Posted on 01/27/2012 9:11:21 PM PST by Salvation
So all those Protestants were Biblically illiterate? Interesting. I personally know 6 former Protestant ministers who’ve become Catholics. None of them were Biblically illiterate.
Now, every single Protestant I have ever known has been unable to answer this question: Using scripture alone show that Matthew wrote a gospel and that it is inspired. Why is it that all of you supposed Bible scholars can’t answer that question?
Is it the snappy Mesopotamian uniforms?
Just because the title of the tread includes the word Catholic does not make it sacred or something that can’t be debated.
Waiting for the answer.
Maybe you should listen to the tapes of the former Presbyterian minister, Scot Hahn. He became the first in a landslide of Protestant ministers who have since converted to Catholicism.
This is a good one to begin with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrQN8LHYg5g
Eucharist, Holy Meal
Scott Hahn on Our Lady
The found soul of Scott Hahn
The Lost Soul of Scott Hahn
Eucharist in the Pontificate of Benedict XVI (Commentary by Scott Hahn)
Do the Fathers Support Scott Hahns Theory?
Do the Fathers Support Scott Hahn's "Dragon" Theory?
The Scott Hahn Conversion Story
Our Father - In Heaven (Dr. Scott Hahn)
An Urgent Note >From Scott Hahn
I think adult Christians change denominations or worship with another denomination for one or more of four reasons.
In a sincere effort to approach our Lord, Jesus Christ.
For social purposes or rescue from congregational estrangement.
To be more in Christian family harmony with family member(s).
Or in answer to a irresistible call.
Some of these events have presented themselves in my life and I bless my Christian brethren who have welcomed or assisted me and my Lord who has blessed me in so many ways.
Maybe you could rephrase your questions as to exactly what it is you are asking.
Anyone who seriously studies the Bible and still doesn’t find the answer for which he/she is searching will continue to search and eventually convert to Catholcism because it has the fullness of faith and is the Body of Christ here on earth. So many Catholics have such a close relationship with Christ, but it is a very private thing for them, as you say, perhaps they answered a call.
Thank you. It be wonderful if some of those who can only make snide remarks about the Church would forget their hatred for a few moments and listen.
We are ALL converts to the Catholic Church. The conversion normally occurs at Baptism (by water, blood or desire). The Blessed Mother was redeemed before she was conceived. John the Baptist may have been converted in the womb as he leaped for joy at the sound of Mary’s voice.
Why be Catholic? >>>The Eucharist is real & it is Christ coming to enlighten and strengthen the believer by nourishing his soul for eternal life. Jesus Christ (John6:54), “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.” (I heard a Priest on the radio say, at the end of the Judgment there will be Communion before we all enter Heaven.)
God in his infinity Mercy gives us the ‘Baptism by Desire’ for all those who ‘Love God above all things & love their neighbors as themselves’ so that they may obtain all the promises of Jesus Christ for eternal life in Heaven. (God loves everyone & provides for membership for ALL into the Catholic Church. Fault = serious, willful & full knowledge. +++ It is God who decides membership in the eternal Catholic Church for ALL those who fail as commanded to ‘officially’ join the visible Catholic Church.)
The passages about the Judgment of Nations in Matthew25: 31-46, when Jesus Christ separates the sheep from the goats, teaches ALL of us that God is looking for Acts of Corporal Mercy. Jesus Christ: “Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for >me.”
I think he’s asking this, LOL.
“Using scripture alone show that Matthew wrote a gospel and that it is inspired.”
I would say that, using historical documents, you explain why and how the gospel of Matthew is accepted as the inspired Word of God. Show how one can know that Matthew wrote it and it is inspired.
Great Statememnt.
The historical record is what gives Matthew its certification for being 'inspired'....? Wow with this filtration system nobody would ever get around to reading with understanding the Gospel of Matthew.
Its not the actual flesh of Christ. Its a cracker. We take communion to remember what Jesus did for us and to reflect on our own lives.
I do think that there will be a large scale return to Roman Catholicism by protestants. So many protestant churches are heretical and spiritually dead now. Why would anyone stay in an apostate, dead protestant church when they can go to the original apostate church?
My wife was Protestant. When asked by the Priest why she wanted to be Catholic her answer was:
“Why settle for something less when you can have the real thing?”
BTW, We like like Protestants. That was her personal cut to the chase answer.
I still laugh about it about though.
I don’t know.
Know many Protestants of varying denominations who have a deep, secure and living faith. They talk with God and he answers.
The one habit I am glad I still have from my upbringing is reading the bible. Most of my fellow Catholics in our congregation have not. That surprised me.
Berlin_Freeper,
your wife is awesome!
I have strong affection for converts. I’ve mentioned in previous threads that both of my parents are converts: my dad’s dad and grandfather were presbyterian ministers (dad’s said his was an intellectual leap, essentially reading himself into the Church), and my mom came from a more fundamentalist background, but knew from early childhood that she was called to Catholicism.
My wife was raised in the sbc, and heard an irresistible call, which she is following, which began because of Saint Bernadette Soubirous. She’ll be joining the Church this year. Janet’s answer was somewhat similar to your wife’s.
Salvation, thank you, again, for another wonderful thread.
So you would have been one of those who walked away when Jesus said it is His flesh?
I ask this as the son and brother of Methodists and the father of a non-denominational Christian who do not believe as I do, and I pray that God accepts them for their devout belief in Jesus.
But I am also a cradle Catholic and the son of a Catholic deacon. I truly believe that at the Consecration, Jesus becomes the bread. Keep in mind, the bread does not become God, God becomes bread. If God can become man, why can He not become bread?
We don’t argue about it. I am not going to convince them and they are not going to convince me.
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