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***So you are basicaly saying we Catholics aren’t Christians.***

Actually, it would be more fair to say that the Catholic Chruch isn’t Christian: it is a masquerade of the truth. I have no doubt that heaven will be full of EX-Catholics, who renouced their Catholic beliefs the moment they beheld the true glory that is Christ.

” have no doubt that heaven will be full of EX-Catholics, who renouced their Catholic beliefs the moment they beheld the true glory that is Christ.”

So IOW you believe Catholics will go to hell?

It's more like the clergy who make up the Catholic church are stuck in some sort of "missionary mode", and have waited entirely too long to cut loose the Christians they've found to handle the church's more stable affairs.

Only reason to say that is to note that many Protestant denominations have found themselves having to create a missionary group organized pretty much like a Catholic church. It's some sort of inescapable model.

It's not that Catholics aren't Christians ~ they've simply not figured out how to organize themselves and "do church" on their own.

The purpose of Protestantism is simply to test out an almost infinite variety of ways Christians might well (or can) organize to do God's work. (Not at all surprising God would allow infinite varieties). Slowly but surely Catholics are catching on ~ even if only for a designated lay person to carry the host to a shut-in on Sunday.

I’m married to one of them. He said when he realized that God’s grace wasn’t going to leave him when he committed a sin and that he could ask for forgiveness from Jesus and receive it, it was like a load lifted from his shoulders. Our former senior pastor said the same.