As a Reformed Protestant, I must say that I found much that I could agree with in this presentation. There were some points here and there that I would need further clarification on but overall definitely worth my time to listen in. Thanks
Thank you father, mental discipline is rare in the world today. Good Scholastic, Thomistic, Dominican theology is sound, rigorous, and leads to truth when it is actually followed.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch, of course! 1st Lateran, Pope St. Gregory the Great, Trent, I don't think that a person can hold to Catholic dogma and doctrine in a legitimate sense without both maintaining that teaching and operating according to it. There would be no reason for the Great Commission otherwise.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch, that depends. We have it documented that the goal of the Modernist heretics was to open the Overton Window of expectation on the "Council" of Vatican II by insinuating language with broader, more general definitions. This was done intentionally by the acolytes of the Nouvelle Theologie to leave a door ajar in order to come back later and claim a looser interpretation to Catholic doctrine than was intended. It is important not to lose track of the fact that both John XXIII and Paul VI said that V2 exercised no "extraordinary magisterium", leaving only ordinary magisterium. It is illicit and bad reasoning (illogical) to interpret V2's badly written documents beyond previously established and contemporarily taught (in the 1950s/60s) doctrine. Aside from largely being a sales meeting, V2 was mostly procedural and administrative in it's authority. Sancrosantum Concilium even (when it can be bothered to actually give a straight answer) exhorts that the Latin Mass must be maintained and that Gregorian Chant has to be given the place of preference in liturgical music. It further specifies that there can be no unilateral or severe changes to the Mass, that only gradual, organic changes can be authorized to take place. Doing the math here: must keep Latin, prefer Gregorian Chant, can't make drastic Mass changes. That is a safeguard against EXACTLY what Jorge Bergoglio has been trying to do. That's a long answer to say the following. V2 was an ecumenical council, technically, but one that by it's own opening and closing was not permitted to make any unique, binding effect to Catholic teaching. It is a sales meeting. Ironically, the Modernist poisoning of the council will only serve to ensnare them now. Bergoglio now exceeds the Council, making drastic, unilateral changes, eliminating Latin, and not being able to abide by even the bent and softened rules. Catholic teaching cannot change. What was right for Pope St. Leo the Great, is right for St. John Damascene, is right for St. Bernard, is right for St. Thomas Aquinas, is right for St. John Fisher, etc. We can only increase resolution and detail, not change the nature of the eternal. Too bad for James Martin and his merry band of Modernists.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch, it is a terribly untrue interpretation of Catholic doctrine to equare Catholic and non-Catholic. I wrote a big post on what I thought of V2 and novelties found in its pages. Essentially, it cannot purport anything diverging from previously established doctrine because it was ordinary magisterium. It is a toothless document full of half-truths and only contributing administrative value. It only helps when it stands in the way of the Modernists, like in Sacrosanctum Concilium.
Man pronounced anathema on those outside of the Roman church, is that correct? You, logically following the orthodox teaching of Rome, hold to this view, and are going around saying “convert to Roman Catholicism or remain lost and on the way to perdition”.. Is that too correct? What shall we say to this? Well, you are consistent with your beliefs and conviction that Roman Catholicism is true. Therefore you must condemn all those outside of Rome. But where do we see this in the word of God? My authority is the word of God, over and above the word of man. God was pleased to reveal the Gospel of His Son to me when I was a hellbound sinner. God in mercy granted me faith to receive the good news of forgiveness of sin and eternal life in Jesus Christ, by His sacrificial death and resurrection from the dead. Ever since that moment I have enjoyed fellowship with God, having been born of the Holy Spirit. Back to the question of your assertion. You would surely say I am lost despite my testimony to the contrary. Importantly, what does God say on this matter of those outside of the church of Rome? Well, nothing actually. Nowhere does God state Rome is the one true church and there is no salvation outside of it. Romanists love to quote Jesus’ words to Peter in Matthew 16:18, as if that somehow meant they were right. But how does Jesus’ words here to Peter mean that Rome is the only true church? Assumptions must be made in order to conclude that. Those assumptions being that Peter is the Pope of Rome who has all authority over other churches, and that this establishment of the Church of Rome alone is the abiding church standing strong against outsiders. But here is the problem - those assumptions cannot be demonstrated to be true. In fact, where is the evidence to show that? I’m reading Eusebius, the early Christian historian and he never speaks in this way. In actual fact, there have been divisions, contradictions and various atrocities throughout the history of the church of Rome. The Lord Jesus and the apostles spoke of many false teachers and false prophets who would come in the midst of the churches and lead many astray. And in fact we see from the teachings of Scripture that Rome has departed from fundamental biblical teaching is several key areas. Just take Martin Luther’s 95 theses on indulgences for example to show this, or John Calvin comparing justification as the apostle teaches it in Romans 3 and 4 against the teachings Rome has adopted in her catechism. How can you hold so firmly to Rome then? I would honour Hod rather than man. Therefore I can not turn to her with all her idolatries. I would urge you to compare these teachings of Rome with the word of God also. For we all must appear before Him to give an account.
Wow fr pine...you summarized the salvation process in 15minutes. Watta nice! God bless fr pine and matt. Thank you pints with aquinas! You are doin great! - greetings from the philippines
So you want to be crucified , do you even know what are you saying ? Jesus Christ went to the Cross to be crucified for your and every ones sin . He paid in full and said it is Finished . It is clear you are one confused catholic !
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch your catholic religious church is far from true . It actually is a counterfeit spawned by satan that came as an angel of light to deceive the nation .Sad to say he did a great job putting all you catholics in bondage !
