Pardon, but where does it say Paul was lifted to the “seventh heaven”
I find
2 Corinthians 12:2
“I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.”
But Seventh heaven is not as far as the various Bible search engines I have tried in the Old or New Testament.
http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=seventh+heaven&qs_version=NIV
http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=seventh+heaven&qs_version=KJV
The wailing and gnashing of teeth is precisely because these are not petty squabbles. Failure to recognize that The Eucharist is Jesus Christ really, truly and substantially present is no small matter.
The protestant has forsaken the Truth of Christ and Divine Revelation for their own interpretation that conforms to their pre-established secular worldview. And in doing so, in creating this epoch of rationalism and radical individualism the protestant mind has destroyed Western Civilization. To the point where we are now about to be overun by islamists and atheistic sodomites.
But to address your comment on a broader scale I wish we could, as you say, be united in our work against the atheist and the mohammedan. Unfortunately the dischord springs from the same source: the notion of man as sole authortiy to determine truth. Man isn’t conforming himself to Truth he is making it in his own image.
So when Catholics argue with Protestants it is, in essence, the same fight we have with atheists and muslims albeit on different battle fields. And quite frankly, the argument for unity for the expressed purpose of tactical advantage isn’t, strictly speaking, convincing. Particularly when one considers that it is the Reformation which has put us in this position.