All,
I wanted to post an apology to those involved in the thread, “Are Roman Catholics Christians?” Sensing some hard feelings after the conversation was finished, and desiring to know if there was any sin involved in how I conducted myself, I asked my wife to read through the thread to get her opinion on my part. After reading through it, she noted that my tone could have been more charitable and that, especially when speaking to the Lord’s people, a more gentle approach may have suited better. While I am passionate for the gospel, and desire the church to stand for the truths that many saints have spilled their blood for, I could have presented myself in a way that was gentler. While there are many who disagree with my position, I should have conducted myself in a way that Paul exhorts Timothy to behave:

Quote:

2 Timothy 2:24-25 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, (25) In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.

Please accept my sincere apologies.

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Jeff Bartel
Mechanical Engineer
Member - Trinity Reformed Church - RPCNA

"To believe in the power of man in the work of regeneration is the great heresy of Rome, and from that error has come the ruin of the Church. Conversion proceeds from the grace of God alone, and the system which ascribes it partly to man and partly to God is worse than Pelagianism" (The Reformation in England (London, 1962), Vol. 1, p. 98)

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