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Re: Evangelizing Protestants
« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2019, 01:33:57 PM »
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    • Quote from: Stubborn on April 22, 2019, 01:27:33 PM
    How did you come to accept the truth?

    I ask this because it works pretty much the same for every individual, just as it did for you. *All* those who sincerely want to know the truth will come to find the truth. It might take a little or a lot of explaining to help those who seek the truth filter it out from all the confusion, but if they really want to know what the truth is, we have God's promise that He will make sure they find it.

    Which is to say - and this can be a very hard pill to swallow - those who do not know the truth, do not know it because they do not want to know it - and on that account will never find that which they are not looking for no matter how poorly, or how well you explain the situation in the Church today.  

    As for those of us who know the truth, all we need to do is persevere in it our whole lives, right up unto the end.
    We are however called to evangelise, so his questions are important and valid. While yes, Protestants can find the truth on their own, clearly we aren't just meant to sit back and let things fall as they may, for we were called to evangelise and convert the world. 
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    Re: Evangelizing Protestants
    « Reply #16 on: April 22, 2019, 01:47:16 PM »
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    • Quote from: forlorn on April 22, 2019, 01:33:57 PM
    We are however called to evangelise, so his questions are important and valid. While yes, Protestants can find the truth on their own, clearly we aren't just meant to sit back and let things fall as they may, for we were called to evangelise and convert the world.
    I'm not disagreeing with this.

    I am saying that given the situation today, while it might seem impossible to explain the necessity of belonging to the Church and what happened to it, it really is entirely possible even if one cannot explain it well or explain it fully - that ultimately it is dependent upon the person listening, if they sincerely want to know the truth of the matter, they will find the truth of the matter. If they really want to know, then your explaining it to them will prompt them to do their own seeking and searching, in that way there is much they will find out to put them on the right road.

    Conversely, no amount of explaining will suffice to those who really do not want to know. 

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    Re: Evangelizing Protestants
    « Reply #17 on: April 22, 2019, 02:15:58 PM »
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    • Quote from: Stubborn on April 22, 2019, 01:47:16 PM
    I'm not disagreeing with this.

    I am saying that given the situation today, while it might seem impossible to explain the necessity of belonging to the Church and what happened to it, it really is entirely possible even if one cannot explain it well or explain it fully - that ultimately it is dependent upon the person listening, if they sincerely want to know the truth of the matter, they will find the truth of the matter. If they really want to know, then your explaining it to them will prompt them to do their own seeking and searching, in that way there is much they will find out to put them on the right road.

    Conversely, no amount of explaining will suffice to those who really do not want to know.
    Ah, I get your point now. True enough. 
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