What did you convert from?

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Please share your spiritual story of conversion from one to the other. Please save the arguments for another forum please.

I was born Catholic and am still Catholic. I do think of going to other Churches from time to time but still want the sacraments esp. confession and Eucharist. but i like some of the preaching at other churches
 
I went from a nominal protestant to a catholic. I eventually realized that all the “unbiblical” aspects of Catholicism were in fact firmly grounded in Scripture.
 
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I went from a nominal protestant to a catholic. I eventually realized that all the “unbiblical” aspects of Catholicism were in fact firmly grounded in Scripture.
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I share a similar experience. I went from an anti-Catholic 😦 Baptist, to a Catholic. I grew up in a heavy anti-Catholic area, my parents are, my grandma is VERY anti-Catholic, and my church had heavy anti-Catholic undertones. Then I looked into Catholicism myself, and found that they aren’t an unbiblical church they are the biblical Church.
 
I went ahead and voted even though I’ve not been confirmed yet.

I was raised in the Church of Christ, contentedly (or so I thought) Protestant.

I met some Catholics and had some debates, and decided to investigate Catholicism myself (to disprove it all, of course). Incidentally, that’s how I found Catholic Answers. As Chesterton points out, as soon as a man ceases to pull against the Church, it begins to draw him in. That’s what happened to me.

I decided to be honest, and it did me in…

God bless.

+Joel
 
I wasn’t really raised religious at all, however when I was in my early teens I started to go to a church with my friends (non-denom.), then I moved to seventh day adv., then towards Calvanist, and then when I studied the Catholic Church (to try and be more effective and proving Catholics wrong) I ended up finding the undenyable truth, which is the True Church is the Catholic Church! I was baptised into Holy Mother Church April 15th, 2001.

(By the way, my mom was Methodist and my dad was atheist - now my whole family has become Catholic!)
 
I voted other because I have not quite “crossed the Tiber” yet. When JP2 died I decided to brush up on Catholicism so I could lead all those “idol worshipers” to the truth. So, I bought two books “Catholicism and Fundamentalism” by Keating and “The Roman Catholic Contraversy” by James White. I read the first half of Keating’s book angy (how dare Catholics use the Scriptures to prove their heretical beliefs) and I read the second half in abject horror (could the Catholic be right). In despiration I reached for White’s book and found all his arguments weak.

So, why haven’t I jumped ship? It is mainly because of my perception that most priests are moral and religeous relativists that introduce heresy and liturgical abuses all in the name of inclusiveness and innovation. I fear that it will tick off my wife and weaken my children’s faith. Am I wrong? Are there more priest loyal to Rome than not?
 
I was raised faundamentalist Southern Baptist – with a little Pentacostal holy rolling thrown in for good measure –

After being told my whole life that Catholics were at least misguided of not horrid I met Patrick and later married into a wonderful Catholic family – I decided to at least attend church with my husband even though I wouldn’t ever convert (maybe I was digging for proof I was right?) and slowly over the years his church became my church – I started to feel really left out!

So I started asking questions of anyone who had the knowledge and patience to answer them until I’d exhaused just about everything and signed up for RCIA classes, still quite convinced that I was just checking, not signing up yet –

I had to drop out of RCIA after a few months because I went on strict bedrest with our twins – and by the time I was able to go back to church it was Easter vigil time and I was depressed that it wasn’t MY Easter – so I did a little more reading and signed up for RCIA the next year with enthusiasm and have never looked back –

Since converting I have only grown in my faith and in my love for the Catholic church – and I thank my lovely husband for being the perfect man to help me find my way home to Rome –
 
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I voted other because I have not quite “crossed the Tiber” yet. When JP2 died I decided to brush up on Catholicism so I could lead all those “idol worshipers” to the truth. So, I bought two books “Catholicism and Fundamentalism” by Keating and “The Roman Catholic Contraversy” by James White. I read the first half of Keating’s book angy (how dare Catholics use the Scriptures to prove their heretical beliefs) and I read the second half in abject horror (could the Catholic be right). In despiration I reached for White’s book and found all his arguments weak.

I had the same experience with a different set of books!

So, why haven’t I jumped ship? It is mainly because of my perception that most priests are moral and religeous relativists that introduce heresy and liturgical abuses all in the name of inclusiveness and innovation. I fear that it will tick off my wife and weaken my children’s faith. Am I wrong? Are there more priest loyal to Rome than not?

