[boatbums]

Thank you. I admire your patience and determination to present the TRUTH of the Christian faith. Probably above everything else I see in these kinds of threads is the dichotomy between those who defend their “church” and those who defend the faith. There are many non-Catholic Christians who have weighed in here over the last month and what they have pretty consistently done is show that it matters what is in the heart towards the truths God has revealed to us in Holy Scripture above what any particular denomination has said over another. Nobody is saying one MUST be a Baptist, or Presbyterian, or Methodist in order to be saved because in order to be saved one must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus never said you have to be a Catholic to be saved. In fact, he made it quite clear that, once one is born again into the family of God through faith, he IS a member of the Body of Christ, his church. This body is so much greater than any man made institution.

[daniel1212]

Thank God for your heart for truth and encouragement. The way to realization of truth is that which is revealed in Scripture, which was not on the basis of an assuredly infallible magisterium as per Rome, but by truth claims having Scriptural substantiation in word and in power. May Christianity better exhibit more in these dark days.