Hi Matt and Fr. Gregory: just wanted to say this channel has meant so much to me in my journey to becoming Catholic. I'm going to grad school this fall to study Catholic theology, and I can't say enough about how indispensable material like this is to me. Thank you!
Thanks, Fr Pine & PWA. It is beautiful not only to have a high-level picture of Salvation but also to endeavour to go deeper into what God has done for us in Christ. Whilst we will never be able to exhaust its depths fully (and it can be hard to do), how worthwhile/noble it is to want to appreciate the Lord and his deeds more.
Getting abused from 8-13 really got me into looking at porn later in my teens, I wish it could've been different and makes me feel like I'm not forgiven for my sins cause it's a lot of weight on my shoulders most the time till this day and I'm in my early 20s now.
If you repent and turn away from your sins from this point forward and serve Jesus as your Lord and master, you become a child of God, and become born again as a new person. That's when you become a Christian. You inherit eternal life through inheritance.
David’s sin was greater than yours. He was an adulterer and a murderer. Paul’s sin was greater than yours. He was a mass murderer of christians. Both were forgiven. The scriptures say if you confess your sins, He is faithful and true and will forgive you. Trust in the work Christ did on the cross. You are to put your sins on his shoulders, not your own. Rest in what He did on the cross. Ask Him, he will do it.
After I confessed my sins and received the Sacrament of Reconciliation I went back home and enumerated every instance I could remember, asking God to forgive me for that particular instance. I could only recall so many at a time, so I ended up doing that over the course of days, or maybe it was weeks, but every other day, until it was over. Sometimes I felt like God was saying "You know you are forgiven already." God loves it when you pour your heart out to Him, so be not afraid!
It was so much easier as a Protestant, "Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Say the sinners prayer and if you've prayed this prayer we believe you are now a Christian so find a good Bible believing church. Once saved always saved; blessed assurance and all of that. Soteriology? Christ's humanity an instrument? Pretty heavy stuff. I'll have to watch this a couple more times but not right now I have to get to Mass to continue in my sanctification process.
I agree! I am a devoted Catholic, I love the sacraments but why do I have the feeling that Protestants do such a better job at explaining the bible and in particular salvation? I learned so much from them that I am afraid that it becomes incompatible at some point with Catholicism... Sometimes it feels like the Church was having a divorce, with both parties having to divide their gifts.. one side gets the sacraments and tradition, the other side the appreciation and insight in Scripture...
@@redhocs I was raised in what was basically a Baptist church (once saved always saved etc). I have many fond memories of the people there, people who love God and scripture, and were kind and generous. However, I am Catholic now and at the risk of sounding uncharitable, I will say that yes, many of their teachings are simpler, but often in the way that a stick figure is a simpler representation of a person than his or her portrait. Simple does not always equal true.
Just a quick thought: If Christ's model is of soteriological impact then it must of necessity have ontological implications. It follows that our participation in Christ and he in us is what achieves this. As such any ontological impact must have its origins in a relationality (Jn.17) which is achieved by reciprocating God's desire for us with our desire for him and by enacting that through participation in the sacraments of baptism and the eucharist which model and in the latter case, embody Him.
Beautiful. Thanks so much for making this. Hearing this grand summary of Aquinas’ understanding of salvation makes me wonder why I haven’t read the Summa yet.
thank you so much for this clear introduction to soteriology. I have a question re: the teachings of St Thomas as I am a beginner to his work. I was told "St Thomas is very easy to understand " then someone else advise that I needed a basic understanding of Aristotle's philosophy. Please advise!
Better study the Holy Bible and the truth brought by Jesus, and the gospel of salvation which is Romans, and you will find that propitiation is the wrath of God taken from us by the forgiving of past sins before baptism.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch No. The faith of Abraham is necessary as Paul insists in Romans the gospel of salvation. I recommend my Ytube video #15 'In Christ without the law?' in the series 'Myths in so-called Christianity", as I show the truth as Paul in his epistles. The site is in my full name 'Simon John Skinner'.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch Ephesians 2:11-22 covers thus, especially 2:11-12 those Gentiles were without Christ and aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel (Jews), and Romans 11:17 the Gentiles were grafted into the religion of the Jew. My Ytube video #7 'Behold, thou art called a Jew' in the series 'Myths in so-called Christianity', and is the very video for this conversation, and is the only true rendering of Paul's statement to believers in the law of Abraham.
I was wondering what Acquinas was about on this topic. Recreation, great answer, and how that would occur would be next great question to see what he says.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved. Or as Jesus said, like Moses lifted up the Serpent in the wilderness so the Son of Man be lifted up. Asking for grace from the Lord's anointed saves us. Not the priest or a particular church. As there were 12 + apostles and disciples.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch I don't know what you mean by Catholic Lord. I have become very interested in the King of Israel aspect of our Lord, even when they mocked Him on the way to the cross.
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He starts by saying salvation is gratuitous ( which is correct) then ends up saying God rewards us with eternal by our works (merit). Both cannot be correct. Romans 4:4-5 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt. But to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counteth for righteousness. Too many pints with Aquinas leads in the wrong direction.
Yes completely. You should hear how the Dominicans use apologetics to excuse St. Dominick of that faux pas. All of what Fr. Pine is saying is nothing more than a Theological theorem. None of which can be proven or backed by Facts. As Catholics we lump this into the category called ... The Mysterys of Faith.
