What you need is to quit following false prophets like MacArthur and actually start reading the Bible and studying the history of Christianity without blinders on. If you do you’ll end up a Catholic, just like untold countless protestant theology students have before you. Keep the blinders on and the only one that’ll suffer in the end if your eternal soul.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Be-Catholic-Tim-Staples/dp/1933919299
Tim Staples was raised in a Southern Baptist home in Virginia. Although he somewhat fell away from serious faith during his adolescent years, the preaching of several TV evangelists motivated Tim to give his life to Christ at the age of 18. Shortly thereafter Staples joined the Marine Corps to gain some much-needed discipline and get some help financing his college education. During his tour of duty he had the opportunity to participate in several Protestant ministries and bible studies. Before long, Tim enrolled in the Jimmy Swaggart Bible College and with an eye towards becoming an youth minister for the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination. However, during his final year in the Marines, Tim met a fellow soldier named Matt Dula who really challenged Tim to examine the Catholic Faith from a biblical and historical perspective. Tim’s friendship with Matt sparked a two-year search for the truth. Though Tim was determined to prove Catholicism wrong, he wound up studying and praying his way right into the Roman Catholic Church! After converting to Catholicism in 1988, Staples spent six years in formation for the priesthood. Tim began his journey towards ordination by earning a degree in philosophy from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania. He then went on to study graduate theology for two additional years at Mount St. Mary s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. In 1994 Tim discerned through prayer and counsel that his calling was not to be a Catholic priest, but rather to be a lay Catholic apologist and evangelist. He has been hard at work ever since producing materials to help Catholics and non-Catholics alike understand the meaning and the biblical foundation of the Catholic faith.
“What you need is to quit following false prophets like MacArthur and actually start reading the Bible and studying the history of Christianity without blinders on. If you do you’ll end up a Catholic, just like untold countless protestant theology students have before you. Keep the blinders on and the only one that’ll suffer in the end if your eternal soul.”
I don’t follow him personally.
I was Catholic before Christ saved me.
Do you have eternal life now NK?
Being catholic doesn’t give you eternal life. Only entrusting yourself to his completed sacrifice apart from your dead works gives eternal life.
Almost comical if it weren't so sad.
Reading the Word will take you away from catholicism. If you do read the Word, and keep it in context, you will not find the following as espoused by Rome:
Immaculate Conception
Perpetual Virginity of Mary
Indulgences
Penance
The papacy
The priesthood
The Mass
The list can go on....but you get the idea.