>On the other hand, Protestant congregations are trained to fawn all over a wayward Catholic. It is a great prize to snatch a Catholic from the fold. A Catholic venturing to a Protestant church will quickly find a new set of zealous “friends.”
No matter which side of the Tiber you are on, any convert to any faith will be shown plenty of attention. It is not just Protestants. But if you notice, most people that convert from one sect to another are not firmly grounded in their original faith for one reason or another.
>No systematic protestant theology course is going to reverse this trend, because the movement of the Beckwiths of the world into the Catholic Church is based on years and years of study. Any course you could put up, he could tear down in half the time. The problem with Protestantism is not the number of courses offered, it is the content of those courses.
I agree. Those that are not of us were never of us.
I find it funny you mention Beckwith, he claims he only studied the roman works for a few months prior to his announcement. Years of study? Not. And he could not even handle a softball interview with Greg Koukl. Could not answer simple questions on the basics of Protestantism. I am REALLY surprised that you brought him up with his reluctance to follow the Marion Doctrines. I thought those were defide, but I guess he has yet to REALLY be converted, eh? It seems he fled Protestantism straight to cafeteria catholicism.
Just as the last great Protestant-turned-Catholic Gerry Matatics, it seems that those that jump to the Roman side are not all that orthodox...but hey, as long as they are on that side, with Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, they are saved, what?
Of course John Henry Newman and Scott and Kimberly Hahn, as only three examples, blow your weak assertion clean out of the water; something which happens quite frequently in this forum.
Ditto for Scott Hahn, Marcus Grodi, Bill Bales, and Steve Wood.
I had no idea Gordon-Conwell was such an untrustworthy and incompetent institution. Are such diploma mills a commonplace thing in the evangelical world?