I can see that you are seeking to share what you have expierienced with sincerity, as well as an expressed desire for truth and I do appreciate that, however, I would be remiss if I did not bring some things to your attention with the goal of having an effectual communication. Since you are attempting to be sincere, I am more than willing to meet you halfway.
That stated, please understand that I am not beating you up, nor am I persecuting you. For the sake of proper dialog, based upon what you have shared, it is obvious to me, that you are still hanging on to the "leftovers" of what you have learned in the R.C.C., as well as what you had been taught by the S.D.A. as you still defend them because of your "experiences". I will address a bit more of that later, but for now, please allow for me to share a bit of information of what I have learned about people born into various cult religions, as the template is the same for all. There are a great number of testimonies of people, along with other data to substantiate and prove what I am to outlining.
I understand that being raised in a cult religion, whether it be the R.C.C., S.D.A., or any other group, and being told by Mom (or Dad) that this is good and is the right way, even when he or she doesn't fully understand the beliefs themselves, can and does make a lasting impact with devasting consequential effects, on the child/children into adulthood for the rest of life.
I have known of many people that have been born into various cult groups, believing everything that had been taught as being "truth", and die defending what they have been taught to believe. The term we used for that is "from the cradle to the grave".
Sadly, I have also encountered a large number of people that had been born into various cult group religions that had become so stumbled by the atrocities that they have experienced, that they had either become outright atheists and/or have joined the higher ranks of the Occult as Freemasons and Illuminati members. We term this as jumping from the frying pan into the fire", as they have only graduated into greater deception.
There is yet, another segment, that unlike the ones that are "from the cradle to the grave" of being strictly loyal to the cult group that they were born into, that go from one group to another, and one such example was a woman that I had met that was born into the R.C.C., but later joined the Jehovah's Witnesses, but later left them to join the Seveth Day Adventists, to later join the Mormons before making a full stop to pursue a lesbien relationship.
Another example was of a woman that had abandoned the Christian faith to become a witch, to later decide that she wanted to be a Muslim, and for a long period of years being inside and out of Psychiatric facilities.
The problem with each of these scenarios is that none of them had been able to find the narrow road that leads to eternal life, per Matthew 7:13-27
In contrast to the aforemention people born into cults and dying in their beliefs, and those of the other scenarios, I have also known many people, that by the grace of God, that have come to realize that they had been deceived since birth, be they 2nd generation, 3rd generation, 4th generation, 5th generation, and so forth to fully repent of what they had been taught since birth, turn to The True and Living Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. The key difference is that they were "born again", and had fully repented of those false religious groups.
There are a lot of many wonderful testimonies of the last group that I had mentioned, and if you are interested, I would be glad to share them with you, and in the meantime, we can discuss more of what the distinct differences are between the R.C.C., S.D.A., etc., to that of Biblical Christianity and perhaps also discuss what it truly means to be "born again".
I am also curious to learn more about the tract that you found on the ground, and who it was that produced it?
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