Posted on 09/20/2014 8:16:26 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Lou Everett was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses for more than 14 years. During that time, he served as a full-time minister as well as other major roles within the congregation. Lou’s journey to the Catholic Church was truly a rough road traveled.
From Jehovah’s Witnesses to Catholicism: My Journey
In 2005, I find myself inside a Catholic church for midnight mass. My future wife, born and raised in the Catholic Church, by my side; silently showing me something that I never thought I’d see or feel. At the age of 31, a realization set in that I never would have expected to occur – thus begins another part of my journey to the Church, my home.
Peering back into my childhood, I realize that my journey actually began as a child. My father was in the military so our family traveled around quite a bit. I was born in San Francisco, California while my father was stationed there in the Army in 1974. Both of my parents are ‘cradle’ Catholics and had very different experiences with the Catholic Church. Throughout the various moves from place to place, my parents were contacted by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their message seemed to touch my parents enough to eventually become baptized in 1984 as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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Vampire Sect
Ah, Since narses hasn't posted on this thread until #100, this must be referring to another thread? When this -- perhaps round-the-clock -- relay team of RC contenders has passed over the baton? My experience is that if you keep on biting, they will keep on using the excuse of debating you to repeatedly post Roman statements of dogma, which there would be no reason for, otherwise.
Also, carrying over a debate from another thread is kind of a no-no on FT. The moderator will eventually respond and tell you to keep another theme within the thread generating it.
And there may be another hidden strategy (at least by Satan), a feature which only seems to crop up on Saturday night, of enticing you into such a late parry/riposte clash that you'll be so tired that you won't want to go to assembly tomorrow (which is now only six minutes away for me), thus robbing you of the fellowship and comfort of fellow true believers. Is that what you want them to do to you?
I could name some names of the RC baiters that seem to crop up in this pattern, but it's a bit early to push this metadebate.
For me, now I am going to bed, and be ready and alert for tomorrow's summons to the church house.
Recommend we all do likewise -- So long for now!
, , , is kind of a no-no on FT FR . . .
Catholics and Jehova’s witnesses are equally lost; some journey!
Traveling in descending circles for eternity.
We do exactly as the Lord himself commanded us - we eat His Body and drink His Blood in the Eucharist just as our fore fathers have done for two thousand years.
Or maybe those direct commands from Christ to eat His Body and Drink His Blood are not in your protestant bible - who knew?
For the Greater Glory of God and the former Jehovahs Witness who now partakes of the Eucharist too.
Ah, I never thought that Romanists would say that exactly--
Words such as "false" "error" "wrong" do not attribute motive.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
In this case it was a conversion to one dark tunnel to another of similar properties, but a different name.
Lost is lost.
The mass is a deeply pagan event, likely to fill one with more demons than they can count.
Yes, he loves his demons!
“Being able to take in the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ through the Eucharist” is pagan confusion.
The eucharist is the vilest abomination on Earth.
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Nice discussion — thanks!
Since I don’t share your opinion on something I am mentally unbalanced? Since I believe God’s presence exists everywhere and not just inside the walls of one denomination’s buildings I must be insane?
As the Catholic Church clearly states in its Catechism:
III. THE HOLY TRINITY IN THE TEACHING OF THE FAITH
The formation of the Trinitarian dogma
249 From the beginning, the revealed truth of the Holy Trinity has been at the very root of the Church's living faith, principally by means of Baptism. It finds its expression in the rule of baptismal faith, formulated in the preaching, catechesis and prayer of the Church. Such formulations are already found in the apostolic writings, such as this salutation taken up in the Eucharistic liturgy: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all."
2 Cor 13:14; cf. 1 Cor 12:4-6; Eph 4:4-6.
Also found in the Catolic Church's Athanatias Creed
The Athanasian Creed, or Quicunque Vult (also Quicumque Vult), is a Christian statement of belief focused on Trinitarian doctrine and Christology. The Latin name of the creed, Quicumque vult, is taken from the opening words, "Whosoever wishes". The creed has been used by Christian churches since the sixth century. It is the first creed in which the equality of the three persons of the Trinity is explicitly stated. It differs from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan and Apostles' Creeds in the inclusion of anathemas, or condemnations of those who disagree with the creed (like the original Nicene Creed).
For the Greater Glory of God
". . . there is no such local visible church, let alone a whole unscriptural denomination having supralocal governance."
And the conclusion is:
"So there is no holy, visible, catholic Church in the Bible, or commended by it."
Deal with that, eh?
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Did God reveal a "special and distinctly different presence" in the manger at Bethlehem?
Did God reveal a "special and distinctly different presence" on the cross at Calvary?
Does God have the power to employ a "special and distinctly different presence" in His Temple and in His Church, if that is what He wills to do?
Does God have the power to employ a "special and distinctly different presence" in the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist during the celebration of His Mass, if that is what He wills to do?
At least Catholics have been partaking of the same Eucharist for almost twenty centuries.
Maybe it is you that is lost and journeying in circles.
Your faith was founded by a man four - five centuries ago?
That makes your ‘church’ more valid?
AMDG
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