[Gargantua]

I was raised a Catholic. I had my First Communion, my Confirmation, I attended Cathechism until high school, and sat through the hours of "Pax dominus fobiscum, ecum spiritu tuo's". Then, in my adulthood, I started to read the Bible.

I saw what Jesus Christ teaches about the one true path to Salvation, and how it is diametrically opposed by the teachings of the Catholic Church.

I was baptized as an adult, as Jesus says we must be (as a conscious, public act of obedience to His Word (VERY different from what the Catholics consider a baptism).

Then, and only then, I received Christ's gift of the Holy Spirit, and had the scales of man's blindness removed from my eyes. It is this person who now writes to you. I write with a full, personal knowledge of the truth about Roman Catholicism, and with a deep and abiding love for you and every misled Catholic follower in my heart.

I relate to you what I know to be God's Truth because I want better for you than the Catholic deception and the bitter fruits it offers to those who blindly follow its hell-bent dogma.

;-/

[Titanites]

I was baptized as an adult, as Jesus says we must be

Which Scripture verse are you referencing where Jesus said this?

[Cronos]

could you elaborate on what you see as Catholic deception?

[InterestedQuestioner]

"Then, in my adulthood, I started to read the Bible. I saw what Jesus Christ teaches about the one true path to Salvation, and how it is diametrically opposed by the teachings of the Catholic Church."

That's a very interesting comment, Gargantua. Can you elaborate on what you understand to be the one true path to Salvation, and perhaps offer a few comments on how that is diametrically opposed to the teachings of the Catholic Church?

[Conservative til I die]

Then, in my adulthood, I started to read the Bible.

Shame on you for waiting until you were an adult Catholic to read the Bible.

I was baptized as an adult, as Jesus says we must be (as a conscious, public act of obedience to His Word (VERY different from what the Catholics consider a baptism).

Where did Jesus describe baptism as you describe it?

[AlaninSA]

Rote Catholicism does not a participant or expert make. I note that you're like most of the anti-Catholic crowd and unwilling to confess what bizarre sect of protestantism to which you belong.

Were you a true believer in your faith you'd happily share it. But...like your backbone, your faith is evidently small and brittle.

[wmfights]

"I saw what Jesus Christ teaches about the one true path to Salvation, and how it is diametrically opposed by the teachings of the Catholic Church.

I was baptized as an adult, as Jesus says we must be (as a conscious, public act of obedience to His Word (VERY different from what the Catholics consider a baptism)."
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GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER!

My experience was similar, except I left the Episcopal church.

Watch out for the legalistic thinking.