It's unfortunate that you "converted" on the basis of an erroneous concept of covenant and not the totality of biblical teaching on the core doctrines, e.g., Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, etc. Like Scott Hahn who "converted" to Romanism after he had been schooled in the doctrines of free sovereign grace, one can only conclude that you have never truly embraced the truth with a living faith, but sadly there was only a head knowledge
This is, of course, the usual response I see from Calvinists and a number of Fundamentalists. "You weren't really saved in the first place."
Do I understand you to be saying that since I am not a Calvinist, that I cannot be saved? In other words, by your testimony, that 1500 years of Christians ALL went to hell because there was no such thing as Calvinisim, forensic justification, and all the other baggage that comes with Reformed doctrines? That is the epistomological end of your argument, which is based on the idea that salvation incorporates not only faith in Christ's sacrificial work, but the holding of doctrines perfectly.
Well, to answer your other question, it was not just the covenant which convinced me. As John Heny Bishop Newman, famous Anglican convert to the Church said "To go deep into history is to cease to be Protestant," meaning simply that there is simply no external evidence for the existence of anything other than the Catholic Faith prior to 1517 (unles you count on your side the multitudes of heretics such as the Arians, the Monophysites, Donatists, etc. that is company I most certainly would not wish to claim for my own! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Cordially in Christ,
Brother Ed
PS You may, if you wish, impugn my education and intellgence. I will be the first one to tell you that I do not know everything. But the credentials of such men as Scott Hahn, Robert Sungenis, etc. are beyond question.
