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I was hoping in a short story why are you a Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Non Denominational,…?

Why did you choose one over all of the others?

There are doctrinal difference between one church to another what makes your doctrine the truth vs the other churches truth?
 
I am not currently attending the Catholic Church because I felt like I didn’t belong, now, I am feeling drawn to Mass, but I also feel as though I have an obligation to attend Sacrament meeting as I have been doing so for 5 years now. I know why I choose to leave the Catholic Church when I did, but I don’t know why I am feeling drawn back
 
I am Catholic by way of lutheranism and an 18 month jw “study”.
I grew up a lutheran but never felt close to God.
I was drawn to the jws for a short while because they seemed so intense and I was looking for an intense devotion to God.
Got over that quickly!
Felt lost for years and rather bitter that I could not find God.
I began to look for everything Catholic on the web and after about 6 months, took myself off to Mass.
That led to RCIA for 2 1/2 years and Confirmation on 8/4/02.
I am Catholic because I found God in The Holy Catholic Church.
I am home.
 
John Paul III:
I was hoping in a short story why are you a Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Non Denominational,…?

Why did you choose one over all of the others?

There are doctrinal difference between one church to another what makes your doctrine the truth vs the other churches truth?
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I was born a Southern Baptist to SB parents and extended family. We were all SB’s! When you grow up in the South you realize how big this is. There’s roughly 16 million SB’s in the country with the majority (of course) being in the South. There were other denoms around, including just one Catholic Church in a town of 30,000 people.

So, I didn’t choose to be Southern Baptist - I fell into it from day one of my life! Now, after years of study, I don’t believe the doctrines of the churches I grew up in. I’m leaning towards Catholicism, with some obstacles in the way.

Peace…
 
Neither of my parents grew up in areas where Catholicism was practiced. They moved to a small college town two states away… and there was no Catholic Church there either. So I grew up in a town where even if I’d wanted to be Catholic, there was no Catholic Church there to attend.

I am a 5th generation Methodist, and a UM pastor for 20 years. The area where I live now doesn’t have a Catholic Church. So I suspect the reason I’m UM is because it was the most prevalent Church around, and that there were (and are) no Catholic Churches to attend.

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I was born into a German Lutheran family, one that has been Lutheran for 9+ generations (that I know of). Being Lutheran in my family is part of the identity, i.e., some people are Italian, French, etc., I am an American of German Lutheran descent. It’s hard to understand how much of an identity this is without being G-L. I never chose being Lutheran, I was born that way.
Anyway, I learned my faith well from the Bible and Small Catechism. It wasn’t until after I was out of high school that I ran into a book at a resale shop that brought into question everything I learned — St. Bernadette Soubirous by Abbe Trochu. (I’m a sucker for biographies.) Whoever had previously owned the book had cut out news stories from the 1940s about Lourdes and stuck them randomly in the pages. By the time I was done reading the book I knew it was true, and there starts my journey to Catholicism. 11 years later and I’m still out wandering in the desert like the Israelites.

quote: There are doctrinal difference between one church to another what makes your doctrine the truth vs the other churches truth?

The $1,000,000 question. If I could give you a good answer, I wouldn’t be fence sitting between Rome and Augsburg.

TinaK
 
Do I count too? Heheh… 👍

I am not one who meticulously choose which deno to follow like we do when buying a used-car. There is no time to waste … it is pointless and total waste of time to study the details and be drawn to those squabbles :mad: It is like inheriting the hate and differences with which that deno was created from the fore-fathers of that church.

I am who I am because, where I come from, my place, my town, my city are full of Catholics ! Yes, I am a Catholic because I am surrounded by them! Had it been Anglicans, I would have been one too!

It really-really-really break me to pieces when I come across apologetics who say " The Pope is the Devil’s Advocate" I feel very, very sorry for them…

BTW, The Sheeps are coming home together. They have been scattered far and wide but The Good Shepherd is calling them home. Church Unity is in the offing, it is real! God is heeding our prayers for Unity. FYI the present Pope, Pope Benedict is the 2nd last Pope. After him will be THE LAST POPE. (Hopefully Pope Ching… heheheh… ) Then the city with 7 hills (Rome) will be destroyed … along with the Pope … meaning there will be no more RC, Methodist, Copticism, SDA, Anglican … BUT just one BIG FOLD of sheeps ! Read that somewhere !!

I hope to live long enough for that … I am now contemplating storing my DNA somewhere along with instruction to clone it if I may die before The Unification … 😃

Let’s ALL pray ernestly for unity! The Lord’s Holy Name has been abused far too long! Amen! 👍

**Ching_PBUH,
Senior Trainee Prophet **
 
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Well I was baptized in to two different churches but I feel called to The Roman Catholic Church. I have felt this way ever since I have attended Mass with my Nana a few years ago. I loved it and felt like I belonged and so that is why I am Roman Catholic
 
Born to Catholic parents, I was baptized and raised Catholic. After spending now about one year reading these threads, I am convinced that Catholic is the way to go. I never considered any other religion. My Protestant girlfriend told me today that I could never be anything but Catholic. If I were to consider another religion, it would be Orthodox. But why? It’s as close to Catholic as you can get without the Pope.

I got onto a heated debate with a JW recently. This man HATES the Catholic Church. I had him stumped more than once. I have these threads to thank. I’m not done with him yet! http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon10.gif

As far as I can see, most of the people who come here are sincere in thier faith toward God the Father and Jesus. I can see a Christian community growing and past enmities abating. Now that we know that we are all Christian, we are learning to love each other the way Christ wants us to. This is a good thing and we also have these threads to thank.

Subrosa
 
I’m a pantheist because it best fits my experience of the divine. I have belonged to several different churches, protestant and Catholic, and they were great helps in providing ways of getting to know and understand the divine, and to see examples of people living Godly lives.

But none of the theology of any of them really expressed what I saw in the world and in my own life of what the divine was like. Their theology was like pieces in a puzzle, pantheism is like a bigger picture, but certainly not the whole picture. I don’t think that there is any way for a human to have anything like a clear idea of what the divine is.

I am a pantheist because I see Truth in it, because practicing my faith brings me closer to the divine and allows me to be a godly person in a way that no other faith or understanding was able to. I belong to this group of faithful because it is what I am, and I can do so with joy and integrity.

cheddar
 
I was baptized Catholic as a baby. My mom left the Church to join the Assembly of God church before I could be confirmed, etc. I attended that church until I was about 14 or 15 years old. I actually formed a resentment towards my mom for forcing me to go every Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night. I stopped going and never step foot in another church until I was 24 or 25.

A friend of mine was Catholic and we went to a Mass together, I was intrigued to say the least. It was as if I was home again. I started reading everything I could get my hands on. I’m not one to jump into anything quickly, I researched it and finally joined the RCIA last year and was confirmed this past Easter.

Why did I join? I felt like I had no choice, the reverence, the tradition, the truth and most importantly the Eucharist made it to where I could never turn back.
 
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