I gathered that after reading your "Roman Catholic demon-bag" comment.
Instead, you had attempted to broadcast positions others had stated as their own ---as being my own.
No, I didn't. It looks like you need to apologize.
While you're at it, you should tell us just how far you personally either reject, or else accept Protestants (at least some of them) to be Christians.
Protestant baptism is valid in the Catholic Church; I accept Protestants to be Christian.
Is it salvation of merit -- yes, or no? An answer here is required (unless this all be some form of mere game-playing on your own part -- and anything further from yourself should be fully ignored).
The author gives his own answer: Coptic believers are not Christians for the exact same reason Protestants don’t believe Catholics are Christians.
As far as I can tell, and would guess could apply to more than just a few Coptics also, not all Roman Catholics I have encountered put stock foremost in what the writer termed salvation of merit.
I live in Egypt and don't know of any Coptics who believe in "salvation of merit".
Good enough.
The question wasn't about what "the author" identified as "salvation of merit".
Is it that they do not use that precise terminology? Or is it the concept that terminology does seem in context to be describing?
Otherwise, I'd love to take your word for it, for regarding those whom I have encountered here in the States (and with whom I've discussed such matters) some of those did seem to me to place faith foremost in Jesus Christ ---rather than how He is approached through religious ceremony. Not that He cannot be met with in that way (during course of partaking in participating in "religious ceremony", and church services) but that relationship with Him is not fully dependent upon that. Does that make sense to you?