MB: If you or anyone else chooses to disregard His Church, well, then, you may explain it to Him, as we all must explain ALL of our life to Him at our Judgement.
The passage you posted had nothing to do with answering for disregarding the church.
Nor does your reference to Paul have anything to do with it.
Our judgment is what we do with Christ, not the church.
John 3:14-18 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 1:12-13 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
It's all about Jesus, Mark. Only about Jesus.
Not the *church*. Not the pope. Not Mary. Not saints, angels, incense, works, baptism, confirmation, rites, rituals, sacraments, penance, nothing but Jesus.
The Hebrews were only healed when they looked at the serpent as it was lifted up.
If HE, Jesus, be lifted up.
Peter tells us that there is no other name under heaven by which we MUST be saved. Acts 4:12. Listen to the guy you claim to be your first pope.
He knows.
It's just his attempt to steer the conversation away from yetr another toubling area.
It has everything to do with it.
It's all about Jesus, Mark. Only about Jesus. Not the *church*. Not the pope. Not Mary. Not saints, angels, incense, works, baptism, confirmation, rites, rituals, sacraments, penance, nothing but Jesus.
From the Protestants, it has only to do with the god in the mirror.
Peter tells us that there is no other name under heaven by which we MUST be saved. Acts 4:12. Listen to the guy you claim to be your first pope.
Agreed. The trouble is that many Protestants mix up their name with the name of God.