Paul said that we have been reconciled unto God by Jesus Christ.
"All things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ" 2 Corinthians 5:18.
If we have been reconciled unto God by Jesus Christ then why do you need the Catholic church or Calvinism or any religion?
Paul said, "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ" 1 Timothy 2:5.
Nothing about a Catholic church or a Calvinist religion or any religion being a mediator.
Can it be that Catholics and Calvinist have made their religion their Jesus? YESJust like the Jews made the Torah their Jesus. One of the commandments says..."Thou shalt not have any God's before me". Is it Jesus Christ plus something? Or is it Jesus Christ plus nothing?
If we were reconciled unto God by Jesus and Jesus Christ is the only mediator between man and God, then where does religion fit into this?
Ephesians 1:6 says that we have been made acceptable in the beloved, who is Jesus Christ. Jesus makes us acceptable to God by his doing and his dying. He is our justifier, Romans 3:26. Reconciler, 2 Corinthians 5:18 and our mediator, 1 Timothy 2:5.
If this is true then why do you need that religion?