Posted on 11/10/2014 5:38:48 PM PST by Coleus
Mon. Nov. 10 at 8:00 PM ET Tue. Nov. 11 at 1:00 AM ET Fri. Nov. 14 at 1:00 PM ET DALE AHLQUIST
Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society and former Baptist, joins Marcus to talk about his journey home to the Catholic Church.
She just thought any god would do.
"If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept" (from Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work , by Desmond Doig, p. 156, as quoted by Dave Hunt, Global Peace and the Rise of Antichrist , p. 149).
You can read minds, eh?
Well, you are wrong because when I was a Catholic, I did believe all the nonsense they taught me.
Then I met Christ and was born again and given spiritual eyes to see and read the Bible, and found out just how much they were teaching that wasn’t in Scripture.
That’s when I left the Catholic church.
And thanks for reinforcing my observation, that it’s beyond the comprehension of some Catholics that anyone could leave the church for legitimate reasons, like errors in theology.
But I have read here on FR that Frankie is not Roman Catholic. He has the right address and wears the right garb.
“like errors in theology”
For not following their own theology. Good one. I needed a good laugh this morning. You alway give me one.
So you always thought the eucharist was “nonsense”. That is exactly what I told you was the reason you left and you admitted it. Thanks.
“...just how much they were teaching that wasn’t in Scripture...” “errors in theology.”
Catholicism is entirely correct in NOT limiting its teaching to Scripture alone.
Scripture was always meant to be in addition to Tradition, especially the Tradition of the Eucharist, which has always been the proper way for the actual Christian Worship of Jesus, in His words, found in John 6.
Worship without the Eucharist is dead. Reading a book is not worship.
The very first early Christian martyrs were Catholic and ALWAYS celebrated the Eucharist. There is written historical proof of this.
For example: The early martyr St. Ignatius wrote in his letter to the Church at Smyrna on his way to be martyred specifically referring to the Eucharist:
“...they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ...Shun division as the beginning of evil.”
This was written in around 80 A.D. and St. Ignatius was clearly a true Christian since he was martyred for his Catholic beliefs.
Sola Scriptura is not biblical. All scripture is beneficial, sure, but not only scripture.
The bible does not definitively state that Sacred Tradition ceased and that it alone now is authoritative and reading is the correct way to worship.
Martin Luther himself retained the Tradition of the Eucharist - it was later protestants who denied it.
Why would they have to leave? There are homosexual priests, most Catholic universities have a LGBTQ pride club, and planned parenthood is allowed on campus. They can also go to CYO events to “hook up.”
True, and the fact that there are far more Prots to begin with. And all they major on is their church. Rarely can you find a RC that you can fellowship with about the profound changes of regeneration we realized and how God has and is working in our lives and that of others. Instead they typically are either apathetic or antagonistic at such.
Most do not even like the charismatic RCs, which is about the closest you will get to finding some who know the Lord. I say this as one who was raised devout RC, I became manifestly born again thru tearful repentance and faith in the risen Lord Jesus to save me as a damned + destitute sinner, on His expense and credit, and realized profound changes in heart and life.
And before the Lord led me out into evangelical fellowship, I remained as a weekly (and holy days) RC participant for 6 years after, serving for some time as a CCD teacher and lector. But while due to being born again i had an deep hunger to know how to please God from the Bible, and wanted fellowship with others who had the same, i found this outside Rome, with only a very few within it.
Yes that’s how this conversation started. I shared my Jesuit University experience and observations. Everything but Christ was proclaimed there.
The only people preaching the Gospel were the Campus Crusade group.
+1 {chuckle}
Yes and your humble approach is exactly how Paul approached such issues.
The way the Catholics believe it it's worse than nonsense. It's ascribing to Jesus the sin of eating blood and causing others to do so.
Nice!
TWO undefined things that are not the same as each other.
The second is toeing the party line.
Therefore why are these universities called “Catholic?”
You mean hard working American Catholic families taking their hard earned wages send their offspring to a Catholic college so the kids get a Catholic education; but instead they waste their money on a “Catholic” in name only university?
That is false advertising and spiritual deception.
HMMMmmm...
This one.
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
>>The bible does not definitively state that Sacred Tradition ceased and that it alone now is authoritative and reading is the correct way to worship.<<
Then give infallible proof that the apostles taught the assumption of Mary.
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed
And us damned Protestants are dragging her every which way!
And yet we have NOBLE Bereans, who...
That's the entirety of the Catholic faith.
I don't think Paul was talking to Catholics.
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