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I am a Catholic, baptized and confirmed. My siblings and their spouses and families are Catholic. My oldest son ( also a freeper) is a devout Catholic, whose heart is the largest I will ever know. My youngest son is the most theologically gifted young man I have ever seen, in his junior year of college, with 4 years of Koine Greek and two years of Hebrew behind him ( and more to come), and has the greatest understanding of not only scripture, but early church fathers and exegetical scholarship as well, that I have herd of for a young man.
My youngest, by the way, will be a Protestant pastor. I LOVE going to churches where he is asked to preach. I just don’t partake of communion there.

WE ALL LOVE THE LORD, with the same passion, desire and yearning.

My two sons, one Catholic, and one Protestant, have the greatest love and affection for each other, and STRENGTHEN each other continuously.

Why is that?

Because it is not about us. It is NEVER about us. It is always, and forever more, about Jesus.
Live for Him. But please, we need to concentrate on the real issues. There are Christians being slaughtered continuously, and I come on this forum and see these flame wars and my heart breaks.

My wife is also Protestant, and on Sunday’s when I go to her church with her, 1 out of every 4 Sunday’s there is some kind of attack against Catholics.

Why don’t I ever, ever hear similar against Protestants at the Catholic Churches?
Because the mass is about Jesus. Not us.

Thanks to God my youngest is a true scholar, and having understood the foundation of Christianity, is well beyond the nitpicking that goes on here.

Jesus weeps.

No one ever said there were not true believers attending the Catholic Church. It’s the errors of the Catholic Church teaching that is the focus. God said “come out of her my people lest ye be partakers of her plagues”. That alone tells me that there are people who He calls His even in the “church” He called the whore of Babylon. That has always meant a church or nation that incorporated paganism.

My youngest son is the most theologically gifted young man I have ever seen, in his junior year of college, with 4 years of Koine Greek and two years of Hebrew behind him ( and more to come), and has the greatest understanding of not only scripture, but early church fathers and exegetical scholarship as well, that I have herd of for a young man.

I would be interested in his understanding of the immaculate conception and perpetual virginity of Mary from the catholic perspective when analyzed by the Greek.