[ladyinred]

WHOSOEVER WILL MAY COME. It was not written: Whosoever will who goes to the right human organization; marches in step with all the traditions, rituals, edicts, encyclicals, pontifications, rules, policies, dogma . . . of a certain finite human organization . . . who kowtow to the hierarchy in fitting contrition and submission; who jump through all the RELIGIOUS hoops . . . . those and only those whosoevers may come to the gilded edifice and receive our pontifical, lofty, exclusive, monopolistic sanctions, our human authorized Salvation. WE AND WE ALONE ARE THE EXCLUSIVE GATE KEEPERS BACK TO GOD. Deposit your coins appropriately.

I had to "BRAVO" this one and BTTT!

[Dr. Eckleburg]

WE AND WE ALONE ARE THE EXCLUSIVE GATE KEEPERS BACK TO GOD.

But if we are the "exclusive gate keepers" to our own salvation, then how different is this from our RC FRiends who say men and magisteriums are the gate keepers?

This is the very reason the Reformation was waged. Not men, God. God is the gate keeper, and all whom the Father has given to the Son will be brought safely home.

[Quix]

PTL.

Thanks for your kind and humbling words. Just seemed like basic Scriptural truths and historical facts, to me.