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From Fundamentalist Baptist to Catholic – Steve Wilson’s Story
http://www.catholic-convert.com/ ^ | February 26, 2015 | Steve Wilson

Posted on 03/01/2015 4:54:44 PM PST by NKP_Vet

Archbishop Fulton Sheen once wrote: “There are not over a hundred people in the United State who hate the Roman Catholic Church; there are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.”

I was one of those who hated because of what I wrongly believed about the Catholic Church. The reason I had these beliefs was due to being told what to believe about the Catholic Church from those who were told what to believe about the Catholic Church. No one was willing to find out what the bottom line was concerning the Catholic Church. Everything said about the Church was taken as truth while it seemed no one was delving into what the truth really was.

What about these Catholics? They worshipped Mary. They had a religion but not a relationship with Jesus Christ. They said they believed in God but really their belief couldn’t be the same, could it? The Bible says in James 2:19 KJV “Thou believest that there is one God; Thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble”.

So do Catholics have a belief such as the devils? When most Catholics are asked if they have been “born again” or “have accepted Christ as their Savior”, their main response is “I believe in God” or “I am a good person”, or “I’m Catholic”. Also, they have all these rituals, Saints, Statues and what about the Pope is he really standing in for God? Another big item, are they cannibals when they eat the bread and drink the wine during communion? Why do they leave Jesus on the cross, don’t they realize Jesus has risen from the dead?

For the rest of Steve’s story, click at link.

(Excerpt) Read more at catholic-convert.com ...


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To: terycarl
Well He said it was and I suppose we should take Him at His word, wouldn't you think????....I do!

In one small area.


 
 
 
 

 
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.


John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?
 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."


1 John 3:21-23
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.


James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
 

 
 
 

641 posted on 03/03/2015 4:03:07 AM PST by Elsie
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To: Crim
You even called him “demonic”.

Like your first pope?

Get thee behind me; SATAN...

642 posted on 03/03/2015 4:04:24 AM PST by Elsie
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To: metmom
Nope, not at death. Now.

Hebrews 9:27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

And your quote IN CONTEXT says the exact opposite of what you claim.

John 5:21-31 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.

643 posted on 03/03/2015 4:05:56 AM PST by verga (I might as well be playing Chess with a pigeon.)
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To: metmom

Death and time and judgement, try and stick with the topic.
Are you going to admit now that YOU posted James R. Whites Definition of Sola Scriptura?


644 posted on 03/03/2015 4:07:29 AM PST by verga (I might as well be playing Chess with a pigeon.)
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To: Crim
Please what?...the founder of your sect is a Jew hater.....and if you follow his word...how can you not be?...unless you reject his words and pick and choose what he has written? catch 22

Your religion demands submission to the pope for salvation.

There's these guys.....

Top 10 Most Wicked Popes

http://listverse.com/2007/08/17/top-10-most-wicked-popes/

1. Liberius, reigned 352-66 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
2. Honorius I, reigned 625-638 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
3. Stephen VI, reigned 896-89 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
4. John XII, reigned 955-964 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
5. Benedict IX, reigned 1032-1048 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
6. Boniface VIII, reigned 1294-1303 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
7. Urban VI, reigned 1378-1389 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
8. Alexander VI, reigned 1492-1503 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
9. Leo X, reigned 1513-1521 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
10. Clement VII, reigned 1523-1524 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]

Top 10 Worst Popes in History

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-worst-popes-in-history.php

1. Pope Alexander VI (1431 – 1503)
2. Pope John XII (c. 937 – 964)
3. Pope Benedict IX (c. 1012 – 1065/85)
4. Pope Sergius III (? – 911)
5. Pope Stephen VI (? – 897)
6. Pope Julius III (1487 – 1555)
7. Pope Urban II (ca. 1035 – 1099)
8. Pope Clement VI (1291 – 1352)
9. Pope Leo X (1475 – 1521)
10. Pope Boniface VIII (c. 1235 – 1303)

645 posted on 03/03/2015 4:07:47 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: redleghunter

LDS - Luther Derangement Syndrome.

The thought of him just pushes RC’s right over the edge.


646 posted on 03/03/2015 4:08:55 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Crim; redleghunter
So are you in denial that martin Luther is the father of protestants all the sudden?

Show us when he claimed Luther was the father of Protestantism.

Sorry...History disagree’s with you.

Catholic revisionist history, that simply cannot fathom not following a man.

But not real history.

647 posted on 03/03/2015 4:10:55 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Crim

Who cares if he asks to be baptized?

Baptism doesn’t save anyone.

