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EWTN - The Journey Home - November 10, 2014 - Dale Ahlquist, convert from being a Baptist
EWTN ^ | 11.10.14

Posted on 11/10/2014 5:38:48 PM PST by Coleus

Mon. Nov. 10 at 8:00 PM ET Tue. Nov. 11 at 1:00 AM ET Fri. Nov. 14 at 1:00 PM ET DALE AHLQUIST

Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society and former Baptist, joins Marcus to talk about his journey home to the Catholic Church.


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To: Salvation

Strange question. No one’s soul is affected by an organization. As Acts 2 tells us, that’s the work of the Lord.

What I’ve been telling you the modern Catholic church is not a place for a sanctified soul to hang out.

False teachers abound yet we are told to go see a priest when the priests are teaching this blasphemy.


41 posted on 11/10/2014 9:28:29 PM PST by redleghunter (But let your word 'yes be 'yes,' and your 'no be 'no.' Anything more than this is from the evil one.)
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To: redleghunter

“Why let evil inside the gates?”

Who “let”?

“This was not an apologetics exercise.”

And?

“Are you asserting such is an isolated event and the Catholic church can wash their hands of such?”

No, but you are mistakenly suggesting that a Jesuit college is the Catholic Church. You’re flat out mistaken. I’m not.


42 posted on 11/10/2014 9:32:20 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: Coleus
Romans 10: 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
43 posted on 11/10/2014 9:33:05 PM PST by redleghunter (But let your word 'yes be 'yes,' and your 'no be 'no.' Anything more than this is from the evil one.)
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To: vladimir998
No, but you are mistakenly suggesting that a Jesuit college is the Catholic Church. You’re flat out mistaken. I’m not.

How very convenient.

44 posted on 11/10/2014 9:36:37 PM PST by redleghunter (But let your word 'yes be 'yes,' and your 'no be 'no.' Anything more than this is from the evil one.)
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To: redleghunter

“How very convenient.”

No, how very accurate. What I said is undeniably true.


45 posted on 11/10/2014 9:38:55 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

So Catholic universities are not Catholic and have no association with the Catholic church. Those aren’t Catholic clergy really teaching there and they are not teaching Catholic theology?

We also here Catholic Charities is also not Catholic.

I was at the AG barn today and we shoveled out a lot of what you stated tonight.


46 posted on 11/10/2014 9:48:03 PM PST by redleghunter (But let your word 'yes be 'yes,' and your 'no be 'no.' Anything more than this is from the evil one.)
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To: redleghunter

I’m afraid not, my sister in law converted from Catholicism because she “supports the gays”. My ex-girlfriend converted because she decided she’s “bisexual”, my best friend’s wife, sister, and parents left for one of those feel good, Joel Osteen-esque Mega Churches. I never asked them why, but I’ve known them to make comments about things like birth control, Catholic teaching on masturbation and pornography, and “celibate men in robes”, and that when it comes to sex “Catholics still think it’s the 1950s.” So, in other words. . . sex, sex, sex. . . that’s why almost every former Catholic I know left the Church (the exception is one hispanic family and they didn’t become any flavor of Baptists).

Fear not, however, the term “Baptist” is such a generic catch-all these days that their conversion to being Baptists is essentially meaningless, so I don’t really associate it with whatever it is that the usual suspects here do on their Sunday mornings (if they happen to be some form of Baptist anyway).

Oh, and I think Catholic Doctrine is more than conservative or strict enough for anybody. The trouble seems to be how few people actually abide by it.


47 posted on 11/10/2014 9:59:34 PM PST by Bill93
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To: redleghunter; WilliamIII; Bill93
Certain RC cultists scorn these stats as they lives in denial, but here are some anyway,


48 posted on 11/10/2014 10:27:56 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: WilliamIII
"I’ve met a lot of converts from Roman Catholicism to protestantism, but I find that evangelicals would rather highlight converts from atheism. The Journey Home’s focus on people converting from protestantism shows, to me, that too many Catholics are more interested in scoring points against protestants, than in winning souls from atheism for Christ. That seems to be the work of evangelical protestants."

