Yep! No puffed up there. No sireee. I am sure you are glad you are not like the publican.
>>you don’t know what counterfeiting is.<<
Really? You can read his mind and know what he doesn’t know? Seems to me you are getting a little personal there dude.
I don’t rest on me; I rest on what God does. So I am like the tax collector, except having received the forgiveness. Perhaps I was a bit crude in my approach and I hope to get it better in the future... but I do not recant the gravamen of my assertion. That such broad-brush accusations at a system that has many nuances of God’s grace in real life are fundamentally based on pride and thus are blind to the work of God.
By the way I would tell a lot of Roman Catholics the same thing as they peer over into the evangelical Christian community. I ain’t playing “Good guy, bad guy” here. In a sense we all are bad guys, but some are being saved too and getting less bad as we approach glory, still learning until that final moment of final reconciliation with the Lord.
Anyhow, there are a lot of unfounded assumptions on both sides of the “divide.” Some Roman Catholics get the ecumenism founded on a powerful, barrier-smashing Jesus Christ, like Mrs. Don-O does. They are much easier to spiritually work alongside, than with than those who don’t.
Being the eternal spiritual optimist I am, I even see something else potentially in the cards that may stun us if it takes place. It happens that on the Roman Catholic side (if I understand it right) they have a prophecy that there are going to be a certain number of popes. Well, Francis is that last pope! I do not put it beyond God (with GOD all things are possible... note that does not say that with MAN they are... and yep this has to do with salvation) to raise up such a witness between Roman Catholics and evangelicals (I give better than even odds that it is going to be Baptists) that even the pope can’t deny it. There will be an ex cathedra announcement by Francis to the effect that salvation IS by direct faith in Jesus Christ to save one’s eternal life... and the walls will come a-tumblin’ down.