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I have studied from all religions. JWs are so devoted, Mormons are SO POLITE AND KIND, Muslims are so warm, Buddhist are so calm, Catholic ninjas are so crazy
, Baptists who know how to dance. SDAs who go TUBING in river.
In all of them you can find Saints who would get along with each other just fine, In all of them you can find the combative religious bigot who thinks his way is the only way.
Looking back at things you have said and things I know about Catholic doctrine;
You said God by the Holy Spirit throughout time and humanity wrote God's laws on people's hearts per Romans ch 2 to support your claim that everyone everywhere throughout time is given a choice to follow God (prevenient grace would require this if everyone has freewill)
You said in so many words that you just have to be a good person and God will accept you into Heaven, your goodness showing that God has written His laws on your heart, and it really doesn't matter what faith you espouse.
I say that Paul is talking about new covenant Christians in Romans chapter 2
Which if I am correct means nothing that you have said is grounded in the truth.
You said that the your Eucharist is sacrificed all over the world all the time,
and though you haven't come out and said it that I recall, it is sacrificed for venial sin making it a "sin offering" and Christ's sacrifice abolished the sin offering per Hebrews 10:17. Christ says as often as you eat of this do this in remembrance of me He doesn't say do this for the remittance of sin. When you say we still need to be purged of sin that accumulate after baptism you miss the point of the new covenant.
So there's no confusion this is what Wikipedia says concerning the Sacrifice of Mass.
As defined by the Church at the Council of Trent, in the Mass, "The same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross, is present and offered in an unbloody manner.” The Church describes the Holy Mass as "the source and summit of the Christian life". It teaches that the sacramental bread and wine, through consecration by an ordained priest, become the sacrificial body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ as THE SACRIFICE ON CALVARY MADE TRULY PRESENT ONCE AGAIN ON THE ALTER.
You say you take your sins to the cross and you eat the Eucharist to be close to God and I say I take my sin directly to God through the Holy Spirit inside me so I always have His direct presence.
(Some of the things you have said I might be remembering from different posts in different topics)
Hebrews 1:3 says that Jesus purged our sins and then sat down after he completed that process showing it was a done deal.
You say Jesus is still hanging on the cross and the job is never done.
Hebrews 4:16 says let us come boldly to the throne of grace, it doesn't say let us come boldly to the cross.
5:9 Christ is my perfect Priest, where you say in your doctrine that there are other priests.
6:1-6 if someone were to fall away, they can't be renewed to repentance because it's like crucifying Christ again. Paraphrased
Your system says Christ never left the cross so though you continually sacrifice Him for sin you (when I say "you" I mean you as in the Catholics) say it's the same cross and the same sacrifice so it's ok, but these verses say you can't repent and be covered by the blood again because it would be like crucifying Christ again, and you can't crucify someone again unless they have been taken down from the cross BTW...so this takes for granted that Christ isn't on the cross anymore.
This also speaks to a system of sin remediation because if you are to
lay again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment, (for the remediation of sin) you would have to accomplish these things in a corporate setting.
7:22, 23. Your priests die, but my Priest never dies
7:27 My Priest is perfect and doesn't need another sin sacrifice but yours continue to offer sin sacrifices for themselves and your patrons. (to be clear the only sacrifice that your system does that I disagree with is the sin sacrifice; sacrifices of praise or prayer or other non-sin related sacrifices are good)
8:1 My God is seated on the right hand of God and not still hanging on a cross.
8:6 My Priest brought a better covenant, but you say that the tools of that covenant (the Holy Spirit writing the law of love on our hearts) has always happened per your explanation of Romans 2.
9:14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
The last time I saw a reference to dead works was in chapter 6 above, and so if you doubted that dead works require Christ's sacrifice, and that can happen only once, here is your answer.
If you are thinking that Christ's initial sacrifice covers your your dead works sin, but you need the same sacrifice (your way around saying you are re-crucifying Him) to cover any repeated sin after the fact, I would wonder why you are trying to "renew repentance"? I think it's because you think Christ's blood purifies the sin and not the sinner? It's like the sin has a separate existence and it needs to be purified, but like I said somewhere the blood covers ME and if I come out from under that covering, the blood can't be spilled for me again because the blood isn't available anymore since Christ isn't bleeding still...
9:25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world;
What is the difference between saying Christ would have to suffer multiple times, or saying Christ has been in continual sacrifice and suffering? A lot, and I think it's a horrible morbid thing to think either way.
Heb 10:10 , Christ's body offered once
,12 One sacrifice for sin forever
,14 by One offering He perfects us forever
,16 putting His laws on our hearts by the Spirit) is a new thing that hasn't happened before.
,17, 18 no longer a need for a sin sacrifice since God doesn't remember my sin
,19 ,20 I myself can enter into the Holiest of Holies wow! ...I don't need your priests, I am part of His body, His flesh, and I am with Him behind the veil.
,26 it was going so great and just 10 verses ago it was said I don't need a sacrifice, now it says if I willfully sin i am doomed!
Heb 10:17, 18 then he adds,
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.— NASB
This verse doesn't say they don't have sin and don't need a sacrifice, it says (indirectly) that the sacrifice was made and because if it God ignores the sin.
In contrast:
Heb 10:26, 27: For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries— NASB
In the space of 10 versus the writer says twice that there is no more sacrifice for sin. The first time in vs. 18 it is said in a positive way and the second in vs. 27 it is said in a negative way, but in either case it proves that Christ was the last sacrifice for sin. To me 10:26, 27 sounds like the writer is telling them "if you keep doing these rituals (go on sinning deliberately) after I've told you what you're doing is wrong (You received the knowledge of the truth) you're going to be judged for it.
Heb 10:39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.— NASB
In 10:39 the writer points out that they have faith and this differentiates them from the others who shrink back and are destroyed. If they ignored his teachings and continued to use rituals in an attempt to remove their sin they would be those that are shrinking back into their old ways that the Hebrews were used to. Two different types of people, two different reasons why there is no longer a sacrifice for sin. The first reason is because you have faith and God chooses not to remember your sins, and the second reason is that God no longer excepts any other sacrifice other than Jesus Christ, and that covers you once.
Backtrack to 10:19
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His FLESH, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
Here you might think this is some reference to eating the Eucharist except your Eucharist only takes you back to the cross where when I consume Christ the Holy Spirit fills my heart with His Words and I am transformed forever into part of Jesus! Now, as part of the body of Christ I can go WITH Jesus into the Holy of Holies! I know you have read John 6:63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
Jesus said this right after He told His disciples who had never believed and ended up leaving Him that they had to eat and drink Him. I think Christ actually wanted them to leave to tell you the truth so He made this audacious comment so they would, but that's just an assumption...
Notice the Spirit and the Word gives life; wow! that sounds just like Paul in Romans 2 talking about the Spirit and the Words...
Heb 12:2 Christ despised the Cross
I have consumed Christ's Words and His Holy Spirit lives in me so I will live forever with Him.
I crucify my life for Christ, I don't crucify Christ for my life.
. Nothing would completely irk me more than if God saves everyone. I would grind my teeth broken and cry if God saved everyone. At least give us one damned soul.