You wrote:
“I know what they had in 325 ad, It’s the stuff they have added since that era which has become the problem; but don’t think I’m dumping on Catholics... the leadership in mainline Protestant churches have been drinking the same wine of the Harlot, Mystery Babylon! Anytime, I hear some supposed believer Catholic or Protestant, saying that all religions are the same, even Muslims and Buddhists are worshipping the same God in the end, then I know the spirit of Anti-Christ has deluded them.”
I have no reason to take your view seriously.
“No I am responding sarcastically to how you are writing and how you are attacking the faith and motives of those Protestants you disagree with...without you even having the courage to sign your real name to your attacks. You come across as though you believe your-self to be the pope himself. If you believe yourself to be a champion of “TRUTH”(sounds of klaxons and warning bells)...then don’t hide a pseudonym. We might still disagree, but I’ll certainly take you more seriously...perhaps even more respectfully!”
I use an online name and always have. I am glad to do so because in past years I had one Protestant anti-Catholic stalker on the internet who followed me from one website to another, and I had another anti-Catholic Protestant (who was mentally ill; which seems quite common) who threatened my with violence and clearly meant it. Because of these and other experiences I concluded long ago that Protestant anti-Catholics are often unhinged and potentially dangerous. I have no desire to expose myself, or my family members, or my friends to possible acts of violence committed by unhinged Protestant anti-Catholics. Thus, I continue, and will always continue, to use a pseudonym. I could care less if you take me less seriously or have no respect for me. I don’t trust you, will not trust you, and from hard experiences have learned that Protestant anti-Catholics should never be trusted.
With that kind of mistrust, then the “Truth” can never be your ally. For it was Christ that said, “I am the Way, the Truth, the Life...” You reveal yourself in operating under a spirit of fear, wheras God never gives us the spirit of Fear...but of love, conviction and having the courage there-of.
I am Michael David Mathis, living in Midlothian, Va. For 25 years I have worked as a registered nurse. I found Christ as a child at Adamsville Baptist Church in Goldsboro , North Carolina in 1972. Whe my family fell apart, Christ was with me and kept me from falling apart...I made growing up sorts of mistakes but I couldn’t never get far enough away from him that he could draw me back, confront me and make be accountable to him..then ultimately restore me to faith. The type of church a man attends doesn’t matter to me so much as the Christ he worships. In the end, Christ is the ultimate head of the Church, and as the Old Testament says
“And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:34.
At least now I understand your attitude...I should not want your to be afraid of me so I shall trouble you no more!