Just like Calvin who had a first-class papist education. He disagreed with much of what he learned in that education when he read the Bible and realized that what he had learned was not what the Bible taught.
Reagan was not ignorant of democrat policies or ideals or methods. Calvin was not poorly catechized. Both men looked at what they had been taught and came to believe what they had been taught was wrong.
So, too, metmom, Rnmomof7, Irishtenor, Topcat54, my husband, and hundreds of other Christians on this website, who all saw that Rome preached another Gospel. They did not rebuke that false Gospel because they didn't understand it. They rebuked it because they did understand it.
Amen
I tried so hard to reconcile the gospel with the catholic church doctrine.. one does not leave a family tradition, the faith you were raised in, without considerable contemplation and some pain
I tried to stay, but the more I read scripture, the less I believed church teaching... finally one day I realized that I could not longer accept the doctrine as any manner of truth ..and so I left.
I had never heard of "sola scriptura" or "sola fide" .. alll I knew is that the bible did not support the doctrine I had grown up with ...I knew to be faithful to God, I had to leave and I did.That decision was not without cost, all of my friends were catholic.. they no longer talked to me. I lost ministries I loved, but as He did with Job, God restored what was lost with a far greater gain...Christ