[Brian Kopp DPM]

Welcome home Dan!

The number of reverts and converts, just here mong Freepers, can be extrapolated out into the culture at large, to point out a number so staggering that it must have the anti-Catholic folks in a tizzy.

They just cannot comprehend why all their ranting, insults, and proof texts do not win them converts, but drive folks home to Rome. But it does. Repeatedly.

[redhead]

Thank you for your patience in dealing with this. I really, REALLY admire not only your educated responses, but your kindness.

I have a question: Berned said: "Now watch, as the Temple gets rebuilt against all odds."

Am I correct in assuming that Jesus Christ is the Third Temple? ("Tear down this Temple, and in three days I will rebuild it?") If that is the case, then wouldn't the FINAL Sacrifice have been made on the Cross, and wouldn't that, by extrapolation, mean that the building in Jerusalem is not only not necessary, but that it will NOT to be rebuilt in God's plan?

[OxfordMovement]

This Holy Week I was amazed to see so much hate hurled at Catholics on FR. It was why I joined up. Some of you know I am leaving the Episcopal Church and looking for a home. After this Triduum of reading on FR I am much closer to the Roman Catholic Church than ever before. The attacks on the Catholic Church from some posters have seemed demonic to me -- even though they quote the bible at length. I want to thank each Catholic freeper who has reached out to me with kindness and encouragement. And I thank you all for the posts on FR that I have read for some time now, long before becoming a member. You all are a living testimony to what is true and loving about Jesus' Church, and you are like a living online catechism class. I have learned and am learning alot. Although I was raised as an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian with rosary in hand -- I am overjoyed to find the fulness of what was only hinted at in my childhood. God bless you all.

[berned]

The number of reverts and converts, just here mong Freepers, can be extrapolated out into the culture at large, to point out a number so staggering that it must have the anti-Catholic folks in a tizzy. They just cannot comprehend why all their ranting, insults, and proof texts do not win them converts, but drive folks home to Rome. But it does. Repeatedly.

Your post, and #'s 86, 80, 74, 68, 65 and others reminds me of the times in 1998, when the worse the revelations that came out about Clinton... the HIGHER his popularity ratings went. (That certainly had the "anti-clinton" folks in a tizzy.) :-)

What you seem to miss, is that nowhere in my posts, (or other Bible believing Protestants) do we ever "bash" Jesus, the Cross, The Holy Spirit, The Father, or The Resurrection.

Just Rome.