This is the foolishness of people who look to form. Christ condemned this very practice of looking at outwards act and not in the heart of man. You render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. Koran, etc are pagan stuff and just like the early church incorporated certain pagan forms into worship, a certain acculturation takes place without sacrificing core beliefs. To the extent the Koran confirms the God of Abraham, in the heart of Pope JP II, he was acknowledging this fact but we wouldn’t know that, would we? So even sitting by the Dalai Lama is idol worship to you! No wonder you cannot see the difference between the Good Samaritan and Hitler. By your lights with nothing to Guide you, you condemn both as undeserving of paradise. By the teachings of our Church, unless you believe in the Holy Eucharist as the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of the Living Christ, you are no less a pagan than Mormons or any other sects. But yet God has mercy on your foolishness and ignorance in the hope that you will examine your conscience, use what intelligence God has given you and embrace the one TRUE Church. All the rest, is just that. All the rest.
“This is the foolishness of people who look to form. Christ condemned this very practice of looking at outwards act and not in the heart of man.”
Well then, what is in the heart of man? Let’s ask God! “There is none good but one, that is, God” (Mar 10:18). “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Again, “for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” Again, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” and again, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Gen 6:5, 8:21, Ps 51:5, Jer 17:9)
“So even sitting by the Dalai Lama is idol worship to you! “
Well, putting up his idol of Buddha on a Christian (errrm, I mean a ‘Roman Catholic’) altar is certainly idol worship to me. I mean, it fits the definition. Unless Rome has done away with the sin of Idolatry too?
” No wonder you cannot see the difference between the Good Samaritan and Hitler. By your lights with nothing to Guide you, you condemn both as undeserving of paradise.”
Well, of course I reject your position, because “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt” (Rom 4:4). And again, “by grace ye are saved” (Eph 2:5). So how is the good Samaritan saved by his works, when works do not save you by grace?
This is more of a rhetorical question. I don’t expect you to actually engage anything I say. I could be talking to a wall right now, you know.