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And why did you feel this need?

The Holy Spirit impressed it on me. It wasn't because someone told me I needed to.

Did you know what a Bible is?

Not really, having never been exposed to one before.

Yes, but that did not play into the need I felt to go out and buy one.

Based on my upbringing, my first reaction SHOULD HAVE BEEN to make a beeline for the nearest Catholic church. It wasn't.

And once you did these things, you never once spoke with or studied Scripture with any other human being?

I never said that. We were discussing what caused me to feel the need to buy a Bible and anything other than addressing that, what my knowledge about God and Jesus was before that, does not enter into the equation.

If it did, I would have felt the need to buy a Bible BEFORE I got saved, not after.

I read and understood and came to my own conclusions about doctrine. It usually agreed with mainstream Evangelical teaching. And I did ask questions, but that is not what caused me to feel the need to go out and buy a Bible.

Long and short of it is that the Catholic church cannot take any credit for my desire to get a hold of God's word and read and learn of it myself under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

"Long and short of it is that the Catholic church cannot take any credit for my desire to get a hold of God's word and read and learn of it myself under the guidance of the Holy Spirit."

And neither can the Church take any of the blame for your gross doctrinal errors. I pray that you will be far more successful learning your new faith than you were learning what the Church actually teaches.

Peace be with you.

Long and short of it is that the Catholic church cannot take any credit for my desire to get a hold of God's word and read and learn of it myself under the guidance of the Holy Spirit

That would be rejecting God's word just a surely as a child that won't eat their brussel sprouts.

It's not the Holy Spirit guiding people to just eat their fish sticks and fries....

****And once you did these things, you never once spoke with or studied Scripture with any other human being?

I never said that you did say that. Thus my question and not a statement.

*****The Holy Spirit impressed it on me*****

And, for that matter, how did you know it was the Holy Spirit?

How did you even know who the Holy Spirit is?

And did you know when you bought your Bible that it is the inerrant, inspired word of God?

And how did you know which Bible to purchase considering the huge number of various translations?

And does this Bible you own have commentary?

Not really, having never been exposed to one before.

Seriously, you really expect someone to believe this? Every Sunday in Mass you heard The first reading from the OT, a Psalm which you were expected to respond to, The second Reading from the NT, followed by a reading from the Gospel, with a homily drawing the three readings together. During the Consecration, you heard the exact words that Jesus used at the last supper.