Catholics - when a protestant asks you why are you Catholic how do you like to answer?

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TI also suggest they read books by Dr.Scott Hahn who is a convert via RCIA himself.He was a Presbyterian minister before he became a Catholic.
 
Because the Catholic Church was founded 2000 years ago, by Jesus Himself, PERSONALLY.
 
Because Jesus did precisely what He Desired:

Believe in and OBEY
One True God {1st Commandment}
Just One True Faith {Eph 4:5; Mt 28:19-20}
Just the the True Church founded Christ {Eph 4:5 ; Mt 16:18-19}

BECAUSE WE DO HAVE JESUS IN PERSON IN CATHOLIC HOLY COMMUNION:smile:

Amen
 
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Protestant churches commonly go out of business. The Carholic Church is not a business. It is a Body, a Bride, a Vine and the world’s oldest and largest organization.
 
As a convert to the Catholic Church, I have a lot to say on this topic. However as someone who lives in a strongly Calvinist Christian country, which is often hostile to the Catholic church, I tend to probably be overcautious in responding. I need to get over this. I have sometimes been reluctant to say too much as I felt that I am too new in the faith. However, I have also discovered that because I did a lot of work in finding out about the Catholic Church and doing much reading, especially in areas where I had reservations or sometimes even an aversion to Catholic teaching, that I can often make a contribution to a conversation with long standing Catholics.

I believe that if many of my protestant friends would take the time to understand what the Catholic church really teaches and why, many of them would convert. This is something that I have said to some of them, but I have so far not been able to convince anyone.
 
MT1926 said:
One word AUTHORITY.
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Jesus Christ is LORD is a profession that Jesus Christ has authority and that the one professing Christ will obey Christ’s authority.

The Church founded upon Peter the Rock and the Twelve Apostles has authority. It affirms covenants and commitments and Church laws. One of those Church Laws requires that Catholics attend the Mass Liturgy on Sundays. It is a good requirement. I will be leaving for Sunday Mass next hour.
 
For me the answer is “He is the one who choose it for me and He give me the answer why (and it’s a solid one)”
As for the anti, whatever the reason if they does not want to open their heart it’s not going to be easy for them to understand, so i leave it at the first one.
 
Because at a certain point in the past, I finally ran out of reasons not to be Catholic.
 
I like to ask them when their reverends will commit to a Catholic priests oath of office to not repeat what is said by laity (members of the church). Protestant leadership is notorious for hearing a plea and calling law enforcement with information within an hour after given forgiveness. Beware especially Mormons in leadership positions!
 
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Where does scripture say it should not be personally interpreted??
 
You’re saying things I never heard of.
Is the church the vine, or is Jesus the vine?
John 15 says Jesus is the vine.
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This is how I would respond:

I am a catholic (aka member of the Catholic Church) by the grace of God, becuase it is His will that I be and becuase this Church is the true Church founded by Jesus himself.
 
GodsGrace101 said:
Where does scripture say it should not be personally interpreted??
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Acts 8:30-31
Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked. “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

Hebrews 5:12
In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!

2 Peter 1:20
Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things.

2 Peter 3:15-16
Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Scripture itself says we need help from an authority in interpreting what it says. Personal interpretation without such help leads to many different interpretations of the same thing. There are many other passages in Scripture where it disproves the idea that Scripture alone is sufficient as the complete word of God.
 
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Fruit doesn’t grow off the trunk of the tree. Fruit grows off the outer edge of the vine branches. None of us are intended to be “lone ranger” Catholics or Christians. None of us have all the talents and spiritual gifts. Other people have talents, gifts, opportunities that we don’t have. We need to be connected to the Church and the other branches of the vine. Nourishment comes through the connected branches of the Church. The Head has a Body.
 
GodsGrace101 said:
Where does scripture say it should not be personally interpreted??
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Scripture came from the Church. The Church existed for decades before Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, James, Jude, Peter and the writer of Hebrews began to write.

Jesus is LORD. Jesus has authority. His Church has authority. If all Scripture depends upon personal interpretation, then the only authority would be whatever our own persons decides that it is. The Word of God is not only ink on paper or bits on a screen but also the “Word made flesh who came to live among us”. Christ still lives on earth through his Church. Christ has authority. His Church has authority.
 
I was store manager for an Episcopal Church Bookstore for 8 years. After studying the Church while I was there, I finally gave into the Holy Spirit who had been pushing me slowly but surely to accept the Catholic doctrines and teachings.
Turns out my daughter had been considering conversion and my brother in law was already in RCIA. My husband converted when I did. My brother in law did next. Then my daughter converted.
 
OK. This makes sense to. I was thinking of:
John 15:1-6
1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 3 “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6 “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

Jesus says HE is the vine and we get our nourishment from Him so we could bear fruit.

What you said is also true…
 
I wasn’t raised Catholic; I’m OCIA. I’m very rarely asked this question in a polite way. Most people just want to know why I’m so “crazy,” why I would choose such a “misogynistic” religion that’s obviously “based” on subjugating women. I don’t answer those people. But if someone asks me nicely, I say “I didn’t choose the Church. The Church chose me.” If they’re anti-Catholic, I want to know why. Sometimes they’ve had a bad experience, and sometimes they’re just ignorant. I am not the one to educate them, so I tend to keep them at arm’s length. I don’t know why the Church chose me; I just accept it as God calling me. I was raised atheist and the rest of my family still is, mostly.
 
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