“Christ said you can recognize a tree by its fruit.”
You are darn right!
I got sick of the rotten fruit of the protestants!
I got sick of an incomplete bible
I got sick of a church had lacked the full sacraments.
I don’t like a church that does not have a service every day or is even open daily just for prayer.
I wanted a church that was 100% pro life although I must admit I did not know this at the time.
I got sick of a pastor who told me all other “churches” were going to hell that did not believe in our churches doctrine, yet refused to associate with those other churches because they did not have the same doctrine.
I got sick of the rich brats in our church always getting away with murder just cause their parents gave a lot of money to the church.
When I joined the Catholic church I was told:
How to “Get saved” the way the bible says to do it!
I was taught how hard it is to be a saint.
I was given a complete copy of the Bible not the one Martin Luther chopped up.
I was told why Mary is so important in all of this, and wow did that ever blow me away. Actually it turned me 100% prolife, something the protestants could never do, but that is another story.
I learned how to pray.
I have a church that has a service every day and is open for prayer.
What I have learned now as a Catholic is so far beyond what I ever learned in my former church.
The biggest thing I have learned is why you are the way you are. “Unless you drink my blood and eat my flesh you will not have life with in you”. You have no idea what that means but I do. Thank God now I do and it’s because of the Catholic Church, because the protestants sure never taught me that.
God bless you. Great post.
“I got sick of the rotten fruit of the protestants!”
As Reagan said, “there you go again”.
Sure, there are many Protestants that are false Christians. You just left one false church for another.
“Actually it turned me 100% prolife”
Prolife enough to renounce the Catholic church’s burning William Tyndale at the stake?
“I don’t like a church that does not have a service every day or is even open daily just for prayer.”
The church is not a building. It is made up of people who trust in Christ. Many local churches around the world must meet in hiding and have no building designated to meet in. Many in China have to meet in grave yards and similar places.
“’Unless you drink my blood and eat my flesh you will not have life with in you’. You have no idea what that means but I do.”
Since you believe the Catholic lies about Christ’s words, then I know that you do not know what they mean. First Corinthians 11 says we must discern the body of Christ. Communion represents how Christ’s body and blood were given so that those who believe can be transformed into His spiritual body through the indwelling Holy Spirit. The church is the body of Christ, and it is made up of all believers. This definition does not align with your view of what the church is. Therefore, you eat and drink and still fail to “discern” the true body of Christ. No, you do not know what the meaning of Christ’s words were.
Since you addressed this to ALL, I'll answer:
What I have learned as an Evangelical Christian is far and beyond what I learned in the Roman Catholic church I was baptized into as a baby.
I learned that Jesus Christ is my Savior, Shepherd and Lord and He gives to me eternal life by grace through faith and I shall NEVER perish or be plucked from His hands. This is not something Catholicism could ever promise assurance for.
I learned that the "true" fruit of a born again believer comes through a life lived in faith and not by forced and required rituals, ordinances and sacraments nor by the constant fear of eternal punishment.
I learned the REAL Bible was the Divinely-inspired word of God and EVERY word could be trusted as God always keeps His promises.
I learned the extra seven books men added to the Old Testament of the Bible in the sixteenth century were NEVER considered as Divinely-inspired except by those who needed something to defend their novel and unbiblical dogmas like Purgatory and praying to dead people.
I learned that the only ordinances Jesus established were for our remembrance and to confirm our faith to others, not to be done in order to earn or merit heaven.
I learned that the Biblical Mary was a faithful and brave woman who God blessed by allowing her to bear the Son of God, Jesus Christ, God incarnate. She was the mother of Jesus, was not the "Mother of God". Nor was she preserved from having a sin nature because Scripture says ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Messianic prophecy said the Messiah would be born of a virgin of the line of King David. It said not a word about her having to be sinless.
I learned that Mary and the many godly people the Scriptures spoke of should be looked up to for examples of faith, endurance, strength and holiness but that they did not have any power to intercede for me with God when they died.
I learned that I could come boldly to the throne of grace to find help in time of need and that Jesus Christ was the only mediator anyone needed.
I learned that there are plenty of Christian fellowships that are unashamedly pro-life, support women in crisis pregnancies, help spiritually and emotionally heal women who regretted having abortions and who don't pretend to be pro-life "personally" while supporting abortion "politically".
I, too, got sick of the wealthy Catholics who bought their annulments after their divorces even when their marriages were decades old and children had been born to them. I especially disliked those who acquired these annulments under the grounds that it was themselves who had no intention of being faithful to their wives but whose new wives wanted to get married in the Catholic church.
I learned that the Roman Catholic church was wrong in declaring no one outside of the Roman Catholic church could be saved and that every Christian must be subject to the Pope in order to be saved. Instead, salvation is by the grace of God that He gifts to us which we receive through faith alone and not by any works we do - including what church we attend.
I learned that the Roman Catholic church has changed quite a few of their so-called infallible, unchangeable doctrines and decrees. That they rarely had unanimous consent of church fathers on anything. That many dogmas were unheard of in the early church and had no Apostolic origin, but were novel inventions and which caused a split from the Orthodox church long before the Reformation had to deal with the same issues.
I thank God that He showed be the way to salvation was through faith and not my works, deeds, merits or goodness but purely by His matchless grace and that I can KNOW I have eternal life and will never perish. He will never lose me, cast me away, leave me or forsake me. I rest in the bosom of my loving and merciful heavenly Father. I need never fear what man may do to me.
So you believe it is your own works that save you even though the Bible repeatedly says it isn’t?
I got sick of the rotten fruit of the protestants!
I got sick of a pastor who told me all other “churches” were going to hell that did not believe in our churches doctrine,
That is truly sad..
8For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.8For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Romans 3:20,27,28 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified …