Former Pentecostal preacher Mike Cumbie now a Catholic lay preacher...
If you had told me the truth would have led me to the Roman Catholic Church, I would have slapped you and your momma. SHUT UP!
by Leonard Alt on Sunday, July 1, 2012 at 4:21am ·
MICHAEL CUMBIE; “Catholic!!! There is no such thing as truth and Catholic in the same sentence. That was just the way I was raised.”
What would make this Protestant pastor for twenty three years convert to Catholicism? “I
wanted to go back to the beginning, cause there is so many
denominations and I love them all. All filled with wonderful Christian
people. But a lot of confusion among us as Protestants, about whose
version of the Bible is the right version, whose interpretation is the
right interpretation…no authority.”
Baptism
doeth now save you; that was in my Baptist bible and I never saw it
because I had Baptist glasses. Whatever your tradition is, and this is
not a criticism, this is how it should be. If you’re a Southern
Baptist, then when you read the Bible you put on your Southern Baptist
glasses and that’s the filter. If you’re a Methodist, you have
Methodist glasses. If you are Presbyterian, the filter the lens through
which you see is going to be from your denomination. This is the way
it should be. Somebody said “well Michael all you did was trade off all
those glasses in for a set of Catholic glasses. I said that’s true,
but there the original pair. That is who gave us the Scripture and the
Catholic Church is really the one that has the authority to interpret
the book.
Michael
has made a couple of excellent points here. The Bible alone is not
enough to solve the confusion of whose interpretation is correct and
that is why he wanted to go back to the beginning. The second point he
makes is the type of glasses you wear determines how you interpret the
Bible. In this he is admitting that everybody is coming from somewhere
and is actually admitting that everyone has a tradition that colors how
they see the Bible.
One of the things I always liked
about the Catholic Church is that it is a very honest church. The
Church admits up front that we follow the Bible and the teaching
TRADITION of the Catholic Church. Protestants will admit that the
Catholic Church has a tradition and in fact will criticize the Catholic
Church for it. All the while, they will deny they too have a tradition
as well. This is not very honest because they too see Scripture
through their own set of glasses. A non-Catholic who gets to the point
of honestly admitting that they have a TRADITION is well on his way to
becoming Catholic whether he knows it or not.
MICHAEL
CUMBIE IS AN EXCELLENT WRITER AND SPEAKER IF YOU WISH TO HEAR THE REST
OF THE STORY CONTACT HIM ON FACE BOOK OR the website The Catholic
Company for his materials. http://search.catholiccompany.com/search?w=Cumbie
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