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yes, well I agree with thisEveryone who believes in Jesus and carries out his words are all part of 'HIS' Church!
you are rightThe 'Church' of Jesus is us! It is the people. It is not made of stone. It is not a building
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.In an age of false ecumenism, it's true compassion and mercy to warn people that their non-Catholic sects do not offer the salvation of Jesus Christ. His blood flows from His body.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Sorry, absolutely nothing in that statement about the Vatican or Catholic Church.
Unity is far removed from personal salvation. Reconcile John 6 with any other faiths belief than the authority of Peter and his succession is not possible. For no man whom has not had hands laid upon him has no "in Christi" authority to consecrate, bind or loose, etc.I think that we have seen through joint dialogue over the past 3 Papacies, that the condemning nature of the past is no longer 100% relevant. At the time, it was completely relevant, however today the Catholic Church recognizes unity through diversity.
In an age of false ecumenism, it's true compassion and mercy to warn people that their non-Catholic sects do not offer the salvation of Jesus Christ.
These are points that I fear a great many Catholics are not sensitive to and so underplay. You correctly identified Feeneyism as erroneous and to be avoided and also correctly don't lightly permit Protestantism. But I don't know that a lot of Catholics completely understand the imperative to evangelize Protestants.We do not believe that it is all hunky-dory not to be Catholic. Yet we do not claim every Protestant goes to hell if they don't up and become Catholic. Some are living by the light they have been given while suffering from a real invincible ignorance preventing them from joining the Catholic Church. Your garden variety Protestant is not excluded from salvation even though salvation is from the Church alone from Christ alone. The Catholic position on this should be apparent from 'Lumen Gentium', 'Unitatis Redintegratio', 'Ut Unum Sint', and 'Dominus Iesus'.
We do not believe that it is all hunky-dory not to be Catholic. Yet we do not claim every Protestant goes to hell if they don't up and become Catholic. Some are living by the light they have been given while suffering from a real invincible ignorance preventing them from joining the Catholic Church. Your garden variety Protestant is not excluded from salvation even though salvation is from the Church alone from Christ alone.
Correct, yet the best the Church can proclaim is "may" when it speaks about salvation for non Catholic Christians. So given this fact, it is an imperative we not nuance the truth about salavation.
These are points that I fear a great many Catholics are not sensitive to and so underplay. You correctly identified Feeneyism as erroneous and to be avoided and also correctly don't lightly permit Protestantism. But I don't know that a lot of Catholics completely understand the imperative to evangelize Protestants.