Hello everyone,
So i’ve been struggling with this alot recently and was hoping to get some opinions and outsider advice. I was saved in December 2018 and ever since I have had a passion for apologetics. Im in a Bible college now because I want to keep learning and eventually be used by God in whatever way He sees fit. So heres my problem:
As a guy who went from catholic to athiest to saved over the course of 21 years. I feel this real strong pull to return to catholicism, partly because my first 10 years of life or so were spent in catholic church and partly because whether we like it or not, the first 1500-1600 years of Christianity was the Catholic church. BUT, i just cant accept some of the stuff that they believe. The eucharist for example, I can see scripturally how this could be used as just symbolic, and i could see a case for Jesus presence in/around the eucharist but i can not see anything about the eucharist actually transforming into Jesus body.
Also, the icons and the praying to them(or praying to them to ask them to intercede) just seems like straight up idolatry and regardless, have nothing to do with christianity.
Martin Luther did a great job of pointing out the corruption of the 16th century RCC. And i know that the council of Trent addressed some of these issues. But still their beliefs on faith+sacraments, the ones previously mentioned and a few others just bother me. But I still cant help but feel this pull to belong to the true catholic church, whatever that may be. I currently attend a moderate baptist church.
(Also I wasnt sure what thread to put this under so if someone thinks there is a better place for this feel free to move it or let me know, thanks)
So i’ve been struggling with this alot recently and was hoping to get some opinions and outsider advice. I was saved in December 2018 and ever since I have had a passion for apologetics. Im in a Bible college now because I want to keep learning and eventually be used by God in whatever way He sees fit. So heres my problem:
As a guy who went from catholic to athiest to saved over the course of 21 years. I feel this real strong pull to return to catholicism, partly because my first 10 years of life or so were spent in catholic church and partly because whether we like it or not, the first 1500-1600 years of Christianity was the Catholic church. BUT, i just cant accept some of the stuff that they believe. The eucharist for example, I can see scripturally how this could be used as just symbolic, and i could see a case for Jesus presence in/around the eucharist but i can not see anything about the eucharist actually transforming into Jesus body.
Also, the icons and the praying to them(or praying to them to ask them to intercede) just seems like straight up idolatry and regardless, have nothing to do with christianity.
Martin Luther did a great job of pointing out the corruption of the 16th century RCC. And i know that the council of Trent addressed some of these issues. But still their beliefs on faith+sacraments, the ones previously mentioned and a few others just bother me. But I still cant help but feel this pull to belong to the true catholic church, whatever that may be. I currently attend a moderate baptist church.
(Also I wasnt sure what thread to put this under so if someone thinks there is a better place for this feel free to move it or let me know, thanks)
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