Three things

Three things:

1. When you see me writing in a vicious mode (like always viciously going after Roman Catholics or Village of Morality Protestants) and it may seem like I am being beneath myself - I admit it is beneath me - it's usually always because I'm just coming off one of their sites and I have allowed them to goad me like a hapless bull in a bullring. Yet, still I also don't want to be lukewarm or afraid to say something is what it is.

2. On the Roman Catholic thing I also should point out that it is always a quandary for even the most on-the-mark, doctrinally hardcore Christians regarding how to consider Roman Catholics. I tend to see it the way the Reformers saw it: I discern that some, maybe many, everyday Roman Catholics are true believers. It's not my place to judge that, but I just say that. The position of a Calvin was that there are many Christians within the Roman Catholic Church, but it is despite the teachings of the RCC not because of it. If a person within the RCC engages the quickening Word of God then that is what regenerates. They may stay in the RCC due to doctrinal indifference, but Protestants have to admit that there are Protestants we would consider to be true Christians who are also equally doctrinally indifferent or doctrinally off-the-mark. Yet the 'teaching church' of the RCC (the clerical hierarchy) and groups within such as the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), the Magisterium, with the history of crime typical of anti-Christ and the Kingdom of Satan, that is what needs to be confronted in a non-lukewarm way.

3. Something that goes against the current of the necessity to not be lukewarm is the very real fact that not everybody is at the same stage of learning about the faith or at the same level of understanding, and this is a reality that needs to be remembered and taken into consideration - but - not used to justify being lukewarm regarding the truth or used to justify not confronting what needs to be confronted, or used to justify policing those who are not lukewarm.