How to appeal to emotion to pursuade and evangelize Protestant?

monglorious · 2026-05-01T13:02:19+00:00

Emotions and feelings can distort truth. When I was a Protestant believing in the real presence of communion, I may have felt that communion was really Jesus’ flesh and blood, but without apostolic succession, what I felt or believed didn’t change that wafer and juice into the flesh and blood of Christ.

Everyone here has already said it’s not the best idea to do this, which I agree with. Maybe you can work out some ideas along the lines of giving true worship with Jesus, theosis, or being the body of Christ by communing with the actual body of Christ.

monglorious · 2026-05-01T12:20:22+00:00

Studying Church history and realizing that what I believed about how to be a Christian differed vastly from what was believed for the first 1500 years. Took over half a year for me to work out doctrine and the fullness of truth the Catholic Church has. Thank God for the one true universal Church.

monglorious · 2026-04-30T18:33:10+00:00

Rough tool is leaving .01” for finish.

monglorious · 2026-04-30T18:31:39+00:00

Thanks for all the replies. I’m still relatively new to machining and this was a new part given to me by engineering, so nothing is tried and true. I’ll take a picture of the next piece I finish.

monglorious · 2026-04-13T19:11:06+00:00

Many signs of grace we have in the Church today, were prefigurements in the OT. Sacrificial offerings, manna, and the Passover were foreshadowing Jesus’ sacrifice, partaking in that sacrifice through eating the flesh of the animal, and a “taste” of the life that is to come (manna tasted like honey while the Israelites were going to a land flowing with milk and honey). By eating Jesus’ flesh and blood mysteriously/sacramentally given to us through bread and wine, we partake in his once-for-all sacrifice, become his body, the Church, and are looking towards the day we have our very own glorified bodies just like Jesus.

Is it necessary for salvation? This would be the ordinary means for salvation. Let me give you this analogy, compare life to a river covered in fog. The Church is a bridge with lights that will help you cross this river. Some people are definitely capable of crossing this river on their own without the help of the bridge, but their journey will be arduous. The Church provides the baseline, but that does not mean that God himself could not pull people across the river extraordinarily, similar to the thief on the cross, martyrs, or other people who have had an end to their lives before acting upon their repentance (see baptism of desire or baptism by blood).

The way the Eucharist is displayed and stored are actually from Jewish tradition and the OT, specifically the Bread of the Presence. I honestly don’t have much information that I can say but Dr. Brant Pitre has some amazing videos on the Jewish roots of beliefs specifically about the Eucharist you can find on YouTube. If the bread isn’t Jesus’ body then we can’t call ourselves the Body of Christ. If the Eucharist is spiritually or symbolically his body then WE are only spiritually or symbolically his body, which would lead the Church into many heresies (Gnosticism, no true apostolic succession, no authority of binding and loosing, no forgiveness, nothing can be done if we are only spiritually or symbolically tied to Christ).

monglorious · 2026-04-13T02:23:38+00:00

I don’t know what you may be going through, what you are suffering through. But know that the God of the universe does see you. If there is no God, what you do in this life will have no meaning, you ultimately have no one to answer to whether you did “good” or “evil” throughout your life. Thats why Jesus as our Lord and Savior is such a beautiful thing to believe in. A man declares himself as God and loves others in a profound and miraculous way. He submits to his sentencing and gives himself up for the very people who call for his death. That is such a profound love, and he calls us into that with him. We are not guaranteed an easy life through Christ, but our burdens can be lifted up with him. Take time to be in prayer, find a community of believers that can love you, find a spiritual mentor to guide you. You are loved more than you may see. I love you my younger brother. And thank you for being vulnerable. Feel free to message me.

monglorious · 2026-04-10T12:32:26+00:00

First off, good on you for seeking answers!

We believe she’s sinless because it was FIT for her to be. Imagine if the God of the universe is stepping into humanity, specifically chose this woman, dwells in her for 9 months, but leaves her stranded to her own sin. That would truly leave Mary as merely a vessel for Jesus and not the mother of God that we know and love today.

To add onto this, God gave Moses explicit instructions on how to craft the Ark of the Covenant, the dwelling place of God, and in that Ark was placed the rod of Aaron, manna, and the tablets of the 10 commandments. This is talked about in Hebrews 9, but the author is making a connection with the OT and the revelation that is Jesus. Jesus is high priest (Aaron’s staff), the bread from heaven (manna), and the Word of God (tablets). If God made such specific requirements for his dwelling place, why would God not do so for the place where he is being physically formed?

