Posted on 05/28/2008 6:05:04 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Hello fellow Freepers. I believe this is my first post on the Religion forum.
Over the past week or so, I put some thought into something I've been pondering for a while; my spiritual welfare. As it was, I had been part of the 'Sola Scriptua' school of thought (Evangelical Christian). By the Bible and only the Bible. Sounded good enough.
Well...what about before the Bible was put into word? It stuck in my head when reading an article earlier on FR concerning a deconstruction of Sola Scriptura and its inherent weaknesses as a foundation for one's faith.
This, combined with a genuine lack of churchgoing (as a family, we've been uncertain about going to various churches, given that top-down problems with Episcopal/Methodist/etc. churches and their increasing liberalization are a genuine problem for one's spiritual welfare), compelled me to make a decision.
I don't know if my family will follow me, persay, but I'm going to go ahead and take the plunge.
Next month, I'm going to the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle near my home, and I'm joining the Roman Catholic Church.
As is, I have a few volumes of the Magnificat pamphlet and the Catechism of the Catholic Church to read.
Any other pointers from other Catholic Freepers?
Since your view is idiosyncratic, to say the least, perhaps you should explain in some detail how you arrived at it.
Now a sensible Baptist would put that rattlesnake in the potluck. Just kidding. I know dang good and well Baptists do not snake handle or drink cyanide or tell their wives their butts look big in those pants.
I guess your only response is to make personally derogatory remarks about other FReepers.
In that regard, your tag is dead-on.
And chock-full of sound argument and solid defense of the faith. 8~)
I think I'll take that for my new temporary tagline, if you have no objection?
You’re quite welcome.
A Catholic will say that he or she genuflects to God the Son - Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Protestants worship pieces of paper. They pretend to justify it by saying the Bible is the Word of God, but they worship it and not God. I’ve seen too many of them who can’t function without their Bibles in their hands. Which leads me to believe they’ve turned pieces of paper into their idol.
There. How does it feel to be deliberately misunderstood?
Bingo
Amen to your prayers.
Yeah buddy, I'll stick with the Word. You go ahead and stick your head in the sand with the rest of those who choose to ignore the Word. The Bible is God's written Word my friend, not Catholic dogma.
LOL! That rates right up there with Wife 1.1!!!!
Excellent response!
I was a Catholic child in New Haven, Connecticut, when Feeneyism (which emanated from Boston) was at its height. Feeney had people dressed as nuns and religious brothers going door to door to sell books and raise money. My pastor and many others advised the faithful in the pews to respond to Feeney's disciples by politely telling them that we were Catholics and were uninterested in Leonard Feeney's eccentric theories.
While Catholics would certainly welcome you too if you were to convert to Catholicism, I have no question that Evangelicals (and many other Protestants) are Christians and I hope to meet many of them (including you, and many former clients in pro-life activity and many dear friends) in heaven when the time comes. I have more reason to worry about my own salvation than I do about that of many of my non-Catholic Christian brothers and sisters.
You and I would, no doubt, disagree in our respective beliefs as to a very important 5% of faith matters. We would likely agree on the rest. The differences are quite important but so are the similarities.
May God bless you and yours.
I thought much the same way before I started participating in these discussions on the FR RF. Even when RCs told us they consider their their priests to be "another Christ," and that Mary is viewed as a "co-redeemer" I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Now I realize our differences are stark and important, not the least of which is Rome's misunderstanding of Christ's one-time justification for all the sins of His flock.
http://www.christiantruth.com/gospelrcsalvation.html
It is so interesting when Protestants give links on supposed “Catholic teaching” that have nothing to do with the Catholic Church.
Also interesting that they claim it is Roman Catholic teaching, when in reality it is PROTESTANT teaching, about Catholics. Who knows how accurate it is, or if it’s all a pack of lies?
Interesting indeed!
These are two different things, FRiend. They no more conflict than arithmatic and algebra when rightly understood.
Well, that makes you AFAIK the only person in the world who “knows” it. Perhaps you should enlighten the rest of us.
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