No I'm not, you're reading the Council of Vienne through eyes of pride.
You have to be able to explain the REASON why it is pride. Pride blinds Mike, it causes us to hold firmly to something without reason.
You have to be able to demonstrate that my position does not logically follow from the words of Vienne. But it's one sentence and it says the one baptism regenerates all. You have to quite literally CONTRADICT IT for BoD, because BoD is NOT the sacrament, and if the sacrament regenerates one person it has to be that which regenerates all.
Your accusation of pride, even if it were to prove true (and it is, probably just as much for me as the next guy - I'm no saint), would mean nothing without being able to reconcile the above difficulty in BoD.
But pride makes us hold to a position when reason itself shows it untenable. So while I am tempted by pride every day, it would be folly for me to say that a proposition that either contradicts the Solemn Magisterium or necessitates 2+2=5 is not heresy.
For a while I thought your pride was relaxing but it is back in full force.
My convictions have not wavered Mike, so why would I
relax my profession of the truth? That would be silly.
You're starting to use that witch-burning icon constantly,
Because I believe you're a heretic at the moment, yes.
talking about how you're offering up insults received to the souls in purgatory,
Catholic should do just that.
calling your position "the Catholic Faith" in capital letters
If I didn't think that's what it was, why would i hold it? If I couldn't reasonably defend it as I have been doing, why would I hold it?
And if I believe it is the Catholic Faith - why would I not capitalize it as is fitting for the Divinely revealed religion?
-- pray and look carefully at the other side before you dig yourself a hole you can't climb out of. That's all I ask.
Which argument from the other side is left? I told you that I have deliberately sought out objections that could prove me wrong and here I am believing BoD is heresy.
As if to show that this is what He meant, elsewhere, Christ says only that we must be born again OF THE SPIRIT, leaving out the water. Do you think the Son of God spoke carelessly, CM? Is He another fallible authority?
Interesting. You are making an inference here regarding St. John 3:8, as if to imply that Christ said "A man only needs to be born of the Spirit". Did He say that Mike? No.
Obviously He's not a fallible authority but He spoke in obscure words at times, and the Solemn Magisterium DEFINES the meaning thereof.
As for implicit faith... I'm not even sure it's a heresy... It was allowed to be discussed. I will worry about if it's a heresy if I find a priest who has every other correct position except that he believes in implicit faith. Until then, it's not top priority. Better just to leave it alone.
You're being inconsistent and that is not a good sign at all. You already know that a proposition is heresy by the mere fact of being a recession from the Solemn Magisterium (
Satis Cognitum) and you already know the definition of the Vatican Council says that it's the very words of the definition that are irreformable, not what was on the pope's mind when he said them.
In other words the tools have been given by the Church for people in the time of the Great Apostasy to know what is and is not heresy when no authority would do so.
P.S. No, I didn't tell you I couldn't reasonably overcome objections. I told you that the Holy Ghost which you call "Satan" is telling me to believe in BoD
So you accuse me of pride, and yet INSIST that there is no way you are yourself being deceived by the devil, and in fact that you are a Divine oracle?
Oh boy. This doesn't fill me with confidence in your assertions Mike, especially when in this instance you can't just plainly agree that 2+2=4.
Vienne said ONE baptism regenerates ALL the members of Christ. Florence says without the sacrament of Baptism there is no heaven for us. Trent says without the laver or without the desire thereof there is no justification.
Put them all together now and you have no choice but to reject BoD, unless you want to reform the words of the definitions, which are, "of themselves and not by consent of the Church, irreformable".