Well, if you run into priests formed in the 60’s and 70’s, when the senmiaries were “experimenting” with “new ideas” (really with heresy), you will find many who are relativists. But, many seminaries have given up trying to invent doctrine and dogma and are returning to orthodoxy. We have 3 new priests at our parish and all are as orthodox in their teaching as anyone could wish! So, come on over and let God direct you to the right priest to help you be reconciled to the Church. 🙂 I will pray for you, please pray for me!
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And just to keep on track here, I was brought up Episcopalian, left them for the Assemblies of God for many years, returned to the Episcopal church and then was reconciled to the Catholic Church a few years later. There is another thread on this topic in which I went into more detail.
 
I was raised Missouri Synod Lutheran, and even went to a Lutheran Grade School. I had always felt that Lutherans had a better grasp of how things worked than other protestants, who seemed to be unable to answer a lot of theological questions if you asked them. As much as I loved the Bible, it always bugged me when someone couldn’t form their own answer on why something was or wasn’t done, they just quoted chapter and verse, without seemed to understand anything or personalize it.

Now, as I started getting older, I saw that the problem was, while there was structure, and order, and a desire to teach us how to understand what we were taught and not just citing the appropriate verse, there wasn’t enough centralized authority to keep things from getting further and further out. Our church decided not to adopt the “new” hymnal that came out in 1981, for example. And when our parrish couldn’t find anyone that would take the assignment to come to our church, we basically had to “bribe” a pastor by letting him live in a different town, buy a second house besides the pastor’s house that already was next to the church, so that his kids could play football in another school district. This all really started leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

The intervening years I won’t go into too much detail on, as I got married way too young and our coucelling was a joke, as was my ex-wife’s expedidted confirmation classes ( I think she saw our pastor three times). After our marriage fell apart, I started drifting into a sort of agnostic phase, where I beleived that there was a God, but not one that cared for any of us personally, and that he may have some ideas about morality, but there is a lot of grey areas, etc.

Then my daughter was old enough to start school, and strangely enough, I wanted to make sure she went to my old grade school so that she got a good education. One of the requirements to qualify as a member of the congregation to get the discounted tuition was to make sure the child was at at least 50% of the sunday services, so I began taking her (since my ex couldn’t always be bothered). I started feeling a lot better about everything in general (after going through a phase of thinking all humans are basically scum and little better than animals). But I still felt that, while I loved God, and I really did think he cared about me personally, and I loved Jesus and I wanted the Holy Spirit to come upon me, that I was missing something.

Then I started dating the woman I am going to marry in a few weeks. On the weekends I spent a lot of time with her and her children, and my daughter and I started going to the early service at the Lutheran church and then going to Mass with them at 11 am.

I really started to feel what I was missing, a sense of continuity, that not only god, but the church transcended the day to day politics of a particular congregation, that it was all greater than us, yet it was all concered with us at the same time.

I held off on going to RCIA for a while, in part becuase I didn’t want my new girlfriend to think I was just doing it to make her happy. But I cannot recount in words what it felt like to go to my first Reconciliation, or to TRULY recieve the body and blood of Christ for the first time.
 
It is truly amazing when the Catholic church is finally unveiled in front of you. I have struggled for a long time since coming back to the church because so many of her teachings are hard to grasp, The more I struggle and start to give in the more grace I recieve and the more richness I begin to get out of my faith.
 
I used to attend a Methodist church until I got very disturbed by a couple instances of anti-semitism and how everyone was latching onto the whole “Left Behind” thing. I’ve got better things to do on Sunday then suffer through Jew-bashing from the mouths of idiots and Kirk Cameron’s wooden performance in a work of bad fiction in the guise of misread scripture.
 
I was raised in a Jehovah’s Witness environment, was expelled from the Witnesses many years ago for sin, became a Mormon for an extremely short time. Through scripture reading I began to believe in the Trinity and was baptized by the Presbyterian church, and then began reading both the bible and the early church fathers and turned toward Catholicism. I was confirmed at Easter Vigil 1999.
Love, Jaypeeto2
 
I was raised Methodist and married a Cradle Catholic. We began attending both of our churches (until he realized that he was obliged to attend Mass each week). At the time of our marriage, I never in a million years thought I would convert. I had some anti-Catholic biases that were not really grounded in anything other than comments from my parents (referring to our Catholic cousins as “minnow munchers”) and friends who were fallen-away Catholics (all they talked about was “mean nuns and Catholic guilt”). However, when I took a 32-week Bible study at the Methodist Church at the same time I was attending Mass on a semi-regular basis, I started to really draw connections between what I was reading in the Bible and the Mass. In a way, the Methodist Bible study opened my heart to the Catholic faith. That, and a lot of prayers by my husband, lol! I ended up being confirmed this April!
 
To All,
I voted for the other. I converted from Catholic too the New Church (Swedenborg) because of truth, not because of a woman.

William 🙂
 
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