[caww]

Yes, both sides do this. Perhaps because the passion for what is perceived as the right way is so strong for both. There seems to be no middle ground of agreement even on salvation thru Christ...which at one time, before coming to these threads, I believed Catholics taught salvation thru Christ alone...but now that appears far different and a host of ‘other’ requirements are necessary including that of belonging to their church...though I understand that requirement is no longer valid according to the Vatican sight...but some still hold to this belief just the same.

I think that when one is accustomed to walking with the Lord, apart from the props to do so, seems quite awkward at best to try to do so after the fact...and at worst as if an affront to Christ. I can understand some returning to the catholic church after once leaving...it is familiar to them. But for those who have walked with Christ to return to the rituals etc. just seems hard to imagine...so one can wonder where their salvation was actually rooted to begin with....in a church and it's dogma or the person of Christ. It does seem God will Himself have to do the sifting when all is said and done.

[daniel1212]

God will indeed to the sifting, and while as evangelicals who hold to the supremacy of Scripture and its basic literalistic interpretation, we most universally agree on foundational faith such as are affirmed in the Nicene Creed, and thus also oppose principal doctrines which are contrary to that, and which rest upon an authority over Scripture, but can allow various degrees of interpretation in secondary matters, which Rome also does, officially as well as effectually.