Galli, however, says the timing of his conversion to Catholicism two months before the next election is for personal reasons. After 20 years in the Anglican Church, he believes moving to Catholicism is not a rejection of evangelicalism but instead taking his existing “Anglicanism deeper and thicker.” His faith journey has taken him from Presbyterianism to becoming an Episcopalian, then Anglican, with a brief interlude of attending the Orthodox Church.
Well that figures, having gone downward from Presbyterianism to becoming an Episcopalian, then an Anglican, and then a brief interlude of attending the Orthodox Church, and rejecting Trump (as we were electing a pastor, versus the best captain among two choices to sail the ship starboard to our desired national destination), and which fosters the election of the liberal alternative, then he continues his apostasy by becoming a Catholic, joining a church which a near majority vote liberal.
Are you sure you want to use this guy to promote your church? He is actually another argument against joining it. Besides the distinctive Catholic teachings that are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels), why would we conservative evangelicals want to be become brethren with this man?
This runs counter to trends in the U.S.; Currently for every one convert to Catholicism, six leave the tradition.
And far more become evangelical then convert to Rome.
In Protestantism, there’s a tendency to dismiss any reason other than the intellectual.
"Protestantism?" That is not synonymous with being evangelical, and is so bread a term as to become meaningless here, and this the polemicists is engaging is sophistry.
In the Catholic Church, he found, intellect and reason are respected; but the Catholic Church is also more beautiful and more historical.
Really? You mean perfunctory professions and a few lackluster singing of hymns (I speaks as a former altar body, CCD teacher and lector, and one of my former priests used to cajole us by saying, "sing like Protestants) in a 45 minute Mass is to be preferred over up to 45 minutes of heart-felt singing and intercession for healing, and actual preaching? No wonder so many RCs leave for evangelical faith, as I did.
68% of those raised Roman Catholic still are Catholic (higher than the retention rates of individual Protestant denoms, but less than Jews at 76%). 15% are now Protestant (9% evangelical); 14% are unaffiliated. Pew forum, Faith in Flux (April 27, 2009);https://www.pewforum.org/2009/04/27/faith-in-flux3">https://www.pewforum.org/2009/04/27/faith-in-flux3
51% of Protestants from a different Protestant denomination cite a lack of spiritual fulfillment as a reason for leaving their childhood faith. 85% say they joined their current denominational faith because they enjoy the services and style of worship. Only 15% left say they left because they stopped believing in its teachings. ^
Those who have left Catholicism outnumber those who have joined the Catholic Church by nearly a four-to-one margin. 10.1% have left the Catholic Church after having been raised Catholic, while only 2.6% of adults have become Catholic after having been raised in a different faith.^
Over 75% of those who left Catholicism attended Mass at least once a week as children, versus 86% having done so who remain Catholics today.^
Regarding reasons for leaving Catholicism, less than 30% of former Catholics agreed that the clergy sexual abuse scandal played a role in their departure. ^
71% of converts from Catholicism to Protestant faith said that their spiritual needs were not being met in Catholicism, with 78% of Evangelical Protestants in particular concurring, versus 43% of those now unaffiliated. ^
Only 23% (20% now evangelical) of all Protestants converts from Catholicism said they were unhappy about Catholicism's teachings on abortion/homosexuality (versus 46% of those now unaffiliated); 23% also expressed disagreement with teaching on divorce/remarriage; 16% (12% now evangelical) were dissatisfied with teachings on birth control, 70% said they found a religion they liked more in Protestantism.
55% of evangelical converts from Catholicism cited dissatisfaction with Catholic teachings about the Bible was a reason for leaving Catholicism, with 46% saying the Catholic Church did not view the Bible literally enough.
81% of all Protestant converts from Catholicism said they enjoyed the service and worship of Protestant faith as a reason for joining a Protestant denomination, with 62% of all Protestants and 74% Evangelicals also saying that they felt God's call to do so. ^
More, by the grace of God.
Methinks you doth protest too much. Brevity is the soul of wit.
In short Galli went from one unbiblical position (Presbyterianism) to another (Episcopalian) before wising up and returning to orthodoxy.
If he wanted to be apostate, he would have remained in presbyterianism - the philosophy that denies God’s will for humanity and is profoundly non-Christian.
That is the only correct thing in your post.
Evangelicals who take the non-biblical 19th century invention of the pre-tribulation rapture are definitely not Protestant Christian. Definitely not Christian with their denial of Jesus' own words
yes, he found it - as
1. holding to the teachings of Jesus Christ as passed through the Apostles
2. with the true and fullness of relationship with Jesus Christ that is only there in orthodoxy and not in the half-measured groups
3. does not deny God's love as the Calvinists do, nor God's justice as the unitarians do
4. historically shows the presence of God's grace for 2000 years
to leave a non-Christian aspect like Calvinism for orthodoxy is the only way forward for a Christian
And so too do the Mormon and Jehovah's witness converts. Well, those two are 19th century offshoots of the radical reformation in any case