ECT WHY EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS BECOME CATHOLICS
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Cruciform
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...according to the opinion of your preferred recently-invented, man-made non-Catholic sect, anyway.
Wick Stick
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That's not really true. The church of the first few centuries allowed its adherents much more freedom to believe as they chose than modern churches. What was in the creed(s) was necessity, and the rest was up for discussion, since all things had not yet been "worked out." Most of the "doctors of the church" didn't live til the 2nd-4th centuries.
Jarrod
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Already answered (Post #16).
Wick Stick
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Ding Ding Ding! Conversion goes both ways, but Becoming Protestant is to Becoming Catholic as mountains are to molehills.
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Cruciform
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The so-called "selling" of indulgences was a regional abuse that occurred---and was corrected---during the Late Renaissance Period (five centuries ago), and simply does not apply today. Try again.
Cruciform
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Not at all. Try again.
Post your proof.
Cruciform
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They certainly do, and I am but one example of that fact.
Catholics do sometimes abandon Christ's one historic Church for the myriad recently-invented, man-made non-Catholic sects in existence today, with more being concocted every week. May God help them in their ignorance and confusion.
Because the God and His Christ who I had read about all my life suddenly became REAL to me, I mean real as He is in the gospels.
I didn't go through the priest
I didn't go through Mary and the saints
I didn't go through the sacraments or holy rituals
I came to Him direct, just as they came to Him direct in the gospels, I called to Him directly...."Jesus, I want You, I need You, I WANT the new life You died to give me"
And I got it
I got Him
I was 14, that was 11 years ago and I still got it and I still got Him. And my life with Him is more meaningful and sweeter than ever.
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Cruciform
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In fact, you came in accordance with the "knowledge" you had derived from any number of informational sources, whether Catholic or Protestant. Beliefs are not formed in a vacuum.
It's typical for Catholics who abandon the faith to do so in adolescence or young adulthood---between puberty and college graduation. It's also typical that their understanding of the doctrinal content of the faith is incomplete and distorted at best, which is one of the reasons they leave in the first place, so that what they actually end up abandoning is not the Catholic faith itself, but merely an immature and confused impression of it. Very sad.
Gaudium de veritate,
Cruciform
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Instead of constantly linking to those nonsense RCC doctrine pits, why don't you articulate your position from the scripture?
According to the Gospel....the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. "Come unto ME...."
Catholics do just about everything short of coming unto Christ
They come to the priest
they come to mass
they come to the sacrament
they come to Mary and the saints
To Christ they come not.
WonderfulLordJesus
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Really. I saw the thread title, and whut?! They must have run an article in Catholic Digest about some couple and their parakeet, from Joel Osteen's congregation, making the switch.
Everybody can see how tempting it is, though, to become an apostate from the true faith of the Bible, maybe turn the Lord Jesus in for Popes, Mary, bone chips of saints, cannibalism and sundry paraphernalia, wielded often by budding pedophiles and homosexuals, who need not change clothing to go trick or treating. Haven't you often been tempted to trade the truth for the idolatry and fables of men? Tell you what, just the thought tempts me like a good old dog, thinking, "Yum! Good vomit!"
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Blah, blah, blah....
Cruciform
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The sources I cited are filled with biblical references and arguments, accurately reflect my own position, and effectively answer your posted comments.
Right Divider
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These threads are about discussion, not canned links.
The sites that you site are filled with incorrect interpretations based on brain-washed RCC vile "doctrines".
Cedarbay
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Yes, that would have to be the case.
Cruciform
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And how did people "come to Jesus" in the New Testament Apostolic Period? They came to the apostles and their successors (the bishops) for baptism and correct teaching in order to be introduced into Christ's one historic Church, whose teachings Jesus equated with his very own in truth and authority (Lk. 10:16; cf. 1 Tim. 3:15; Mt. 28:18-20).
Gaudium de veritate,
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Cruciform
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My point thus stands.