Sometimes silence is the better part of valor.
If you insist on my opinion, it's this...
Like Calvin and Toplady and Spurgeon and Luther and hundreds of other Christians have pointed out, the RCC is filled with sorcery, mysticism, superstition and error.
The Holy Spirit does not lead anyone to any of those destinations, so I can only conclude someone else is leading Roman Catholics astray. My advice would be to resist those leadings and return to Scripture and to full confidence in the power and "goodness of God to lead you unto repentance" and "unto life."
"From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." -- Galatians 6:17
Now, is Paul speaking about visible signs on his own body, or is he speaking about the marks on Christ's body that are now spiritually part of Paul?
As Scripture interprets Scripture, let's see what is said in Isaiah.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." -- Isaiah 53:4-5"Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
From this repetition we learn that it is Christ's suffering that has saved us; Christ's obedience that has made us free; Christ's atonement that has paid the price for our sins in full.
Protestants hold in contempt the idea that God would wish to lacerate a believer's body in order to prove a point. It would be sadism on the part of God and masochism on the part of the believer.
Worse, it somehow seeks to bring glory to the person himself by his own pain rather than to the blood and wounds and suffering of Christ.
It's like the self-flaggelating monks. It dishonors God and Christ's sacrifice. Better those men should join a soup kitchen and dish out dinner to God's hungry children than waste their time in solitude and self-inflicted wounds.
It's not much different than Angelina Jolie's self-mutilating cutting of her arms. "It's all about me."
Anything that draws attention to the individual rather than to Christ is suspicious. Doubly so when the attention-grabber does not point to Christ either.
Very good response.
Boy that's gonna leave a mark.
Amen to your excellent post. (Col.2:23)