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To: Luircin
Most Protestants will not condemn all others to eternal damnation like Roman Catholicism condemns all non-Catholic Christians too.

The second half of your sentence is false. (See, for example, the response of the Holy Office in the Father Feeney case in 1948.) I have no idea what that does to the first half of your sentence.

I do know that when some Protestants say:

  1. Only Christians can go to heaven
  2. Catholics aren't Christians
... they are most certainly condemning me to hell, just as you falsely assert that I condemn you to hell.
52 posted on 09/13/2019 2:34:22 PM PDT by Campion ((marine dad))
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To: Campion; Luircin
I do know that when some Protestants say:

Only Christians can go to heaven

Catholics aren't Christians

... they are most certainly condemning me to hell, just as you falsely assert that I condemn you to hell.

Yet, that is exactly what Roman Catholicism has said about non-Roman Catholics. That is at least before Vatican II.

To be sure I understand your position...Luircin and I are Heaven bound even though we are not Roman Catholic.

53 posted on 09/13/2019 3:43:59 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Campion

I don’t even need to reply; it’s already been stated.


57 posted on 09/13/2019 11:00:29 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: Campion; Luircin
Most Protestants will not condemn all others to eternal damnation like Roman Catholicism condemns all non-Catholic Christians too.

The second half of your sentence is false. (See, for example, the response of the Holy Office in the Father Feeney case in 1948.)

I think that he is referring to such plain statements which certain RadTradCaths (like https://catholicism.org/eens-fathers.html) understandably contend as meaning that "if a man does not accept the faith of Christ and enter into His Church and subject himself to the authority of the Roman Pontiff, he cannot be saved."

I do know that when some Protestants say: Only Christians can go to heaven Catholics aren't Christians ... they are most certainly condemning me to hell, just as you falsely assert that I condemn you to hell.

The difference is the word that is missing, which is "all." Sadly, since Romanism fosters faith in the power of the church and one's own merits then, like myself who was raised devout RC, then relative few Catholics (likewise mainline Prots) have had their "day of salvation" of Scriptural regeneration with it's profound basic effects thru personal repentant effectual faith to save them as lost sinners, on Christ's account. Which I realized while being a weekly Mass-going Catholics, but to continue in obedience to Scripture means seeing critical differences btwn what the NT church believed and that of Catholic distinctives, and the spirit of the NT church versus institutionalized religion, and therefore seeking to worship and fellowship with those of like faith and spirit. Thanks be to God.

60 posted on 09/14/2019 4:45:12 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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