Posted on 06/20/2012 5:39:30 AM PDT by Petrosius
Google St. Patrick’s Breastplate. Christ is in every line.
Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire, check out her story or faith. Very interesting journey she had.
“Anne Rice...”
She later renounced.
Seems Christianity wasn’t gay-friendly enough for her.
The atheists are already going nuts and attacking her. She was well liked in the atheist blogosphere prior.
Doesnt RCIA always begin in the fall,culminating with the Easter Vigil?
She finally discovered she was too intelligent to be an atheist.
"The 22-year-old Yale graduate says she came to believe “that the Moral Law wasn’t just a Platonic truth, abstract and distant. It turns out I actually believed it was some kind of Person, as well as Truth. And there was one religion that seemed like the most promising way to reach back to that living Truth.”
Once you have arrived at the conviction that the Truth is a person, you are well on your way. That comes from the imprint of the Creator on her heart. Plenty of people have come to Christ with less understanding.
Interesting. I didn’t know that so I did a bit of research myself and it appears that the organized church is what she left. Here is and exert from her direct quote: “I remain committed to Christ”. That is the bottom line for a believer.
She had some odd ideas, based on the one book of hers I read, regarding the ability for some souls to reincarnate.
This is true, but remember, if we are to come to Christ we must first believe He exists. For someone coming from a "there is no God" perspective she has already made the hardest leap of faith. She now believes "there is a God"
So the next question she will inevitably ask (if she has not asked it already) is "What does God want from me (or me to do)?"
She'll get there.
The church has plenty of pretenders in it today... its one thing to be welcoming, its another to be naive. Of course maybe there's more to this story but I don't think the Catholic New Agency would edit out a testimony in Christ's name.
Awesome....hope she gets good guidance on the journey.
When she is accepted into the Church she must make a profession of faith based on the Nicene Creed which has the following words:
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,That is good enough for me and should be good enough for you.
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
Approval from you or I is unnecessary.
But there are a couple of unrepentant lesbians living around the corner from me who are ordained Lutheran ministers, I imagined they also took the Nicene Creed. Should that be 'good enough' for me as well?
Awesome!!!
Pathetic.
I'm a fallen Catholic and the worst hypocritical Christian who's only hope is that we have a forgiving God. But the snarky little comments reveal more about those making the comments than the girl who converted.
If they were referring to me perhaps you can describe what about me you took away from my comments?
Approval from you or I is unnecessary; followed directly by an example of which there is clear disapproval. Fascinating.
Somethings missing from this woman’s testimony. Anyway I hope she’s sincere.
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I second both points.
You must have missed A.N. Wilson and Dr. Antony Flew (google that). My own favorite of several intellectual nonbelieverswho made it all the way through the door into the Household of Faith is my friend at the University of Leeds (UK) who was an atheist philosopher and ethicist for many decades, entering the Catholic Church after long, long reflection and great joy in his late 60's. If you want to communicate with him, let me know and I will get his permission.
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