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Your assessment is totally inaccurate.    Go to the following page, and scroll down to "categories" & "denominations", and select the "Atheist/Agnostic" category, which has 49 episodes.

   "Journey Home" episodes by denominations, and other faith practices

(In addition to those atheist episodes, and the many different kinds of Protestant episodes, there are also many other non-Protestant categories there as well -- check and see for yourself, and while there, why don't you watch a few episodes?    They are very interesting.)

49 posted on 11/10/2014 11:16:53 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: NKP_Vet; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; CynicalBear; daniel1212; Gamecock; ...
Ain’t it strange that no one ever posts a story about someone leaving Catholicism and becoming a baptist?

Probably because born again believers understand that it's not about converting from one religion to another. That religion isn't important, but becoming born again is.

FR wouldn't be able to handle the bandwidth of the number of stories of people who left Catholicism for Christ.

50 posted on 11/10/2014 11:58:36 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Alex Murphy; Gamecock

Is this another not Protestant bashing thread?


51 posted on 11/10/2014 11:59:39 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Iscool
Plenty of those stories out there but they are picked up by sites that hurt Catholic's feelings and thus are banned from being sources of information...

Near as I can tell, the only reason numerous sites you guys reference aren't banned is because we don't whine about them...

So true. We can handle ourselves and don't need someone to load the deck.

52 posted on 11/11/2014 12:03:40 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: NKP_Vet
I know plenty of protestants that stayed in their protestant church, some even preaching the gospel, after they “came out” as homosexual.

And there are plenty of Catholic priests who are homosexual, and even act on it in molesting children, who are still priests and got protected by the Catholic church.

53 posted on 11/11/2014 12:08:17 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: WilliamIII

I agree. It seems like they are very insecure and try to convince others. We do not have to try that hard because we are very secure in our beliefs. I know a young man who did just that—went from bot believing in God to a committed Christian. I did not even ask what church he goes to. As long as it is a Bible believing one, who cares?


54 posted on 11/11/2014 12:09:35 AM PST by MamaB
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To: Salvation; redleghunter
You are still a baptized Catholic and come back to the Church at any time. Just sit down with a priest and get your questions answered.

Who said former Catholics who have been born again by faith in Christ have any questions that they feel the need to talk to a priest about?

Once someone has met Jesus, there are no more questions.

Except maybe, why didn't you tell me this?

But no priest can ever answer as to why they never introduced someone to Christ. It's not part of the religion.

55 posted on 11/11/2014 12:11:23 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: WilliamIII

I just typed in “Catholics who left church to become Protestants”, and a ton of sites popped up. They are out there.


56 posted on 11/11/2014 12:17:41 AM PST by MamaB
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To: Coleus; Iscool
RECEIVE John 1:12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Greek word for *receive*

http://biblehub.com/greek/2983.htm

Strong's Concordance

lambanó: to take, receive
Original Word: λαμβάνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: lambanó
Phonetic Spelling: (lam-ban'-o)
Short Definition: I receive, take
Definition: (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of.

HELPS Word-studies

2983 lambánō (from the primitive root, lab-, meaning "actively lay hold of to take or receive," see NAS dictionary)
– properly, to lay hold by aggressively (actively) accepting what is available (offered).
2983 /lambánō ("accept with initiative") emphasizes the volition (assertiveness) of the receiver.

57 posted on 11/11/2014 12:23:24 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: redleghunter

Throwing someone under the bus is the default knee jerk reaction to any Catholic who impugns Catholicism.


58 posted on 11/11/2014 12:26:18 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Bill93
Oh, and I think Catholic Doctrine is more than conservative or strict enough for anybody. The trouble seems to be how few people actually abide by it.

Including the Catholic clergy and hierarchy.

59 posted on 11/11/2014 12:28:25 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Bill93; redleghunter
So, in other words. . . sex, sex, sex. . . that’s why almost every former Catholic I know left the Church (the exception is one hispanic family and they didn’t become any flavor of Baptists).

Well, that has nothing to do with why I left the Catholic church, nor any former Catholic I know.

60 posted on 11/11/2014 12:31:06 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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