And aren't YOU rejecting Jesus and His church when you refuse to acknowledge that non-Catholic Christians are part of Christ's church, His body??? Your claimed "infallible" teaching contradicts God's holy word.
Those who are “invincibly” ignorant concerning the truth of the above will not be culpable for this lack of knowledge before God. Those in the category of no knowledge of God have the real possibility of salvation even if they never come to an explicit knowledge of Christ and/or his Church.
If they "live according to the dictates of their own conscience" according to your catechism. So in other words, if they are good people they don't even have to believe in Jesus Christ - who declared that "no man cometh to the Father but by me". Explain how that doesn't contradict Scripture. Then Catholicism has the gall to claim they teach salvation by grace!
Those of us who have come out of the Roman religion - who were forced into it as babies by a false baptism - do KNOW what the Roman Catholic church claims for herself and we reject it because God has led us to the true knowledge of His grace. We rejoice in our salvation and live to please Him out of gratitude for His unspeakable gift of eternal life through faith alone in Christ alone and not in order to earn, deserve or merit it. You can go ahead and condemn me but I know Almighty God does not and that is what matters.
The common denominator in all of these debates is that we use Scripture to justify true salvation and grace and they use “canon” or ‘Catholic Tradition’ (man-made).
The Holy Spirit hit me right between the eyes with verse after verse. I could never deny it after that. I left the RCC without a whimper.
The cherry on top is that there really is no grace nor teaching of it in the RCC. It’s shame, constant shame. As if they thrive on the fear.
What seems clear is that Catholics are singularly unable to separate Jesus Christ from the Catholic church, tht one can follow Jesus WITHOUT following Catholicism.
And that one can reject Catholicism and it’s false doctrines and yet be true to Christ.
Jesus is not Catholicism and Catholicism is NOT Jesus.
Jesus only is the one who saves as HE is the one who died for us, in our place. Catholicism can’t save as it’s a religious system of works and not one person is ever saved by law keeping or works doing.
And another newsflash for Catholics is that one does not need to go through Catholicism to learn about Jesus and believe in Him. That’s what Scripture, His Word, is for.