RegulatorCountry:
Well, nice mix there and again, kudos for the post. Thanks for sharing your background. At least when you post a theological position in a post, I can at least see what theological lens you are posting as I think you will agree, while maybe not explicitly impacting your theology, all of those traditions to some degree have probably implicitly shaped your theological world-view in terms of how you read the scripture, what doctrines you believe and how they are formulated, etc.
Interestingly, the number of former Catholics who have been born again on this thread have made no secret of it.
And just why do Catholics seem to feel that they have to know the theological lens through which we are posting?
You are certainly not the first Catholic to inquire about that information, which effort has been slapped down by the mods in the past.
Why the seeming obsession to label and pigeon hole and feel that you can’t debate if you don’t know where they’re coming from? That would imply that you have a thorough working knowledge of all the different non-Catholic denominations in existence and that you are presuming that the person with whom you are having the discussion is in lockstep agreement with said denominations theological views.
Now, Catholics on these threads have demonstrated that they by no means follow Vatican teaching lockstep, and yet I don’t any non-Catholics (Protestants, if you will) demanding that Catholics reveal which specific rite or parish they adhere to so that we can know where THEY’RE coming from before engaging in debate with them.
One can find out where the other person is coming from through the debate process. It’s not a requirement for, or necessary to the debate, to know that beforehand.