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Charlemagne_II
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I was raised in an atheist family, but I always believed in God.
How did you manage to do that at such an early age?
How did you manage to do that at such an early age?
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marty30
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I was lead to the Catholic Church 9 years ago by God after living a life of addictions, and contemplating suicide most of my life. I was 24 and single at the time. Today I am married to a beautiful catholic woman and I have two beautiful boys by her. I love the Catholic Church because it gives me everything I need.
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JimG
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What else could I be?
If I am to be religious at all, I would have to be either Jewish or Catholic. And I believe Jesus to be the Messiah and fullfillment of the old covenant, so I am Catholic. The Catholic Church is the one established by Christ, the only one that is a continuation through history of what He established, and a further continuation of the old covenant which goes back to Abraham, and to Adam and Eve.
If I am to be religious at all, I would have to be either Jewish or Catholic. And I believe Jesus to be the Messiah and fullfillment of the old covenant, so I am Catholic. The Catholic Church is the one established by Christ, the only one that is a continuation through history of what He established, and a further continuation of the old covenant which goes back to Abraham, and to Adam and Eve.
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aegsemj
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I honestly do not know how. I just always believed and always wanted to go to church, as far back as I can remember. I remember at about age 4 I begged my mom to take me to church. She said I had to wait until I was 18.
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Miriam1947
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You were graced by the Holy Spirit at a very young age.
I am Catholic because God wanted me to become one. I was raised Protestant and can remember going to church camp and how they would have ‘altar’ calls and to just come up and give my heart to Jesus.
It felt so manipulative that I just could not and would not do it. Besides even at 8 years of age I had little or no faith even though I used to pray.
When I was a teenager my mother had the local Methodist pastor over to talk to me about my growing agnosticism. He couldn’t answer any of my questions to my satisfaction. I spent most of my life without any church at all.
Finally at age 61 I became Catholic.
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PoorKnight
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As Chesterton said, there are 10,000 reasons that amount to one reason: IT IS THE TRUTH!
I did leave, for about 10 years. The biggest reason I left: apathy. No one ever dared to say that Catholicism was the Fullness of Truth, what, exactly we believed, why we believed it and how to defend it against, especially, realtivism and apathy.
Yes, I did. Mostly, again, due to realitivism and apathy.
By the Grace of Almighty God and the Forgiveness of Sins given to His Apostles and to our priests via Apostolic Sucession, I made a good Confession in Sept. of 2011. I could no more immagine leaving now, than I could immagine becoming atheistic now.
Praise God from whom all Blessings flow!
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Charlemagne_II
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aegsemj
**I honestly do not know how. I just always believed and always wanted to go to church, as far back as I can remember. I remember at about age 4 I begged my mom to take me to church. She said I had to wait until I was 18. **
Perhaps this is another hint to those who doubt it, that belief in God is part of the natural law. We are born meant to believe, though some of us rebel against our childhood belief.
**I honestly do not know how. I just always believed and always wanted to go to church, as far back as I can remember. I remember at about age 4 I begged my mom to take me to church. She said I had to wait until I was 18. **
Perhaps this is another hint to those who doubt it, that belief in God is part of the natural law. We are born meant to believe, though some of us rebel against our childhood belief.
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classica87
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The answers on this thread really make my day; I love it when there’s a new post in my inbox! I see a wonderful “thread” in this topic regrading truth—as Miriam and PoorKnight have recently posted.
That’s what I love so much about our faith. It is the Truth, and it makes sense. I never thought when I began to question my faith that it would be Catholicism, not Protestantism, that had all the answers. Miriam hit the nail on the head—no preacher I ever went to could fully answer my questions, and at some point the debate either became circular, or morphed into full-on misinterpretation of scripture, which confused me to no end.
Me: “If Communion is symbolic, why does Jesus tell us to eat Him in John 6, and then say the bread and wine are literally His body and blood at Passover?”
Friend: “Well, that’s not what He meant.”
Me: “But Jesus is God, and He can’t lie, right? Why would He deliberately mislead His followers like that?”
Friend: “… Well, it’s still just a symbol. I don’t agree with those Catholic people. I don’t like the way they celebrate Communion.”
I end up praying for my friends a lot. I pray every day that our separated family will come home, and I know many others on this forum do too. One of the sponsors in my RCIA class prayed for thirteen years that his wife would come home. Now she’s a Catholic! Let’s keep praying, and hopefully the Holy Spirit will nudge even more of our brothers and sisters home!
That’s what I love so much about our faith. It is the Truth, and it makes sense. I never thought when I began to question my faith that it would be Catholicism, not Protestantism, that had all the answers. Miriam hit the nail on the head—no preacher I ever went to could fully answer my questions, and at some point the debate either became circular, or morphed into full-on misinterpretation of scripture, which confused me to no end.
Me: “If Communion is symbolic, why does Jesus tell us to eat Him in John 6, and then say the bread and wine are literally His body and blood at Passover?”
Friend: “Well, that’s not what He meant.”
Me: “But Jesus is God, and He can’t lie, right? Why would He deliberately mislead His followers like that?”
Friend: “… Well, it’s still just a symbol. I don’t agree with those Catholic people. I don’t like the way they celebrate Communion.”
I end up praying for my friends a lot. I pray every day that our separated family will come home, and I know many others on this forum do too. One of the sponsors in my RCIA class prayed for thirteen years that his wife would come home. Now she’s a Catholic! Let’s keep praying, and hopefully the Holy Spirit will nudge even more of our brothers and sisters home!
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