Hello Father Gregory and Brother Matt. Would you be interested in reaching out to a former Roman Catholic who's now evangelical and doing a ministry to challenge the current cultural narrative about sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular through his personal testimony and biblical truths? His name is Becket Cook. He has a website and UA-cam channel of his ministry 🙏
@@isrberlinerin4063 Truth & Life App Matthew 7:21 21 "Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Your 4 verses, taken out of context doesn’t override the rest of scripture.
@@michaelibach9063 You cite a verse from Matt 7 :21 did you ever think it could apply to you ? The same goes for you taking one scripture and making a accusation .
@@michaelibach9063 It is actually broad is the road hat leads to destruction and many will follow ,but narrow is the way (gate) and only few will find it . If you do not want to accept salvation what Romans 10:8-11 state that's up to you ! The plan of salvation is not complicated , but religion has its own man-made doctrinal spin on it !
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I am a devoted Catholic, I love the sacraments but why do I have the feeling that Protestants do such a better job at explaining the bible and in particular salvation? I learned so much from them that I am afraid that it becomes incompatible at some point with Catholicism... Sometimes it feels like the Church was having a divorce, with both parties having to divide their gifts.. one side gets the sacraments and tradition, the other side the appreciation and insight in Scripture...
Every complete syllogism has simple, immediate understandings that fall apart under further examination. In other words, a small mistake made for simplicity sake at the foundation causes the top of the building to tilt drastically by the 50th floor. Salvation is NOT the simple, 2-dimentional, internally inconsistent, religious outlook born in the 16th century. It's simple because it doesn't care about being complete truth. It doesn't care about reconciling its answers to formal logic, to natural law, to what we know through the traditions passed on from the apostles. They make up what sounds good to their outlook. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. True religion requires me to conform to God's will, not the other way around.
@@perhael I fit the bill as nominally C of E as I have a series of Ytube videos 'Myths in so-called Christianity', and have 16 videos which I hope you will find interesting since you asked. My site is 'Simon John Skinner'.
This analysis was a perfect Seminary religious intellectual mixed Word -Salad . The only thing you can offer the Risen Savior and Lord is your acceptance of salvation with your heart that he purchased with His Blood for the remission of all humanity's Sin by dying on the Cross of Calvary .
That is not all. You also need to offer the Risen Saviour your LOVE because even though salvation is a FREE gift, He grants it to those who fulfill a certain requirement: and that is LOVE. The inheritance that God has prepared in heaven are for those who LOVE HIM (1 Corinthians 2:9; James 2:5). And so you need to keep on loving God EVERY DAY of your life if you want to receive the salvation that Christ will bring when He comes again to "SAVE those who are waiting for him" (Hebrews 9:28)
And what He gives you in return is the power of God to overcome sin and do Gods will, which you need to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, through the sacraments.
@@jerome2642 You quote all those different scripture and yet you have no clue about Salvation . First Jesus Christ loved us First so that we can love Him . He laid His Life down for our redemption and He said when He goes away He will send a Comforter the Holy Spirit that will lead us into all Truth . It is the Holy Spirit that draws a person to Jesus to be saved . Read Romans 10: 8-11 whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved . Not all people that alive now will be there when the Lord comes back .Those that are alive at his second coming that endured to the end shall be saved so you have to read Hebrews in context . Read Hebrews 9:14 ..... When Jesus died on the Cross of Calvary His last words were it is FINISHED . What do you think He meant ? The only requirement is to be saved "Born Again" is repentance of our sin and then in our heart we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord of Life . By His Grace through our faith are we saved . Of course your catholic belief system rejects Gods biblical true Plan of Salvation . Religion has never nor could save a soul only deceptive doctrines are offered and a pagan purgatory that does not exist , its a delusion .
@@isrberlinerin4063 Sorry but you are gravely mistaken 1) When I said that the heavenly inheritance that God has prepared are for those who LOVE HIM (James 2:5; 1 Corinthians 2:9), I was in no way saying that God expects us to take the initiative by loving Him first. God is the one who has taken the initiative to love us by sending His Son to die for us. Our love for God is only a RESPONSE to His love for us (1 John 4:17). But this response from us is actually NOT OPTIONAL. We cannot say that we will possess our heavenly inheritance WHETHER we love Him OR NOT. God EXPECTS us to LOVE Him as a response to His love for us, and has made our love a REQUIREMENT for receiving the salvation that Jesus brings. As Hebrews 5:9 says, Jesus brings salvation to not just anybody but to those WHO OBEY HIM. And our obedience is the manifestation of our LOVE for Him. And so in order to be saved, we need to have FAITH in Him and to LOVE Him. 2) But if salvation is a FREE gift, doesn't it mean that we don't have to DO ANYTHING before receiving it? Why then would God make our LOVE for Him a requirement for receiving salvation? Well, salvation is FREE because as human beings we are incapable of BUYING or PURCHASING it or EARNING it. "Free" means "not PAYING for something". It doesn't necessarily mean "not doing anything before receiving something". Our Love for God is a REQUIREMENT and not a PRICE we pay in order to earn salvation. Nothing stops God from expecting certain requirements to be fulfilled before giving out FREE gifts. For instance, Acts 5:32 says that God gives the Holy Spirit to those who OBEY HIM. Obedience here is simply a requirement and not a price because the Holy Spirit is the FREE gift of God and we cannot EARN the Holy Spirit by obeying God. 3) Protestants love to quote the words of Jesus "it is FINISHED" to Catholics because they wrongly think that Catholics do WORKS out of a belief that the death of Jesus was INSUFFICIENT to obtain for us salvation. That is not true. Catholics realize the importance of loving God and the fact that real love manifests itself in our ACTIONS or WORKS. 4) You have clearly misunderstood Matthew 24:13. Jesus said that whoever perseveres to the END will be saved. He didn't specifically say: "whoever perseveres until I come again will be saved". The "End" in Matthew 24:13 more accurately refers to the END of our lives on earth. Anyone who perseveres through trials and tribulations right up to the END of his life on earth will be SAVED by being rewarded with heavenly glory -- it doesn't really matter if such a person dies BEFORE Jesus comes again. In 2 Timothy 4:7 - 8, Paul was confident of receiving his heavenly reward because he had persevered in his faith right up to the END of his life on earth (even though he died BEFORE the second coming of Jesus). So our salvation is not all about a SINGLE ACTION that we perform ONCE in our lifetime. It is actually about how we live our lives right up to the END of our lives.
