No need to convert to Catholicism!

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vern humphrey:

Ah, but those who have found their way to this forum cannot claim invincible ignorance, now can they?http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon12.gif

Not any longer that’s for sure.

 

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Benadam:

as you drifted you began to see the Church was in error. What kind of transition? from doubt of RC to consideration of Evangelical?
Interesting that the boundaries of the church had importance to you

I gradually embraced sola scriptura. Consequently, I could not accept the fact that God’s revelation was not limited to what was contained in the Bible. Evangelicals all agree that the Bible alone is the sole rule of faith and of morals. I began to doubt the authority of the Catholic Church. Since I had been taught from a more or less liberal/modernist perspective of Christology, Ecclesiology and Moral Theology while I was in the seminary, I had no real solid foundation to refute what I was being presented with by Evangelicals (many of whom were ex-Catholics with a profound distrust and dislike of the Catholic faith).

Once, when I was being pressured to join a United Methodist church, I had to be literally dragged up to the altar to be accepted into membership. Another time, when I was immersed (what I thought was baptism according to scripture) by a Pentecostal minister, I was taken a back when he refused to invoke the trinitarian formula over me and instead used “in Jesus name.” I would be “re-baptized” later in the ocean by a Church of Christ leader who assured me that this baptism was necessary for salvation. He, at least, invoked the Trinity.

 

[Benadam]

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I gradually embraced sola scriptura. Consequently, I could not accept the fact that God’s revelation was not limited to what was contained in the Bible. Evangelicals all agree that the Bible alone is the sole rule of faith and of morals. I began to doubt the authority of the Catholic Church. Since I had been taught from a more or less liberal/modernist perspective of Christology, Ecclesiology and Moral Theology while I was in the seminary, I had no real solid foundation to refute what I was being presented with by Evangelicals (many of whom were ex-Catholics with a profound distrust and dislike of the Catholic faith).

Once, when I was being pressured to join a United Methodist church, I had to be literally dragged up to the altar to be accepted into membership. Another time, when I was immersed (what I thought was baptism according to scripture) by a Pentecostal minister, I was taken a back when he refused to invoke the trinitarian formula over me and instead used “in Jesus name.” I would be “re-baptized” later in the ocean by a Church of Christ leader who assured me that this baptism was necessary for salvation. He, at least, invoked the Trinity.

I got the sense that I was being told a nightmare. It seems you were a challenge to some people too. I noticed you never let go completely of catholicity. Thank God you made it back!

 

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Benadam:

I got the sense that I was being told a nightmare. It seems you were a challenge to some people too. I noticed you never let go completely of catholicity. Thank God you made it back!

You aren’t kidding. Thank you. I’m certainly glad to be back.