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To: Ex-Wretch
I grew up Catholic, but I've been a "born again, bible believing Christian." Now I am a born again, bible believing Catholic.

Frankly, I'll put the desire among committed Catholics to root out personal sin from their lives up against the same among born again non-Catholic Christians any day.

I've seen both sides, and I've attended every flavor of non-Catholic bible-only Christianity. I've even been on mission trips with them.

I have yet to see the depth of faith or desire to root out sin or depth of prayer life as consistent among those with your reformation theology as I have seen it among committed Catholics who know their faith.

Sorry, I'm not impressed with bible only Christian spirituality nor their committment to rooting out sin nor their prayer practices.

And I never received an intellectually honest or scripturally honest and sound explanation of John 6:52-66 in any non-Catholic or Orthodox Church. And the mental gymnastics they employ to undercut the clear sense of Jesus in the "You are Peter and on this Rock I will build my Church" texts is so intellectually dishonest that any other of their interpretations cannot be trusted.

They all go to such lengths to deny the clear sense of scripture that I cannot possibly accept any of their other personal interpretation of scripture.

I left Christ's Church, thinking the bible was taking me away.

I read scripture and re read it, and what the earliest Christians thought scripture meant.

Early Christian writings brought me home, not into fanciful reformer theology that is intellectually bankrupt.

If you read the bible, and understand early Christian beliefs and sacramental system and hierachy, you can ONLY be Catholic.

Anything else is at least partly lies, and we all know the author of lies.

224 posted on 03/23/2002 1:49:08 PM PST by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: proud2bRC
"yep, its true, gone for Lent. See ya' after Easter."

I don't get it. Your "Easter" isn't for another week. Will you now have to say more Our Father's, Hail Mary's and Glory Be's to make up for breaking your Lenten sacrifice? (just kidding)

234 posted on 03/23/2002 2:21:31 PM PST by Ex-Wretch
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