Protestant Bible Studies - Should I Attend?

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Haha funny you say that! They do try to save you from being Catholic and tell you to come back if you were a protestant prior to Catholic. Lol
 
Couching, spitting and mucus is a demon leaving you. According to spiritual warfare and so is throwing up. Happens during exercisms as well as convulsions. And sneezing. They use the term deliverance rather than exercisms.
 
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I call that selective reasoning and adaptive understanding; though I do not fully understand what you mean by “single footpath,” could you expand on that?

Maran atha!

Angel
 
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Sometimes, however, I might not understand how to defend the faith because they use weird interpretations like trying to prove how the Bible itself is authoritative by using loose interpretations of certain verses.
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This is, by default, their whole in one: throw the baby out with the bath water and then fervently invent ways of explaining away the missing baby.

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Angel
 
Sometimes my messages aren’t clear.

I just mean that Protestants generally believe the same things without even knowing where they come from. For example, Sola Scriptura. Even non-denominational Protestants believe the same things as each other without knowing it. It’s like someone ahead already walked that path and the guy behind walks in his foot steps.

Anyway, just my observation.
 
I’ve noticed it’s mostly the same verse or verses.
 
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If you are very sure and knowledgeable, then it can be useful to try to help our poor mistaken brothers in Christ to see the one true religion and denounce the heresy of protestantism.

If you are not and are not persuasive, however, it could likely just end up giving them a bad taste in their mouth, turning them off even further from full reconciliation with the Church.

So it depends. For most people, it would be a very bad idea.
 
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You must be strong in your theology. Our Bibles are the same x for deutercanniocal books. It’s some interpretation that could be different. The fellowship is nice. There is time for prayer at the end.
Go to the Bible study in your church. Have fellowship w your friend another way.
God bless you.
 
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I have run Catholic Bible story groups and also have gone to several Protestant ones
to see what I could learn (but I didn’t go for long). I realized though that if I myself was unsure about my convictions, I could have had a cause for worry about what they fed me, not knowing what to make of it. Sometimes on Catholic forums someone writes in about being troubled about some belief they heard on a Protestant site (something contrary to Catholic belief) and asking for help about what to think.
You could be in an uncomfortable position if someone makes a crack against Catholicism or if they say something very contrary to Catholic beliefs. Either you have to remain in troubled silence (if you have Catholic convictions) or speak out and be very much against the grain with everyone else. You could be lucky if the others are very much understanding for believing differently. But you could be as much in place as a hunter at a gun control meeting.
 
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Thank you for the response.

I fully concur.

It’s like the use of a formula: 2 + 2 = 4; now don’t complicate matters by introducing fractions and negative; 2 + 2 🙂 !

Maran atha!

Angel
 
…and always ignoring those that shed a different understanding… and of course, not so much Scriptures as interpretation of Scriptures.

Maran atha!

Angel
 
I’d politely decline. You would put yourself at risk of acquiring a Protestant spirit.

If you’re still unsure, you might call your pastor and ask him.
 
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Usually from a Pauline Epistle, and taken completely out of context. Certainly without the slightest understanding of systematic theology.
 
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What was witnessed was an emotional reaction. True exorcisms may ONLY be conducted by the person’s Bishop or a Holy Catholic Priest who has been delegated by the Bishop.
 
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