You’re free to follow Christ as you see fit.
I answer to God this way: Christ is my Savior. If you find fault with that, I don’t care. You are fine to look to Rome for your salvation. Christ is my Savior, and I am eternally grateful to Him.
As I’ve said before, I don’t have a problem with Roman Catholics, as long as they promote Christ. But once they start promoting their denomination over Christ — that’s where I have the problem. If you magnify Jesus Christ, as a Roman Catholic believer, that’s wonderful. If you diminish my faith in Jesus because I follow Him, or diminish Jesus by exalting Rome, then that’s problematic.
You keep referring to Roman Catholicism as a denomination as though it were one of the 25,000 Protestant factions. No. We are the trunk of the tree, not simply a branch. We are the tree from which “denominations” took root. You use the Bible we codified. You mimic our liturgy and follow our calendar. You set up authority in episcopate structures with the seat of power in Canterbury or Billy Graham or your local pastor in recognition of the need for such an authority.
We are over a billion strong and growing. The Eastern Orthodox, who are far more like-minded to us Catholics than to Protestant theology, are another half billion. The Protestant world is approx 300 million total... and yet each denomination looks to its Mother Church and tells Her to conform... hubris!
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How do you make sense of Ephesians when Paul talks about Christ and his Church? Christ isn’t a bigamist. There’s just one wife just as there is one Church. We don’t ‘worship Rome’, we follow the Church as established by Christ himself.