Why do you belong to your church

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There seems to be a great many churches and sets of beliefs and practices in the Christian community; so why friend do you belong to your’s? WHAT makes it “better” or special or just different?

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Well, there’s that whole being founded by Jesus and two thousand years of History thing…
 
PJM said:
There seems to be a great many churches and sets of beliefs and practices in the Christian community; so why friend do you belong to your’s? WHAT makes it “better” or special or just different?

God Bless you

Patrick
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I really like the color of our carpet!
 
adamhovey1988 said:
Well, there’s that whole being founded by Jesus and two thousand years of History thing…
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Yes. I am also Catholic because my roots are Catholic (my ancestor, John Carroll, was the first Bishop and Archbishop of the Catholic Church in the US). The beliefs and teachings of the Catholic Church are more my own than the beliefs and teachings of Protestant churches (even though my mother’s relatives are Protestants). I know that I am in the Church God wants me to be in. His Church which I believe has the fullness of truth.
 
You certainly have the right to believe that and grow in your faith. As a Latter Day Saint, I have the same right, yet I understand that there are some folks who claim to know what I believe, nonetheless some of these folks have never been a Latter Day Saint or they left the church, from my thinking, they left the church for their own reasons — to blanket everyone who remains active as mislead or whatever they think is wrong with my church.When I left Catholicism years ago, I was seeking a lot that I was never able to find in the Catholic church which began my search outside of it.
 
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Well, there’s that whole being founded by Jesus and two thousand years of History thing…
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This^^^ It is where the Truth is. It is where Jesus gives Himself to us. The Catholic Church and community is where we encounter Jesus Christ.
 
So friend,

What is the relevance of TRUTH?

Pope Benedict XVI shares what seems to be a logical and irrefutable lesson:

“THERE CANNOT BE YOUR TRUTH AND MY TRUTH OR THERE WOULD BE NO TRUTH”

This applies to you and all Protestant churches as well. HOW does anyone refute Benedict’s logic?

God Bless you,
Patrick
 
Pope Benedict is truly unbeatable. His sound writing and mind carry an orthodoxy unmatched by modern, perhaps, of the modern living theologians.
 
PJM said:
There seems to be a great many churches and sets of beliefs and practices in the Christian community; so why friend do you belong to your’s? WHAT makes it “better” or special or just different?

God Bless you

Patrick
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I would say mostly as for you and me, the Church we were brought up in. That would be the first part.
 
So the truth is I understand is not my “truth” as your quotation from the Pope states. I know the truth from personal relevation from God. Revelation from God as a Catholic was never my experience. Beyond that, there were other reasons I left Catholicism.
 
CourtingTex said:
So the truth is I understand is not my “truth” as your quotation from the Pope states. I know the truth from personal relevation from God. Revelation from God as a Catholic was never my experience. Beyond that, there were other reasons I left Catholicism.
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If I may, how personal was this “personal revelation” you received from God? And how did it turn you against the Catholic Church? How do you know it was from God?

I ask because I had a revelation from God that was so personal that I left the Protestant church I was sitting in at that moment and never went back. I have also had personal revelations in the Catholic Church. You see, if God wants to give someone a personal revelation, He does so wherever the person is. He isn’t limited by time, space or location.
 
Personal revelation I submit one has to be worthy to receive, not be in sin to get such.

I know it was from God by the confirmation I received in my prayers seeking to know whatever I was asking – faith is necessary and important, nonetheless we must ask to confirm what truth one is seeking.
 
I go to a Baptist church and they teach Sola Scriptura, the eternal security of the believer and the Trinity; all of which I believe in.
 
CourtingTex said:
Personal revelation I submit one has to be worthy to receive, not be in sin to get such.

I know it was from God by the confirmation I received in my prayers seeking to know whatever I was asking – faith is necessary and important, nonetheless we must ask to confirm what truth one is seeking.
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What do you consider a “personal revelation” to be? Do you consider it to be something you read in Scripture? Is it an experience you have? What exactly is it for you?

Regarding your comment that one must not be in sin to receive a personal revelation, we are all sinners and will be until the day we die. I don’t think that whether one is “in sin” or not affects whether God is going to allow one to have the experience of a personal revelation from Him.
 
What kind of Baptist church? The one I was in was Southern Baptist.
 
It is confirmation from the Holy Ghost to one person of something they are seeking a answer, whether scripture or something else.

I understand we are sinners, nonetheless the Ideal we should be seeking to model our lives after is Jesus Christ.
 
I heard something very nice from Bishop Munilla, he said st. De Teresa de Avila expirienced a conversion experience after 40 years as a religious order person, before that she was just not reallythe experiencing a personal relationship (truthfully?), but the bishop continued , we need to be close to the water ,that is ‘the source of the rerevelation’,and gave an example, Moses could possibly never have gotten God’s revelation , has he not had gone to attend the flock.
 
I’m a Catholic for 3 main reasons:
  1. The Real Jesus is present here
  2. Mary
  3. When those in another country or even the USA persecute and even try to kill off my ancestors for being Catholic, it kinda makes me dig in my heels.
 
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