As a Christian I have no problem if my children join another Bible believing church. Throwing the non Bible believing churches into the mix is not the same thing and only serves to confuse the issue, unless the view is that any non RCC is "defective".
We're Catholic, we don't believe in the doctrine of once saved, always saved. We believe that someone can fall away from the faith, and that that can very well lead to damnation.
I know. RC's have a hard time understanding Blessed Assurance.
It's a logical device to use the most extreme example to help illustrate a point that may have applicability in less extreme examples.
Or is it to illustrate that non RCC's aren't really Christian?
So, do you think that your Baptist faith is NOT truer than my Catholic faith?
I think the lens is so different RC's can't see that Evangelicals do not see their church as their faith.
From the Catholic perspective, someone who leaves the Catholic Church puts his or her soul in jeopardy.
I know, it's to bad.
Well, I think that maybe we've both had the opportunity to say what we think. If I were to respond to your last post point-by-point, I'd start repeating myself.
I'll leave it at this. We don't believe as you believe. We start with different premises, and rightfully come to different conclusions as a result.
We believe that Catholic faith is the fullness of faith given to us by Jesus through the Apostles.
We believe that other non-Catholic Christians do not have the fullness of Christian faith.
We believe that it is a terrible tragedy for someone to fall away from the Christ's Church which is the Catholic Church, a tragedy that can result in final damnation.
Thus, noting that many Catholics who marry non-Catholics fall away from Christ's Church (a statement for which you provide evidence), we wish to teach and help guide our children in a way that will bring them to salvation, and thus, to marry another serious and devout Catholic.
One thing follows from the other.
If you don't accept the premises, you won't come to the same conclusion.
That's fine. I understand.
But having accepted the premises, we do nothing wrong or mean or un-Christian to accept the logical conclusions.
I hope that you have a Happy Thanksgiving if we don't chat further.
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