“There are some things that are not critical to salvation and those are the things that are non-issues. Some people believe in pre-destination, some in free will. That’s not a salvation critical issue.”
You just glossed over the major tenets of various Protestant beliefs like it’s nothing.
There are huge differences there. All of you claim salvation by justification alone, but the Orthodox presbys are pre-destination and by definition the Anglicans are going to hell.
Don’t gloss over the differences. They are major, they caused wars. We have Baptists here who won’t deal with Free Will Baptists because of their “wrong” belief.
Not all of you believe that the other protestant and non-catholic sects are going to wind up in Paradise together.
So you tell me that the non-Trinitarian who pops up occasionally to rail against Catholics is saved because of common cause.
Getting back to the main reason of why it is inherently deceitful to hide behind shielding one’s beliefs from scrutiny is that by doing so, it doesn’t allow rebuttal.
It’s a dishonest strategy.
Quix for all his silliness at least acknowledges where his beliefs originate. ~Even though they are wrong. Not on Christ, just on alien/demons.
Give it up. She’ll just claim you are trying to find out her denomination, and invade her privacy.
Differences which have caused wars don’t have to be major.
Anyone who fights over what Scripture says are disputable matters is wrong, according to Scripture.
There are Protestants here who are predestinationists of varying degrees, and some who aren’t. We accept those differences as they are not critical to one’s salvation. Faith in Christ is. That is the unifying factor.
Protestants are far more willing to let the HS do the convicting of error in another person’s life than to demand the legalistic adherence to church dogma, doctrine, and theology that the Catholic church requires. If we feel someone is wrong, we point it out and move on, letting God do the convicting, since we believe that every man answers to God, not us.
We don’t pronounce anathemas on people who disagree with our church doctrine.
The ignorance so many RC’s seem to have about fallen angels/demons/UFO’s and the Vatican is shocking.
The level of ignorance such a perspective displays is potentially quite spiritually and otherwise dangerous.