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FASCINATING, PRODDYS,
Sometimes it seems like
Rabid Clique RC's and some of the others
really do think we are as stupid, clueless and generally out to lunch
as their Maryolatry is.

However, pretending that such a post were authentic [instead of some wyrd intel probing] . . . my exhortation would be something like . . .

Ask around your social network--work, gym, classes, shop clerks, waiters . . .

1. Who are the best, most authentic, Most Biblical, wisest, most loving and kind Christians you know?

2. Do they go to a church or home group?

3. Do they love Jesus more than life itself?

4. Can I meet with them?

One might even start with an RC Charismatic group. And ask them what other Christians around town DEMONSTRATED a close walk with God?

Finally the blinders have fallen off my eyes. After 54 years as a cradle Roman Catholic I know that I have followed false teachings. Please help me to the one and only true Christian church. I need to know. I do not trust my prayers to find the true church, since I have the heretical teachings of 54 years that block the truth to my heart and mind. I found a list of thousands of Christian churches who do not believe in the teachings of the harlot of Rome. Which is the true and only Christian church do you attend?

The blinders aren't off enough.

I agree with Quix on this one. Presuming that this post and request are authentic, you need to realize that it's not a church that saves but rather Jesus Himself.

John 14:6 6Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Go to Jesus and then get a Bible and get to know Him by reading His word. Pray for direction to find a church that preaches the word and go to grow there.

But it will not save you because IT didn't die for you. Throw yourself on the mercy of the court. Ask Jesus for that forgiveness.

I found a list of thousands of Christian churches. Which is the true and only Christian church do you attend?

Ah, good common-sense-man of 1776, you must be careful to attend only the Calvinist Baptist groups or sub-groups as wmfights. If you join the non-Calvinist Baptists, that's heretical

you can pick from the lot below (I'd suggest putting it up on a dart board) -- you can also try each flavor each week --

USA
1. Alliance of Baptists
2. American Baptist Association
3. American Baptist Churches
4. Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America
5. Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists
6. Baptist Bible Fellowship International
7. Baptist General Conference
8. Baptist Missionary Association of America
9. Central Baptist Association
10. Christian Unity Baptist Association
11. Churches of God General Conference
12. Conservative Baptist Association of America
13. Continental Baptist Churches
14. Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
15. Enterprise Association of Regular Baptists
16. Evangelical Free Baptist Church
17. Free Will Baptist
18. Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship
19. Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association
20. Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of America
21. General Association of Baptists
22. General Association of General Baptists
23. General Association of Regular Baptist Churches
24. General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc.
25. General Six-Principle Baptists
26. Independent Baptist Church of America
27. Independent Baptist Fellowship International
28. Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America
29. Institutional Missionary Baptist Conference of America
30. Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association
31. Landmark Baptists
32. Liberty Baptist Fellowship
33. Macedonia Baptist World Missions
34. Mainstream Baptist Network
35. National Association of Free Will Baptists
36. National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.
37. National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
38. National Baptist Evangelical Life and Soul Saving Assembly of the U.S.A.
39. National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
40. National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A.
41. North American Baptist Conference
42. Old Regular Baptist
43. Indian Bottom Association of Old Regular Baptists
44. Old Time Missionary Baptist
45. Original Free Will Baptist Convention
46. Progressive National Baptist Convention
47. Reformed Baptist
48. Regular Baptist
49. Roger Williams Fellowship
50. Separate Baptist
51. Separate Baptists in Christ
52. Seventh Day Baptist General Conference
53. Southern Baptist Convention
54. Southwide Baptist Fellowship
55. Sovereign Grace Baptists
56. Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
57. United American Free Will Baptist Church
58. United American Free Will Baptist Conference
59. United Baptists
60. Unregistered Baptist Fellowship
61. World Baptist Fellowship
62. Worldwide Baptist New Testament Missions
63. United States - Regional bodies
64. Association of Fundamental Baptist Churches of Northern California
65. Association of Independent Baptist Churches of Illinois
66. Baptist General Association of Virginia
67. Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma
68. Baptist General Convention of Texas
69. Dakota Baptist Association
70. District of Columbia Baptist Convention
71. Empire State Fellowship of Regular Baptist Churches
72. General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, Inc.
73. Inter-Mountain Baptist Fellowship
74. Minnesota Baptist Association
75. Minnesota Baptist Conference
76. Mountain States Baptist Fellowship
77. New England Evangelical Baptist Fellowship
78. Ohio Valley Association of Christian Baptist Churches of God
79. Southern Baptists of Texas Convention
80. Wisconsin Fellowship of Baptist Churches
81. North America - Regional Bodies
82. North American Baptist Fellowship
Since there are about 82 different ones, you can spend nearly 2 years driving around. Then you can start all over again!

The emerging Baptist movement in seventeenth-century England, for example, was a microcosm of the historic debate between Calvinists and Arminians. The first Baptists–called "General Baptists" because of their confession of a "general" or unlimited atonement, were Arminians. The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth, who had moved into semi-Pelgianism and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam, and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611. Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond. The General Baptists encapsulated their Arminian views in numerous confessions, the most influential of which was the Standard Confession of 1660. In the 1640s the Particular Baptists were formed, diverging strongly from Arminian doctrine and embracing the strong Calvinism of the Presbyterians and Independents. Their robust Calvinism was publicized in such confessions as the London Baptist Confession of 1644 and the Second London Confession of 1689. Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America (called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

So if you are Particular, you can be a particular Baptist, while if you liked the movie you can become a free willie baptist. Or you can become a General Baptist (no Majors or Captains allowed), The majority of Southern Baptists, including Billy Graham, accept Arminianism with an exception allowing for a doctrine of perseverance of the saints ("eternal security")