Surprised by Truth 3: 10 More Converts Explain the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic (V. 3)

Author:Patrick Madrid
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781928832591
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: 2002-09-15T06:00:00+00:00

A professional anti-Catholic takes his best shot

After six months of frantic detective work, I had exhausted every avenue I could think of to find a Protestant rebuttal to Catholic doctrine. There were, of course, many great Protestant arguments out there. The trouble with them was that they rebutted doctrines that Catholics didn’t believe. For instance, you could find lots of apologetic material condemning the worship of Mary, complete with Scriptures against idolatry. But that was useless, since the Catholic Church, too, condemns the worship of Mary. Most important, I could find no good Protestant reason for the rejection of the Real Presence in the Eucharist when John 6 so clearly shows Jesus commanding His disciples to eat His Flesh, and historically all Christians believed this doctrine for the first 1500 years of Christianity. I finally knocked at the door at my local parish and began the process of entering the Church.

When I told my friends, they were mostly kind and accepting. Some tried to dissuade me from entering the Church. One friend, Donna, invited me to go to hear anti-Catholic apologist Bart Brewer speak about the Catholic Church at a large nondenominational church in a nearby town. I knew Brewer was an ex-priest and anti-Catholic, but I went anyway. The Easter Vigil was only months away. I wanted to let him take his best shot at me before I entered the Church. But as it turned out, his was just the same old attack on the Catholic Church without refuting the scriptural and historical evidence for her doctrines.

Brewer criticized and condemned the Catholic Church for relying on the “Bible plus the Catechism” instead of relying on the Bible alone. But he himself was relying on the Bible plus Calvin’s Institutes. Surprisingly, Donna saw through his double standard: he wasn’t sola Scriptura either! She found him totally useless in helping her to “deprogram” me.

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