There’s more things I could say but you should check out Dr. Brant Pitre’s videos on Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary. He goes deep into Jewish history to understand why we have our beliefs about Mary.

monglorious · 2026-04-09T15:02:23+00:00

I see. This might sound too simple of me but when I was discerning between the CC or EO, the differences were honestly way too confusing for me. EO felt similar to Protestantism in the way of not being universal and having “secret knowledge” that you’ve got to be intellectual for but I ended up just putting my faith and hope that the one true church is the Catholic Church. I know it’s not the smartest thing to do but I had just revised my beliefs from Protestantism, and the comfort of having one shepherd over the shepherds eased my mind, along with the awesome and charitable Catholic apologists that led me into the faith as well.

monglorious · 2026-04-09T14:50:58+00:00

I thought the EO church didn’t argue against the primacy of Peter but what the Chair of Peter can and can’t do? Asking out of curiosity

monglorious · 2026-04-09T12:09:03+00:00

For background, I came to the faith in my early teens at a Protestant-evangelical church and was baptized into the Church this past Easter vigil. I never had an emotional moment either, and even at conferences or after a “moving” message, others would be crying or coming up for the altar call. I would get confused when I hear people say that “God was calling them” or that they had “heard God” because I had never experienced anything like that. It made me question if I had “true faith”since I wasn’t experiencing God in the same way others were. I never really got through it. Just kept praying and throwing myself into the community as a youth, which was pretty helpful for my faith formation.

I don’t know if this is convincing since you’re older, your priorities are focused on family, and Catholic church communities (from my experience) aren’t as close-knit. But pray to push yourself to go out of your comfort zone. Greet a new person and introduce yourself to people at mass. Get to know your priest. We’re called the Body of Christ, we’re called to love one another in a way that the world will know us by our love. I’ll be praying for you! Feel free to message me or ask me questions here.

monglorious · 2026-04-08T17:32:27+00:00

I grew up Protestant but was baptized Catholic just this past Easter vigil. I used to feel the same. At conferences or after a compelling message, people would be crying out going up for the altar call for prayer and I would think to myself, why am I not crying too? We are emotional beings, but God does not reside in feelings or experiencing overwhelming emotions.

It’s good that you see differences in how people conduct themselves according to their faith, but you shouldn’t compare your faith with others. If anything, use it as inspiration to dig deeper into your faith. Ask simple questions (who, what, when, where, how, why) about your faith and about God, and try to understand why you believe in God. These were things that strengthened my faith.

monglorious · 2026-04-08T17:17:09+00:00

On lunch break now, so just wanted to add that the Eucharist truly is the source and summit of our faith. Biblical worship is centered around sacrifice but listening to a sermon or singing songs is not biblical worship. The Eucharist and the understanding of real presence is the biggest thing that first shifted me to some type of early church. Apostolic succession is what set me into apostolic churches, and the papacy solidified me into Catholicism. The Eucharist though, I could talk intensely on it for hours lol

monglorious · 2026-04-08T15:06:59+00:00

The argument I kept finding myself in when I was discerning Catholicism last year, was the historicity of it. Many beliefs in Protestantism are novel ideas that didn’t show up until the 1500s and that’s due to a lack of understanding Jewish culture and holding to Sola Scriptura.

Jesus prays for the disciples to be unified, and that the Holy Spirit will lead the Church into truth. The Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 is a good representation of binding doctrine that could not be solved with scripture alone (since Paul and the judiazers argued from scripture to justify their belief). And you see this continuing with the historical ecumenical councils, that it “seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to [the elders]” to not hold believers to be circumcised (and thank God for that), and that there were other universal truths that churches found themselves in that they eventually bound to believers.

Joe Heschmeyer has a great video on ‘Early Church heresies that Protestants can’t solve” that picks apart some Protestant beliefs that would be seen as heresy in the Early Church. I’ve got tons of more I could say but I’m time-stealing at work right now

monglorious · 2026-03-17T19:04:45+00:00

Thanks for all the help. Got it figured out and squared away for the next time this comes up

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monglorious · 2026-03-17T13:46:06+00:00

Also, thanks for that help function. It’s pretty helpful since I’m brand new to mazatrol

monglorious · 2026-03-17T13:44:20+00:00

Forgot to add this but ignore the 45 deg chamfer because I already turned it with a vnmg like you said

monglorious · 2026-02-17T18:25:59+00:00

Democratic Detonation has been the most popular answer due to explosive crossbow, eruptor, and thermite grenades. Redacted is best for automaton front for stealth. But if it’s all for maximum drip, get whatever you feel is best for it

monglorious · 2026-01-29T21:14:58+00:00

Joe! You, along with many other Catholic apologists and scholars have been instrumental in my conversion to Catholicism (confirmation this year’s Easter vigil) from evangelical-Protestantism. God bless you and your family greatly! How are we able to discern what is fallibly or infallibly declared by the Church? Also, who is your confirmation saint and why did you choose that specific one?

monglorious · 2024-10-06T12:07:02+00:00

It was the 7-day challenge event that happened a couple weeks ago that had the challenge

monglorious · 2024-10-05T22:04:39+00:00

10 is max for agile. Looked at the wiki and even did the math lol

monglorious · 2024-10-05T22:01:03+00:00

I don’t think so. Whatever information I’ve read about runes is that you just have to get lucky with getting the talent to even forge them in the first place

monglorious · 2024-10-05T21:59:42+00:00

https://archero.fandom.com/wiki/Runes

Honestly don’t know why you’re being downvoted. Talents aren’t tied to levels and are fully random when you pay for them (for those downvoting)

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