That would make God incapable of reaching every soul that He alone has created.
Catholicism teaches a false soteriology. All those who follow its teaching are lost. Religious yes but still lost in their sins.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
Catholicism teaches a false soteriology. All those who follow its teaching are lost. Religious yes but still lost in their sins.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
One of the things I'm saying is this
Let's take three people
The first believes that there is one God, and that God incarnated himself as Jesus.
The second believes that there is just one God, but does not believe in the incarnation.
The third believes that there are hundreds of gods, and that Jesus, if they have heard of him, was just a wise man.
The first person is right about two things, the second is right about one thing, and the third is right about 0 things.
So I would say that the second person is better off than the first, because having the wisdom that there is just one God is better than not having that wisdom.
Regarding soteriology, I think the Catholic position is that all theology properly comes to the church, the body of Christ operating as a whole. The correct interpretation of the scriptures is given by God to the body of Christ as a whole, not to each individual separately.
I think the Protestant view tends to be that the correct interpretation of the scriptures is found by each individual reading the Bible by themselves, and with the help of the holy Spirit, arriving at the correct interpretation.
Now, just as an observation, the idea of reading the Bible for yourself would only have been available to rich people if you go back more than about five or six hundred years, before printing. Bibles were handwritten on expensive paper. And there was no public education, so unless you could afford to buy a Bible and someone taught you how to read, you wouldn't be able to read the Bible for yourself.