Just a hunch, but maybe that's because you're always trying to prove them wrong. ;o)
BTW ... glad to hear the cat came down.
LOL. No actually, they have never even given me a chance to say anything. My dad said when he found out we were going to a Baptist church, "there will be problems if you try to talk to me about the bible. I don't want to know about that. I'm fine as I am, I am a pretty good person."
Now tell me how to approach him.
He has been taught all his life to let the church read the bible and let the church tell him what it says. My whole family is that way. They do not want to even hear the word "bible".
Becky
hehe.....good point, al. it might help (ease becky & mack's heartache) to "objectify" points of error as being of the rcc, rather than personal/individual. (you know, saying; "that is wrong" rather than; "you are wrong"). it takes alot of discipline, a "schooling of the tongue" so to speak, as i know that i certainly have much to be ashamed of, and will have much sin of thought, deed, and spoken word, to account for at the judgement. but for jesus, precious jesus, and his sacrifice of his blood for me, i would have no hope of salvation.
the all-to-human tendency to wrongly interpret reasoned debate is not the exclusive domain of the rcc!
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.