Do you accept that sincere, intellectually curious and honest people can arrive at a different conclusion? Do you believe that anyone who leaves the Roman Catholic Church after careful consideration, much prayer, intense study of Scripture and history can also be "sincere", "intellectually curious" and "honest"?
“Do you accept that sincere, intellectually curious and honest people can arrive at a different conclusion? Do you believe that anyone who leaves the Roman Catholic Church after careful consideration, much prayer, intense study of Scripture and history can also be “sincere”, “intellectually curious” and “honest””.
That’s a hard question to answer. Since all the Church Fathers were Catholic and everyone was Catholic for the first 1,500 years after Christ died I don’t know what new material anyone could have came up with to “prove” to them all the Church fathers were wrong which would mean Catholicism was wrong.
One of the greatest theologians of the 19th Century, if not the greatest, put it this way.
“To be deep in history is to cease to be protestant”.
~ John Henry Newman, Roman Catholic Cardinal
Former Angelican
Kind of find it hard to believe any person that has ever left Catholicism for one of the protestant faiths knew more about the Bible and Christianity than John Henry Newman.