Must have been a Baptist like Bubba. No truly born-again Christian could become a Catholic.
Remarks like this are precious. They highlight perfectly that one can't embrace Catholicism without engaging his intellect.
...and no true Catholic ever becomes a so-called born again.
Thank you for clarifying this for me!!!!! And here all this time I thought I was a born again Christian who was a Catholic. So am I born again, I have been baptized and accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior or am I Catholic, seeing that I accept all that is contained in the Apostles Creed? Geeze Louise, I'm so confused!
“No truly born-again Christian could become a Catholic.”
Wrong. Every true Catholic is “born-again”, made new in Christ Jesus. That you do not understand this reveals a great deal about you, nothing more.
May I ask, Why?
So I guess you can't ever really know who is and isn't a "truly born-again Christian," because they could someday convert to Catholicism and demonstrate that they were never "for real" to begin with.
Sort of throws a wrench in that "assurance of salvation" stuff, doesn't it?
There fixed it. You see that is what the Jesus actually said was "Born from above." Only someone smart enough to actually read the NT in Greek would know that, not someone that sat in the pews taking a fundie pastors word for it.
I assume he was a baptized Baptist. Bubba was not??
When one is baptized "in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost," one is born again in Christ, whether it was done in the Baptist church, Methodist, Catholic, or the Jordan River. The Catholic church recognizes such Protestant baptism, for those who wish to convert, to join the Catholic church.
Now, if the Catholic church can recognize the validity of your baptism, why can't you return the same respect?
No truly born-again Christian could become a Catholic.
From my perspective, no truly thinking Catholic would ever need to be born again.
Don’t comment on something you cannot possibly fathom. I became a Baptist at 15, but somehow the Baptist church couldn’t fullfill me. After raising two children Catholic, I found my home. I was received into the Catholic church Easter, 1994. The Baptist church made me feel scared and belittled. The Catholic Church gives me peace, so I can make it through another week, with the help of Jesus. Go somewhere else and complain.