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It's worth mentioning that this young man, barely out of his teens and exposed to challenging and faith-destroying thought in college and seminary, may have been "gospel-hardened" through the continual beating on the evangelical jargon until he became numb to it, rather than regenerated, through his formative days.

It is my suspicion that his turn to Romanism can only mean that he was--even after his continual exposure--not truly discipled and regenerated, or he would not have been deceived by the panoply and mystery of Romanism.

After reading his screed, I certainly would not expect a true Gospel warrior to be greatly impressed by his conversion from neo-evangelicalism to Catholicism through his ignorance from either viewpoint of the spiritual battles won by genuine Christ-followers from the Donatists tothe Waldensians to William Tyndall to our Pilgrims, and out of them the modern Baptists and Darbyites, persecuted to the death by the Roman statist church/government machine.

I know and have honored many, many pastors, evangelists, and fellow disciples who were raised in Romanism, looked at it full front in its unscriptural regulations, rituals, ecclesiology, and rejection of Bible truths, and finally fled to the Jesus of the Bible Who yet seeks them, and have become mighty blood-soaked hunters for lost souls in a dying world.

As Mark17 insisted, true salvation is the critical issue in days like these, when we need a Savior.

Good post.

I know and have honored many, many pastors, evangelists, and fellow disciples who were raised in Romanism, looked at it full front in its unscriptural regulations, rituals, ecclesiology, and rejection of Bible truths, and finally fled to the Jesus of the Bible

Hey, I resemble that remark. I was never a pastor or evangelist, but I was caught up in the system, and was liberated from it, when I finally understood the Plan of Salvation. I found it was so simple, that previously, I couldn't see the forest for the trees. It was like scales fell from my eyes. It really was an eye opening experience.

It's worth mentioning that this young man, barely out of his teens and exposed to challenging and faith-destroying thought in college and seminary, may have been "gospel-hardened" through the continual beating on the evangelical jargon until he became numb to it, rather than regenerated, through his formative days.

Good reasoning.

I've found, in my teaching days, that it is MUCH easier to teach stuff that is actually IN the bible, than to UNteach the stuff that AIN'T!!!