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It’s just beginning here....
HERE’S THE TRUTH:
God did not design denominations .. MAN DID.
I therefore, worship GOD and His Son, Jesus, not man.
It’s that simple.
This is typical of these conversion stories. They do not point to Christ---they point to a triumphal entry into the Roman Church from one's own intellectual abilities. Their conversion stories are about what they did. They are about what wisdom and glory they achieved. They are not conversion stories of the broken sinner bowing his knee to the merciful God, given by the Father to Christ and irresistibly drawn (like Paul’s recounting in Galatians 1; cf. Acts 9); rather, these are accounts of people accepting the alleged Roman Catholic “fullness of truth”, and a rejection of Protestant essentials like sola fide and sola scriptura. In other words, the emphasis is not on spiritual rebirth, but rather the acceptance and realization of a “higher knowledge.” The conversion is not to Christ, but to an infallible church.
Except for the believer who is correct. Being correct is not the same as being infallible. One may stumble into correctness while being as fallible as the next guy. Therefore, at least one interpretation may be correct.
That's all that really matters...
Congratulations, Devin Rose. Welcome home.
Good find.
It presents caricatures of Protestant positions,
We see a lot of that from the ususal suspects here on FR. The "answering protestants" guy, for one example.
An irony about Rome's conversion stories is that one never knows when they're finished.
Some years back (unfortunately I did not keep bookmarks then) there was a particular conversion story put forward by the FR Romanists. This guy went from Jehovah's Witness, to Roman Catholic. OK, fine. Well, when you dug deeper into the guy's story, this convert had been everything. If I remember right, this convert'd been an independent fundamental baptist, an adventist, and Eastern Orthodox. And probably a few steps I've forgotten. He'd spend a few years as one thing, before being convinced of something else and moving on. And, at the time his RCC conversion was recounted here, he'd already moved on to something else.
Take the ex-poster child for Catholic Answers, Gerry Matatics. He certainly loved to tell his story.
Let's also not forget the infamous ongoing narccistic trainwreck, Jason Spellman.
For instance, Rose begins by showing how as a new convert to Christianity, he was already quick to ask about the problem of multiple denominations: "How had I, a newly minted Christian, come so quickly to a conclusion about which denomination taught the real truth?"
Reminds me of Joseph Smith.
They do not point to Christ---they point to a triumphal entry into the Roman Church
outstanding!