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How did you manage that?

 

Wasn't formal. Its automatic when you leave (pre-Vatican II). I was being counseled a priest.

 

I am a united baptist. the group most like the united baptists church that I mostly attend is the freewill baptists.

 

By Grace through Faith in Christ alone.

Baptists believe that the Bible teaches that all human beings have chosen to sin, that is, to disobey God. The consequence of sin is eternal death. Persons are not capable of saving themselves from this plight. God has provided salvation (John 3:16).

God’s gift of salvation is available through faith in his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. By his life and by his death on the cross, Jesus offers a way from eternal death to eternal life. That way is an expression of God’s grace. The way can be walked only by faith (Romans 5:1-2).

Salvation is available only through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Some denominations have included such things as baptism, church membership, good works or sacraments as necessary for salvation. Baptists have insisted that salvation comes only by faith in God’s grace gift of Jesus.

 

My best friend was still seen as being a Catholic in good standing until he announced to his priest had been re water baptized, and was now a Baptist!

 

The Eastern church seems to see salvation akin to the sacramental grace salvation model the Church of Rome has installed...

 

And, I was seen as a Baptist in good standing until I announced to my Baptist pastor that I was now a Catholic Christian. Oh, and the Catholic Church accepted my Baptist baptism as being valid. How about them apples!

 

Sad that you went from a bible believing church back to one holding to traditions of men!

 

I came to this board as a Baptist that believed that the Orthodox Churches and Catholic Church were not really Christian. In fact, I debated them on this board for years until I removed my biased Baptist glasses and studied for myself. I ended up convinced beyond a doubt that Orthodox/Catholic faith was the true faith. There are many former Baptist pastors, now Catholic or Orthodox that have written excellent books about their conversions. Be happy to supply you a list if interested

 

Sad you believe that I did.

My former Baptist pastor told me I must never have really accepted Christ to begin with or I would never have abandoned true Christanity. He had just baptised his 15 year old son for the fourth time because 'those other times he really didn't honestly turn to Christ as his saviour'

 

Just curious to whatever happened to saved by grace alone thru faith alone then?

 

To me the doctrine that is the Rock upon which the Church is built is the Incarnation.

The Second Person (the Logos-Son of the Living God) of the Trinity became flesh in order to be the Savior of the world.

 

Yes, as the Confession of Peter as to whom Jesus is was and is the Rock upon which we stand or fall!

 

Aren't We Saved by Faith Alone? | Catholic Answers

 

Well your former Baptist pastor seems odd,

 

Got excited for a moment, thought you were offering to send actual books

 

If we add anything else to that truth, of saved by faith alone thru grace alone, we then have another and a false Gospel!

 

I find your church journey interesting. Why were you excommunicated from the RCC? Next was Lutheran, then Baptist? Very dramatic changes in theology/doctrine. What is your testimony of being born-again?

 

After Lutheran church then Episcopalian then Baptist.

I was saved in the military two years into my enlistment. I was stationed at Griffiss AFB in Rome NY.

Though enlisted my squadron was an intel/information unit and we had rooms in an old officers section of the base.

I had a compulsion to start reading the bible. I had a radio and I would listen at night (the only time I could get Wheeling West Virginia) to a Wheeling w. Virginia preacher.

After about a year of struggling I gave in and one night reading in the gospel of John Jesus told Martha who He was and then said

John 11
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.

That night I said yes as well and like Martha I yielded myself (or was enabled) to Him as my Lord, my God and my Savior.

My life was turned upside down, my party buddies asked "what happened to Hank?" - "he got religion".

Yes in my naivety I went back to the RCC, was being groomed by Jesuits for the priesthood but all along as I continued my study in the scripture I began to see the RCC in a different way and finally could no longer identify with it.