[Mad Dawg]

Please. You are quoting my quoting something YOU said, and then using that as an argument against me. It's the exclusivist/inclusivist line.

NO I am not a predestinationist, not simply. I just propose that there is only one Body of Christ, and to be saved is to be a member of that Body.

As to what the Cathnolic Church taught in the first q500 years of its existence, whether you think the Church was founded sometime in the first century or the 4th, Dante wrote within the first 1500 years of the Church's history.

[metmom]

NO I am not a predestinationist, not simply.

Just clarifying. It could have been read that way.

I just propose that there is only one Body of Christ, and to be saved is to be a member of that Body.

What the Catholic church teaches is that there is one body and an that to be a member of that body is to be saved.

A difference and not an insignificant one at that.