why did Scott Hahn, after making an in-depth study about Catholicism, convert to Catholicism?

Question

he used to be a protestant pastor. one of the books he wrote is "Rome Sweet Home".

spike, I never doubted you wouldn't see the point, but I'll tell you the point anyway. the point is he made an in-depth STUDY. see the keyword? it's STUDY. try to grasp that. if you can't, you're beyond help.

lol, Raven, I just want Protestants to think deeper, but all I got from them are uneducated response.

Raven, exactly, Scott Hahn has brains!!! LOL!

Answer 1

Ultimately, it is the Holy spirit who is responsible for these things.
It's my understanding that A- Mr Hahn was studying cathlicism in order to better refute it. He was not looking to convert. He was looking to support his prejudices. He expected to find support for what he beleived to be the truth.
B-what he found was that his prejudices -- the commonly held protestant belifs about catholicism -- were just that prejudices. In othere words preconcived ideas with no support.
No 1 I think is most protestants believe that catholicism is not biblical. As a cathlolic of course I laugh at that prejudice. WE wrote the Gospels and the epsitels, we put the bible together through a regours process that included the direction of the Holy Spirit. In other words praful catholic clergy studyed and decided what the bible was to be -- a teaching tool born out of our traditions. Jeus instuted our church first and then we -- the church that Jesus founded -- gathered and tested Holy Scripture. There are writings of some of Jesus's inner circle of diciples -- the first catholics --that did not make it into the bible. Not because they were not true and not because they were not from God, but because they not met the rigours standards that this group used to test each book in order to certify it as Hole Scripture. So, the writingsd of St. Thomas did not make it, and there are others. 1200 years later Luther on his own -- he essientially decalred himself to be his own Pope, as is the nature of protestanism -- decided to rip a few books out of the bible, because HE didn't like them. He wanted to remove the book of James can you imagine that. Somply becuse ti did not match his doctrine that we are saved by faith alone. St. James clearly tells us as Jesus Himself did in Mathew 25 :33 "The goats and the Sheep" that "faith without works is dead."
Scott Hahn suffered greatly for finding these and other catholic truths. It is my understaning that his wife did not come around so quicklly, but eventually she did. There are others as well Cardinal Newman.

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."

I am not big on ecemuenism if it means comprimsing catholic doctrine. Ecumenism is fine, but we should not use that as an excuse to shun our leadreship role, or to deny our truths. We along with our eastern orthodox brothers and sisters are the only church that maintains apostlic succesion. The anglicans (Epsicopalins) had it and lost it. The lutherns had it and lost it.

What this means is that we were actually there with Jesus. In the sacrament of confrimation, I have had hands laid on me by a man who said recieve the Holy Sprit. This man had had hands laid on him by someone who said the same thing, he had hands laid on him, by a man who had hands laid on him, by a man who had hands laid on him ... all the way back in an unbroken documented chain to someone who was actually in that attic at penticost. On the one hand it means a great deal to me sealed with the Holy sprit brothers and sisters with fellow catholics -- a true fellowship that is awesome to contemplate. On the other hand it is also humbling awesome to live up to. and I fail I miss the mark all the time. and I think too many of us catholics take this for granted, it is awe-inspiring to contemplate -- the sacrament of confirmation.
The Lord Be With You

Answer 2

Scott Hahn's story is eye-opening. Not because he's a convert but because it's the last thing he wanted to be...Catholic. He was an evangelical Presbyterian pastor...becoming Catholic meant not only turning away from everything he had always been sure about, but leaving his job, and hurting his family. And yet, the more he studied and researched, the more he couldn't deny the truth.

The thing is Scott Hahn knows history, religious history, Greek and Hebrew, he knows the scripture inside out...and because of this great knowledge he was able to put together the truth of Catholicism.

But your average everyday Protestant doesn't have this knowledge, nor that much of a desire to know the truth. They are happy to hide their heads in the sand and pretend that what they do not acknowledge does not matter.

Answer 3

Like the >900 protestant pastors who have converted to Catholicism in the last 10 years - Scott Hahn started reading what the earliest Church Fathers wrote.

These were the first Christians who studied under the apostles (like Ignatious - whose mentor was the apostle John).

When Scott Hahn, Peter Kreeft, Alex Jones, Ray Stevens, Steve Wood, Marcus Grodi, Tim Staples, etc started reading these original documents - they realized that the Catholic Church was accurate according to the first Christians.

So they converted.

That does not mean, of course, that someone who is a Protestant is not saved - of course they are if they believe in Jesus, ask Him to forgive their sins, and make Him their Lord and Saviour.

But these pastors and many more believe that the Catholic Church represents a fullness of the Christian faith - primarily because of the Eucharist.

There is absolutely NO doubt that the first Christians (whose mentors were the apostles) felt the Eucharist was the Body and Blood of Christ - there was no mention of symbolism at all.

So when Jesus says in John 6 that we must eat His Body and drink His Blood - these first Christians believed Him literally.

So does the Catholic Church.

And so does Scott Hahn.

Answer 4

wow so many good reasons, here are a few:

1. The Catholic Church contains the fullness of truth.

2. He found the Mass to be biblical.

3. He was wise enough to do the STUDY and RESEARCH.

4. He wanted to go with the original, not an imitation.

5. He has a brain.

Answer 5

As a Roman Catholic of very nearly 60 years now, i will provide help to be attentive to that there have been some years i replaced into tempted to persist with a protestant line of theory (baptist, methodist, episcopalian, presbyterian), and that i studied the a techniques jap faiths besides. distinctive human beings say I stayed with Roman Catholicism seeing it extremely is the religion i replaced into born into. those have been protestants who stated that. Roman Catholics be attentive to the capability of love and faith in Christ it extremely is felt basically interior the Roman Catholic Church. possibly the protestants have been quite top. I stayed with Roman Catholicism through fact i replaced into born into it, and went to their faculties throughout the time of the 9th grade, however the protestants do not comprehend WHY a actual Catholic continuously remains with their Church. they think of it extremely is a few developmental or sentimental or psychological reason. Boy have they missed-the-mark of their expertise. We stay with the Church through fact Christ Jesus extremely DID set up His Church with Peter through fact the 1st Pope, and no the place else in the international will one locate Jesus' love and capability so reliable as you will interior the Roman Catholic Church. I do seem forward on your being interior the RCIA training. God Bless you, and your fiance, or female pal you have yet to "spring-the-question-to". :-) do not overlook the hoop! that's often a competent "advertising ingredient" as you run in need of words on your concept. :-)) i be attentive to. i've got been there. God Bless you and your little ones besides.

Answer 6

When you dive in and do thorough studies, you see things you may not have seen before, the truth suddenly unfolds and you have an understanding which you may have never perceived before.

He looked into everything, picked it apart and realized hey, there really is something to this. I did it myself, it is amazing the grasp you can get when you look at every ounce of information from all view points.

Answer 7

Maybe because the Roman Catholic Church is the original church of the apostles.

Answer 8

Stockholm syndrome?

Answer 9

he liked what he studied and read.

Answer 10

Same reason anyone joins a cult:they believe they've found the truth.I pity his poor soul.Though that won't help him now.