“God has always had a faithful witness outside of Rome”
And your church is just magically connected with whomever was ‘not Rome’ at any particular time?
That’s awfully, ‘convenient’ I must say.
15 hundred years and you claim succession from whomever was ‘not Rome’.
You know what that smells like to me? Prejudice. A mystical barrier that separates ‘Catholic’ from ‘Christian’.
What gibberish!
My church is magically connected to the universal body of believers known as Christians. We are connected in Christ. My particular flavor happens to be baptist and reformed. After reading about the millions of Christians slaughtered by Rome, you can move on and study the history of baptists and the doctrines of the Reformation if you find it interesting.
And it’s not me or some mystical barrier that separates Catholic and Christian, it’s Rome herself. It’s the many of truths of Scripture trod under the foot of Rome. It’s Rome’s pagan invention. It’s the gospel that divides us. We have two different gospels! Why would Rome even want unity with those anathematized at Trent?