[cloudmountain]

LOL ... so we can say you are a ‘universal’ then!

I am not "a universal."
The Catholic Church is not "a universal." The Catholic Church IS universal, "catholic" being an adjective.

You are giving me way too much credit, MHG. But, thanks anyway.

[MHGinTN]

I use the word as a noun and an adjective, even though your fellow travelers would tell you I use it as a perjorative (I don't, not even with terycarl, poor thing).

Salvation is based upon the Promise of God, not the behaviors of men and women. Jesus revealed the simplicity in John 3, regarding the brass snake. Have you read that passage before? Interestingly, when Nicodemus of the Sanhedrin visited JESUS by night, he was given an explanation hidden for a very long time, that just as the snake was raised up to be THE object of faithing and any, that's ANY, who believed they would be cured of the poison was cured based upon the Promise of God, so JESUS, GOD with us, would be lifted up and ANY who call upon Him for Salvation will be saved.

It is also revealing that hundreds of years later, Israelites were making little idol snakes and praying to them. The new King had to clean house over that blasphemy.

[MHGinTN]

Would it help you if I pointed out each time you conflate the Ekkelsia Jesus established, translated ‘church’, with the man-made institution called ‘Mother’ ‘Church’? You do it so fluidly I thought it might help you to see the error if someone just cited it each time you do it.