Unless he repented and turned to Christ, no he would not go to heaven.


648 posted on 03/03/2015 4:12:32 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: verga

It was posted by another FReeper and it was a concise summary of SS.

And I didn’t pay attention to who put it out because it doesn’t matter.

And it’s not a matter of *trusting* the guy enough to *use* his definition. The definition works regardless of who posted it.


649 posted on 03/03/2015 4:15:55 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: vladimir998
>>Christians, Jews and Muslims all profess to follow the God of Abraham.<<

It's only the Catholic Church that agrees they serve the same god as the Muslims. The rest of us realize it's not the same God at all.

650 posted on 03/03/2015 4:16:44 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: terycarl

Hey, He used Judas and the Catholic Church also right? So why not Luther?


651 posted on 03/03/2015 4:18:31 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: metmom
So three questions: 1) Is it common for prots to post with out sourcing for validity?

2) Who gave James the authority to promulgate this definition?

3) Why is his definition more valid than anyone elses?

You ran from answering these questions before, let's see how you handle it now.

653 posted on 03/03/2015 4:32:28 AM PST by verga (I might as well be playing Chess with a pigeon.)
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To: Crim
Slow on the uptake eh?

Isnt it obvious?

If you are so smart...why cant you figure that one out?

 

I thought I explained WHY.

I guess you failed to accept that.


To: Crim
So now my faith is demoted to bystander status?

Which faith might that be?

I can't tell from the comments I've responded to.

297 posted on ‎3‎/‎2‎/‎2015‎ ‎12‎:‎54‎:‎22‎ ‎PM by Elsie

 

I replied at 185 - only these two of your posts were in the thread by that time.

 

 

 

 


To: Iscool

Yeah it’s screams of bigotry....like using the term “you people”

You clearly used it as a derogitive.

Judging from the responces in this thread...being “born again” also comes with a license to mock, trash, and insult others....

124 posted on ‎3‎/‎2‎/‎2015‎ ‎5‎:‎15‎:‎28‎ ‎AM by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: metmom

Oh sorry...I didnt know there was a minimum age limit for being reborn in water through Christ...

I must have missed that one in the manual...

I’m still wondering why protestants waited 1500 years after the death of christ to show up...

Before Luther...there was no such thing as a protestant.

And if protestants believe only in the written word....doesnt that include the 39 books of the old testiment as well?

Like Leviticus?

““If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”

...or do you pick and choose what written words to follow?

143 posted on ‎3‎/‎2‎/‎2015‎ ‎8‎:‎10‎:‎14‎ ‎AM by Crim (Palin / West '16)
 
 
As the jury can tell; with all of this EVIDENCE in one spot, that you did NOT provide enough information for a conclusion of your choice of religious pratice to be inferred.
Even Wiccans can use the word 'protestant'.
 
 

654 posted on 03/03/2015 4:42:51 AM PST by Elsie
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To: Crim
While you sit and judge others....

This is funny; considering the source.

655 posted on 03/03/2015 4:43:38 AM PST by Elsie
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To: terycarl
.Catholicism is not a denomination...it is pure Christianity....

And it PRODUCES only the VERY BEST leaders; too!

656 posted on 03/03/2015 4:44:36 AM PST by Elsie
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To: terycarl

Catch any?


657 posted on 03/03/2015 4:45:00 AM PST by Elsie
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To: Crim
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”

I just LOVE it when the selective use of Scripture appears!


Judge NOT???
 
Sigh............
 

 
Jesus has commanded us to judge!
 

“Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?... And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?... Do you not know that we shall judge angels?... How much more, things that pertain to this life?.. If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge ? (1 Corinthians 6:1-5).


Many commands of God require the exercise of righteous judgment.


“But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us” (2 Thessalonians 3:6).

“And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother” (2 Thessalonians 3:14,15).

“Teach and exhort these things. If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wrangling of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself” (2 Timothy 6:2b-5).

“Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple” (Romans 16:17,18).


All these commands require the careful exercise of righteousness judgment. Do not be deceived by smooth words and flattering speech. Beware of wolves who come to you with a sheep’s skin.

We must be careful not to make unqualified judgments. But we must judge appropriately when commanded to do so.


 “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.  (John 7:24).

658 posted on 03/03/2015 4:47:43 AM PST by Elsie
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To: Crim

Forgive, and you will be forgiven.


659 posted on 03/03/2015 4:47:57 AM PST by Elsie
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To: Crim
Your whole “superior than thou” act was getting old....


660 posted on 03/03/2015 4:50:30 AM PST by Elsie
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