re: Question for other Catholics about the Pope

Everyone should note that it is you, a Roman Catholic, who is attempting to derail this thread on Catholic issues, making it about my beliefs instead of the Pope and the leadership of the RCC, when my original comments were not “Catholic bashing” at all, but were actually in agreement with many Catholics who have concerns about the current Pope.

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Thank you for answering and confirming those two facts about you. In the interests of full disclosure, when you comment on Roman Catholicism, you should make it clear that you do not consider Roman Catholicism to be a Christian Religion, and you do not consider practicing Roman Catholics to be fellow Christians. This ignorant and prejudiced viewpoint, which you firmly embrace, should be publicized around here so that people will take your opinions in line with your views.

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Why on earth would anyone comply with such a request? You don’t begin each of your comments with a disclaimer about your views on Protestantism, nor is that necessary. I also wouldn’t make a disclaimer about my views about Mormonism, Hinduism, or Atheism.

This is a discussion forum, and such disclaimers are entirely unnecessary and irrelevant. If my arguments have no merit, then attack my arguments. I don’t bash Catholics for being Catholics. I argue against the unbiblical doctrines that are taught by the RCC.

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Second, it's also important for all Roman Catholics around here to know that your particular sect of Protestantism has been so very Blessed by the Holy Spirit as to have only about 10,000 adherents in the entire USA, a nation of well over 300 million. In fact, it's important for everybody to know that, if you live in the state of Louisiana, and they wanted to go to your church, they would have to travel OUT of this state, because Louisiana has not one single church of your persuasion.

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Again you are trying to make this personal and use irrelevant arguments. The number of members is absolutely irrelevant to the truth of the teachings. Islam has a fair number of adherents, too, but surely you wouldn’t see that as a sign of the truth of their religion or the blessing of the Spirit on them.

And the Lord has been blessing my denomination with growth and expansion in spite of error and ignorance in this country. However, again, the truth isn’t always represented by numbers. God has always preserved a remnant of His people even if it was small number.

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People around here should know what you are and what you believe as they read and consider your opinions around here about Roman Catholicism.

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All they have to do is read my comments. I’m not exactly shy about saying what I believe to be true.

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1) you don't consider the RC Church to be a Christian religion (it's pagan in your opinion, right?)

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I believe the RCC is a heretical expression of the Christian religion based on its rejection of God’s word as the only authority for faith and life and the specific result of that being a man-made way of salvation by the merits of man rather than by the grace of God. Even with that said, I have no hatred against the Catholic lay person. I feel sorry for them and believe they have been led astray.

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2) in the whole USA there are probably less than 10,000 of your Reformed Presbyterian fellow congregants and NONE in the state of Louisiana

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Again, wholly irrelevant. There are many OPC, PCA, and other Presbyterian and Reformed churches that are very similar to my denomination that people in LA can attend.

I believe salvation exists outside of my particular expression of Christianity (my denomination), even though no salvation exists apart from the grace of God that saves through faith in Jesus alone.

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Perhaps you should focus on reforming your own fellow Presbyterians who are fully embracing and endorsing the entire LGBT-Trans agenda.

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Again, this is a discussion forum. I discuss all sorts of things and call all types of sinners to repentance and faith. I call out Arminian Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Catholics, and even Presbyterians. There are even people in my own denomination that have false views on things that I have discussions with.

That’s the great thing about sola scriptura: it provides an unchanging standard for reformation and purity that applies to everyone equally, even myself. I have to repent of my sin every day and have had my own thinking and beliefs changed by God’s word.

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Finally, why are you equivocating about your opinion regarding Catholics not being part of the Body of Christ? Be a man and admit that you wrote that on this board. I have your post bookmarked. I can re-post it if you continue to equivocate and attempt to mislead on this point.

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I’m not equivocating. I have said more than once that I believe there is no salvation where man’s works are added to Christ’s as the basis for justification. While I’m sure there are saved persons within the RCC, I don’t believe that anyone who fully understands and accepts as truth Rome’s teaching on justification is saved. They teach a different gospel than the scriptures teach.