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Hi everyone. I have a question. I have a friend of mine he was just raised Catholic but never received any sacrament. So basically he is not babptized. He has never felt connection to Jesus. He was attending the services with the family but he was never beliving in Jesus although he believes in God. One day he decieded to Explore which Religion could fit him. And he found happiness and confort in the Judaism. He never concluded the conversion but nevertheless he consider himself a jew. His Beliefs are a bit abscure to me. He seems to have found Simple emotions that in the Church he never felt. How can i help him to convert catholic and return to Holy mother Church ? And what do u guys think could have happened to him? Why Jesus did not intervene? How a person can fall away like this?
 
Many fall away like this and I believe it is often for a sin of the flesh which they have no intention of stopping; so they believe that if they change their religion then that will no longer be a sin and so they will have peace of mind…they THINK.

I wonder what congregation of Judaism he found AND what kept him from full conversion. He sounds very typical in not wanting to get his feet in deeper anywhere. Yet he doesn’t seem to have followed “shallow water” cults either…Pray for him, listen to him, keep things simple and firm when you explain anything. If he asks something you don’t know the answer, just say, “Can I get back to you on that?” and then go find the answer. If you don’t understand how to answer questions about this faith, then start to learn now. And keep praying for your friend. It is easy for some to have been de-railed from their faith by misinformation, poor education, bad examples, societal pressure,

If he found Judaism preferable, you might want to do an Old Testament bible study that explains the foreshadowing of Christ’s life thru OT scripture. I found it fascinating and it made the OT more interesting to me.
 
Thank you. Here we are talking about a person that has always had liberal views first…second the reason he did not want to finalize the conversion was that he did not like the cerimony and stuff like this. He also started to be kind of atheist. He now believes in God but not in Jesus. He said that be never felt anything in the Church but he felt emetions i the synagogue. He lately had a revaival on Judaism … But i dont think it is something connected to the Scriputures … It is matter of simple emotions . He said that he tryed to find Jesus but he had never found it or felt any connection to him.

Btw he does not even know the Hail Mary …

And he had very bad Catholic examples. Anyway I has also sinned a lot in my life but I reverted … Can this happen to him as well one day. I am afraid that what he heard in the Synagogue could have been fatal or strengthen his idea in Jesus .
 
To answer your question of why Jesus did not intervene when your friend left the Church - God NEVER takes our free will. Not even to save us. Die for us,yes, but not force us.

And I echo “Auntie A” - if his interest in Judaism is sufficient that he is interested in the Messiah, then you need to work with him to show him Jesus is the Messiah. If you go to

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This is a free course by Scott Hahn’s St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. It might help you with some information on finding Jesus in the Old Testament.

You might also discuss the role of emotions in all this. They are nice but they hardly determine reality. I don’t always “feel” like being kind and charitable but it is still the right way to live my life. Or I might really like the idea of having a screaming fit at someone (I’m not a very patient driver) but that does not make it right (darn).
 
We are all very bad examples. Only Christ was perfect. I hear this excuse from atheists and unreligious all the time, that Christians sin as bad as non-Christians. But we are forgiven when we come to our senses and repent. Its a lifetime struggle. The Bible is full of accounts of imperfect people who Christ calls faithful, in Hebrews 11. Look at St. Peter, Jesus once called him Satan, and to get behind Him and another time he actually denied Christ 3x. I hope you can show Christ to your friend.
 
You might try asking him if he will come to mass with you and you will go to along with him to synagog. I just read this in the Catechism last night.

The unity of the Old and New Testaments
128 The Church, as early as apostolic times,104 and then constantly in her Tradition, has illuminated the unity of the divine plan in the two Testaments through typology, which discerns in God’s works of the Old Covenant prefigurations of what he accomplished in the fullness of time in the person of his incarnate Son.

129 Christians therefore read the Old Testament in the light of Christ crucified and risen. Such typological reading discloses the inexhaustible content of the Old Testament; but it must not make us forget that the Old Testament retains its own intrinsic value as Revelation reaffirmed by our Lord himself.105 Besides, the New Testament has to be read in the light of the Old. Early Christian catechesis made constant use of the Old Testament.106 As an old saying put it, the New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New.107

Judaism points to Christ. The Catholic church, more than any other Christian church, has not abandoned their Jewish roots.
 
thank you all, i think that going to synagoge woud be wrong… i could show weakness or kind of approval. We are talking of someone, who had know the Church and decided to leave it… it sounds so werd to me.
 
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