How I defend my faith to my Protestant relatives?
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Peace to all,
So true, we become One Family, I believe.
11:36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
Saint Paul unites all becoming faithful in Romans from the Light through the Road to Damascus.
The Holy Family Preexisting, I believe unites all from the Faith of Abraham out of the Bosom of Abraham through both natures, from the spirit for the created souls of all mankind through the created flesh “In The Christ” becoming in One Body “through The Christ” becoming again for all Creation in One Holy Spirit Family One God in being, I believe.
From the God from the Faith of Abraham natures unite manifested from the preexisting Power of the Holy Spirit through the created flesh for the created souls of all becoming hypo-statically and dynamically united for two natures becoming united in One Body becoming again for all Creation in One Holy Family, I believe.
Jesus came to remove the separation, removing contention and the restoring mental peace in the shared metal love for all becoming co-heirs to the same throne through the same temple by uniting all brothers and sisters from One Father through One Mother, becoming Sons and Daughters of God through One Son in the Christ for all mankind becoming again loving only and loving with only the most love in One Holy Spirit Family One God in being, through all generalizations, i believe.
Rationally and faithfully Catholic’s become again for the created souls of all through the Flesh in the Christ to God’s nature loving only and loving with only the most love from the logical undefiled Holy Spirit power becoming alive and living in all mankind through the flesh becoming again in all through both natures in One Family.
From the Spirit incorruptibly fulfilled nature for the created souls of all through immortal flesh nature united in the Christ all creation becomes again unable to fail in all cases through both natures from the spirit through the life in One Family.
The Spirit nature manifests the reborn flesh nature from incorruption through the created souls of all becoming immortality transformed in the flesh becoming united in One Body glorified becoming again for all Creation in One Holy Spirit and Life Family One God in being.
The Word becomes flesh “through The Host” “In The Christ.”
Holy Spirit Family Powers unite Transfiguring all Creation again from Creation becoming Immaculately Transformed Immortalized and Sanctified through the New Eve becoming Incorruptibly Glorified re-Sanctified Confirmed from Sacrifice through Penance in the New Adam for Jesus becoming “In The Christ” for all mankind becoming forgiven in both natures from the power of the spirit manifesting undefiled through the life immortalized becoming Sons and Daughters of God for all becoming unable to fail in all cases fulfilled re-imaged as The Father Transfigured becoming again for all Creation in One Holy Spirit Family One God in being, from the Faith of Abraham.
To me as Catholic, Undefiled Intelligence of the Mind of the Holy Family One God in being Preexisting is in the Host, from Baptized immortalized transformed into the New Eve becoming sanctified from spirit Incorruption in One Body for all becoming Brothers and Sisters through the New Eve for all becoming Into the Catholic Church. Transformed flesh from Holy Spirit Incorruption can now become forgiven from the Immaculate Conception transformed for Jesus the Eternal Priestly authority in the New Adam becoming hypo-statically united in One Christ Body, for all becoming from Sacrifice through Penance forgiven for all mankind becoming glorified Sons and Daughters of God becoming again for all Creation Transfigured in One Holy Spirit Family One God in being, I believe.
The Common denominators of all faiths is the spirit and the spirit in Catholicism is three Gods preexisting becoming alive and living in all mankind becoming again for all Creation in One Holy Spirit Family One God in being, I believe.
To me rationally, faithfully, All From the same God from the Faith of Abraham we see all mankind becoming Sons and Daughters of God becoming again One Family One God in being,
Peace always,
Stephen
What do you mean by that? You mean he try to convert you? Personally I would just listen to them straight and offer my own spiritual experience. Experience by means, not the “my gospel is true and you can pray and ask” emotion. But a more deep, profound and alternative prespective so they can share theirs too.
I mean you talk to him in deep to understand the real reason behind his own conversion. It’s not something you can say and done for it. He might or might not listen. But until you do, you don’t know for sure
One Catholic (same faith) even blocked me out and grew attached to me, that she had no other emotion and I had to unfriend her. She felt more like an emotion magnet and I have to up till now to get her crap out of the way. Crap happens. But hopefully most of the time it’s not as extreme as mine.
Blocking: “this is my faith and you keeps yours.”
Non-blocking: “I got a lot to talk about and here’s my experience”
I had a long talk long ago with a nun. I learned a lot about how she treat her faith even we had talked only once.
Good luck
Listen to “Catholic Answer Live” Podcast/Radio show and watch some of Trent Horn’s debates on YouTube. He is great at keeping calm and remaining respectful while defending the Faith.
Is there something in particular you have a question about? Like why Protestant Bibles only have 66 books or where we got the Bible in the first place? Where chapters and verses came from? Or something entirely different?
I’m not into ecumenism because I don’t believe in putting God to the test and by this I mean that protestants can set traps, are militant and basically who wants the hassle.
I would be nice to them from a distance; either that or wear earplugs and pretend you are hard of hearing.
Why do you feel like you have to defend your faith against Protestants? Do they drill you like a drill seargant?
I respect your point of view, but I like to learn about what/why others believe what they do. And I am pretty well-grounded in what/why I believe what I believe. Ecumenicalism to me should only go as far as sharing with one another in what/why we believe what we believe.
I do not want to see lesbian Anglican Bishops celebrating alongside Catholic Priests in the Sacred Liturgy!
I once attended a Lutheran Church Service in a Catholic Church on a small Island where there were only two Churches (a Catholic and an Episcopalian Church). The Catholic Church would allow the Lutheran Pastor from the Mainland to hold Lutheran Services in the Church on Sunday afternoon’s. This is a very touristy Island. I was camping and my alarm clock ran out of battery during the night and I missed Mass. I knew that Lutherans usually have the same Readings as us, so that is better than nothing. The lack of reverence though, really saddened me. I don’t know if it was because the Island is touristy and maybe the Pastor was trying to be more ecumenical and relaxed or if that is just what ELCA Lutheran Services are like, but it made it was bothersome. I of course obtained during Holy Communion, even though the Pastor emphasized that anyone is invited to receive, no matter their disposition.
so yeah, in the context of the Sacred Liturgy, I am 
percent against ecumenicalism, but in relationships with fellow Christians, I have no problem finding common ground and discussing our differences respectfully.
That is what ecumenism is maybe meant to be about, supposedly…? Problem is, St. Paul instructs us to be genuine in our communication with others and yet I know that if I were in a room of other denominations I wouldn’t be because I would just be there thinking, “So, why don’t you all just become Catholics!”. And I know full well that the Catholic present would be the elephant in the room. If they believe in God, then they must have been given that grace in the first place and so belief in God is the genuine bit; over and above, I don’t see it.
The reason is to find areas of discussion yet as said before many protestants are militant and the only real discussion going on is an inner one in the hearts of each individual present and exactly as described above. By agreeing on the points to which everyone concurs is tantamount to just being agreeable whilst agreeing to disagree and so keeping people where they are. There may be the odd sheep who converts over to the Church from those meetings but if so then that can be the only good outcome and furthermore if such instances do occur then this points to the intention behind such meetings being the opposite to the disposition St. Paul tells us to have.
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