Posted on 05/28/2007 11:09:15 AM PDT by Titanites
Robert Koons’ recent conversion story (former Lutheran Church Missoui Synod). He has provided extensive notes explaining his decision.
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Welcome home Robert! The angels rejoice in Heaven. I pray that all will see the light, stop denying Christ and return to the Church He founded.
Anyone keeping score?
(And remember, if the numbers go toward the Protestants, it’s a well-documented fact that only scholars cross the Tiber towards Rome, and only uneducated hicks cross the other way)
/sarcasm
Anyone following up, to see if he became a Freemason after his supposed conversion?
As for "uneducated hicks", we become educated and join the Church, we just don't have any notoriety or fame so we don't make the news. Our parish welcomed 19 new members this Easter.
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I don't know if it was "years of discernment" for me; I went from atheism to Catholicism with a stop along the way as an agnostic. I do know that it was a combination of a recognition of the simplicity of faith and the understanding that one need not leave one's intellect at the Church door in order to believe which lead me to the Church of Rome. Dispite its earthly errors, it still is the first, best and greatest house of our Father.
As for the classes; well . . . there was little about Christian or Catholic doctrine which was unknown to me as I had studied both in order to be clever in my disdain. Little did I know the sneaky irony of the Father as I was lead to Him while thinking I was going in the other direction. For the one who set heaven and earth spinning has little trouble with outwitting a dullard like me.
Thank goodness He did it in a wonderful way.
I think you missed the point about the uneducated hicks part. Seems that only uneducated hicks leave the Catholic Church. Even your statement alludes to the idea that uneducated hicks that get educated join the Church.
it’s just anecdotal but something i have noticed is that converts to Catholicism usually do not blast their former denomination. As my wife would say, when she became caholic, it simply completed and built upon a Christian foundation already laid. maybe a few bricks are removed but really it’s more about the fullness of the faith than condemning the former denomination. She has positive memories of that early faith still.
Yet, when Catholics leave to join a Protestant church, we are usually blasted. I know that this can’t always be true, yet these “whore of babylon” judgments on us are just ludicrous.
Condemning the Church is similar condemning your own parents. Even if Luther was “right”, how can he be justified condemning the very Church that passed on that faith to him to begin with?
Yes, He is the original “multi-tasker” isn’t He.
It seemed to me that he was implying, with tongue in cheek, that that was the opinion of Catholics. IOW, that Catholics like to think that only brilliant scholars find the Church and only people who are idiot, know-nothings would ever leave and so that also implies that non-scholars would never consider becoming Catholic as a matter of faith.
uneducated hicks that get educated
Well, you have to know and assent to what you believe but you still don't have to be a scholar. You don't have to read the early fathers, you don't have to know the whole history of the church, you just have to know what it believes and assent to that belief.
I have written this very thing a number of times on this forum. As a convert myself, I never felt the need to bad-talk my Protestant roots. Nor did I feel a need to bad-talk to my Protestant siblings.
I didn’t feel compelled to show contempt for their choice of church to attend or to aggressively proselytize to them. As a result, one of my sisters tells me how great she thinks the Pope is and the other sister attends Mass with me when she visits from out-of-state. Both of my parents—who were not Catholic—were so happy to be visited by a priest when they were dying. It was a great and unforgettable moment for them-—and for me.
God is good—all the time. All the time, God is good.
God is much better to us than we deserve, isn't He?
. . . .but they're just such easy targets!
I agree.
Even if Luther was “right”, how can he be justified condemning the very Church that passed on that faith to him to begin with?
Do we get our faith from our church or is it a gift from God?
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