If you are taught from the womb that your church offers the only source of your salvation, you stay in that church, regardless of Scriptural truths presented to you.
If you are taught from the womb that a woman is perfect, and a co-redemptress, then you pray to her or to some other dead folk because they obviously (to those who are so taught) have an inside track to God's ear. They will not listen because they fear for their eternal souls. Of course, they are also taught that others can bail you out of their so-called purgatory (another unfounded lie). WE KNOW that there is only one mediator, and one God.
You can quote Scripture all day and night, and the only response will come from some catechismal teachings, not from God's Word. They cannot see any truths because their church tells them what is true. But, they are beholden to men subject to error (though claiming to be speaking for God). They can't see that all their gilt statues and icons are idols and they use terms such as "venerate" when they worship and pray to those same idols. Error begets error and it is compounded within their history.
We must continue to provide the Word in our responses to the misleading and error-filled abuses of some manmade institutions that demand absolute loyalty to that error. We must also pray that the Holy Spirit will touch other souls through their muddy obfuscation of God's Word!
Thanks for your efforts. I pray for you often, but come to these threads only occasionally... and post when I cannot help myself!
Don’t be a stranger...
The “taught from the womb “ account won’t do for theogically/Scripturally educated Protestants who convert in their mid forties.