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Countless attempts of Protestants to malign the Catholic doctrine prove nothing about the Catholic doctrine. I understand, however why you don't want to answer the challenge.

This [the above paragraph] indicates to me likelihood of having been written, before even reading much what was written to you. For I did "answer the challenge", but you reveal also over the balance of your reply, in your closing remark, that it's all some sort of game, while you play to the peanut gallery.

It is scripture, not a soap opera, you know.

Here I must protest. I didn't spin up the soap opera aspect. That was circulating in Catholicism long before I was ever born. I surely see no soap opera concerning the winnowing, purifying "flames" in the biblical text.

That "opera" is due to Catholic inventions, past teachings & practice.

Indeed. I write for the reader, not for the Protestant obfuscator on hand.

Said while obfuscating, himself. I stepped up to the challenge, yet you claimed right off the bat I did not, while playing for some imagined audience.

Whatever. Just do not expect myself and perhaps others, to take what you say more seriously than you extend courtesy to do likewise for those who take the trouble to write, responding in detail, to points which you raise.