[rzman21]

Catholicism is the thinking man’s Christianity. Calvinism is the lazy man’s Christianity.

I find it interesting that virtually all of the Catholic to Protestant conversion stories were ones rooted in emotional reactions to a misunderstanding of the Catholic teaching on grace.

That was true for Martin Luther and individuals like the one in the article.

If salvation is an eternal thing that you can’t lose through laxity or spiritual laziness, then who wouldn’t want to find the path of least resistance?

Calvinism selectively cherrypicks verses to fit its theory while ignoring those that object to it.

What objectively on the basis of scripture alone makes the Calvinists right and the Arminians or Lutherans wrong?

[johngrace]

"I ate oatcakes, drank black tea, and crawled on my knees around the Stations of the Cross over three days to do penance for my sins. I fasted and meditated but never knew pardon for sin. I wanted to know forgiveness, but how?"

This is sterile. If he really did this He would show why his knees hurt in descriptive words. No true human being especially an opposite of this so-called stereo type complaint would forget this part of pain.

And He never knew pardon for sin. Very strange words indeed from a so-called priest. What a Hit piece. What suckers on this thread from some of our Indy church brethren responses.