REFLECTIONS ON 30 YEARS OF LIFE AS A BLOOD-BOUGHT BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN AFTER BEING BAPTISED, RAISED AND CONFIRMED AS A ROMAN CATHOLIC by Geoffrey Grider for Now The End Begins
I was betrayed by my priests, lied to by my Roman Catholic education, and now here was the Book the Roman Catholic church claimed to teach, and they did nothing of the kind! What a thing, man, what a thing. It was within this environment that a copy of ‘A Woman Rides The Beast’ by Dave Hunt came my way, and it was an eye-opener to say the least. After many months of ire-inducing reads through my King James Bible, here was someone able to explain to me how there could be such a chasm-like disparity between biblical Christianity and Roman Catholicism. I remember reading this book in wide-eyed excitement, page after page, unable to put it down before finishing it. Now maybe if you were not raised as a Roman Catholic for your entire life, maybe the connection would not be so visceral for you, but for me it was off the charts. It was within this environment that a copy of ‘A Woman Rides The Beast’ by Dave Hunt came my way, and it was an eye-opener to say the least.
I was betrayed by my priests, lied to by my Roman Catholic education, and now here was the Book the Roman Catholic church claimed to teach, and they did nothing of the kind! What a thing, man, what a thing.
This past March 14th, I celebrated 30 years of being a blood-bought, saved by the Lord Jesus Christ, sealed by the Holy Spirit and eternally secure unto the day of redemption born again Christian. It’s been a long-enough time period now, that sometimes I struggle to recall just how raw and fresh it was to get saved, after nearly 30 years as a ‘sprinkled and confirmed’ member of the Roman Catholic Vatican system. Alongside my Gideon’s King James Bible, there was another book that helped make this transition from darkness unto light a little easier.
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“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Ephesians 5:8-11 (KJB)
I got saved a little differently than most people, I got saved with just me and the Holy Spirit, there was no other human interaction that was aware of in my life at that time. I got saved in 1991, so there was no internet, there was Christian radio but I was unaware of it, I had no Christian friends and had never set foot inside a Christian church. You can read my personal testimony of salvation here. I remember as I started to read my King James Bible in those early days, and as I went along, things would pop up in my Bible reading that just really made me mad. I read in Mark 6:3 (KJB) how Mary had 6 other children and did not stay as the ‘perpetual virgin’ as I was taught. I read in 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (KJB) how the Lord’s Supper was an ordinance, not a sacrament, and that the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross was to never be repeated. That made me mad because I was taught to believe, in 3 years as an ‘altar boy’ and in 12 years of private Jesuit and Franciscan education, that the “Mass” was the ongoing sacrifice of Jesus. I was betrayed by my priests, lied to by my Roman Catholic education, and now here was the Book the Roman Catholic church claimed to teach, and they did nothing of the kind!
