I can sympathize with you here. You dare to state what Lumen Gentium and the CCC states , though it is variously interpreted, and thus differ with a somewhat different type of Catholic who seems to prefer to shoot first and ask questions later, and suddenly (following his amazing conclusions) you are “Sola Fide” who started an anti-Catholic thread and “need to change” and “come home,” and (from another poster) you are not qualified to discuss the Church as an ex-Catholic!
Oh daniel, reply to Revelation 14:13. Sola Fide is
a lie. No one here has answered.
Why did the man who came up with Sola Fide try to throw out the book of James? It must of been James 2:24. Defend “Faith Alone” using those two verses. Confirm “faith alone” using Revelation 14:13. Be brave brother, be
the first.
Ex-Catholics are bitter about their choice, more so than Protestants. It’s pride and both won’t look at history, only to object to it.
also, as you point out , though it is variously interpreted, -- human fallibility being what it is, which is why sola scriptura leads to errors.
Though, the statement Those "who believe in Christ and have been properly baptized are put in a certain, .. communion with the Catholic Church can be interpreted in different degrees, it is only between 0 and 1 --> one cannot say the people referred to are completely in communion with the Church, nor can we say they are completely NOT in communion. The latter opinion which the ex-c stated, I opposed and any logical reading of the statement will show it to be false
Furthermore, we talk of Baptism -- I can clearly state that Mormons are not in communion due to their differences in Baptism but the rest of the broad spectrum of "protestants" fall in a broad spectrum -- from Lutherans to Pentecostals and everything in between.