@@jerome2642 You are really know how to confuse the issue of salvation . Before you can tell me that i am gravely wrong you must be Born Again and know the Truth otherwise you sound like a clinging symbol . If you are not truly saved you have no reason to obey . You religious catholics just simply do not get it . God never gave such Love requirement , before we accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord . You present a God that is conditional that is absurd , tells me you do not know Him , only from afar . Once we are saved our Love for Jesus sets in , because He changes our hearts and then we are also willing to obey and pray that His will be done in our life . He also fills us with the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth . So much of what you wrote is backwards . Jesus saved me and filled me with His Holy Spirit over 25+ years ago so no catholic can tell me anything when to be saved . Religion is for people that allow themself to be brainwashed by doctrines of men , because it appeals to the carnal mind . You quoted all those scriptures and you still do not know or flat out reject what Jesus said in Romans 10:8-11 whosoever calls upon my Name shall be saved .
Maybe it's an a intrinsecally wrong question to made, for our spiritual life and benefits, and in your daily walking. Says in a more humble constant way, Lord please have mercy of me a sinner, it's the right point for living through his grace
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch I just think that it's only for God will that if one is saved or not, and he knows that from the beginning, fulfilling this question its against humility and its a personal human pretest upon his rights, we can do wherever we want, go to mass everyday, pray every moment, becoming priest, married or monk but if he don't want something and if our choice it's against is will, we will live in a wrong state and in a deep sadness that will lead us away from him, in sin. We can't do nothing, for example if one choose a Vocation but if this Vocation its against his will, we will living in a fallen state, despite what we do. Thy will be done, not ours, we can't just says, please lord have mercy of us sinners and accept his will. There's a reason about why he says, many will come in my names but i will not know them.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch I've already sayed in the comment before that those, prayers, sacraments etc etc are only tools for salvation, essential for receiving grace and walk by faith, but in the end its God that choose who want to save, or not, not ours. Believing that if one do nice things and respect things, but if he don't want to become a Saint inside the vocation that Our Lord have called him, but do and acts, in a legalistic way, it's like what the parishees have do it in the Gospels. In fact the last man outside the church without nothing, was accepted by God, but the Parishees that believes that he's saved because he act on doing his things is not accepted, all Jesus parables where about that.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch I know what I talking about, for personal experience, years ago I've walking by faith in seminary, but God don't want that, that I will become a priest.. and in the years I've understood that, his will was not mine. We need to be humble, accept his will, don't made up those questions for the healthy of our souls and yes, prays, walk by faith, takes the Sacraments, trying to love the people's that we meet in our real life, in the end the judgment Wil be his last judgment upon us, not ours, and love him even if for absurd we will die soon or if we will go to hell, amen. 🙏 That's the faith, I think.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch Baptism is needed because it's what Jesus have sayed to us, but also Cornelius the pagan was right in the eyes of God, in the book of acts, the question is don't made up the question, but fulfilling it.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch And they acts like people's that already feels something in themselves and accept soon the truth, because they want to walk with the lord without desire other things , not like a man that believes and acts only because he want something in exchange or he pretend something like.. Only his Salvation, this attempt goes against the spirit and against how the spirit walk inside us, is Just human self intellectualism. The end is the meaning, the meanings are not the sense, if salvation is doing the right things like robots, well we're not inside that tiny hard door, offcourse grace is needed. When the young man says, what I need to do for being saved, the lord explain to him the tools, the struments for grace and the commandments .. But he says Also.. lose yourself, give all to the poor and walk with me, the little guy goes away, because he was rich, how we're rich of many things..and pretend that we're saved only because we do the right job in going to Mass everyday, pray etc etc we'll we just replace, and made the tool at the place of the end, and we don't walk at all with him, but we becoming just like that joung man, that have followed the commandaments from the beginning of his life, but at the lord request, escape.I Love how the gospel says, Jesus watch him with love and says how hard is for a rich go in the kingdom of God, its more easy that camel will go inside a eye of a needle , but anyway nothing it's impossible for God.
Salvation is surrender to Christ. Not just surrender to the authority of our lord Jesus Christ, but actually surrender to the way of Christ, the call to pick up your cross, to become part of Christ in His body. That is to become part of the model of the cross in the world as a living sacrifice. And such a way is salvation. In it you find yourself on Christ and in God and God in you and you find yourself in heaven. In heaven, all are living Christ.
You do not make any sense first you say you saved, then you are being saved and finally you hope to be saved . It seems you are one confused catholic !
