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If you are a Protestant and have a knowledge of the gospel while holding an active lively faith in God why convert to the Catholic Church?
Here are some reasons that I like.
Here are some reasons that I like.
- The bible. The bible has more to say than the 66 books commonly received among Protestants says.
- Antiquity. The Church is older, much older, than the commencement of the Martin Luther's protest against various errors and faults in Catholic practise in the early 16th century.
- Continuity. The Church of the centuries from the first until the sixteenth and on to the twenty-first is according to the scriptures one church. Couple this with Antiquity and Catholic, Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox perspectives on the Church have more going for them than Protestant perspectives do.
- Sacraments. The sacraments are not symbols only nor are they public testimony or private/public remembrance only. Catholics know this and teach it. Catholics point to the same views expressed by Christians in earlier centuries all the way back to the second and first centuries AD.
- Order. Maintaining order in a large body of believers that spans not just congregations but languages and nations to cover almost every land on Earth is no easy task. The Catholic Church manages it, not flawlessly, not without dissent, yet it remains one church despite all that human frailty and external as well as internal opposition brings.
- Tradition. What Christians taught and did in the past has a 'vote' in the faith of Catholics. We do not forget the past even when it brings shame but more so when it brings hope and encouragement.
- The saints. Taken with Tradition the saints offer examples of Christian faith lived in a wide variety of conditions with a wider variety of personality and foibles yet it is Christian faith and it is lived and it gives encouragement to those who take the time to look at how the faith was lived by such diverse people in such diverse conditions.
- The Faith. The doctrines and practises of Christianity have a longer history than some appear to think. They go back to the time when Jesus walked and talked and taught among men through time to the apostles and on through time to those who followed them until our own time. Taken with antiquity, continuity, and tradition this is a testimony to the enduring presence of God among his people without interruption and without 'restoration of a lost set of truths' to correct an allegedly corrupted church.
- Truth. Everybody argues for their own views as if they were true but not every argument presented is right and that is why we have so many 'versions' of the 'truth' today. Relativism - the idea that each individual has a 'version of the truth' - is widespread in public and individual thinking but it is not how things are. The truth is singular. It is true and has no versions. Versions of the truth are not the truth even if they contain some truth - be it only a little or be it a great deal - they are not the whole truth. The Catholic Church credibly presents its teaching and practise as "the fullness of truth" and that is really the only kind of truth that there is.
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