Turkish Christian looking for advice

1 Not sure what you mean with traditional, İ know there are some Protestant groups with more established doctrine and organization like Lutherans but here in Turkey they dont exist or are süper small groups with 1 or 2 communities in all the country and never outside İstanbul or other mega city. İ repeat that İ have nothing against Protestants and İ dont deny there can be good communities on Protestant Churches but İ prefer something more organized and established, where doctrine is written on paper and priest cant come to you and tell you his personal made up views are right and centuries of developed historic documents are wrong. İ can be wrung but it looks like Protestants have nothing in common beside the solas and this is with respect very weak base, see for example the Bible discussion forum of this site its like some internet soap opera
2 İ explained this nationality stuff to my brother but he is the way he is, if some institution is not of Turkish origin he will behave like its some anti Turkish recruitment agency, its good that my brother at least is respectful and lets people do what they want despite his general sarcastic atitude see comment above for more info of my brother
3 And yes İ know the perfect Church does not exist but like İ said having developed historic documents in place of something very general like the solas makes difference

İm not Catholic and İ understand this is problem in the Catholic Church but İ really dislike how people spread this disgrace all over the internet in bad Fatih trying to place the problem on the Catholic Church in place of the objective evil that is sexual abuse pretending that this is something unique and inherent of the Catholic Church
There are Orthodox priests, Protestant priests and Muslim imams doing this all the time even if they dont have the atention that Catholic priests have, and its not religious figures only there are school teachers doing this all the time also and İ know 1 case from people İ know, friend from different city told me about teacher in his school that was captured hiding in girls bathroom to touch girls legs and run away after that. Sadest part of this is that this type of stories are not something rare specially here in Turkey where scary number of men think taking advantage of girls makes them men

"İ prefer something more organized and established, where doctrine is written on paper"
Traditional protestant churches have all their doctrine written down, and have it available to read... and they hold to the ancient doctrines and creeds from the earliest councils in the first few centuries of the church. They hold to the ancient creeds and doctrines of the earliest councils. Sounds like you've been misinformed.

For someone who is a new christian, who knows nothing about the faith, you seem to have a lot of very strong views about the faith... as if you've already had a lot of teaching.

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that is the truth! catholics are highly guilty of violating Proverbs 30:6

I’m not Catholic, nor a Catholic apologist either. I believe following Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. So, when it comes to all other religions, I honestly don’t care if they are all wiped off the face of the earth.

Yes İm new Christian and dont know much İ can be wrong but İ know the basics that difference all forms of Christianity. My knowledge of Protestantism is in most part from versions that are, dont know how to say it so İm saying more modern, the type that dont care about tradition and want to be cool. İ know lmost nothing about Lutherans and this type of Protestant that keeps tradition because they have small presence on internet so sorry if İ talked falsely about them

May be in past but today they are talking about it without shame and publish info about sexual abuse this is what İ hear atleast

İ also believe Jesus is the way truth and life but İ respect the right of people to have different belief, being ex Muslim İ know well how not respecting religious freedom ends

Well the New testament is small compared to the Old Testament.. And the 4 Gospels are even smaller.. So it should not take you too long to read the New testament..

May be but with our atention spans destroyed by internet it takes time and effort

Yes i agree.. So include in your prayers to Ask God to give you a better attention span and wisdom.. God is well able to increase these attributes in those that seek Him..

To make the learning process more interesting my friend, then it's best you try to interact with another human being in real life who knows the Bible.
A priest is typically the best choice, so maybe find a Bible teaching group that they might be running.
In many Orthodox Churches, mine included, the priest organizes a weekly or bi-weekly church reading group where people can learn and discuss the Bible slowly.
Maybe look for something like that?

Good morning, Eli! Coffee?

I also find listening to be helpful, and have for many years at various times had the radio on and tuned to a Christian talk station. kari55.com is also online as the address attests, and can be listened to 24/7/365, although Friday evenings is foreign language content and Saturday during the day they have health-related infomercials. Otherwise it is ad free and hosts a variety of teachers and expositors. I find listening to a wide variety more helpful than listening to just one, for I can learn even from those with whom I disagree more largely. Also as I was driving home from my daughter's place on Christmas day night the program faded and then there was dead air space which I had never heard before... and I did wonder if it was because it was Christmas. Still it seemed strange because a program was on and it just became less and less audible until there was nothing...

Agreed!
I am also very hands on and visual, so i learn by hearing and seeing first. Then when it's something interesting, then i will read more into it.
Same thing with my job. I never learned anything useful in college about computers, i learned it all by doing, myself. Then when i learned the concept, i read more into the particular discipline to understand the finer details of it.

And good morning to you as well on the other side! I had a single shot espresso already.

Have a great day and have fun shopping!
On the East side we have been hit with some sort of flu that's been hitting the area so we've been loading up on vitamin c and putting on the masks when we go shopping.
The Mask as you know is a VERY controversial topic but The Vaccine is the nuclear bomb of controversial topics.

Ugh, thank you for letting me know... The vaccine, the vatican... ooohhhhh they are so similar! LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Just kidding. Heh. And seriously, I still see people wearing masks and I can appreciate
that they may feel they need to, but for me with my COPD it becomes an issue...

And it is specifically because of that that I need to be more careful...