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people, To whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,” And, “This is the refreshing”; Yet they would not hear. 5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), 6yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live. God is the singularity responsible for the Big bang and according to the many laws of conservation, that singularity had to be equal to or greater than ALL mass, energy, and information/intelligence in the universe combined and since things are neither created or destroyed but rather transfer to transformed this means God became the universe. God is omnipresent omniscient and omnipotent. God is everything everywhere. The universe is a quantum computer. cmsw.mit.edu/angles/2015/is-the-universe-actually-a-giant-quantum-computer/ Jesus is God's only begotten son and through him all things were made by God. 18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who [d]suppress the truth in unrighteousness,19because what may be known of God is [e]manifest [f]in them, for God has shown it to them.20For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and [g]Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.22Professing to be wise, they became fools23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like [h]corruptible man-and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? God said, I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the Lord of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger. It shall be as the hunted gazelle, And as a sheep that no man takes up; Every man will turn to his own people, And everyone will flee to his own land. Jesus will return after Jerusalem gets nuked by the abomination which causes desolation mentioned in Matthew 24. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and Holy are those who have part of the first resurrection for the second death has no hold of them. They will reign with Christ for 1000 years. After the 1000 years the rest of the dead are raised and judged. Then comes the END. Jesus must reign until he has defeated all of his enemies. All Power, Dominion, and Authority then the last enemy that will be defeated is death itself. The He will return the kingdom back to the Father so that Gid may he all in all. The Earth is Hell in the future (2 Peter 3). It gets hit by an asteroid (Revelation 9) and pushed toward the sun (Isaiah 13-13). In those days men will seek death but it will not find them, they will long to die but death will flee from them. The New Jerusalem will take the best of humanity and the glory of the nations to a new Earth where righteousness dwells. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie. The cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Our hope lies in a New Heaven and a New Earth where righteousness dwells.
So 'Am I saved' .. Yip! If you are baptised into Christ (you have 'been' saved, as Noah and those in his Ark had been saved from the watery grave); if you are not in the Ark of Christ's Body, then, Nope! Are you therefore ever true to that divine call .. i.e. man's salvation from the rewards of sin aka death, in the one Name that offers salvation from it - as a New Creation = in the New Adam .. not necessarily so; Baptism is what God has chosen to do for us, as He promised (a sacramentum = the mystery of a pledge), yet how we freely choose to respond to that gift .. remains up to us, either we accept God's grace to help us be true to Him, or we junk it (you are being 'saved', or you refuse to be saved). The Day, at the Last Judgement, shall reveal to us all who is saved and who has rejected it; at our own particular judgement, after mortal flesh has died, we will meet that fact, face to face, and receive our recompense in Christ - accepted as His own ('you' are saved, even if you go to Purgatory, the fiery test on our apostolic deeds) or rejected as belonging to another because we do not want to be part of Him (for 'salvation' in Him is just not our thing). Keep the Faith; tell the truth, shame the devil, and let the demons shriek. God bless. ;o) P.S. Can God save us without the Sacrament of Baptism into Christ .. Yip! It is what He has chosen to do, nonetheless, He is free to choose other gifts to give us in lieu of it .. but salvation from death in Old Adam is still His to give in Christ alone, and ours to repudiate it or accept it. There is no other Name by which we can be saved, so we are commanded by Christ to undertake an apostolic mission whether it suits us or not, for Baptism in the Name of the Father, and in the Name of the Son, and in the Name of Holy Ghost is God's Way, the Truth, our Life ... so, dear soul, don't go out and make a mess, get up and do the works which God had prepared beforehand to be our way of life in Christ (that is the Faith, btw, whether or not a passing pope suggests otherwise).
Who is the Father the one that glorified Jesus, the one Jesus said is the God of the Israelites? John 8:54 Jesus answered: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, THE ONE WHO YO SAY IS YOUR GOD. Luke 1:67 Then Zech·a·riʹah his father was filled with HOLY SPIRIT, and he prophesied, saying: 68 “Let Jehovah be praised, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, because he has turned his attention to his people and has brought them deliverance Psalm 41:13 May Jehovah, the God of Israel, be praised Throughout ALL ETERNITY. Amen and Amen.
Good episode. Thanks. Just by the way. You mentioned Thomas Aquinas. You probably know that towards the end of his life, he apparently received a divine revelation while saying Mass upon which he said: "All that I have written is straw, in respect to those things that I have seen and have lately been revealed to me". I believe he was dead serious, because in fact, he never wrote another word, leaving his master work, the Summa Theologiae, unfinished. I honestly believe he had been shown by the Lord God Almighty who made heaven and earth, that his writings were in fact, worthless. Let us remember that straw is that part of the grain harvest that has no value insofar as human consumption. However: "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8 And; " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1:1-2, 4-5 I am a 69 year old Christian. The Word of God has been my Light, my Life and my Salvation since I got saved about 45 years ago. The writings of the Church Fathers and others like Thomas Aquinas are somewhat interesting but they are not, and are always far inferior to, the Word of that Blessed Person. My own humble two cents. Immerse yourself in His Word. Love His Word. Embrace and study His Word. You will not be disappointed. Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 And, I think you're gonna like this: ua-cam.com/video/fs7Kah6wnY8/v-deo.html
@@quadrga good thing that St Paul is not the only Apostle and just because didn’t use lofty language at Corinth, that doesn’t mean he didn’t use it somewhere else or that everybody used simple language to proclaim the Gospel. Also if you have read any of St. Paul’s writings, you would know they are much much deeper and not written as simply as you think they are.
@@carolynkimberly4021 where does it say "pope"? Where does it say Roman Catholic Church. Where does it say Mary was a perpetual virgin? Etc., Etc., Etc., ...
