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.
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.
“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.
How very convenient.
“How very convenient.”
No, how very accurate. What I said is undeniably true.
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.
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.
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68% of those raised Roman Catholic still are Catholic (higher than the retention rates of individual Protestant denoms, but less than Jews at 76%). 15% are now Protestant (9% evangelical); 14% are unaffiliated. Pew forum, Faith in Flux (April 27, 2009) http://pewforum.org/uploadedfiles/Topics/Religious_Affiliation/fullreport.pdf
80% of adults who were raised Protestant are still Protestant, but (analysis shows) 25% no longer self-identify with the Protestant denomination in which they were raised. ^
55% of evangelical converts from Catholicism cited dissatisfaction with Catholic teachings about the Bible was a reason for leaving Catholicism, with 46% saying the Catholic Church did not view the Bible literally enough.
54% of Hispanic Catholics describe themselves as charismatic Christians. http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=75
51% of Hispanic Evangelicals are converts, and 43% are former Catholics. ^
82% of Hispanics cite the desire for a more direct, personal experience with God as the main reason for adopting a new faith. Among those who have become evangelicals, 90% say it was a spiritual search for a more direct, personal experience with God was the main reason that drove their conversion. Negative views of Catholicism do not appear to be a major reason for their conversion. ^
Latino evangelicals are more than 20 percentage points more likely than Catholics to say that abortion should be illegal in most or all circumstances. http://www.nhclc.org/news/latino-religion-us-demographic-shifts-and-trend
The first generation of Latino immigrants is 74 percent Catholic, and 15 percent Protestant. The second generation is 72 percent Catholic, and 20 percent Protestant. The third generation is 62 percent Catholic, and 29 percent Protestant. ^
And more evidence clearly testifies to evangelicals being the most conservative, and Catholics overall being liberal.
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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.)
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.
Is this another not Protestant bashing thread?
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.
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.
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?
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.
I just typed in “Catholics who left church to become Protestants”, and a ton of sites popped up. They are out there.
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.
Throwing someone under the bus is the default knee jerk reaction to any Catholic who impugns Catholicism.
Including the Catholic clergy and hierarchy.
Well, that has nothing to do with why I left the Catholic church, nor any former Catholic I know.
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