[Moonmad27]

I was a cradle Catholic, who went to Catholic schools and who read the announcements and epistle in church, and had relatives and friends who were nuns and priests. A visit to the Vatican made me a protestant.

Now that I am Lutheran, i feel closer to God without all the layers between. I can’t imagine going back. Sola scriptura is the way.

[dartuser]

A visit to the Vatican made me a protestant. How so?

[Salvation]

Again, because of your Catholic Baptism, you will always be a Catholic. Come home to the truth. (BTW, even Luther said the Catholic Church was true on many things.”

[Heart-Rest]

Sola scriptura is the way.

Well, please remember, the truth is that that was not the way that it started out. When Jesus first sent out his Apostles to begin missionary work to evangelize the world, he did not send them out with Bibles (as the New Testament was not even written when he sent them out).

He explicitly told them, "Go therefore, and TEACH all nations..." (verbally) (See Matthew 28:18-20)

They had no complete Bibles to bring with them on those first missionary trips which they were commanded to undertake by Jesus Christ himself, only their verbal speech.

The beginnings of "Apostolic succession" are documented in the first chapter of Acts, where the successor of Judas was selected under the guidance of God.