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Not sure the title is the best, but I'm trying to put my thoughts down. 1. I have come to believe the Catholic and Orthodox Apostolic Succession Priesthood is a developed by man thing, not ordained by God. I don't see anyone ordained a Christian priest in the New Testament, and all the early...

There is a part of me that wants to go back, but I have become so convinced of two things I don't know I ever could. I am NOT looking to start a big debate - just share thoughts. I am hoping my days of adversarial debate are over. 1. The Papacy - I have done a lot of research on it, and it...

So I stopped at a local Lutheran church for the first time and talked to the pastor. Good, conservative guy - I liked him and we got along really well. I like Lutheran teaching and answers on a lot of things, but the service has me put off to be honest. This one they do is like a Latin mass...

In other traditions there is a concept that physical things can have good or evil attached to them. In Catholicism and Orthodoxy I think of Relics - often referred to as having some sort of "power". Then I heard of a more Pentecostal person seeing a pagan type statue and saying something about...

So I am still looking at Lutheranism. I am wary coming out of the Catholic church - as a lot of things "look" too similar, so moving slow. But I like the way Jordan Cooper and Bryan Wolfmeuller teach, and the law and gospel balance. I have learned this much: 1. I am not a Dispensationalist...

So I am currently without a church home. I have attended a Baptist church in the past, and spent a lot of years in Catholicism largely due to family. I do not believe in Once Saved Always Saved, nor the Left Behind series rapture and dispensationalism. I am definitely conservative. There are...

So I have been checking out Lutheranism after leaving Catholicism. Have not been to a liturgy yet, but watching some of the local ones on line. I was AMAZED to see an altar rail, and people kneeling at it for communion???? From what I understand those were there to separate the people from...

Coming from a Catholic background (and not wanting to go back), I am looking for a new home church. I am wondering how Lutheranism explains this one, as I don't believe in Apostolic Succession as a passing on of this power to bind and loose.

So one of my favorite Bible teachers - Steve Gregg / The Narrow Path - says he used to be a dispensationalist, but after years of study he is not any longer. After a little research I agree with him. BUT - I don't think he was un-saved because he was a dispensationalist or got saved because he...

So I am here trying to learn, and trying to find a home - so please take my thoughts as someone thinking - not picking internet squabbles. If sacraments offer grace or are a means of grace - why is it communities that have sacraments don't look any different than those that don't? It would...

So I am here trying to learn, and trying to find a home - so please take my thoughts as someone thinking - not picking internet squabbles. If sacraments offer grace or are a means of grace - why is it communities that have sacraments don't look any different than those that don't? It would...

So I like a lot of Lutheran thought processes and theology so far, but have a few hangers yet. One of them is confession and absolution. I have seen multiple places where it seems they justify the pastor saying "I absolve you of your sins", and then relate it to the keys given in the Gospel...

I am currently without a church, and seeking. Lutheran thought seems very Biblical and historical so far. More so than the modern churches that seems to promote Once Saved Always Saved, and the Left Behind type rapture. But there are a few things I'm not sold on yet. 1. Being called...

I have recently left the Catholic church and looking for a home. I am drawn to a non-denominational setting and or baptist, but have not considered Lutheranism that much. I have studied a lot of church history, and scripture as well, but some things are still not clear for me. I am not a...

So in reading on purgatory, it seems the church does not declare if it is a place, a state of being, or a process that you could just pass through. It's really open ended. Yet inside the cover of a Bible we have it states Pope Leo granted an indulgence of 300 days for reading 15 minutes of...

In listening to Catholic speakers, and people in general, it seems private revelations are discussed a ton. And they are often referred to as though they are equal to Scripture, and should be guiding all of our moves. It's something I have grown very uncomfortable with, as even the approved...

Wow - so after massive struggles, I am staying Catholic. The why is a long story - but centers around Catholicism being the only place I have found perfect moral teaching. Thank you all for putting up with me! God Bless

So coming from a Catholic setting, the St. Michael prayer is being used quite a bit these days. But I am wondering if praying direct to an angel, and asking them to do something, is historically/biblically correct? Seems if we need help we should ask God, and let Him decide how best to help.

No protestant replies please - Catholics only. So I struggle with some Catholic teachings that just don't seem to fit historically for me. Papal Infallibility is #1, mandatory celibacy for clergy #2, the swing of "you must be Catholic to be saved" to what we have today where the Catechism says...

So Acts 7:48 says: However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says: So I'm struggling on how one can say Jesus is present in a Tabernacle in consecrated Eucharist, in light of this passage?