HasahZ
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Catholics aren't Christians!
Figured that would get some attention, trying this again...
I was in the AoG for a time and I'm not picking on that denomination or any Protestant denomination but I remember the testimonies. I think the last one I heard there was how a whole family was Catholic and 'now they became Christian'. I live where Churches have been closing, something I never thought I'd see. I am praying, I don't know where I'm going these days (job-wise etc.), it's in God's hands but I think of how you all opened my eyes.. I see the importance of apologetics. Before, in my anti days I just shook my head at it all.
It has been humbling to realize how much I wanted to fight it all in the past because I bought into all the anti-Catholic stuff out there. They make it sound so believable. Yet, what church has been around for 2000 years + and what church is still so visible today?
I kept struggling from 2003 until early this year wondering how I could help my parents to get saved... after all they were 'lost' right? I do really love that Bible Christian Society site... digs into scripture the way I've gotten used to but in a Catholic way.
Yeah, I have wanted to disappear online so badly... I think a lot of it is my own embarrassment about how much I fought Catholicism. And again, I know and I'm not saying that all Protestants are anti-Catholic... they're not... once again... it was two Protestant friends of mine, while I was still anti-Catholic myself who warned me about Chick books and showed me the anti-Catholic page on Catholic Answers. I agree though, we did need better apologetic training back when I was in CCD... my confirmation was my junior year of HS and sadly I don't remember much of it. Again, that's probably my fault. I like the Defender's of the Catholic Faith site too...
I still shake my head at myself thinking what was I doing buying into the Catholic attacks but I know I wasn't the only one. I really do know more ex-Catholics in real life right now than I know Catholics but I know that will change. Still undoing some wrong thinking I had.
It still throws me a bit... I admit. I sitll owe a reply to a very anti-Catholic site as well as I need to keep praying as to where God wants me to go with my board. It's been more of my own adventures back to where I shouldn't have left.
Last edited by HasahZ, 11/24/2007, 11:18 am
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...Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
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11/24/2007, 11:10 am
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AndyS333
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Re: Catholics aren't Christians!
Don't keep beating yourself up, Hasah. God has forgiven you, you can forgive yourself, too. Just stay on guard and look at your past as a grand learning experience. It might have been a necessary part of your journey so that you are better prepared to carry out God's plans for you from this point forward.
I praise God for what He has done in your life. You are a great testimony to His grace.
I agree with you on the Confirmation training and apologetics. Now that I look back, I was sincere, but still had a lot of growing up to do. I praise God for what He has done in my life, too.
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11/25/2007, 2:49 am
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HasahZ
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Re: Catholics aren't Christians!
I think I tried to be sincere as much sincere as one could be not realizing they can't also walk the fence with new age junk. Ghosts just had to be real, people experienced them, they were on TV therefore it was real... why didn't Church ever talk about having to tell a spirit to go toward the light? That was a big question back then. All I had to do was ask. We had an opportunity to ask a priest questions and I just wrote a goofy joke question to get a few laughs. A teen at the time. I was convinced there had to be more out there then what we saw, which there was but not what it pretended to be.
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...Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
Amen
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11/25/2007, 9:24 am
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