Fascinating from all these postings, you’d think evangelicals were turning to following Rome in record numbers. I suspect however it’s an advantage of a centralized authoritarian Church organization, as they can systematically get the story of every evangelical who turns.
With all the various evangelical denominations though with “only” Christ as the Authority through His Word, there’s no one to sniff out all the Roman Catholic-to-evangelical conversion stories in these Churches.
Still, if I were a betting man, at least for every one evangelical who becomes Roman Catholic, there are ten Roman Catholics who become evangelical...
And if I were a betting woman, I would bet that your numbers are way off...I know that anecdotal stories, are never a good way to go, but just from my own personal experience I know of some Protestants, who have converted to Catholicism, and I know about equal numbers of Catholics, who have converted to one of several various Protestant religions...so I think your numbers are way off, and it is a good thing you are not a betting man, as I suspect, you would lose your shirt over this one...
And I suspect that tho we may never know the real numbers, my own sense is that there is a shifting back and forth, in approximately equal numbers of both Catholics and Protestants, who leave their initial faith, and go to another...
And in the final analysis, this is not a numbers game...it does not matter who has the larger numbers, it matters who has more of the truth on their side...
And as we have seen on all these religious threads, all sides, with their differing dogmas, think that they have the fuller truth...
Feel free to post any conversion stories yourself. I don’t post them for the numbers, and in fact if mass conversions of Evengelicals were to happen, I’d worry for my Church. Most of Americans are not ready for Catholicism.