Independent Fundamental Baptist Comes Home

Check out Jillian's conversion story here. Once again we see that once a person of good will learns what the Church actually says about itself (vs what an anti-Catholic Protestant's say about it) the scales fall from the eyes and the veil is lifted, and the individual comes home!

"It eventually came to the point where we decided we would write each member of my family a letter explaining to them why they were wrong to believe in Catholicism, and why we were right to believe in "the Bible alone".  It wasn't an easy decision to come to, as we had never been confrontational before, but we felt we were doing them a disservice by keeping the "truth" from them.  So, we began researching.  Why do Catholics believe what they do?  Where does all this Tradition actually come from?  You see, we wanted them to know that we knew all of this, and still believed what we believed as Independent Fundamental Baptists.

We were floored.  Dumbfounded.  Aghast.  After six months of extensive research, we began to realize how little we actually had known about the Catholic faith.  We kept waiting for the "aha" moment, when we would come across some teaching that blackballed the rest.  That never happened.  It was unbelievable to us that Catholic faith was grounded in the Scriptures.  Scripture passages we had memorized as Baptists took on an entirely different meaning.  The misconceptions about what Catholics believe and what they actually believe are incredibly vast.  What freedom we felt.  What joy.  What light-heartedness! "


So my Catholic blogger friends, go on over to Jillians' and give her a great Tiber Jumper Welcome Home!