True.
Being a Catholic and being born again are two different things. Some Catholics are born again, some aren’t – though it ultimately isn’t possible for one person to be sure whether another person has been born again or not. Only you and God know whether you are born again or not.
For the plain-vanilla RCC, this certainly is not true, nor is it true for the Church’s monasteries, convents, etc. See redbetta’s answer above. The RCC is extremely easy to get out of, unlike a cult. However, there are some movements inside the Church that are (or have been) a bit cult-like at times and in certain ways. Opus Dei, Neo-Catechumenal Way, Charistmatic Movement, etc. are examples.
u are so wiseI think it is hard for us to make a judgement call on that. A lot of Protestants today don’t really know that much about the Catholic Church and are just regurgitating five centuries of anti-Catholic rhetoric that paint the Church as something we would consider non-Christian. Definitely pray for his soul, especially considering what sounds like a severe lack of charity, but he sounds like the type of Protestant who rejects Catholicism more out of ignorance of what Catholicism is rather than simply rejecting it for what it is.
I don’t know that much about the Charismatic Movement, but the couple people I know who are really into it really don’t seem like they’re part of a cult-like movement. It just seems to be a way of worshipping God that they like, but they are free to stop doing it as they see fit.
I don’t think we can say that. Most Protestants, as far as I’m aware, still baptize validly. They just don’t fully understand what is going on when doing so.
Oneness Pentecostals in general are just weird. They take the name of a Protestant movement, but they very explicitly deny orthodox Trinitarianism, which despite not being one of the solas, is still generally considered a requirement to be Protestant. After all, Protestants are still Christian and still traditionally hold to the core teachings about the Trinity, Divinity of Christ, etc.
It is possible that these churches are part of more established denominations. When I was Protestant, I went to a couple churches that were “storefront” churches. One of them actually started off as Bible studies inside a still-used insurance company’s office. The first was part of the Evangelical Free Church in America, which from what I remember still does baptism validly, and the second was part of the Presbyterian Church in America, which definitely does baptism validly. It is possible that some nondenom churches and minor Evangelical denominations don’t do baptism validly, but that’s really on a church-by-church basis and can’t be assumed.
It depends on the type of Protestant. The type that would go around calling the Catholic Church a cult and that members of it aren’t really Christian probably isn’t open to reasonable discussion. In those cases, yes, don’t engage.
What do you thinks babies are doings all along? are they not confessing and praising God Psalm 8:2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger.
