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g, but that was trying to figure out why some Apostolics believe that it is better for a person to die in his sins and go to hell, than for a Protestant minister to witness to him. I surmised that it was related to the FULL power monopoly that IS claimed by the hierarchy of the Latin Church as a whole, since it believes it is the only true Church.

It would be intresting to find out how many orthodox and Papist Romanist types think it would be better for a person to be unbaptized and/or unbelieving than to be Baptized and to believe in the Love of God.

I really think that anyone who wants to tell us what our ecclesiology is ought to read Dominus Jesus. The charges of "Rubber Bible" and "rubber dictionary" make me despair that anyone is sufficiently intereste din the truth to attack us for what we do beleive rather than what others say we believe.

It's just not as simple as "There are a lot of denominations and we're the right one while all those others aren't."

It would be interesting to find out how many orthodox and Papist Romanist types think it would be better for a person to be unbaptized and/or unbelieving than to be Baptized and to believe in the Love of God.

I have had the impression that Apostolics do not believe it is possible for people to love God on a large scale outside of an Apostolic Church. Whenever the subject has come up, Apostolics HAVE consistently told me that they allow for salvation and the love of God outside the Apostolic Church. However, the way it has always been described to me was in the nature of perhaps a person here or a person there, like the way we say that we are sure there are some Mormons in Heaven. Anyway, that's what I had in mind when I wrote my comment.