Ping to 1st post of running away from Home (or Rome)
What about all of those people — according to your own testimony! — who don’t know Jesus and with whom your churches are “filled” — your word! I’ll bet a lot of them think their salvation is “assured,” but it’s not really, is it? So your unbiblical “assurance” is just a myth.
For God so loved the world he sent a book.
I was born a catholic and born again a Christian.
Most of Catholicism is biblical, and some of Protestantism isn’t. “Sola scripture” is not biblical, nor is salvation by faith alone. You can make a good case that the doctrine of the Trinity is also unbiblical. And Jesus prohibits divorce and remarriage, which is allowed by every Protestant denomination that I’m aware of. And Jesus often prayed that his flock be one, not split into innumerable sects as happened after the reformation.
There are churches in then WNY area that are chock full of people who have converted from Catholicism to Christian.
I’d say upwards of 75% of some congregations.
I have always found the following helpful:
Book: Mere Christianity
Author: C.S. Lewis
Macmillan, NY, pp. 190
Excerpt from Preface:
I hope no reader will suppose that “mere” Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions — as if a man could adopt it in preference to Congregationalism or Greek Orthodoxy or anything else.
It is more like a hall out of which doors open into several rooms. If I can bring anyone into that hall, I have done what I attempted. But it is in the rooms, not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals. The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whichever that may be) is, I think preferable. It is true that some people may find they have to wait in the hall for a considerable time, while others feel certain almost at once which door they must knock at. I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do get into the room you will find that the long wait has done some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and, of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.
In plain language, the question should never be: “Do I like that kind of service?” but “Are these doctrines true: Is holiness here? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to knock at this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike of this particular door-keeper?”
When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. This is one of the rules common to the whole house.
(snip)
http://www.jknirp.com/lewis4.htm
Thank you for the post.
The article explains some of the things my Catholic friends say that don’t make sense.
what a wonderful testimony! Liked how she witnessed from love and not hostility to the preist.
Do you try to post Roman Catholic hit pieces every day, or just every other day?
Thanks for the post. I grew up Protestant, met and married a Catholic guy, converted for the sake of family unity. Big mistake. It was so far removed from my upbringing and caused me to struggle with the teachings I had known, learned, read, and studied up until that point. The guy and I got divorced (I can’t condone mental and physical abuse as reasons to stay in a relationship) and left the Catholic church. I could never get past intercessory prayer to dead saints when I have direct communication with Jesus.
Been there also. Thanks for your testimony. My sister almost went nuts when she heard of my conversion. Later, she also became a true Christian, and a very Godly woman.
What a wonderful story!
I am both a Bible Christian and a Catholic.
The two do not have to be mutually exclusive.
And Jackie’s opinion has authority because?