It is not necessary for me to attack whatever church you are attending to justify my faith. But it appears that several of you folks here do find it necessary to malign and attack the Catholic Faith as if it were evil in order to justify your singular approach to your faith. That is intolerable.
If your faith rests on scripture alone and faith alone that’s your right. But don’t expect me to agree that scripture is all we need and the Catholic Church is evil.
Charity demands that we love one another. That does not include damning the millions of faithful Catholic Christians.
Enough with the self-righteous victim mentality accusations. RCs are by far the most pervasive posters of provocative posts for their elitist "one true church," which does not even consider Protestant churches to be worthy to be properly called "churches," while in the past (which the mot vocal RCs here look to) damning all who would not submit to the pope . And time after time you choose to respond to evangelicals reproof of such by attacking, with your bare hoodlum hit-and-run bare assertion and strawmen, the heart of what they believe. And the refused to answer challenging questions or actually interact with refutation I provided, and instead just parrot the same propaganda again!
And who dare you come up with,
Charity demands that we love one another. That does not include damning the millions of faithful Catholic Christians.
When in reality not only did your church dogmatically damn millions of faithful Christians, and which some RCs here hold to, while you have effectively done the same by plainly asserting “Unless you eat My Body and drink My Blood you will not have life in You,” that one must receive the Catholic Eucharist to obtain spiritual life. Since you continue to refuse to answer the questions this provokes, then we must assume you take it as plainly as you posted it.
And yes, multitudes of souls who believe a false gospel, sadly but justly, are dammed, Catholics and Protestant, besides others.
Richard Moore, you said, “If your faith rests on scripture alone and faith alone that’s your right. But don’t expect me to agree that scripture is all we need.”
PLEASE ALLOW ME TO TRY TO EXPLAIN.
Scripture alone does not mean that scripture is all we need in our walk with God. There are five solas meaning “alone”, and each serves a different purpose in the gospel and our salvation.
(1) Christ Alone - Christ alone is the only name by which we are saved.
(2) Deo Gloria (glory to God alone). There is only one God.
(3) Scripture alone is all we need for training in righteousness. It is the living “word” of God and explains everything
(4) Grace alone - is is only through grace that we are able to receive Christ’s gift, not by any works of ours.
(5) Faith Alone - it is only through faith that we may be justified (made righteous in the sight of God.
Also, no one here has damned Roman Catholics. That is the beauty of Christ’s gift of salvation, Everyone (including Catholics) who believe in Jesus Christ and lay their lives down before him by confessing that we are sinners and can do nothing without Him, receives salvation. It does not require any works of ours. It’s as simple as that. It sounds like you fit these requirements and as a Christian, I rejoice in that. So all that others here are saying is all the other stuff instituted by men not scripture......, robes and trappings, confession booths, physical eating of Christ’s body and drinking of His blood (for that was not meant literally), praying to Mary and the “saints declared so by men” instead of praying directly to God (as He is Our Father who art in heaven) which is how He declared us to pray, purgatory, etc. is not necessarily evil, just unnecessary to salvation. To make those things necessary to salvation is belittling Christ’s sacrifice and death. For that is his gift to us, God’s plan since the fall Of man in the garden of Eden. It was a perfect plan, not requiring any works of ours.
is sola scriptura (which is non-scriptural) - so a fallacy
and
sola fide (which again is non-scriptural) - so a negative fact
Whatever their belief system is, if they put their limitations on God and then reject God saying clearly that the 1 tim 3:15 the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. - then they reject God.