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To: annalex; RnMomof7; metmom
However, the Church invites every believer to examine her teachings for consistency both internally, with reason, and with the scripture and satisfy himself before coming to the faith.

When I first heard:

John 10:27-30
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand. I and [my] Father are one.

I knew what I heard and read was the truth that only a few months prior I had asked God to reveal to me. I knew that what these verses were saying was NOT what I had heard or learned in my nearly sixteen years as a "cradle" Catholic. It was the pure and simple truth of eternal life by grace through faith and the assurance that my Heavenly Father held me in his hands never to be plucked out. I did not leave the Catholic Church because of any other reason than I saw for myself that I had been told a lie all those years and that God would reveal the truth to any who search for him with all their heart.

1,215 posted on 11/09/2010 2:56:50 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: boatbums; RnMomof7; metmom

You left the Church yourself. No one could have plucked you out, in full accordance with John 10:27-30, which, of course, is a Catholic teaching, because it is in the Bible.


1,367 posted on 11/11/2010 5:29:29 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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