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To: big'ol_freeper; DManA
Is it withing your world views to see people leaving RCC, EO and protestant denominations to a member of THE FLOCK?..

(John ch 10).. a few of the sheep come out of the sheep pens into the pasture to graze by the shepherd (Ps 23)..

6 posted on 05/29/2008 11:11:09 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: hosepipe; DManA

You said: “Is it withing your world views to see people leaving RCC, EO and protestant denominations to a member of THE FLOCK?..”

My point was the the original question was just plain stupid. If you are Catholic (or Protestant) and someone is moving in the other direction then you have to believe that while the Holy Spirit may have moved the person, they did not respond the way the Spirit wished them to. I would caveat that though. For instance there are cases like this one: http://www.envoymagazine.com/backissues/4.6/diplomaticcorps.htm where the convert from Judaism originally became evangelical and then finally came to the fullness of faith in the Catholic Church. A Catholic would say that the Holy Spirit kept prompting her.

So to answer you. No it is not “withing” my world view to believe the Spirit wishes people to leave Christ’s Church...the Catholic Church... “to a member of THE FLOCK” whatever that means.


10 posted on 05/29/2008 11:21:42 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Preach the Gospel always, and when necessary use words". ~ St. Francis of Assisi)
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To: hosepipe

>> Is it within your world views to see people leaving RCC, EO and protestant denominations to a member of THE FLOCK?.. <<

Frankly, Protestant churches sometimes seem useful to me as training wheels for fallen-away Catholics to draw closer to the Catholic Church while they aren’t yet ready to make the plunge. I’ve known so many Catholics who fell away from the faith, dabbled in Protestantism, and eventually came home to Catholicism, it’s funny.

Naturally, Protestant preachers don’t see their mission as serving as training wheels for a better faith, which is probably why so many of their sermons are subtly preoccupied with attacking Catholicism. When I moved to Virginia, I found I could turn on any given Christian radio station, and hear them endlessly talk against worshipping false idols, to the point I might have suspected Paganism was more common in Virginia than in 1st-century Greece. Of course, the much quieter, private follow-up was that “worshipping” Mary was this sort of idolatry. But someone could listen to these preachers to hours and never suppose they had spoken one word against Catholicism.

And so therein lies the tightrope every Protestant ministry to ex-Catholics must make: be anti-Catholic enough to keep people from going Catholic, but not so blatant as to come off as a bigot, or make the falsehood obvious.


39 posted on 05/29/2008 12:55:38 PM PDT by dangus
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