You are obviously unable to leave the RCC completely; the door remains always open, and you keep looking back in.

Your various points:

That Christians worship the same God as the Muslims seems self-evident. Nevertheless, no one is obliged to believe it.

The Catholic Church does not deny scripture. The Catholic Church, having sole authority to interpret scripture, has preserved it through the ages.

"We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus."

A frank admission that, though the individual can err (even sincerely), Christ's Church can never err in its teachings. Those who faithfully follow the Church's teachings can be assured that they are doing God's will.

When people enter a church with columns soaring towards heaven, they are more inclined to think of heaven.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
I am pleased that you give me an opportunity to tell other Catholics, who are interested in the truth, that [URL=http://www.catholicconcerns.com/Rome.html]]]the early Christians weren't Catholic![/URL]

Minnow wrote:
For example God is not going to put life(soul) into a laboratory experiment. Therefore is the "embryo" truly life form?

Faithful Remnant wrote:
Even if the RCC leaders recanted the inquistion

One good thing about the Inquisition, it's a straw for those drowning in heresy to grasp. They can always say: "Look at the Inquisition. It proves how wrong the RCC is. It shows that I was right to leave the RCC, and that my soul will not be damned for my apostasy."

Faithful Remnant wrote:
True faith will bring forth works, Lance.

Faithful Remnant wrote:
Can we not just pave our own path to heaven if we can justify ourselves?

But it is through works that we show ourselves willing to accept that sacrifice and take part in it.

Faithful Remnant wrote:
So basically he crossed over from one road to salvation by works to another road to salvation by works.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Out of the fire into the frying pan?

nothing wrote:
"You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men." Mark 7:8

Patti wrote:
Our sin debt was paid in FULL at Calvary when Christ said "It is finished".

Neil wrote:
"a way of atoning for their sins over the past year"
So this is far more foolish than exposure to tetanus: it is a blasphemous *denial* of the sufficiency of Christ's atonement on the cross. A real jaw-dropper.

Neil wrote:
"Science gives us knowledge."
A lot of lesser minds have this stubborn superstition, too.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
This means, Lance, I can pray for a brother Christian, and it will have some effect, but praying for a Hindu, Muslim, or Catholic, [URL=http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/_PDFArchives/roman-catholicism/RC2W0601.pdf]]]Roman Catholics, Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses[/URL], because they have rejected Christ, and there is no hope for them, except that they accept Christ as their savior.

preacherjond. wrote:
What poor catholics don't realize and the vatican lies to them about is that any and all sins are mortal and deadly. If a man could be so righteous that he only committed one teeny tiny little sin, then this one little sin would send him to hell for all eternity if it is not covered under the blood of Jesus Christ. All sin is deadly not just "seven".

"If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it." (I John 5:16)

Dan wrote:
“The Seven Deadly Sins (or Vices)” does not come from Christianity but is an invention of a religion that pretends to be Christian.