This is one thing about Catholocism 😂. You ask a simple question and you get a 15 minute answer that only introduces the topic! Let know one say that Catholics have not thought about these things.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch This is very true - and from where I stand it is an almost fundamental defeater for most of Catholic criticisms against Protestant disunity. The same thing is clearly happening in Catholicism (just under the radar)
If you have to ask the question “am I saved” then sorry but your not. Simply confess your sins believe on the lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. It’s hard to explain but when your saved you just know deep down in your soul.
@@danielrickel8807 you boiling down salvation to four verses doesn’t equate to scripture saying so. It just means you took four verses of scripture and imposed a meaning on them not actually supported by the rest of scripture. Truth & Life App 2 Peter 3:15-16 15 And count the forbearance of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.
Jesus died to become the judge of those baptised into his church, and our past sins can be forgiven as a gift, but only if we deserve his grace. I have a Ytube video 'Grace is merited' as only those sanctified are saved.
Yes, catholics/orthodox (real christians) as the original Holy Aposotlic Church that Jesus founded & promised Himself obviously don't have such treatment with the the most holy Mother of God. Now, the discording religion of Protestantism that was founded by a german rebel bible-mutilator pretentious monk +1500 years after Jesus & His apostles, with no connection to Them, and in opposition to the catholic one that does… If obviously not Christianity.
@@redrocketbaby You are going to a Hell by CHOICE by ignoring Jesus and His Holy Catholic Apostolic Church that compilated the very Bible, as well as the first 1500 years of the christian era just so your heretical gross "christian" religion can make sense to be called "christian" even though being founded by a Bible-mutilator nobody on his own terrible interpretation of Scripture, millennia and a half after Christ & the Apostles, with no connection to Them and in opposition to the original true mystical body of Christ on Earth (That Catholic Church) that does. Also Christ does is God (we christians were the first to know that before) but God's name is not sure to be "Yahweh", that's just the best bet on how the original LOST pronunciation was; you using It just exemplifies more how you're a poor modern pretentious know-it-all know nothing dramatic heretic.
Lol this video could be 10 seconds long. You literally just have to believe the gospel, that Christ died for your sins, and rose again on the third day. That's it, the moment you believe that you are saved for eternity and you can never lose your salvation. Any other "gospel" you preach is wrong, and certainly not good news.
Lol you could just be less of a laughing proud pretentious heretic to acknowledge that your limited terrible personal understanding of God's word, message and plan resulted in this literal heretical presumptuous theology of yours where "you believe that you are saved for eternity and you can never lose salvation" as if Christ took the freewill out of His followers.
Why worry about St. Aquinas. It is Jesus that saves your soul. Have faith that He is your Savior, repent of your sins and then live for Him. No priest involved, and no Eucharist to take.
Why worry about Ben Calvert? It is quite clear he hasn't given this topic any real thought and will lead the foolishly equal astray. Like a typical non-Catholic that doesn't know his bible, nor understand what he is talking about; he merely spouts idiotic troll comments and then runs without explaining himself. I would listen to a drunken Aquinas all day before giving a Ben Calvert a split second of my time.
@@39knights Aquinas had many good things to say. I was talking about salvation and as usual a Catholic shows up that hasn't a clue about what salvation is or how to become saved. It isn't by any catholic doctrine or Mary. One of these Catholics that confesses to a priest on a Friday and Saturday is at the bar drinking with the same priest.
@@bcalvert321 here’s the difference ben, Saint Thomas has actually made it to heaven, so His opinions on Jesus’s teachings are relevant. You on the other hand, are not in heaven, thus your opinion on Jesus’s teachings are not relevant. Your interpretation of scripture vs Thomas Aquinas’s interpretation of scripture. Your opinion vs Aquinas’s opinion. Your wrong, he’s right. False teachings vs true teachings.
@@bcalvert321 "....a Catholic shows up that hasn't a clue ..." The fact I have remained Catholic and continues to participate in the One True Apostolic Faith that Jesus founded; shows I have more of a clue that you (even if it isn't that much more). "... It isn't by any catholic doctrine or Mary...." So says Ben Calvert based on his own human authority which somehow trumps that of the Apostles and their duly appointed successors. Would you like to give us poor Catholics a lesson on Soteriology which amounts to more than the evangelical mantra 'Christ did it all on the Cross' which explains nothing; at least nothing we didn't already know before Ben Calvert came along? Go ahead and take a stab at it; let's just see how brilliant your thoughts on the subject are when they are put out there in concrete form for all to see your erroneous thinking. Quite easy to take jabs at others attempt; but see what happens when you try to pen your own thoughts (if you have any). "....One of these Catholics that confesses to a priest on a Friday...." Well at least you seem to understand one part of the bible where Jesus gives priests the Authority to forgive sins in His name as every real Christian has done since the time of the Apostles. At least it is the biblical way. Though I never drink to get drunk which no well-formed Catholic should do; so I am not sure what you were implying with the rest of your statement. Anyway let's see some of your clear brilliant thoughts on how salvation is achieved. This should be entertaining.
How catholic of you, quote saint x, y and z, when all you need are the words of Jesus - He who believes in me. I didn't understand a word of what you said, Jesus's own words are much clearer.
Faith alone is a heretical false protesting doctrine, just like sola scriptura. FAITH WITHOUT GOOD WORKS IS DEAD (JAMES 2:14-26). We follow church teaching because Jesus gave authority to the church, not your own personal opinion of the bible i.e. false sola scriptura doctrine. Saints are the heroes of the church and the faith. Protestantism is about division and confusion and has a history of false end timers and preachers.
