Nando,

I really liked reading that you are an engineer.

By the grace of God, I’ve been a chemical engineer for most of my adult life.

It explains to me why you have a scientific way of putting things, or looking at things.

I don’t believe that all science is bad, only what the scriptures warned about, “science falsely so called”.

As far as I know, engineering doesn’t qualify as a science falsely so called, it seems to be real science, mathematically & economically applied.

I was born again while I was in grad school.

I had been working the 2^nd shift in the laboratory, and going to school during the day.

For the last three semesters, I switched to working the day shift and went to school in the evening, since most grad courses were offered in the evening.

In the laboratory where I worked, there was a chemist, who was my mentor, who kept witnessing to me.

As a Roman Catholic, I was very troubled by many of the things this Protestant said, because they were contrary to Catholic doctrine and dogma.

On Sundays, my wife and I were co-teaching a fifth grade CCD class.

The fifth grade was on the subject of the Seven Sacraments and the Rosary.

I had earlier learned much of my Catholic doctrine from the Jesuits, where I had previously gone to school.

I also learned a lot of doctrine, in depth, from our parish priest, who was also our parish pastor.

First, he was teaching weekly sessions to my wife, who was an adult convert to the Catholic church, and I attended each, and did the study books, too.

After she finished all those, there was a class for CCD teachers, that he taught, to ensure that we knew & would teach the proper things.

Our class, the Seven Sacraments & the Rosary, involved by far the most doctrine, so we had to learn more to be ready.

That chemist, at my job, kept quoting scriptures to me from the King James Bible.

I asked the priest if it was alright, then, for me to read from them King James Bible, to refute the Protestant chemist.

Previously, the Jesuits had told me that the King James Bible was technically still a banned book.

I didn’t want to go against the church, so that is why I sought permission from our priest.

He gave me the go ahead, so every time I went to have cigarette, and I smoked a lot then, I pulled out my new pocket sized King James, to read.

I particularly wanted to refute my laboratory mentor regarding communion.

I wanted to prove to him, using his own Bible, that transubstantiation was right, and that he was wrong in what he believed.

There I was, a lost Catholic, diligently searching the King James Bible for everything it said about the blood of the Lamb.

Well, praise the LORD, I quickly discovered that I was a lost, hell-bound sinner, that I needed to repent and trust fully on Jesus to save me.

I also fell in love with the Bible doctrine of the blood of the Lamb.

Immediately, I went to the priest, told him that I had been born again, and that I could no longer teach the Seven Sacraments and the Rosary.

I told him that I now knew, and believed, that those Catholic doctrines were all contrary to the scriptures.

Instead of kicking me out (or if it had been 430 years earlier, burned at the stake), he allowed me to teach the seventh grade, on the Four Gospels (go figure).

Anyway, there were a couple of salient sentences in your letter, at least to me:

 

“At the present time it is my opinion that the RCC is still a christian church with the majority of its members believing in the Trinity and worshiping Jesus Christ.

The biggest fault they have is the fact that the ecclesiastic members from the top down are instructed erroneously in eschatology.”

 

Six of the seven sacraments, leaving out Matrimony, are all, each, a severe heresy, completely against the gospel and the doctrine of grace.

One cannot believe those doctrines and the gospel at the same time, as they are opposed to each other.

If someone thinks they are saved, and still believe the heresies of the doctrines of the Catholic sacraments, they only think they are saved.

One cannot be saved believing something diabolically opposed to the gospel, it cannot happen.

One either believes the gospel or believes Catholic doctrines, to think it could be both is to be blinded and deceived.

Thus was my lot, until the gospel came to me.

I had to repent of that my Catholic heresy, as well as repenting of the devilish doctrine of praying to the queen of heaven.

We used to lie to those children, in CCD, telling them that they were praying to Mary, the mother of Jesus.

That in itself would be vile heresy, however, none of those prayers went to her, but rather to a fallen angel.

To think that we taught those children to commit idolatry & to have fellowship with devils!

That is so wicked, and has nothing to do with the gospel, it is the ancient worship of the heathen, repackaged as “praying to Mary”.

The biggest fault is not about eschatology, but about heresy, denying the gospel, idolatry, and communion with devils.

The Catholic church is not a Christian church, but a whorish, heathen monstrosity, disguised as Christian church.

We need to separate ourselves as far as possible from that nightmare.

                        Gino