[terycarl]

Nevertheless, ALL sin leads to death. Lesser sins are not less damning.

You are a Catholic and the church teaches that leaving the church and denying her teachings is a mortal sin....if you don't believe that, why not????

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “ if you don’t believe that, why not?” <<

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by reading the scriptures, we know that most of what the corporate catholic church teaches is alien to God.

It is wholly the the ideas of men.

This is not limited to the catholic church, it is rampant in most churches. Men want to do the things that please men.
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[caww]

...."leaving the church and denying her teachings is a mortal sin".....

That belief needs "proof" that God has determined so.....for as I see it God has never established that leaving institutionalized churches constitute sin of any kind. For THE Church is a Body of believers with Christ as the head...represented throughout the World and in many denominations today..... One is "free" to Worship Him wherever the Gospel message and His Word is preached, and His Spirit oversees.

Least it be overlooked....The seven churches to which the Revelations of Christ speaks were Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Even in that day there were various gatherings of Christians in various locations....all under the headship of Jesus Christ....much as there is today.

[metmom]

You are a Catholic and the church teaches that leaving the church and denying her teachings is a mortal sin....if you don't believe that, why not????

Because Jesus didn't teach that.

I don't care what a church hierarchy claims. Of course I'd expect that they'd say that. They want people to stay in it and what better way than to threaten them with eternal damnation if they disagree?

I see that claim by the church as a power grab. I would whatever denomination made it.

It's a huge red flag and I'd steer clear of any person or denomination that claimed exclusivity in reaching God.

BTW, I'm not a Catholic any more and nobody stating that I am can change that.

I am a new creature in Christ. The old is gone and the new has come. That makes me free. I belong to only Jesus. No one else has a claim on my soul.