[mlizzy]

I’ll take Jesus at His word and rely upon the Holy Spirit, who will open my heart to understand the deep things of God. I trust Jesus over man.

I remember as a child of seven [on vacation] in Gila Bend, Arizona, I attended a sweet little Bible church. Nothing made me happier than to go there. It was simple to understand, and I got to put on a pretty dress to boot. Catholicism, on the other hand, takes time to understand, imo, and I think many people peter out on the way, instead of partaking of its Sacraments fully. For those who stick it out, though, it’s the most beautiful faith in the world. Why do you spend so much time arguing against it?

[boatbums]

I remember as a sixteen year old going to my grandparents Southern Baptist church Sunday school and a teacher there showing me John 10:27-30 from the Bible. I light went on in my heart and I understood for the first time that through faith in Jesus, He GIVES me eternal life and I will NEVER perish or be plucked out of His hands. I left the Roman Catholicism I was born into and started attending a non-denominational church where I learned the deep things of God I had never heard of as a Catholic. When I graduated from high school, I decided to go to Bible college so that I could know what I believed and why I believed it. I earned a bachelor's degree in theology. I hardly "petered out". My ministry has never stopped.

The most beautiful faith in the world is Christianity - the Biblical kind - because it teaches that we cannot possibly earn or merit the grace God bestows on us through Christ. What I argue against is the perversion of the gospel found in Catholicism as well as other religions. I want people to know Christ - the REAL Christ, not the angry, crabby, Momma's boy who begrudgingly does what she tells him to do. I don't think there IS such a thing as spending too much time where sharing the gospel of grace is concerned.

[CynicalBear]

>>Why do you spend so much time arguing against it?<<

We do so because Catholicism is counter to scripture. We are told to stand on the word of God. Not "it could have happened" from the Catholic Church.