You are correct that Christ loves all and offers the gift of salvation to who so ever will, come and drink of the waters of life freely; however, we should not fall into the gnostic trap of thinking that Christ’s Church is invisible.
You correctly say, semantics is important and how we use words matters. What I also need to point out is how we think determines our actions.
If w me think that the Church is invisible, then we begin to entertain gnostic thoughts. The extreme form of which is “Matter is evil, only spirit is good”
This is what lead to Satan’s fall. He is pure spirit and took great pride in himself. He could not bring himself to serve man who is made in God’s image, yet is material which Satan believes is beneath him, and he certainly would not bow to God who humbled Himself and was born of a woman.
God created the earth and all matter and declared it very good. Matter itself is not evil, rather the lust of the flesh in rebellion against God’s commandments. So when you hear some one that claims that matter is evil, you can be pretty sure he is influenced by Satan or one of his demons
Christ promised that he would build His Church on “this rock” whether you say the rock is Peter or his testimony the Church is visible and built by Christ. The only Church that maintains a direct line to Jesus are the Apostolic Churches. The others came into existence by the will of man
It is an act of humility not pride that I follow the Catholic Church
As scripture says in 1 John
2 By this is the spirit of God known.
Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:
3 And every spirit
that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and
he is now already in the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.
