Well forgive me, then. Certainly so rigorous a study of Catholics as that is grounds enough to make sweeping charges against a billion people.
Um, let's see:
30 divided by, to be conservative, 900,000,000.
3/90,000,000
.3/9,000,000,
.03/900,000
.003/90,000
.0003/9,000
.00003/900
.00001/300
.000003/100
Oh, yes. THAT there is a representative sample.
It got warm in my back yard yesterday. Global warming is happening!
Leaving aside that you don't have to "qualify" to be Catholic. We include sinners, and we don't give up on them easily. They may not be studying theri Bible now. But who knows what time will bring?
Protestant are all about judging it seems. They judge the heart and intentions of Catholics and a minute snapshot gives them all they need to judge the entire Church.
It’s quite
PLAUSIBLE
that the sample was
QUITE, VERY REPRESENTATIVE of the whole.
It’s not the size per se that’s an issue . . . as I suspect you know.
It’s HOW REPRESENTATIVE was the sample, of the whole.
It may well have been very representative.
It may well have been very UNrepresentative.
Hard to tell.
Scripture exhorts us to use Godly judgment in a number of respects and contexts.
RC's are quite energetic in exercising many judgments towards, about, regarding Prottys. We are often thrown Mat 7:16, for example.
Those . . . criteria etc. slice both ways.
Very much both ways.
When a Christian departs from grace, there is either repentence, or a retreat into legalism.
C’mon Mad Dawg, I’ve seen plenty of judgement here for the separated brethren, the Reformed, the Calvinists, Protestant churches—all 30,000 of them (LOL). Be real. It doesn’t just happen on one side of the river, not by a LONGGGG shot.