Why?

As we began questioning things about our Protestant faith, and speaking to people about our looking into the Catholic Church, we got the question of "why" over and over again. So I would to review just a few of the things and "why's" that set all of this in motion.

Division
This was huge for us. We saw the church so divided. Everyone disagreed over so many things and churches just kept splitting off from each other. Over 30,000 denominations could not be the church Christ came to establish.

Authority
This became an issue after we saw the division in the church. Every group claimed they were the ones following scripture and had the correct interpretation. With no one agreeing, it seemed like we were all relying on our own understanding of scripture and not what God was saying. But how could we really know what scripture meant? And how did we even get these scriptures and how do we know they are infallible? It seemed a piece of the puzzle was missing.

Eucharist
Most but not all Protestant churches teach that the bread and wine is merely symbolic. I couldn't agree with this after having read the book of John.

Faith alone
We also couldn't agree with this Protestant teaching after having read Hebrews and James. Yes we are saved by God's gift of grace, but it was clear works was an active and bigger part of faith and salvation than we were being taught.

Peter
In Matthew, Jesus renames Peter and founds the church. After researching this issue and looking into the Greek, Hebrew, church history, and other evidences of renaming in scripture, it was clear to us the church was founded on Peter... But what did that mean?


So here we find ourselves in RCIA, learning and praying and seeing the beauty of Christ's church revealed to us. There is so much more to the "why's", but this is all only a beginning.