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Reps: 240,868,224,634,014,624 (power: 240,868,224,634,037) | | Originally Posted by hikingchick77  Thanks for all your help...I am still trying to figure it all out through prayers, studying the Bible, and just reading general theology. I am actually leaning Catholic, but scared since I have been a protestant all my life and have been taught wrongly that Catholicism is "icky". Some big hurdles I am jumping in regards to that right now!  I converted from Protestantism to Catholicism last year.. it was a difficult journey in some ways but so much worth it! I think Catholicism has just the right balance of orthodoxy of doctrine (believing what Christians have always believed) and yet no fundamentalism (ie: you don't have to believe the earth is 6000 years old, cause the Church accepts more than one possible interpretation of Genesis)
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6th December 2009, 09:00 PM
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Very interesting observation. That, by the way is the main reason I'm an Anglican--having the right balance between Catholicism, because it went beyond what the Church always has believed and, OTOH what you have more or less labelled as fundamentalism.
Lutherans or members of some of the other mainline Protestant churches naturally feel the same way.
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6th December 2009, 09:16 PM
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Reps: 240,868,224,634,014,624 (power: 240,868,224,634,037) | | Originally Posted by Albion Very interesting observation. That, by the way is the main reason I'm an Anglican--having the right balance between Catholicism, because it went beyond what the Church always has believed
don't know if I agree on that specific point  hehe and, OTOH what you have more or less labelled as fundamentalism.
Lutherans or members of some of the other mainline Protestant churches naturally feel the same way.
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Originally Posted by hikingchick77 Thanks for all your help...I am still trying to figure it all out through prayers, studying the Bible, and just reading general theology. I am actually leaning Catholic, but scared since I have been a protestant all my life and have been taught wrongly that Catholicism is "icky". Some big hurdles I am jumping in regards to that right now!
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