theophilus said:
The fact that an organization sometimes does good things for people doesn't prove that what its teaches is true. There are atheist organizations that do charitable things. Satan sometimes appears as an angel of light by leading organizations under his control to help meet the physical needs of people so he can trick them into relying on that organization to help meet their spiritual needs.
i agree with you; nonetheless, a good deed covers many sins. And Catholics are not Catholicism. Meaning that every Catholic believes somewhat differently from every other Catholic, too. And that there are certainly Catholic jerks, and Catholic pure hearts.
Is their theology, their belief system, not in line with your understanding of Scripture, as it is not with mine? Then what are we called to do, as followers of Christ, in that case? That is the question. Shall we pull up some Tares, then? That is what i have been doing, all my life. You'd think God could crash the RCC by Himself, if that was what served Him, wouldn't you?
Don't get me wrong i struggle with this , also; but i have come to see that the struggle is in me. It is my problem, and God does not share it, and neither can i seem to get Him to pay any attention to this. So then i said, "let me go see why." And it took a while, but they were patient--more patient, obviously than either of us would have been, wadr--and so i finally came to see why, that being because they serve a purpose, just like the rest of imperfect Christianity does.
With all due respect you assume your doctrine is correct, and i assume mine is correct--we'll say--but ours is just as whacked. And that is just as irrelevant, at the end of the day, when it is our hearts that are judged.