Opinions of men cannot sway me. When others mock and reject they confirm His Word. I fully expect the world to reject the great truths of Scripture. I’m not going to take it personally when they prefer religious traditions of men over the Jesus Christ who came according to the Scriptures and the gospel of his free and sovereign grace. I don’t take it personally when I encounter someone trapped in apostate religion who thinks I am going to hell without their particular voodoo, whatever it might be.
If I die today and go to hell it will be because of my sin and my lack of belief, not because I rejected the pompous potentates of Rome who bind the consciences of men.
Never play with the children of the dark - they are living under deception not truth.
Given the Catholic believes that their salvation is tied to the RCC is it any wonder they get their mind around the real concept of the body of Christ, the assembly of believers?