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Um...yes, because he's right(?)

I burn in the sun so I guess that makes me whiter than most in terms of skin-type. Ethnically, I'm a complete mongrel: part-British, part-Italian, part-Greek, part-Dutch, part-French, part-Swedish...in the main!

Simply because all that has been posted is human opinion, whether it be yours or Dr Walter's, all we have had thus far on this thread is your own personal interpretations of various Scripture passages: your version of the truth, your private interpretation of the Bible. The trouble with that is...

Hmmm...you're pretty ignorant of history if you come up with tripe like that: men (and women) have fought and died for the differences between Catholicism and Anglicanism, whether they be the Anglican Marian martyrs burned by Bloody Mary in 1555-1558 whose hagiographies are recorded by Foxe, or...

Ah, like the Trinity, you mean? Oh dear... You are familiar with the concept of an antetype, aren't you? You're being selective with your proof-texting again and coveniently ignoring the passages that point to baptismal regeneration which I quoted - care to engage with them? Again, you've...

Sorry for the lateness on this, but I thought your Kraft took over our Cadburys, so anything that now goes wrong is your problem. Kind of like with the new CEO of BP being American...

[contd] Presbyterian/ Calvinist/ Reformed – Wesminster Confession (1647) Chapter XXVII Of the Sacraments I. Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace,[1] immediately instituted by God,[2] to represent Christ and His benefits; and to confirm our interest in Him:[3] as...

And the Baptist position is firmly in the minority leftfield when it comes to the Reformation and post-Reformation creeds and confessions: Lutheran – Augsburg Confession (1530) Article IX: Of Baptism. Of Baptism they teach that it is necessary to salvation, and that through Baptism is...

[continued]. Now the ECFs: Irenaeus "He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old men. Therefore he passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, sanctifying infants; a child for children...

Great, now we're getting somewhere. I don't subscribe lock stock and barrel to the Catholic view on baptism but I think there is far, far, more to merit it from both Scripture and Tradition than the Baptist view of it. It strikes me that the Baptist position on the sacraments is the recent...

Then I don't have the time to take your opinions seriously. It smells to high heaven like a cop out to me...

I've not frequented this forum for quite a while so you're a 'newbie' as far as I'm concerned. I haven't got time to read your previous posts so would be grateful if you would define what you mean by these terms. As far as the Catechism goes, please specify with which sections you disagree and why.

Dr Walter, all we have seen thus far from you is de-contextualised proof-texting, hyperbole, tilting at straw men, with no meaningful attempt to define what you mean by 'the gospel' or the other terms you use nor any referencing to what the Catechism of the Catholic Church actually says. Perhaps...

:applause: Same here with my Catholic upbringing. Amen and AMEN!

That raises another issue: to what extent can the Church Triumphant be said to be united with the Church Militant ie: is it possible for a physically living saint to ask a physically dead saint for prayer (both of course being spiritually alive in Christ)? Answers on a postcard, please...

It admittedly can be a problem for some people (either because of theological objection and fears of idolatry as per your goodself or because it can develop unwittingly for some into actual idolatry; in both cases one is wise to observe Paul's dicta in Rom 14 and I Cor 10), Ann, but it is not...

No. Please direct me to the section of the Catechism which directs this. No. The question above is restated. No. The question above is restated.

Again, define what you mean by 'the gospel of Rome' and demonstrate how that marries up with what the Catholic Catechism actually teaches. I also know many saved Catholics. They are saved not because thety reject their Church's teaching - they accept it - but because they are devoted to and...

How odd! You see, I'm ex-RC too, and yet what I was taught as a Catholic when being raised in that Church bears little or no resemblance to what you claim you were taught and what you today claim they believe. There is a finite number of possible explanations for this, which I set out below to...

Unsubstantiated opinion. Do not presume again to tell me what I do or do not know. Show me where what it does is not 'true to the Scriptures'.