Since "following the Holy Spirit" is markedly different for all believers (and, like it or not, provable according to the person!) your post must be identified as a personal faith statement. In that respect, it is no different in kind from any other personal faith statement.If you sincerely follow the Holy Spirit, He will lead you to the Catholic Church
You may have an aversion to the Roman Catholic Church, don't want to go there, heard so many odd and unkosher sounding things about it..
But you will nonetheless be led there b/c that is part of Christendom...
and if you study history of the Church (from reliable sources) you will learn more and more about this historic Church, THE Church... (but you don't believe that yet) and you will learn more and more and
well...
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Scott Hahn
(Why re-invent the wheel? He has done all the research for you)
He was once anti-Catholic, but he, unlike most anti-Catholics here, STUDIED... and studied and studied... He studied so that he could prove Catholicism was WRONG... but he could not do that...
He has read literally THOUSANDS of books on theology... by Catholics and non-Catholics..
and most of you know what happened..
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Religions are filled with different people's "personal testimonies" to all sorts of different theology and every one of them has apparently sought out to "prove" one thing or another.