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Big question. 🙂

Read the early Church Fathers. Read Augustine’s confessions. Read some ignatious of Antioch. Look at the Didache. Look at what kind of Church they are describing.

Also, Read ‘Why we’re Catholic’ by Trent Horn, and ‘The case for Jesus’ by Brant Pitre. Those have alot of information on the early Church.
 
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Do you know the number of Catholics and priests killed during the time of Protestant
England when it was against the law to practice the Catholic faith?
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Don’t forget the persecution of Irish Catholics during 700 years of British occupation.
 
Whoa horse. Yes. It is. Yes, the Church did horrible things sometimes. But… so did the Protestants. The view he gave you is just the protestant perspective. It was a time of war and conflict and both sides had atrocities.
 
How many Catholics and priests were killed during Protestant England? And persecution of Catholics during the 700 years of British occupation?
 
I may be a little late into this question, but as an x Calvinist- x catholic basher- convert… LOL… I thought I could share a thought or 2. Calvinist see themselves as the intellectuals of Christianity. They do not believe in free will. In a nut shell, they believe that all mankind is wicked and gleefully going to hell- and God calls a few, chooses them, turns them to Himself and makes them love Him. They are the elect, and God hates everyone else. You might think this isn’t true- but I promise, it IS. If you are interested, I can share the scriptures by which they base this on. They believe once saved always saved of course… that goes without saying once you see the core of their beliefs. Westboro baptist’s are Calvinist- Hense why the wave signs about God hates Fags…one more thing- each Protestant is POPE. Chew on that. Its true. I rarely meet a non catholic who fully subscribes to any denomination anymore. If Catholicism is true- they must relinquish their own papacy. Praise our God for leading me out of it! and into the light of love that shines out of his Holy Church. The Holy Spirit keeps her own course, despite our own leaders at times … God Bless you 🙂
 
After the Protestant reformation there was a huge division. There are, what, like 39000 different Protestant denominations today all professing to have the “true teachings”? Last time I checked, the Holy Spirit unites, not divides
 
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I may be a little late into this question, but as an x Calvinist- x catholic basher- convert… LOL… I thought I could share a thought or 2. Calvinist see themselves as the intellectuals of Christianity. They do not believe in free will. In a nut shell, they believe that all mankind is wicked and gleefully going to hell- and God calls a few, chooses them, turns them to Himself and makes them love Him. They are the elect, and God hates everyone else.
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How do they rationalise evangelising if there is no such thing as free will?
 
Lol! You’ll be kicked off before you know it. It’s not great apologetics one needs to have to dialogue with Matt slick and his followers. There is no dialogue to be had. Matt is an excellent debater and could be arguing for a flat earth and do well. He is also very intellectually and theologically dishonest.
 
Why would they kick me off? I mean, they seemed so rude.
 
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Anytime you disagree or offer a good argument they will ban you. Its their right. Just like its CAF right to choose its members and have rules against coming on here to convert others.
 
That’s weird.i guess that means the mods are anti-Catholic, too?
 
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Not really. I don’t know about CAF new format enough to know. But many CARM members would pose as Catholics on the old CAF. Including Slick himself.
 
Let it suffice to say, there are quite a few faiths, CARM is hostile to. I grew up with those kinds of attitudes, not in my family of course, but in the surrounding communities. I’d just ignore it. Nothing will change my outlook. At least, not nowadays.
 
I grew up in a big Catholic area and didn’t even know about the hostility toward Catholics until well into adulthood.
 
I suggest you read the Bible and read the Catechism of the Catholic Church. To answer your question really requires, as some have undoubtedly said, learning about the Early Church Fathers. Question is, how to do that – there’s so much literature on this subject.

The general answer to your question is to commit yourself to a couple years of private study.

Mike Aquilina has a book called The Fathers of the Church (3rd Edition), 321 pages. I’m working on that book myself – it sat on my shelf for a long time but it’s really a good place to start. You can read one section at a time to see 1) how serious the early fathers were about their faith and 2) to see that the early church was the Catholic Church.

The book I read before this was Bergsma and Petre’s The Catholic Introduction to the Bible: Old Testament, 970 pages. I think the way to read this is to read ALONG SIDE the Bible. Read their introduction to each book and then read that book in the Bible. You may want to refer back and forth between this book and the Bible to really soak up everything. There are many surprising points that they make in their book about the Bible.

I guess I’m suggesting this to help jump start you from your 8 years of Catholic School to a more adult level of understanding. God Bless.
 
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