Why Are Evangelicals Converting to Roman Catholicism?

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Jack_Bauer said:
Check out Ignaius of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrnaeans. Written about ~107 A.D.
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This, absolutely. As a covert from Baptist Protestantism, the letters of Ignatius, Ireneus, Polycarp, and Clement and the Catholic Church they describe were critical pointers to me.
 
As a revert, I LOVE “The Journey Home!!!” I always want to cheer and clap the converts heartily on the back and hug them! I have wondered through the years how and why people come to the Catholic Church, and listening to the journeys is quite enlightening. Also the honesty of people on this forum is awesome. I love my Church!!!

Converts can be so inspiring because they usually know more about our Church’s history than we “cradle Catholics” do.

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Jack_Bauer said:
earlychristianwritings.com/churchfathers.html

This might be of help. It’s not a Catholic website, which is what helped convince me. I found out that many graduate degree clergy have little knowledge about the ancient church writings. If they did, I’m convinced that they’d either be Catholic or denying the validity of them.
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You beat me to it, JB…I was going to provide the same link.

Thanks for your inspiring stories…JB and Kansas Girl, and everyone else who posted here. I shared this with my family and were also inspired by the article.

You may also want to check this blog and book by Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin, about the writings of the ECFs…

thefathersknowbest.com/
 
Critically important Earliest Church Leaders of Very first Centuries * links*, Jack Bauer, Penelobe. :highprayer: Too few even Catholics know of our earliest Church Leaders’ teachings, thoughts, Liturgies. **Thanks! **
  • There could be no disagreement with anything Catholic almost 2000 years, since we have always had the same basic teachings, practices and liturgies; and only We Live the New Testament of Our Lord His Apostles, disciples Wrote: :bible1:
    Only those who tried to set-up their own belief systems try to hide from Our Lord’s Church History and unique Liturgy. There also was no Bible until the 300’s; only a wide variety of ‘writtings.’, mostly false ‘gnostic’ writings over a hundred years after Our Lord. One of my favorites is ‘the gospel of Judas’, picturing him as the most devout. :bigyikes::whistle:
 
pablope said:
Why Are Evangelicals Converting to Roman Catholicism?
By Michael J. Vlach

theologicalstudies.org/page/page/1572353.htm

On weekends I occasionally channel surf and end up on EWTN, a network devoted to promoting Roman Catholicism. One show that often catches my attention is The Journey Home. Hosted by former Presbyterian pastor turned Catholic, Marcus Grodi, this program features the testimonies of people, mostly Evangelicals, who have converted to Catholicism.

My curiosity was stimulated even further when I received the September 2002 edition of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. In it was an insightful article by Scot McKnight called, “From Wheaton to Rome: Why Evangelicals Become Roman Catholic.” This article was the result of McKnight’s research in which he surveyed the accounts of thirty Evangelicals who had converted to Roman Catholicism (McKnight calls these converts ERC’s—Evangelicals who converted to Roman Catholicism).

McKnight’s purpose is mostly that of observation, not critique. Instead, he is pointing out trends and patterns among those who have converted from Evangelicalism to Catholicism. His findings, though, are interesting…

[click on link above to read entire article]
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It’s simple for me. Thanks to the internet and information becoming generally easy to find, my brother who was studying to become a Baptist preacher, started to put 2 and 2 together and realized the Catholic church was the church founded by Christ passed on through Peter and beyond from generation to generation. There were no other denominations until the 16th century. I think once you know that, you have to ask “What are the origins of my denomination” and are the reasons for it valid. People come to realize that the origins of their denomination aren’t always noble or biblically accurate.
 
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