Rome’s salvation is by grace but declares that the church alone can dispense that grace and the only real church is the Roman Catholic church. ‘No Salvation Outside Roman Catholicism’ and Roman Catholic salvation is also an installment plan, where one must continue to receive the “sacraments,” go to weekly mass, and continue receiving the Jesus wafer from a priest as well as confessing your sins to the roman priest.

If one continues to have the slightest belief that without the mass, the papist wafer bread that they worship and without that church and its pope he might not be saved, one cannot truly become a Biblical Christian and Protestant. When I was able to see and understand the lunacy of the doctrine of transubstantiation, the abomination of the mass and the fact that the papacy itself is evil and the pope is and has been on many occasions the anti Christ, I was able to openly renounce roman catholicism and experience what I call as did Calvin a True Protestant conversion.
When I was a Roman catholic I use to believe that the bread and wine became the body and blood of Christ at the mass. They call that Transubstantiation. It is a Roman Catholic doctrine, which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine, into the substance of Christ’s body and blood, commonly called transubstantiation, by consecration of a priest.

I am now invited to the Lords Supper as a Presbyterian. I now believe in the Presbyterian reformed teaching of The Lord’s Supper. That it was instituted by Jesus the same night he was betrayed, to be only a symbolic remembrance of the sacrifice of himself in his death and for our spiritual nourishment, and growth in him, and as a bond and pledge of our communion with him, and with each other.

I have felt more a presence with Christ when I commune in the Presbyterian church and have confessed my beliefs as a Presbyterian that the Lords Supper is symbolic but Christ makes his presence spiritually. I now believe as Calvin taught “That sacred communion of flesh and blood by which Christ transfuses his life into us, just as if it penetrated our bones and marrow, he testifies and seals in the Supper, and that not by presenting a vain or empty sign, but by there exerting an efficacy of the Spirit by which he fulfills what he promises.” I am nourished when I commune in the Presbyterian fold, I did not find that nourishment and presence as a RC when I was taught the bread and wine became the body and blood. I am convinced Rome is in error and the Reformed teaching on the Lords Supper is what Christ intended. I am convinced the reformed theology and faith as first taught by John Calvin explain salvation history and covenants better than any other method of theology and I not only believe in the doctrines of the Protestant Reformation but I believe the Reformed Presbyterian faith has the true meaning of sacrament and church and eventhough Baptists seeit as a sacrament they areclose to the presbyterianteaching also. I now renounce the roman mass and their eucharist as blasphepmous to the saving act of Christ on Calvary. I am not only a confessed Protestant now I am a Presbyterian Protestant.
I think God has led me to become a Protestant and Presbyterian. What started as a study on the Protestant Reformation has led to a conversion to Protestantism for me.
I believe the Bible as the word of God and the only and final authority and path to salvation I submit in discipline to the doctrines of John Calvin and the teachings of the Presbyterian Church in doctrine and life.

It is Christ alone who is salvation to our souls, not the Church of Rome or the Pope”

It is Christ alone who is salvation to our souls.

I believe now in the Protestant doctrine of Sola Scriptura. To believe other wise would return me to the bondage of human tradition which I was enslaved to as a Roman catholic. The Romanist teaching of scripture and tradition we must remember distorts the true Gospel of Christ, it is why we are Protestants and not Roman catholics. If I were not going to follow Sola Scriptura completely, I might as well have stayed in the Roman Catholic church. I renounced the awful Romish traditions as did the Protestant reformers and as did John Calvin. I am now a son of the Reformation and a defender of our Protestant heritage.
In grace,
Dudley

I am greatly enjoying this series. Are you going to write another on where you stand and the implications?