Congratulations to Jimmy Akin and to all of us!

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If you are a protestant who came into the church, comment below.

When I first heard that there were Protestants who became Catholic, I was shocked!

I was thinking about this the other day because the year I started RCIA, I had begun to investigate foundational doctrines of the protestant faith. I read, listened to debates.I was also emailing my friends like crazy for help to defend those doctrines, because I did NOT want to become Catholic (tbh, sometimes, I’m still not that thrilled about it, lol).

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Most of the time, like the one above, I never heard back from them. Even my pastor didn’t meet with me. And sadly, I lost some friends.
 
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Watch his conversion story, it’s not easy when he talks about his wife.
 
Thank God that Jimmy put together the book Fathers Know Best. I have enjoyed that book very much.
 
Yes we should indeed thank GOD that some great apologists have come from the ranks of Protestantism. And we should pray for more conversions from both there ranks and from within the borne and raised Catholics who sometimes do not live up the great responsability the faith requires.

Peace!
 
I’m not a Protestant who came into the Church, but my dad was. He was 38 when he joined, so he could marry my mom.
He never expressed any problem being a Catholic (Except that he said his Catholic instruction classes got dull when the other guy in his class, who was a scientist, would ask the priest a lot of questions about anti-matter and God) and often said he sometimes thought he would like to be a monk.

As a child it seemed to me it hadn’t been hard for him to become a Catholic at all, so I couldn’t understand why all the other Protestants didn’t just join us too.
 
Born Lutheran. Began my conversion in 2012. Recently (validly!) baptized in the Church. Confirmation tomorrow. 😁
 
Born and raised in the Worldwide Church of God, an apocalyptic pseudo-Christian group, which was very anti-Catholic (and anti-Protestant too). Left that group after nearly becoming a minister, became an evangelical Christian then an Episcopalian (Catholic lite?). Then I started read the Early Church Fathers and listened to many Catholic/Protestant debates on YouTube. I credit Fr. Mitch Pacwa’s debate with Dr. Walter Martin as a turning point. I was conditionally baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in 2014 and have been instructing RCIA ever since.
 
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I credit Fr. Mitch Pacwa’s debate with Dr. Walter Martin as a turning point.
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Yes, this one was persuasive for me too, because I had a lot of respect for Walter Martin. Also the debates where Catholics went up against James White, since I come from a reformed background
 
I turned Catholic from Protestant when I was 57 y.o.
just DISCOVERED the rich deposit of Truth in the
Catholic Faith.!! See 1 Tim. 3:15
 
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There are so many good Catholic speakers who are converts (Jimmy Akin, Tim Staples, Scott Hahn, Peter Kreeft…), that cradle Catholic Patrick Madrid said that many others presume that he’s also a convert.
 
Born and raised Southern Baptist. Catholic now for 20 years.

Thanks for the thread, btw.
 
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Born Catholic but only found my faith almost 6 years ago. Since I am 21, I still have longer way to go 🙂
 
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