As a Reformed Protestant, I must say that I found much that I could agree with in this presentation. There were some points here and there that I would need further clarification on but overall definitely worth my time to listen in. Thanks
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Thank you father, mental discipline is rare in the world today. Good Scholastic, Thomistic, Dominican theology is sound, rigorous, and leads to truth when it is actually followed.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch, of course!
1st Lateran, Pope St. Gregory the Great, Trent, I don't think that a person can hold to Catholic dogma and doctrine in a legitimate sense without both maintaining that teaching and operating according to it.
There would be no reason for the Great Commission otherwise.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch, that depends.
We have it documented that the goal of the Modernist heretics was to open the Overton Window of expectation on the "Council" of Vatican II by insinuating language with broader, more general definitions.
This was done intentionally by the acolytes of the Nouvelle Theologie to leave a door ajar in order to come back later and claim a looser interpretation to Catholic doctrine than was intended.
It is important not to lose track of the fact that both John XXIII and Paul VI said that V2 exercised no "extraordinary magisterium", leaving only ordinary magisterium.
It is illicit and bad reasoning (illogical) to interpret V2's badly written documents beyond previously established and contemporarily taught (in the 1950s/60s) doctrine.
Aside from largely being a sales meeting, V2 was mostly procedural and administrative in it's authority.
Sancrosantum Concilium even (when it can be bothered to actually give a straight answer) exhorts that the Latin Mass must be maintained and that Gregorian Chant has to be given the place of preference in liturgical music.
It further specifies that there can be no unilateral or severe changes to the Mass, that only gradual, organic changes can be authorized to take place.
Doing the math here: must keep Latin, prefer Gregorian Chant, can't make drastic Mass changes.
That is a safeguard against EXACTLY what Jorge Bergoglio has been trying to do.
That's a long answer to say the following.
V2 was an ecumenical council, technically, but one that by it's own opening and closing was not permitted to make any unique, binding effect to Catholic teaching.
It is a sales meeting.
Ironically, the Modernist poisoning of the council will only serve to ensnare them now. Bergoglio now exceeds the Council, making drastic, unilateral changes, eliminating Latin, and not being able to abide by even the bent and softened rules.
Catholic teaching cannot change.
What was right for Pope St. Leo the Great, is right for St. John Damascene, is right for St. Bernard, is right for St. Thomas Aquinas, is right for St. John Fisher, etc.
We can only increase resolution and detail, not change the nature of the eternal.
Too bad for James Martin and his merry band of Modernists.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch, it is a terribly untrue interpretation of Catholic doctrine to equare Catholic and non-Catholic.
I wrote a big post on what I thought of V2 and novelties found in its pages.
Essentially, it cannot purport anything diverging from previously established doctrine because it was ordinary magisterium.
It is a toothless document full of half-truths and only contributing administrative value.
It only helps when it stands in the way of the Modernists, like in Sacrosanctum Concilium.
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Thank you dear father for all your explanations. You are excellent and articulate. God bless
Man pronounced anathema on those outside of the Roman church, is that correct?
You, logically following the orthodox teaching of Rome, hold to this view, and are going around saying “convert to Roman Catholicism or remain lost and on the way to perdition”.. Is that too correct?
What shall we say to this? Well, you are consistent with your beliefs and conviction that Roman Catholicism is true. Therefore you must condemn all those outside of Rome.
But where do we see this in the word of God?
My authority is the word of God, over and above the word of man. God was pleased to reveal the Gospel of His Son to me when I was a hellbound sinner. God in mercy granted me faith to receive the good news of forgiveness of sin and eternal life in Jesus Christ, by His sacrificial death and resurrection from the dead. Ever since that moment I have enjoyed fellowship with God, having been born of the Holy Spirit.
Back to the question of your assertion. You would surely say I am lost despite my testimony to the contrary. Importantly, what does God say on this matter of those outside of the church of Rome? Well, nothing actually. Nowhere does God state Rome is the one true church and there is no salvation outside of it. Romanists love to quote Jesus’ words to Peter in Matthew 16:18, as if that somehow meant they were right. But how does Jesus’ words here to Peter mean that Rome is the only true church? Assumptions must be made in order to conclude that. Those assumptions being that Peter is the Pope of Rome who has all authority over other churches, and that this establishment of the Church of Rome alone is the abiding church standing strong against outsiders. But here is the problem - those assumptions cannot be demonstrated to be true. In fact, where is the evidence to show that? I’m reading Eusebius, the early Christian historian and he never speaks in this way. In actual fact, there have been divisions, contradictions and various atrocities throughout the history of the church of Rome. The Lord Jesus and the apostles spoke of many false teachers and false prophets who would come in the midst of the churches and lead many astray. And in fact we see from the teachings of Scripture that Rome has departed from fundamental biblical teaching is several key areas. Just take Martin Luther’s 95 theses on indulgences for example to show this, or John Calvin comparing justification as the apostle teaches it in Romans 3 and 4 against the teachings Rome has adopted in her catechism.
How can you hold so firmly to Rome then? I would honour Hod rather than man. Therefore I can not turn to her with all her idolatries. I would urge you to compare these teachings of Rome with the word of God also. For we all must appear before Him to give an account.
Wow fr pine...you summarized the salvation process in 15minutes. Watta nice! God bless fr pine and matt. Thank you pints with aquinas! You are doin great! - greetings from the philippines
Very clear message we are saved only when we know we are going to be crucified like Jesus was and we are thankful for that. God job 👍
So you want to be crucified , do you even know what are you saying ? Jesus Christ went to the Cross to be crucified for your and every ones sin . He paid in full and said it is Finished . It is clear you are one confused catholic !
