how many times must i remind you of your story line:
former catholic, reads the bible, becomes saved, ........
to keep in “character”, you should pretend to know the Church has not believed for 2,000 years in “once saved, always saved”
your other buddies will get mad at you as well, you forget the story line is Catholics believe we are saved by works.
keep practicing, you will get better.
here’s a suggestion, send me a private email first and i will let you know what off the wall statements it contains, that someone who supposedly was catholic would not say.
i am always here to stop you from continuing to make a fool of yourself.
thank me!
When will you know if you are good enough or have done enough to be saved??
Catholics usually become Protestants because they feel jaded by Church officials, and they usually have about an 8th grade understanding of their faith.
It was that way in my own family where my father and his brothers left the Church and because Protestant. They didn’t do it for any intellectual reason.
It all was a bit like bitter children rebelling against a bad parent.
For every bad priest or bishop, there are countless others who lead holy lives.
Protestants usually become Catholic or Orthodox for intellectual reasons after they start seeing the circular reasoning of the Protestant rejection of Catholicism.
Going to college and meeting “born again” Evangelicals was an eye-opening experience for someone who had been taught Sola Scriptura Lutheranism.
I saw a group of people who claimed to believe in the same Solas that I did, but their claims about the Bible were radically opposed to everything I had been taught about the Bible as a Lutheran.
Mind you I was an ELCA Lutheran, but seeing how radically different these “born agains” interpretation of scripture was shook my faith in the whole Sola Scriptura dogma and made me want to find out what the earliest Christians REALLY believed.
I ended up realizing that these sectarian biases were all manmade and had nothing to do with authentic timeless Christianity.