You wrote:
“Okay, I take great exception to that comment about “lone rangers making it up as they go”. What are you? A Pharisee?”
No. I am an orthodox Christian. You are making it up as you go along.
“Why do pompous people like you, have to take something simple like salvation and complicate it?”
I am neither pompous nor have I complicated anything.
“To make yourself feel important?”
Since I didn’t do what you claim, I couldn’t have done it for any reason you claim.
“God meant for the plan of salvation to be simple, so everyone can understand and accept the offer of eternal life. You are making it sound like one has to jump hurdles and shoot out of a cannon to share in God’s inheritance.”
I am doing no such thing. You are merely claiming I am.
“SHAME ON YOU!!!!! You could be the reason someone might feel too intimidated to step forward and accept Christ as their Savior, and if that were the case, it would royally suck to be you when you stand before Almighty God, you would not get a chance to plead your case.”
No, that will not happen. 1) I have helped convert a number of people. 2) I always point people toward Christ and His Church and never anywhere or anything else. Therefore, no person who ever reads what I say, or listens to me in person would ever choose anything other than Christ unless they were already well disposed to doing so and intent upon doing so.
“Lighten up for pity sake.”
We are discussing serious matters. I see no reason to not approach these serious matters in a serious way. Do you make light or salvation? I do not.
“Would you please show me in the Bible where it says Jesus established the Catholic church and her ministers?”
Christ said He would establish a Church and His apostles would lead it: Matthew 16. Jesus sent the Church out in the Great Commission. (Matthew 28:19-20)
“What is Christ’s doctrine?”
On what?
I am making up christianity as I go? Did I not say that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life? Is that something I made up?
I do not make light of salvation. Which is why I question being baptized as a requisite to being saved.
Now the original messengers of the gospel were almost all Jewish, so they could hardly be Catholic. Now can they?
Believe what you want and I’ll believe what I want.
A little note about the “inspired word of God”.
II Tim 3:16 “All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching”.
II Pet 1:20, 21 “Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit”.