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Im struggling between staying protestant or converting to catholicsm?

Any advice???

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  • 9 years ago
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    Attend the RCIA, after the class there is no compulsory need to be catholic. It is your decision that will prevail. http://www.beginningcatholic.com/catholic-rcia-sta...

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Become Anglican. It's almost like being a Catholic, but, without some of the strict dogma associated with Catholicism.

  • 9 years ago

    None other than the advice Jesus Himself gave us. He founded ONE Church and said it was to remain ONE. He promised His ONE Church, "The Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth" and "Whatsoever you bind upon earth is bound in Heaven", and "He who hears you hears Me". The Bible calls the ONE Church He founded "the pillar and foundation of truth", without which the truth cannot stand. That ONE Church has remained ONE in belief, ONE in teaching, ONE in worship throughout the world for 2,000 years, just as He intended. It is obvious that the fullness of truth cannot exist in Protestantism because the beliefs/teaching of each denomination conflict with the beliefs/teaching of the others, and truth cannot conflict with truth. Such denominations exist in open defiance of the stated will of Christ concerning His followers - "that they all may be ONE". You will never find the fullness of what Jesus Christ offers you in any unauthorized church founded by men 1,500 years after He founded His ONE true Church.

    Source(s): Catholic deacon
  • 9 years ago

    Being as the Catholic church added beliefs of the fake sun-god(Roman) to their beliefs in the middle of the fourth century. Plus have kept adding and removing and changing their claims since it started; it is best to not join it.

    Perhaps reading Nelson's Guild To Denominations" that describes them all, will help you?

    Source(s): Bible, history
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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Stay protestant. Trust me, the church has issues, it's a big tangled mess right now.

    Source(s): Roman Catholic.
  • 9 years ago

    Either. They're both based on no evidence. Toss a coin.

  • 9 years ago

    protestant means that one protests the unbiblical things which catholics do. that is where the denomination came from.

    things like praying to mary and other dead people, when the bible clearly states that there is only one mediator between men and God, and that is Jesus Christ.

    things like going to the priest for confession when the bible clearly states to confess our sins to one another and pray for one another to be healed from them. not to say 10 hail mary's or our fathers.

    in fact, in the bible, Jesus clearly stated not to do repetitious prayers when we pray, saying the same thing over and over again like the catholics do, but to talk to God as a child does a father.

    things like believing in pergatory when the bible clearly states that it is given to all of us once to die and then the judgement. there is no such place as pergatory. people are sent either to heaven or to hell when they die and there is no way to get out of there once you are there.

    things like sprinkling new born babies with baptism waters when the bible states that in order to be baptized one must first become born again by repenting of sin and accepting the cleansing blood of Jesus.

    things like believing that the communion cup and wafer are actually the real blood and real body of Jesus when we know the bible says they are only symbols of his death which we are to keep taking until he comes again.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Follow your heart,but both are members of one and the same body.-Jesus Christ

    Source(s): The Holy Apostle James the Greater
  • 9 years ago

    so basically you are not sure about your own believe, or did I get it all wrong?

    well, being theist or atheist is pretty satisfying. why don't you try it?

  • 9 years ago

    Do you call this struggle !

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