This may be a preliminary post to the issue of Catholicism. It is from a facebook post of mine from some time age
Looking at a video by a notorious catholic baiter. John MacArthur on youtube I replied with this.
Catholics, who believe in the trinity, atonement, resurrection and second coming of Christ, while denying sola fide and sola scriptura are about as saved as we protestants, who believe in, well, yes, the trinity, atonement, resurrection and second coming of Christ but who show by our lives that we do not believe in sola fide (we would not be so legalistic if we did) and sola scriptura (well, we would not chase preachers and christian writers so much if we did)
So what is the difference?
Catholics are a little more honest about what they really believe whereas we like to hide behind parroted utterances of sound doctrine which our lives show we do not believe.
And of course Protestants like MacArthur need something to hate, and Rome has been the lightning rod for that for centuries.
Given the great commonality between Rome and us of the protestant sects if they are not Christians neither are we, but if we Protestants are Christians so are they. We cannot have it both ways, as bigots of both camps insist, that the other set is not Christian
We are as Christian as each other, but that is not much
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