Posted on 02/26/2014 2:03:34 PM PST by Pyro7480
When I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior at the age of eighteen, I began for the first time in my life to read the Bible with eagerness and interest. I'd come into a new relationship of faith and love with Christ, and it was in the pages of Scripture that I could learn what I needed to know about Him. I spent an entire summer reading the New Testament from cover to cover. Truths sprang out at me; insights, rivers of wisdom flowed from the pages. I was surprised to find Scripture so gripping. "That's because of the Holy Spirit," I was told by the friend who had led me to the Lord. "He's within you now, revealing what the Word of God means."
...Scripture nourished my Christian life, helped me to grow spiritually, and drew me closer to Christ. And ultimately it was Scripture that convinced me of the truth of Catholicism....
Scripture convinced me of the truth of all Catholic teaching, but nowhere was it more persuasive than in the matter of the Eucharist as the true Body and Blood of Christ. As a Protestant, I believed that when Christ spoke in John 6 of giving us His flesh to eat, He was speaking in symbolic, not literal terms. "Eating His flesh" was figurative language for "believing in Him," I thought. Scripture itself showed me that this belief is unscriptural....
(Excerpt) Read more at ewtn.com ...
Catholic ping!
If only he had kept reading...but those lost usually do not.
Yeah Dutchboy, I was thinking normally it is the other way around.
Lovely.
You can’t reject Sacred Tradition without rejecting the Bible that affirms it.
Prayers up for the haters. If they keep coming to these threads perhaps the Holy Spirit will speak to them.
I am not against communion, I consider it Divine. However, this image of cannibalism that gets portrayed is quite unsightly and no wonder the many are turned offffff. Christ sure did not serve up 'raw human flesh'. Some things are of the flesh and some things are of the Spirit.
Amen.
It takes some nerve to post on an anti-Protestant thread and then accuse Protestants of being the “haters”.
Stay classy, Bigg Red
As a non Catholic, I do not believe in trans substantiation, BUT ...
If I believe in a "spiritual" body and "spiritual" blood ... would that make me a Catholic ?
Or even ...
If I DID believe in trans substantiation, but not in a Catholic tradition, or heirarchy or pope ... would that belief make me a Catholic ?
If I was Catholic and did not believe in trans substantiation, but all the rest ... would I still be a Catholic.
Ping!
But don’t you know? Us protestant are going to Heaven anyway. The Catholics said we could.
I’m just afraid when I get to Catholic Heaven, the Saints will ask; “Hey dude. How come you didn’t pray to me?”
It would make you a “cafeteria Catholic”. An adult cannot become Catholic without making a public profession of the faith in its entirety.
Another poorly-catechized Protestant.
Catholics believe that all Christians are Catholic to some degree, as we are all brothers in Christ, but not fully united in faith. Catholics must believe all that the Cburch teaches we must believe. So, in reality, some Protestants are more Catholic than liberal, cafeteria Catholics.
“You can’t reject Sacred Tradition without rejecting the Bible that affirms it.”
As it turns out, sure you can!
“Catholics believe that all Christians are Catholic to some degree...”
Christians know some Catholics and some Protestants are Christians, but not all.
Very good post!
“Ignorance of Scripture is Ignorance of Christ.” St. Jerome
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