OK, I’ll try again.
He is misrepresenting what Catholics believe, rather blatantly. A Catholic would notice that, I noticed it.
I do not believe I can earn salvation, the Catholic Church does not teach that it is possible to earn salvation.
We can not merit salvation, a priest would acknowledge that fact every day when saying Mass, depending on which missal he used he would explicitly acknowledge that he can not merit salvation every single day.
Surely Bennett can not be ignorant of that, he knows the Church doesn’t teach it but he knows a lot of Protestants believe that the Catholic Church does teach it.
That’s why people are saying he’s not talking to Catholics, he’s confirming what Protestants erroneously believe the Catholic Church teaches. He’s not talking to us, he’s talking to you, and he’s saying things about us that he knows aren’t true. So the question is: For what purpose?
Exactly. And anytime somebody uses the words Bound to Rome and The Pope I know they believe we are mindless automans who can not think for ourselves. So much for the rich tradition of Catholic thought.
The very concept of joyful obedience is foreign to them.