Posted on 03/02/2015 5:00:25 PM PST by RnMomof7
Ping to 1st post of running away from Home (or Rome)
Hm. I don’t suppose you asked Dr. Scott Hahn, Steven Ray, Al Kresta, Jeff Cavins, et al., for their input into the idea?
For every conversion you find FROM Catholicism, there’s one about a conversion TO Catholicism. For example, Scott Hahn, who was a Protestant minister. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Now, instead of trying to divide us Christians, maybe we should be strengthening our bond so we can fight the REAL enemy — violent extremist Muslims.
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
It’s a Home Run as well! Thanks.
Every church I attended had Irish and Italian folks who had grown up Catholic and left the church to come to a real relationship with Jesus Christ.
They told me multiple horror stories about abuse, charlatans, drunks, etc. in the Catholic clergy. They also told me that the turning point came when they either:
1. Read the Bible and discovered God's Truth, or...
2. Were invited to an evangelical service and were amazed at the fervent worship and faith displayed including truly changed lives.
I can't cite statistics, but feel absolutely certain that far more people have left the RC church to join Protestant or Evangelical churches than the opposite.
Yes, and in percentage terms, the Mormons are the fastest growing religion on earth. But that doesn’t make them right.
What about all of those people — according to your own testimony! — who don’t know Jesus and with whom your churches are “filled” — your word! I’ll bet a lot of them think their salvation is “assured,” but it’s not really, is it? So your unbiblical “assurance” is just a myth.
For God so loved the world he sent a book.
I was born a catholic and born again a Christian.
Most of Catholicism is biblical, and some of Protestantism isn’t. “Sola scripture” is not biblical, nor is salvation by faith alone. You can make a good case that the doctrine of the Trinity is also unbiblical. And Jesus prohibits divorce and remarriage, which is allowed by every Protestant denomination that I’m aware of. And Jesus often prayed that his flock be one, not split into innumerable sects as happened after the reformation.
I was born a protestant and born-again Catholic.
This post is useless stuff. The author is no historian, scholar, and theologian. Just another individual choosing to change religions. There have been many who have reconverted back to the Catholic Church. In short, this is is just one person’s story who has not been properly grounded in Catholic theology. There is the Catholic Church and then there is every other Christian heresy under the sun from Jim Jones and David Koresh to the vapid musings of Billy Graham, and Joel Osteen
To lose your salvation (the parable of the seeds) one must lose faith in Jesus’ forgiveness and His love that is the greatest love, laying down His life for His friends. If one never loses that faith in Him, there is no loss of salvation.
That faith will keep us coming to Him to wash our feet and falling ever more so in love. Like the mutts who are adopted from the ASPCA who have smelled death all around, we know that it is only His grace that has saved us.
There are churches in then WNY area that are chock full of people who have converted from Catholicism to Christian.
I’d say upwards of 75% of some congregations.
Oh, but when it’s someone converting to Catholicism, then it’s valid.
Gottcha.......
/roll eyes...
I 100% agree with you. And not just Christians either. Those evil schmucks want to kill us all and they need to be stopped.
I have always found the following helpful:
Book: Mere Christianity
Author: C.S. Lewis
Macmillan, NY, pp. 190
Excerpt from Preface:
I hope no reader will suppose that “mere” Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions — as if a man could adopt it in preference to Congregationalism or Greek Orthodoxy or anything else.
It is more like a hall out of which doors open into several rooms. If I can bring anyone into that hall, I have done what I attempted. But it is in the rooms, not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals. The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whichever that may be) is, I think preferable. It is true that some people may find they have to wait in the hall for a considerable time, while others feel certain almost at once which door they must knock at. I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do get into the room you will find that the long wait has done some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and, of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.
In plain language, the question should never be: “Do I like that kind of service?” but “Are these doctrines true: Is holiness here? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to knock at this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike of this particular door-keeper?”
When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. This is one of the rules common to the whole house.
(snip)
http://www.jknirp.com/lewis4.htm
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