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Praise be to God. This is a very interesting and needed read.

I’ve only read up through the first 50 posts, but some of the best Prot/Cath posts I’ve read in a long time.

There is a deep spiritual need for all Christians, despite our diffeneces in doctrine, to come together for three reasons:

1. Christ would want us together, despite differences, standing in harmony together as Christian brothers and sisters.

2. Christ would want us to fight the strong pervasive secular sentiment against Life, and indeed God Himself.

3. God is Light, Truth, and Good. Our world has a lot of darkness, deceit, and evil. I’m not talking about social gospel, but the Full Gospel of Jesus Christ. What we Christians know is Christ’s real Mission.

I hope that we can make distinctions between our doctrinal combat, where we each believe we are right with God, and feel compelled to defend and persuade; and our overall rightness in walking in Christ, together against literal Satanic evil that is enveloping the souls of our nation and world.

I love Catholics as my brothers and sisters in Christ. I admire much about the Catholic Church and I absolutely love Pope Benedict XVI (see my posts on the threads about his book "Jesus of Nazareth"). I argue relentlessly against much of what they believe, but that is only about doctrine. So long as any Christian subscribes to the basic tenets that are laid out in the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed, then they are my brother or sister in Christ, so far as I'm concerned.

Brothers and sisters argue, sometimes heatedly, but they still love each other. I will argue points of doctrine no end, but I will never suggest that a Catholic is any less Christian than I consider myself to be. People who say silly things like "Catholics are not Christian", are simply fools. Heaven is not filled with only Catholics, or only Lutherans, or only Baptists, or only...(but I'm pretty sure there won't be many Episcopalians there...)