I did; I became a Catholic after first becoming a Protestant.
In fact, I thought I had my eyes open, but now I believe they were covered by scales. Scales which melted away miraculously after reading a compelling argument in favor of the Church. Everything else clicked in from there.
As for the things they hide, I don't like it, and I pray God reveals that which is hidden when He deems it time to do so, but that hardly discounts the Church entirely. No man is sinless. The Church can be Christ's even if the individual members that make it up are sinful Men.
And to be clear, my point on "hiding" was related to their presentation of themselves. Obviously there are secrets, as the very article above shows, but they present themselves as the Holy Roman Catholic Church. They don't use 100 different names and hide in the shadows. And they are constantly attacked by the ones that do.
So while there are secrets, their doctrines, their claims, and their very name is not one of them. Meanwhile, the powers and principalities of our world change names like clothes, whether their personal names or the names of the organizations and secret societies they control.
I did; I became a Catholic after first becoming a Protestant.
In fact, I thought I had my eyes open, but now I believe they were covered by scales. Scales which melted away miraculously after reading a compelling argument in favor of the Church. Everything else clicked in from there.
As for the things they hide, I don't like it, and I pray God reveals that which is hidden when He deems it time to do so, but that hardly discounts the Church entirely. No man is sinless. The Church can be Christ's even if the individual members that make it up are sinful Men.
And to be clear, my point on "hiding" was related to their presentation of themselves. Obviously there are secrets, as the very article above shows, but they present themselves as the Holy Roman Catholic Church. They don't use 100 different names and hide in the shadows. And they are constantly attacked by the ones that do.
So while there are secrets, their doctrines, their claims, and their very name is not one of them. Meanwhile, the powers and principalities of our world change names like clothes, whether their personal names or the names of the organizations and secret societies they control.