(i) – Afterthoughts

A few quick afterthoughts following my article LIX – On the Reception of Converts.

• Converts self-select for positions of responsibility because of their enthusiasm. Conversion is not something undertaken lightly, even if someone is only doing so to get married.
• Conversion of any kind is a good thing. We WANT people in the big tent. We don’t want people to flee. Remember also, that great apostle Paul was a persecutor of Christians before he was converted, then he became an Evangelist and wrote much of what we have in the New Testament.
• When someone goes to confession, it is so they can receive God’s forgiveness. When someone has been forgiven by God, it is the sin of Pride to continue to hold them in low esteem for living in that sin: “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us”.
• Conversion is, in itself, de facto acknowledgement of Heresy. One cannot say that someone who has converted retains the marks of Heresy–the conversion wipes that clean.

AMDG