[Bellflower]

RC is like a cult. If you want someone else to do all your thinking for you and to just follow along with what the leader says then by all means join the RCC. You will feel safe and secure in the knowledge that someone else knows it all and all you have to do is follow.

Now being in other Churches will force you to decide before God what you believe based upon your own search, your own study of the Bible, your own reliance upon the Holy Spirit. It will be harder, and yes it might be messier. Everyone may not agree with what you believe. But like Paul said there must be differences if the truth is to shine forth.

It is strange how Catholics quote the Bible when it supports what they want you to think and yet it is not completely authoritative and able to be trusted and relied upon when it doesn't. Then RCC tradition and a Pope trumps Scripture. When is it authoritative, only when it helps their arguments for what the RCC purports, but not when it disagrees with it?

[Steelfish]

“I think to be a Protestant, you have to be able to just say “it doesn’t make sense but that’s ok.”

She nailed it.
It has been said of Bible-Christians that they can only swim in the shallow waters of the theological debate. Take them to the deep end of the pool and they drown.
It is the Church that infallibly assembled the books in the Bible in the Synod of Rome in AD 382. The books did not fall from the skies and self assemble themselves. That infallible authority to decide what is the true Word of God did not evaporate ELEVEN centuries later with the curse of the Reformation. This what the brilliant essayist Hillaire Belloc says of Protestantism in his superb book “Great Heresies,” that “unlike other heresies, Protestantism spawned a cluster of heresies.”

The Church also carries with it the great oral traditions in its sacred liturgies and rituals. The written word of God did not disappear not the ether.

As John puts it in 21: 25

“But there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written.”

The “but’ her is important. It means do not rely exclusively on sola scriptura.

It nice to know that at least one Southern Baptist have finally come to her

[TradicalRC]

Now being in other Churches will force you to decide before God what you believe based upon your own search, your own study of the Bible, your own reliance upon the Holy Spirit.

Too many seem to decide for themselves what to believe and end up believing that contraception, abortion and sodomy are all okay with Christ: disregarding the ethos that ALL denominations of Christianity believed (until 1930). Sorry but you can't have your sin and your salvation too.