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mareian
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My boyfriend and I had a long talk about our faith. He is a Baptist and I’m Roman Catholic.
I’ve copied and pasted what I wrote before…
Let me tell you a little bit of his background information. He was actually baptized as Roman Catholic, but he was never confirmed because his parents (also baptized, confirmed, married as catholics) converted to baptist when he was 4 years old. My boyfriend also attended a private roman catholic school all throughout grade school and highschool days!! This is a school where students must pass the religion class in order to graduate. He did it all…learned to recite Hail Mary and he still knows them to this day!
Sometimes, I think it’s harder for him to revert back to Catholicism (in his case) because he spent years in a catholic school. Yet, he didn’t believe. One thing he said to me was that…yes his parents also came from the catholic church, but they had some questions about the religion and they “found” the answers through the baptist way of teaching. They did something about it and he trust his parents. B][4/30 - Last night the issue came up and he said he’s “tired” of this issue coming up between us and he said that he will finally “give in” to me. He will agree to go to church with me and accept everything that I ask/tell him to do as he said that “I get what I want anyway”. He said that if he doesn’t give in then we’ll have this same problem coming up again. I told him that giving in means doing it wholeheartedly. He said he loves me and it’s really him that has to give in because I will not do has proven before that I’m not a risky person. We ended up the conversation with him saying that he will pray to settle some issues with himself and spend some time alone with God]
I also want to add that when we were talking about religion, he admitted that he is not knowledgeable with the scriptures as he used to be. He hasn’t attended a bible study for a long time. Because of this, he is hesitant to discuss religion with me. I told him that I can find answers to all his questions about catholicism. I even suggested that I can take him to a priest. His questions by the way are your usual common questions you hear from protestants… why pray the rosary, why pray to the saints, why do you put the Pope in a pedestal, why confess your sins…etc.
One thing that you should also know is that I remember him telling me before that there’s not much diffrence between us, just the “traditions”. That’s how he put it. He said that he grows spiritually in his own church because he can talk to his pastor like a friend and not like a priest where people seem to put them on a pedestal and the priest acts like they are higher class of people. He said that he prays directly to God and doesn’t have to go through anybody.
I called him this morning and his phone is turned off. We had somewhere to go and I don’t know what’s happening. I’m afraid that my boyfriend and I will break up.
I’ve copied and pasted what I wrote before…
Let me tell you a little bit of his background information. He was actually baptized as Roman Catholic, but he was never confirmed because his parents (also baptized, confirmed, married as catholics) converted to baptist when he was 4 years old. My boyfriend also attended a private roman catholic school all throughout grade school and highschool days!! This is a school where students must pass the religion class in order to graduate. He did it all…learned to recite Hail Mary and he still knows them to this day!
Sometimes, I think it’s harder for him to revert back to Catholicism (in his case) because he spent years in a catholic school. Yet, he didn’t believe. One thing he said to me was that…yes his parents also came from the catholic church, but they had some questions about the religion and they “found” the answers through the baptist way of teaching. They did something about it and he trust his parents. B][4/30 - Last night the issue came up and he said he’s “tired” of this issue coming up between us and he said that he will finally “give in” to me. He will agree to go to church with me and accept everything that I ask/tell him to do as he said that “I get what I want anyway”. He said that if he doesn’t give in then we’ll have this same problem coming up again. I told him that giving in means doing it wholeheartedly. He said he loves me and it’s really him that has to give in because I will not do has proven before that I’m not a risky person. We ended up the conversation with him saying that he will pray to settle some issues with himself and spend some time alone with God]
I also want to add that when we were talking about religion, he admitted that he is not knowledgeable with the scriptures as he used to be. He hasn’t attended a bible study for a long time. Because of this, he is hesitant to discuss religion with me. I told him that I can find answers to all his questions about catholicism. I even suggested that I can take him to a priest. His questions by the way are your usual common questions you hear from protestants… why pray the rosary, why pray to the saints, why do you put the Pope in a pedestal, why confess your sins…etc.
One thing that you should also know is that I remember him telling me before that there’s not much diffrence between us, just the “traditions”. That’s how he put it. He said that he grows spiritually in his own church because he can talk to his pastor like a friend and not like a priest where people seem to put them on a pedestal and the priest acts like they are higher class of people. He said that he prays directly to God and doesn’t have to go through anybody.
I called him this morning and his phone is turned off. We had somewhere to go and I don’t know what’s happening. I’m afraid that my boyfriend and I will break up.