I read the Bible and remain a Catholic

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How many of you Catholics often heard. “I was Catholic then I read the Bible and now I am Christian.”

I like to hear the reverence side. I made this statement, I read the Bible and remain a Catholic. I remain Catholic because I found the Bible confirm my faith that the Catholic Church is founded by Jesus Christ (Matthew 16:18) and other passages in the Bible that sound very Catholic such as John 6:31-59.

Share your story how the Bible lead you to the Catholic faith if you came from a Protestant background, or if you are raised Catholic, you became more convince that the Catholic Church is indeed Biblical.
 
How about:

I read the bible and *became *a Catholic.

Yes, the Bible made me do it.
 
I’m a cradle Catholic. I didn’t become really frustrated with apologetics until I started reading the Bible and realized how Catholic it is. “What do you mean the Church contradicts the Bible! It’s right here! And here! And here! Nothing accounts for all the Biblical data as well as Catholicism! Nothingggggg!!!”

So yeah, that’s how I see it.
 
Read the Bible and went back to Catholicism (from Protestantism)…👍

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius
 
See, you need to read the book AND see the movie, and then you would change your mind 😃 😉
 
BrianH said:
See, you need to read the book AND see the movie, and then you would change your mind 😃 😉
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Good one!

I was prodestant for 21 of my 23 measly years and yep – it was reading the Bible that did it! It’s a great big history lesson.

What did it for me is seeing the foundation of the Pope. To see (or read in this case) the first Pope, and then to tell myself “HAOLY MOLY there’s still a Pope today!!” really brought me to the Catholic Faith.

It’s all uphill from there 👍
 
For me, I went to Mass, realized they read the entire Bible with all the OT, NT, Psalms and Gospel readings, and became Catholic! 😃

But yes, I seem to hear your original statement frequently, unfortunately.
 
When I was 18 years old, I started attending a baptist Church in favor of the Catholic Church. I found the music “inspiring” and the preaching fantastic. However, the more i read the bible, the more certain verses started to bother me. Verses like: “we are justified by works and not by faith alone.” (James 2:24) or “By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God, who will repay everyone according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness. Yes, affliction and distress will come upon every human being who does evil, Jew first and then Greek.
But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, Jew first and then Greek.” (Romans 2: 5 - 25). I knew that the faith alone idea was bogus pretty quickly. To compound this matter, John 6 made it very clear the protestant view of communion was simpley wrong. Also, Matthew 16 makes is sooooooo clear that Jesus intended St. Peter to be the head of the Church and Isaiah 22 confirms. Furthermore, the Fathers of the Church confirmed the entire idea of the Papacy.I was amazed by the fact that we know every single Pope from BXVI back to Peter. The final nail in the coffin was when I went home to vist my parents for the summer. I chaparoned a retreat for high school students at their parish. The Priest gave a sermon on confession and cited John Chapter 20, when Christ, speaking to the Apostles, states, “Revieve the Holy Spirit. Who’s sins you forgive are forgiven. Who’s sins you retain are retained.” I realized that God had given his priests authority to forgive sins and the confessional was the font of God’s mercy. I went to confession that night and the rest is history.
 
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Share your story how the Bible lead you to the Catholic faith if you came from a Protestant background
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Well, a Protestant led me to the Catholic Church. His name was Jimmy Lee and he was a very kind, very giving, and very annoying Protestant. Anyway he invited me to “Bible Study” where he spent 90 minutes talking about the government. I went back to my dorm and turned on my TV. I watched “TBN” because I was “feeling Christian” and for two hours I listened to the man in the nice suit talk about money and the government. So I being a good little Protestant went to talk to Jimmy Lee with my disillusionment with being a “Christian.” He said what “The Church” needed most was money. That stuck with me.

I went to Catholic chapel for guitar strings one night much to the disapproval of the “real” Christians. Sister didn’t talk about money; she didn’t talk about the government. The reading was from Luke, parable of the seed.

Something else happened that really showed me this was a calling, but I’m not comfortable talking about and I know that’s not good witnessing so I’ll try. I prayed for someone who was persecuting me. And the persecution stops
 
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How many of you Catholics often heard. “I was Catholic then I read the Bible and now I am Christian.”
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I heard it from my co-worker, but he also explained to another co-worker “To Catholic, Purgatory is almost like Hell”. This tells me he misunderstood about Purgatory.

What else he could’ve misunderstood about Catholic faith?
 
1ke said:
How about:

I read the bible and *became *a Catholic.

Yes, the Bible made me do it.
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[SIGN]Ditto![/SIGN]I couldn’t reconcile the words of Jesus in the Gospels with what I was hearing from the pulpit and from other teachers in church for whom I had a great deal of respect. It seemed that certain passages got explained away somehow or another to the point where I sometimes wondered if I was reading the same words they were.
 
While I loved my Presbyterian congregation, and the people in it, and our good, kind pastor---- shortly after I was baptized (by the Presbyterian pastor ) was when I began to notice things in the Bible that sounded a bit too Catholic for my comfort. Reading through 1st Corinthians, I was struck by Paul’s affirmation that we are actually participating in / sharing in, the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist (chapters 10 and 11). I was also stunned that Paul taught that you COULD, of your own volition, throw away your salvation (if God did not spare the natural branches ((Israel)), perhaps he will not spare you). And Jesus’s emphatic insistence that IF YOU REMAIN IN ME you will bear much fruit and that he who does NOT remain in me will be cut away and thrown into the fire and things like that, all over the place in the New Testament, that reaffirmed strongly my own belief that you can throw away your salvation of your own sinful deliberate accord, just as the Catholic Church has always taught.
There were many parts of the Bible that struck me as Catholic, too many to enumerate. Then I started reading C.S. Lewis (an Anglican) as well as the early church fathers and found that the early church fathers saw things pretty much the way I thought the bible affirmed, and not only that, but THEY believed that Mary is the New Eve and that the Eucharist is literally real, not a symbol.
But it was largely the Scriptures that drew me toward Catholicism.
I do not regret one IOTA having become a Catholic.

Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
 
Yes after reading the Catholic book, which was written by Catholics(NT) protected and studied for centuries by Catholics and then canonized by Catholics(OT and NT) I had no problem with converting to The Catholic Church. I love Scripture and in no way does it disagree with what the church teaches, the more I read the more Catholic I am! 🙂
 
I was born Catholic, and my Bible studies have made me more and more happy to remain so. I have 6 different translations, including the King James so i can bounce from one to another to get different “takes.” I have not attepted to learn the old languages to read it in the original tongues, but I do what I can.

I have shocked both Protestants and Catholics by quoting the Bible. “But your Catholic. You aren’t supposed to read the Bible.” My favorite response: I don’t. I try to live it.
 
ralphinal said:
I have shocked both Protestants and Catholics by quoting the Bible. “But your Catholic. You aren’t supposed to read the Bible.” My favorite response: I don’t. I try to live it.
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I know what you mean…

Last year, I had two people walk up to me and try to evangelize. I took their “test,” which started with very broad questions and got to very specific ones about heaven and hell and sins, etc. I answered all the questions to their satisfaction and they were overjoyed to have a fellow brother-in-Christ and believer among them. This is, until I told them I am Catholic. All of the sudden, they were telling me what the Catholic Church teaches about works and salvation and this and that. One of them was an ex-Catholic, so I kind of just let it go…There was no need to get in an argument over a battle that couldn’t be won. We parted happily, which was a better testimony, IMHO.

Prayers and petitions,
Alexius:cool:
 
I never fit in with my fellow Protestants because I couldn’t reconcile scripture with the ‘right’ answers. I was embarassed for God because his scriptures were so fragile… just the slightest inclusion of the wrong verse and the whole thing colapsed like a house of cards. And the fixation on the rapture, I never could get into that.

So I stayed for the worship but I was essentialy Catholic in my beliefs. The thing was, I didn’t know that I was Catholic. I had only heard bad rumors about the Catholic Church and the Catholics I talked to confirmed the rumors.

Lucky for me, I saw Archbishop Fulton Sheen on TV. (My wife tuned in because she likes vampire movies, and she mistook him for a vampire because of his black and red clothing!) But after half an hour, I was astounded to find out that here at last was a Christian like me – and he was Catholic! 👍
 
“I was Catholic then I read the Bible and now I am Christian.”
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Hi

I will make a little change in the above sentence.

I was an Ahmadi Muslim then I read the Bible and still I remain an Ahmadi peaceful Muslim, because I found the Bible confirm my faith that the Catholic Church is not, in my opinion founded by Jesus Christ , only his name has been used while we can safely say it was founded by Paul .

This is my opinion and I respect your religion.

Thanks
 
paarsurrey said:
Hi

I will make a little change in the above sentence.

I was an Ahmadi Muslim then I read the Bible and still I remain an Ahmadi peaceful Muslim, because I found the Bible confirm my faith that the Catholic Church is not, in my opinion founded by Jesus Christ , only his name has been used while we can safely say it was founded by Paul .

This is my opinion and I respect your religion.

Thanks
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and thank God it is an opinion.
 
After a period of dissatisfaction in a non Catholic denomination I was encouraged by my brother in law, a non Catholic minister, to read the Catechism. It took me years in my spare time to read the Catechism along with the Bible citations. When I had finished I had a clear view of what the Church was about and after RCIA I entered…happily and I don’t look back. The articles of my faith were formed by learned men who in the earliest days were searching for the truth in order to do G-d’s will. They had no other agenda and no axes to grind. I trust their formulation as the truest expression of our faith and it remains so against the gates of hell IMO.🙂
 
East_and_West said:
When I was 18 years old, I started attending a baptist Church in favor of the Catholic Church. I found the music “inspiring” and the preaching fantastic. However, the more i read the bible, the more certain verses started to bother me. Verses like: “we are justified by works and not by faith alone.” (James 2:24) or “By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God, who will repay everyone according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness. Yes, affliction and distress will come upon every human being who does evil, Jew first and then Greek.
But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, Jew first and then Greek.” (Romans 2: 5 - 25). I knew that the faith alone idea was bogus pretty quickly. To compound this matter, John 6 made it very clear the protestant view of communion was simpley wrong. Also, Matthew 16 makes is sooooooo clear that Jesus intended St. Peter to be the head of the Church and Isaiah 22 confirms. Furthermore, the Fathers of the Church confirmed the entire idea of the Papacy.I was amazed by the fact that we know every single Pope from BXVI back to Peter. The final nail in the coffin was when I went home to vist my parents for the summer. I chaparoned a retreat for high school students at their parish. The Priest gave a sermon on confession and cited John Chapter 20, when Christ, speaking to the Apostles, states, “Revieve the Holy Spirit. Who’s sins you forgive are forgiven. Who’s sins you retain are retained.” I realized that God had given his priests authority to forgive sins and the confessional was the font of God’s mercy. I went to confession that night and the rest is history.
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YES. St Peter even died on the cross like Jesus, only upsidown.
 
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