Why the catholic church is different

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Dear Friends,

I have a question, as I was trying to explain th teaching of the Catholic Church(my friend is baptist) he said he agreed with some of the teachings but the ones he didn’t agree with, he just said well all churches can back up their teachings on why they believe what they do, he doesn’t see the Catholic Church as any different. How can I explain that the Catholic church is different and that they hold the fullness of the Truth.

God Bless,
Kaily
 
Familiarize yourself with the Scriptural support for Catholic beliefs and the writings of the Early Church. I recommend “A Textual Concordance of the Holy Scriptures” for the former and “The Faith of the Early Fathers” for the latter.

I give a summary of what you will find in this thread…
forum.catholic.com/showthread.php?p=249396#post249396
 
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Kaily:
Dear Friends,

I have a question, as I was trying to explain th teaching of the Catholic Church(my friend is baptist) he said he agreed with some of the teachings but the ones he didn’t agree with, he just said well all churches can back up their teachings on why they believe what they do, he doesn’t see the Catholic Church as any different. How can I explain that the Catholic church is different and that they hold the fullness of the Truth.

God Bless,
Kaily
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Which teachings does he not agree with?
 
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Kaily:
Dear Friends,

I have a question, as I was trying to explain th teaching of the Catholic Church(my friend is baptist) he said he agreed with some of the teachings but the ones he didn’t agree with, he just said well all churches can back up their teachings on why they believe what they do, he doesn’t see the Catholic Church as any different. How can I explain that the Catholic church is different and that they hold the fullness of the Truth.

God Bless,
Kaily
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By saying “all churches can back up their teachings on why they believe what they do” to those Catholic teachings he disagrees with sounds to me like it’s either a nice way of saying “I believe your church is wrong on this and my church is still right” or that he also doubts his church’s teachings but is unconvinced with other churches’ teachings on the same matter. Let’s hope and pray it’s the last one.

Now, if indeed it’s the last one, you should show him that “simply because all churches can back up their teachings on why they believe what they do” doesn’t mean they’re all correct–especially those teachings that obviously contradict. One of teachings has to be the correct one. And the one who taught it has to be the correct church as well.

Peace, so be it.
 
he just said well all churches can back up their teachings on why they believe what they do,
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as you read this, do you see the problem with this?
different churches have teachings that are not just different, but are in direct contradiction to each other. thus, one of them has to be right and the others wrong.
from what your friend says, he obviously doesn’t believe in, or understand the importance of, the truth.
show him first that the truth is one and different churches cannot all be right.
once this first step is taken, he can start searching for the one church that teaches all truth. he’ll come home!!
 
Thank you all, this helps a lot. Someone asked what he doesn’t agree with, well the papacy and mary, those are the 2 he has trouble with. He says he believes in Purgatory, I think its whatever is convenient for him, he doesn’t want to end up in hell so he says purgatory sounds like it could be possible. I explained why birth control is wrong and he agreed with that also, mainly the papacy and mary. I just ordered the book refutinig the attack on Mary, so I will share with him after I read it.

God Bless you,
In the love of Christ,
Kaily
 
He says he believes in Purgatory, I think its whatever is convenient for him, he doesn’t want to end up in hell so he says purgatory sounds like it could be possible.
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It may just be a miscommunication of an off-hand remark, but as stated, it sounds like an erroneous view of purgatory. Purgatory IS NOT a second chance for the damned. It is the purification of the saved.

Scott
 
May I recommend you move this thread to the Apologetics forum? You’ll probably get a ton more replies.
 
I don’t think he thinks a second chance for the damned and neither do I, he just said the references I gave him from the Bible made sense and he know that nothing holy can stand in the presence of God, so it made sense to him, I didn’t mean to say that it was second chance for the damned, we know that only those who die in a state of grace go to heaven.

God Bless

PS. I don’t know how to move this to the apologetics forum.
 
Looks like I had a mistype, I meant nothing UNholy can stand in God’s presence. OOpS :eek:

Kaily
 
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