What part of "ordinary means" don't you understand?
Those requirements by the Catholic "church" are not "ordinary" for Christianity. There are only two biblical requirements:
Repentance and
faith.
What part of that don't
you understand?
You are blind to the condition: "knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ" the proactive word is "knowing" which you can't seem to understand. In other words, you have to be a Catholic for this to apply.
Yet you ignore the fact that your "church" teaches if you don't belong to her, you cannot be saved. Without the sacraments bestowed by her, there is no hope of salvation. Both are, once again, anti-biblical and anti-Christian.
No, you are interpreting through Protestant lens. Sacraments are not performed.
Oh stop with the worthless word-games. It doesn't matter how much you try to spin it, without the sacraments being "performed" or "received" there can be no salvation, according to your "church".
Your terminology is outdated and unbiblical. Through generations of use, beginning even with the usage of St. Paul in the New Testament, anathema came to mean something other than its literal, etymological meaning
That has to be your biggest stretch yet. Anathema means, and has always meant, accursed or damned. Whether classical or modern, it means you are not saved by the declaration of your "church".
Jesus redeemed the human race, but we play a part in our salvation, a free gift, not a ticket.
Would a gift be a gift if you had to pay for it in any way? No. The only "part" we play in our salvation is receiving it as it's offered - by grace through faith - period.
And you skirted my question: If Jesus paid for all of our sins on Calvary's cross,
what is left to atone for - be it through penance or purgatory?
Go over all my post and quote where I have directly insulted or attacked a person.
By calling my writings "psychotic" you are, in fact, insulting me by labeling me as deranged.
You are pressing hard to make the Church look like some kind of exclusive salvation club
Pope Eugene IV (1441) in his Bull "
Cantate Domino" said: "The most holy Roman church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that
none of those existing
outside the Catholic church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics,
can have a share in life eternal, but that they will go into eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels,
unless before death they joined with her -
No one, even if he pour out his blood for the name of Christ,
can be saved unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic church."
Pope Boniface VIII in his Bull "
Unam Sanctam" (1302) infallibly taught: "We are compelled in virtue of our faith to believe and maintain that there is only one Catholic church, and that one apostolic.
Outside this church there is no salvation and no remission of sins - We declare, say, define, and pronounce that
it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff."
Pope Benedict XV in his Encyclical "
Ad Beatissmi" (1914) said: "Such is the nature of Catholicism that it does not admit of more or less, but must be held as a whole, or as a whole rejected:
This is the Catholic faith, which unless a man believe faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved."
Pope Innocent III at the
fourth Lateran Council wrote: " There is but one universal church of the faithful,
outside of which, no one at all can be saved."
So, nice try.