It is a shame that there are not morw non-Catholics like you.
I have been told today that i am condemned and that i have denied the Holy Spirit because i hold a different opinion about things.
Hey, the rhetoric can get so hot here it obscures accuracy.
One thing which really has impressed me is the need for accuracy. Now I might not get everything right the first time, but I try to get it as right as possible.
In fact when I first became a believer, almost 25 years ago, that very impulse threw me on my spiritual rear almost immediately because I was doing it in the flesh. God was telling me through hard trials... no can do that. Got to do it in the Spirit. Now I’m charging out of the gate with that Lion of Judah in my heart and the trials (including the almost 30 years of unbelieving life before it which were very battering to me) were SO worth it. I am such an emphatic believer and yet I am an empathetic one. I still don’t get it all right, but God is still filing my sin down through many trials.
I was just repeating what the bible says...
Not because you hold a different opinion. Because you deny what He said.
So?
I've been told by Catholics the same thing, as have many others here on this forum.
Nobody is impressed with a martyr complex.