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To: mdmathis6
Thanks for your posts.

I'd like to make a couple points from my own experience with the RCC.

As I've said before, everyone in my greater family was a DEVOUT Catholic. The Bible was more like a furnishing in their houses - not used, not read, not understood. Biblically, we were all illiterate.

When I first heard about "the second birth" and the gospel, I was already in the university. I thank God for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship.

In the "transition period" (while God was working on my 'restoration process'), I would attend a Baptist service with my friends. They'd go to breakfast together (and have fun) and I would run up to meet my "holy obligation" (and not have fun.) I went to the late Mass because of the FEAR that the Holy Roman Catholic Church puts into the minds of its adherents.

One last point regarding the RCC (dis)use of the Bible. My sister (who btw, has the required two-part Catholic name) was a lay teacher in CCD. A couple weeks into the class, the priest warned her not to use the Bible anymore because she was "unqualified". Imagine that!

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I know: These are my anecdotes. (I have a lot of them!) I do not mean to harm anyone by telling them. I HOPE that someone might be coming to the same kind of realization that I did 40 years ago. Catholicism is wrecking people's lives and leading people away from God's Truth.

Amen?

1,015 posted on 09/18/2014 3:49:14 PM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: kinsman redeemer

Amen.


1,016 posted on 09/18/2014 4:10:23 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: kinsman redeemer

So let it be so!


1,017 posted on 09/18/2014 4:12:11 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: kinsman redeemer

AMEN!.....

BTW...you mentioned....”FEAR that the Holy Roman Catholic Church puts into the minds of its adherents”....

Interesting you mentioning this as those I’ve met and know who left the catholic church all seem to have that common experience of fear...even from childhood when they’re raised in catholicism.

Very happy God snatched you out of it and you are free to enjoy Jesus as he intended you to.


1,018 posted on 09/18/2014 4:15:34 PM PDT by caww
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To: kinsman redeemer
... the priest warned her not to use the Bible anymore because she was "unqualified"..... Imagine that!"......

If she was in error then he should have simply corrected her, ...otherwise we have 'the assurance' that.....


1,022 posted on 09/18/2014 4:42:12 PM PDT by caww
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