[MarkBsnr]

In my experience as a Protestant, all the Catholics who had a conversion in a Protestant setting lacked a firm grasp of their Catholic faith. In twenty years of Protestant ministry, I never met a Catholic who knew that John 3:3-8 describes the sacrament of Baptism. It wasn't hard to convince them to disregard the sacraments along with the Church that emphasized the sacraments. Proverbs says: "He who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him" (18:17). Catholics without a scriptural foundation for their Catholic beliefs never hear "the rest of the story." My selective use of scripture made the Protestant perspective seem so absolutely sure. Over time, this one-sided approach to scripture caused Catholics to reject their Catholic faith.

You have hit the nail right on the thumb, my friend. Those who leave the Faith do so for personal reasons. Those who join the Faith do so for theological ones.

You are well come to the Faith.

[wbarmy]

Those who leave the Faith do so for personal reasons. Those who join the Faith do so for theological ones.

So Martin Luther, Zwingli, John Calvin and a host of others left because of their personal reasons and not for a host of theological reasons? I guess the 95 theses were actually a book on self-fulfillment instead of treatises on the theological reasons that Catholicism was in grave error.

[conservative cat]

I strongly believe in the Church for theological reasons, and it is only for that reason I don’t leave it.