No guilt because.....
My salvation is by grace through faith in Christ, not by baptism into a church.
The Catholic church is not the One True Church and salvation is not through it.
Scripture rather than the Catholic church is authoritative.
The Catholic church has no claim on me or my soul that it can dictate any aspect of my life to me. I answer to Christ not the pope.
Not to mention, that if I did *feel guilt* about leaving the church, then it would be easily resolved by coming back to it. It's not like leaving it is a permanent decision, at least according to your Catholic cohorts.
Why should I feel guilty about leaving an organization that does not consider the finished work of Christ on the cross enough to secure someone's salvation and adds man-made teaching to Scripture as authoritative and puts men into the bondage of works to merit heaven?
‘The Catholic church has no claim on me or my soul that it can dictate any aspect of my life to me. I answer to Christ not the pope.’
Fact - the world uses a calendar, the Gregorian calendar, named after a Pope, Gregory.
Solar based calendar is used by the largest and greatest nations, and even the official calendar of the United Nations. Darn near the whole world.. even those who were given the written oracles are using it..
Fact- God has a calendar.. and it isn’t the Gregorian calendar..and it is actually in scripture..
Didn’t know how much of a slave I was to the world system, before it..
As proud as you are of your protetstant doctrines, your world does revolve around a namesake of a pope, regardless of how much input he or the church had, in his namesake calendar..
it runs the world’s business week, the sabbaths for the three major religions of the world and has its very own holy days depending on what nation you live in.. ( USA just had one on the moons day)
And for the record, if it was a protestant namesake, it’d be the same counterfeiting of God’s timekeeping. Daniel 7:25 said it would happen and didn’t start with the gregorian., the julian did the same.
We are fighting powers and principalities that can and has fooled even the very elect..
Biggest fact- His mercy and grace is needed for all of us more than any of us can ever know..