question for Protestants who became Catholic

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I always hear the same phrase when I hear Protestants who turned Catholic say one thing. But its never the same thing.

Let me explain. I always here there is one teaching of the Catholic CHurch that I could not have explained away.

What would be the one teaching that Your Protestant church, Preacher, etc could not explain away that got you to turn Catholic?

It seems there is always one thing that makes the :newidea: go off and then there is no turning back. I would love to hear what did it for you.

Thanks and God Bless!
 
I was taught - once saved always saved

So what happens if down the road - we do not seek forgiveness for the sins we have committed and remain unrepentant?
 
I was taught a believers baptism

So what about all the biblical passages that support whole families being baptized?
 
I was taught that the Lord’s Supper was just symbolic

So why does Jesus Christ tells us Truly Truly this is my flesh and Truly Truly this is my blood…
 
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Wow!!! Texan talk about a awesome response right off the bat!👍
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I would say those are my big three - but truthfully I grew up in a church that simply does not exist anymore through divisions within - I was not looking to convert to Catholicism - but the Catholic Church was and is the only Church that can answer those questions above and many more.
 
rinnie said:
I always hear the same phrase when I hear Protestants who turned Catholic say one thing. But its never the same thing.

Let me explain. I always here there is one teaching of the Catholic CHurch that I could not have explained away.

What would be the one teaching that Your Protestant church, Preacher, etc could not explain away that got you to turn Catholic?

It seems there is always one thing that makes the :newidea: go off and then there is no turning back. I would love to hear what did it for you.

Thanks and God Bless!
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What made me Catholic? I can’t really say, but it may have been due to… the way church is run? I mean mass. But if I was really honest then I would have to admit that it was the churchs history, Apologetics, doctrine,and all the other facts that took hours of my studying time to learn but literaly only minutes to hook me like a fish!
 
Once saved always saved- I never bought it.

Disrespect about Mary- I had a pastor’s wife tell me that Mary was no better than she was-if that was so, why didn’t God pick her to be the mother to Jesus?

It seemed to me- knowing as little as I did, that Mary had a special place in God’s plan. Mary was the deal breaker. Kind of ironic.

I decided to prayerfully consider Catholicism after I wrote a paper in a secular religion course and had to examine the different major faiths in light of the Gospels.

As I researched, I shared my findings with my husband. We made the decision to convert together. Which was amazing because my husband had never been a church goer, was unsure about Christianity, and was basically an agnostic. To watch his conversion was a beautiful and wonderful thing. Since we converted, he rarely misses Mass and only for legit reasons- illness. This was a man who only went to church with me to see our oldest in the annual Christmas or Easter performance. So even with all of the questions that I have (see a post called questioning my religion lately) I do trust that the Holy Spirit led me (us) to the Church and this is where I am meant to be.
 
The one thing that really started the process for me, mayn years before I even became catholic, was the 40,000 denominations. I believed that there could only be one truth about christ. Either baptism was necessary or it wasn’t. Either the eucharist was symbolic, or it wasn’t. When I started asking questions, I received the answer “it’s about finding what is right for you, because we are all right and it doesn’t matter.” It reeked of relative truth, and I didn’t believe Jesus came to give us relative truth. He came to give us REAL truth that we could proclaim with confidence. That we could KNOW what was right and wrong, not to “find what works for us.”
 
I never understood ‘Once Saved Always Saved’ and I kept hearing that the Eucharist and Baptism are symbols, even though the Bible says otherwise.
 
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You never bought it? I did, and sort of still do…
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not in the way it was explained to me. Basically once you said the sinners prayer you were covered. So I could say the sinners prayer, go out and get an abortion, and be covered. Repentance wasn’t really talked about. Jesus died for our sins (which is true) but they left off the part about turning away from a life a sin and seeking forgiveness when we stumble.
 
Poetess_Kera said:
I never understood ‘Once Saved Always Saved’ and I kept hearing that the Eucharist and Baptism are symbols, even though the Bible says otherwise.
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This is the scripture that I was given from John

28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them away from me,

29 for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. So no one can take them from me.
 
MaryCatherine08 said:
This is the scripture that I was given from John

28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them away from me,

29 for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. So no one can take them from me.
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No one can take us from Jesus, but we can slip out of His hand out of our own free will, much in the same way that we can send ourselves to hell; God accepts the choices we make and refuses to impose Himself on anyone.
 
MaryCatherine08 said:
This is the scripture that I was given from John

28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them away from me,

29 for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. So no one can take them from me.
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The problem is you can’t read that in a vaccume, you have to reconcile that with:
17 And if some of the branches be broken, and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker of the root, and of the fatness of the olive tree, 18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. 20 Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear.
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21 For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee. 22 See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
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Remembering this is written to Christians.

So as previously posted by a soon to be convert, no one can take you from Christ. But you can decide to slip away if you so choose.
 
For me it was Sola Scriptura. Everything that I believed as a protestant was centered in this doctrine. Once that fell I then moved on to church authority and realized that God had given authority to His church.
 
I needed a Mother when mine was dxed with Cancer.

Mother Mary let me see my then 4 year old praying. I wanted to know Her too.

The more I learned, the more I believed. Saints…why not?!! How in the heck did I miss having 1000’s of friends wanting to help me?

Let me backtrack, if I may.

I’d studied the reformation, but they were just words. “The Catholic church was split when Martin Luther protested”. I NEVER put the two together. I studied Wesley, but didn’t think about the fact that man founded Methodism, and Jesus founded his Church.

I was ignorant of the facts in a truly spiritual way.

But, Blessed be God, it’s GREAT to be Home!
 
heathernoel said:
I needed a Mother when mine was dxed with Cancer.

Mother Mary let me see my then 4 year old praying. I wanted to know Her too.

The more I learned, the more I believed. Saints…why not?!! How in the heck did I miss having 1000’s of friends wanting to help me?

Let me backtrack, if I may.

I’d studied the reformation, but they were just words. “The Catholic church was split when Martin Luther protested”. I NEVER put the two together. I studied Wesley, but didn’t think about the fact that man founded Methodism, and Jesus founded his Church.

I was ignorant of the facts in a truly spiritual way.

But, Blessed be God, it’s GREAT to be Home!
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Hey! How dare you!? There’s nothing wrong with methodism!
 
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