Since Jesus established only oneChurch what would it take for you as a protestant to join the Catholic Church?

Question

Jesus said that noone can come to the Father except through Him.
Likewise noone can come to Jesus if they have never heard of Him...Do you really think noone heard of Him or didn't know Him until Luther came 1500 years later?

"To be deep in history is to cease to be protestant."
Cardinal Newman convert from protestantism.

Most protestants base their prejudice against the Church on what they think the Catholic Chuch teaches. Very few however really bother to find out what the Church actually does teach.

Answer 1

Well, after reading the other responses, I'm a little troubled. You are right in saying that few take the time to find out what the Church truly does teach. No-- Catholics do not worship Mary or the saints. But anyway, that has been said countless times and people still won't get it. What is true about Catholicism is that it is the original Christianity. So if that is what you mean by the one true church, I think you are right. If you are truly interested in becoming Catholic, go to your local Catholic parish, get some pamphlets about converting, and join the RCIA class. Some of the most devout, incredible Catholics I know are converts.

Answer 2

I don't mean to offend you okay, I'm just going to explain what some different beliefs are: most non-catholic christians believe the Catholic church is not the same church that Jesus established. There is the belief that the early Christianity had a great apostasy, or falling away from the original church and teachings that Christ had established. So there are many protestant churches trying to do their best to teach a doctrine closer to what they believe Christ originally taught. I, personally believe that Christ restored his original church on the earth today with 12 apostles and everything, and that is the religion I follow.

I hope that explains it a bit. My parents were Catholic for a long time, and while we are not Catholic now, that church established a great tradition of faith for my family, so it has a lot of my respect for that.

best wishes.

Answer 3

Though I have respect for and appreciate many Catholics. Almost all my friends are Roman Catholic. And even though I agree with about 90-95% of what Catholicism teaches, I can't ever become a servant of the Pope and Rome.
By the way, Protestants never left Catholicism. Catholicism left biblical gospel at the Council of Trent in the early 1500's and declared those anathema who would hold to the biblical truths of salvation. Faith aone,grace alone, Christ alone, Scripture alone, to the glory of God alone shall be our rallying cry to the death. We can not in good conscience either deny our Lord Jesus or His gospel.

If the Catholic church were to
1) preach and teach the Bible alone as authoritative
2) re-examine traditions\that usurp the bible and change them,
3) stop believing in a merited salvation of works,
4) Admit that there is only one head of the church, Christ,
5)stop it erroneous teaching about purgatory,
6) Realize that priests have no power to forgive sins
7) insist that there is only one mediator between God and Man
8) Stop the veneration of Mary and the saints,

I would then consider Roman Catholicism as 1 option among many others.

Answer 4

Jesus didn't establish anything that we know of, if he even existed. All the writings about him were written decades after he supposedly died. And because there is no real supporting evidence for any gods, the church has started splitting and splitting ever since it was created. The reason for the council of Nicea, where the Bible was made, was to come up with an official canon to replace all of the various text that were being promoted at the time.

Answer 5

Jesus did not really establish a church. He told Peter that he was the foundation of the church and it would be built on and by him. Jesus was a born and raised Jew; He was also the son of God and reached out to the gentiles. What he was demonstrating was that as a creation of God all men and women and children were precious in His eyes. Why don't we all quit picking apart the Bible in order to justify our own ways of thinking. Jesus was a powerful example for all to follow. If all people just followed His way of life; what a great place this world would be. I cannot for the life of me find any reference to the catholic church in the Word of God. Maybe you could clarify where the name is located. Isn't the church of God mankind and his willingness to accept Jesus as the Son of God; that He lived and died for us; that He rose from the dead and that His Father in Heaven loved us all so much He sent Him to us in the first place?

Answer 6

Since Jesus didn't establish a Church (he was Jewish) this is a moot question. The Christian Church wasn't even organized until Constantine did it in 312 CE. And even that wasn't finished until the Council of Nicea in 325 CE when the Catholic Church was officially founded.

Jesus didn't want to break away from Judaeism, he wanted to refine it and remove a lot of the frivilous bs.

Answer 7

I was a Catholic for 18 years, been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. I would never go back under that bondage. But, since you asked, they would have to get rid of priests, since that is an office
not prescribed in Scripture, get rid of the confessional, since my mediator is Jesus, not someone in a closet, get rid of the mass, don't need to sacrifice Christ over again, get rid of the monasteries, we are not called to cloister ourselves off from the world, and accept that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. When that happens, then we can talk.

Answer 8

Well, I'm never gonna become a catholic, but these are things you might want to try:

1 - stop the Idolitry!

2 - Become a monotheistic religion!

3 - Stop being such big Hypocrits!

4 - Stop the ritualistic Cannibalism!

Answer 9

Nothing could get me to change the Catholic church twists the Bible regularly that's why they had the splitting of the church cause the popes were misleading people

Answer 10

The Church is the body of Christ. That is the only true church. There is no other. It is all His followers, Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, what ever doesn't matter. All that matters is that you put your faith in Jesus to save you. That's all it takes.