Sir,

Your sarcasm and disrespect in response to careful instruction on a matter of eternal significance is simply unwarranted. You yourself have stated that you your views do not coincide precisely with those of the Roman State church for the last 450 years, strongly implying that your own views are somehow more accurate (and referring to Scripture as the arbiter, I notice), and yet simultaneously insisting that the Church itself is of necessity correct in the essentials of the matter--even though the current voice of the Church cannot articulate the matter, while churches founded on the biblical doctrine in opposition to Rome are in error. These positions cannot be simultaneously defended.

Your position is redolent of that of the chief priests and elders (Matthew 21:23-27) who could not answer Jesus because of their self-righteousness and hid in the lie of ignorance: "We do not know". Theirs was a lie because the entire testimony of God in Scripture and finally his own Son had clearly communicated the truth to them, and they rejected it out of unbelief.

In Christ,
Paul S