Posted on 02/07/2015 9:35:40 PM PST by Steelfish
A Protestant Historian Discovers the Catholic Church Conversion Story of A. David Anders, Ph.D. February 13, 2012
A Protestant Historian Discovers the Catholic Church by A. David Anders, Ph.D.
I grew up an Evangelical Protestant in Birmingham, Alabama. My parents were loving and devoted, sincere in their faith, and deeply involved in our church. They instilled in me a respect for the Bible as the Word of God, and a desire for a living faith in Christ. Missionaries frequented our home and brought their enthusiasm for their work. Bookshelves in our house were filled with theology and apologetics. From an early age, I absorbed the notion that the highest possible calling was to teach the Christian faith. I suppose it is no surprise that I became a Church historian, but becoming a Catholic was the last thing I expected.
My familys church was nominally Presbyterian, but denominational differences meant very little to us. I frequently heard that disagreements over baptism, the Lords Supper, or church government were unimportant as long as one believed the Gospel. By this we meant that one should be born again, that salvation is by faith alone, and that the Bible is the sole authority for Christian faith. Our church supported the ministries of many different Protestant denominations, but the one group we certainly opposed was the Catholic Church.
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The unsaved often "roam" from one church to another looking in vain for something they will not find until they are saved .. the meaning of the scriptures...
Salvation is not an intellectual event.. or an "emotional" event .. it is a spiritual event
1 Cor
13which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. 14But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 15But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.
Amen.
If he has not accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior, what good did it do him? He is still lost as a goose. Belonging to a church group does not save anyone.
Just because someone is evangelical does not mean he is saved.
He went from trusting men to trusting a church. Nowhere does he say he accepted Jesus.
That's it in a nut shell.
You mean like the Catholic posters on here?
How do we get those who partially agree with Rome to stop being so obsessed with those who don't fully?
And Catholic babes in arms hear that Prots are ANATHAMA from day one.
Are you #*^(#%*^(# KIDDING me???
As an alleged expert,he is making a general statement about evangelical beliefs, i.e. if you are an evangelical you will believe believe thus and so. The general statement is a lie. As an academic, he should know to be precise in his language. If he wanted to carve out a place for evangelicals that are not covered under his statement, he would have cited the statement to be his opinion.
I see you've QUOTES something but not shown from where it was taken.
"some" does not help me any.
I want to SEE your 'quote' in situ so I can instruct 'some' anti-catholics in proper posting.
I also like to chat occasionally on Paltalk where I am known as Fact Checker
Golly!
I like to check facts; too!
A mighty bold claim for a one-eyed fat man.
Where's the beef?
We have to be. Our institutions have not codifed that FACT that there is NO salvation outside the Catholic Church.
I'm glad you AGREE with the MASS of Catholic Experts quoted in #95
Of course you don't. You've accepted Rome's word without question.
Someday; the questions will come.
That's because the definition of FRUIT is left as an exercise for the reader.
Thus; the sentence can ACTUALLY mean anything you want.
NOW the facts are coming out; after I apparently wasted my time replying to a 'factiod'!
Yeah, whatever.
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