“Born and raised a Jew, Arkes said he views his newly-embraced Catholic faith as a fulfillment of his Jewish faith. Rather than a departure, he sees it as accepting Christ as Messiah.”
This sounds to me like he indeed accepted Yeshua as the Savior. The Roman Catholic Church is a Christian Church, and I doubt that one can convert unless he or she accepts Christ as Savior, which is the key part of Christianity.
Also, Ben, I’m not a theologician, but I strongly doubt that Luther’s and Calvin’s stuff were “lies”, rather it was just their interpretations of Holy Scripture. Yes, they were fallible men, and yes they were certainly capable of making mistakes and getting things wrong-but then again the same could be said of Catholic theologicians. I fear your Protestant bashing won’t do the cause of Christian reunity any good and in fact may even turn off Protestants who are favorable towards better relations with their Catholic brethren.
Luther should have thought of that before he burnt dissenters at the stake.