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Why Be Catholic ?
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believe not because I have intellectually worked out all the details of
the logic supporting each doctrine.
First, I believe because it is an undeserved gift I received at Baptism. Faith As for Catholics, we place our trust in God. When a Protestant quotes the Bible to attack a
Catholic doctrine his foundation is Not the Bible, but his
interpretation of the Bible. Every verse is the Bible is completely
Catholic. The Protestant will often place his trust in his own
private interpretation, his own conjecture and reason as to what that
Bible passage means. His foundation is MAN, in that he has made
himself or his pastor as his pope. Whereas, the Catholic is
trusting in Jesus Christ to be faithful to His promise to infallibly
teach through His Church that He built on St. Peter.
Matthew 16:16-19, 1 Timothy
3:15, and Luke 10:16 etc. Foundation We place our faith in the Love of the Father, and in the Truth of the Son, and the Power of the Holy Spirit. We can know that Catholicism is true because it is
a Church instituted by Christ ( And our certainty is also based on our faith in the truthfulness and integrity of Jesus Christ to be faithful to His Promises about His Church He built on St. Peter. And it is based on our faith in the power of the Holy Spirit to effect those promises to be true and fulfilled in spite of the sins of the Popes and Bishops, so that the infallible decrees of that Church are protected by God’s grace to be free from error.
We examine a Church by looking at the lives of those who follow her teachings, not by looking at those who willfully violate them.
God’s Church built on St. Peter Literal Scriptural Passages of Catholic Doctrine
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There are many questions for which Protestantism just does not have a good answer. Essential questions must be answered. For example, Which books belong in the New Testament ? ( The Table of Contents is not part of the Inspired text.) The Canon, Who decides ? A divinely instituted and guided Church, or human arguments
A lesser thing cannot be the foundation and support of something that is greater. Merely human opinion cannot authenticate what is, or what is not, the Word of God. If Sola Scriptura, Bible Alone, is a true doctrine and since the Bible itself has no inspired canon, or Table of Contents, then the most Protestants can claim is to have a fallible list of infallible books. The bedrock of all his conclusions on how to interpret Sacred Scripture and even what is Scripture, what is the Bible, is based on his own human authority or opinion. See more Questions for Non-Catholics
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Media Why become a Catholic? http://www.peterkreeft.com/featured-writing.htm
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A Guatemalan Surprise:
The Catholic Church Has The Answer In a world that worships sex to the point of abusing others in so
many ways, I am happy to believe in a Church that promotes Chastity.
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