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch your catholic religious church is far from true . It actually is a counterfeit spawned by satan that came as an angel of light to deceive the nation .Sad to say he did a great job putting all you catholics in bondage !
Jesus, God, was crucified and you want a better treatment than him? Yes only if we love like Christ we can have peace. there's no other way 🙏
Wow! Thank you Fr. Gregory and PWA! Deep terms but very helpful for us to be introduced to increase our understanding.
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Thank you, Father! Thank you, PWA!
I suggest watching this at .75x speed. This is a brilliant explanation.
I already have it on 2x 🤣
Thank you Father Pine. So grateful for your words of information and wisdom. Praying for you!
Happy Father's Day to Fr. Gregory and Matt Fradd!
Hi Matt and Fr. Gregory: just wanted to say this channel has meant so much to me in my journey to becoming Catholic. I'm going to grad school this fall to study Catholic theology, and I can't say enough about how indispensable material like this is to me. Thank you!
Happy Corpus Christi day Father and to the whole world!
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch do you believe spamming this comment is absolutely necessary?
Thanks, Fr Pine & PWA. It is beautiful not only to have a high-level picture of Salvation but also to endeavour to go deeper into what God has done for us in Christ. Whilst we will never be able to exhaust its depths fully (and it can be hard to do), how worthwhile/noble it is to want to appreciate the Lord and his deeds more.
Watching from the Philippines.
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Thank you, and happy Father’s Day!
Thank you so much Father excellent teaching we need more of this
Bless you Fr Pine, thank you for sharing your wisdom and love of our Lord and his church with us all.
Hope you are doing well Father! May God bless you!
14:10 😊 cos I kept rewinding to really understand. Thank you Fr. Gregory Pine
Getting abused from 8-13 really got me into looking at porn later in my teens, I wish it could've been different and makes me feel like I'm not forgiven for my sins cause it's a lot of weight on my shoulders most the time till this day and I'm in my early 20s now.
If you're Catholic, you can go to confession, and you're forgiven! Jesus Loves you! ✝️
If you repent and turn away from your sins from this point forward and serve Jesus as your Lord and master, you become a child of God, and become born again as a new person. That's when you become a Christian. You inherit eternal life through inheritance.
David’s sin was greater than yours. He was an adulterer and a murderer. Paul’s sin was greater than yours. He was a mass murderer of christians. Both were forgiven. The scriptures say if you confess your sins, He is faithful and true and will forgive you. Trust in the work Christ did on the cross. You are to put your sins on his shoulders, not your own. Rest in what He did on the cross. Ask Him, he will do it.
After I confessed my sins and received the Sacrament of Reconciliation I went back home and enumerated every instance I could remember, asking God to forgive me for that particular instance. I could only recall so many at a time, so I ended up doing that over the course of days, or maybe it was weeks, but every other day, until it was over. Sometimes I felt like God was saying "You know you are forgiven already." God loves it when you pour your heart out to Him, so be not afraid!
this was an amazing explanation of the mystery of salvation. thank you Father ❤
God Bless you Father
There is a great flipping between many kinds of language here , literal, apocalyptic , and mystery.
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It was so much easier as a Protestant, "Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Say the sinners prayer and if you've prayed this prayer we believe you are now a Christian so find a good Bible believing church. Once saved always saved; blessed assurance and all of that. Soteriology? Christ's humanity an instrument? Pretty heavy stuff. I'll have to watch this a couple more times but not right now I have to get to Mass to continue in my sanctification process.
I agree! I am a devoted Catholic, I love the sacraments but why do I have the feeling that Protestants do such a better job at explaining the bible and in particular salvation? I learned so much from them that I am afraid that it becomes incompatible at some point with Catholicism... Sometimes it feels like the Church was having a divorce, with both parties having to divide their gifts.. one side gets the sacraments and tradition, the other side the appreciation and insight in Scripture...
@@redhocs I was raised in what was basically a Baptist church (once saved always saved etc). I have many fond memories of the people there, people who love God and scripture, and were kind and generous. However, I am Catholic now and at the risk of sounding uncharitable, I will say that yes, many of their teachings are simpler, but often in the way that a stick figure is a simpler representation of a person than his or her portrait. Simple does not always equal true.
@@johnsayre2038 it's difficult to develope a fuller understanding of the Lord if you don't have sacred tradition informing you.
Blessings, Eduardo.
Make sure you are a traditional Catholic and not the heretical Vatican council 2 sect which surely leads to damnation.
Just a quick thought: If Christ's model is of soteriological impact then it must of necessity have ontological implications. It follows that our participation in Christ and he in us is what achieves this. As such any ontological impact must have its origins in a relationality (Jn.17) which is achieved by reciprocating God's desire for us with our desire for him and by enacting that through participation in the sacraments of baptism and the eucharist which model and in the latter case, embody Him.
Repent or perish, Jesus is Lord
Beautiful. Thanks so much for making this. Hearing this grand summary of Aquinas’ understanding of salvation makes me wonder why I haven’t read the Summa yet.
Father, you said, "freedom can only be found within limitations". Is this your saying or did someone famous say this? It's a very powerful line.
Even if it is his own interpretation the quote he's saying is actually quite old
Read Romans prayerfully if you seek to understand how you may get to heaven. Especially focus on chapters 3 and 4.
thank you so much for this clear introduction to soteriology. I have a question re: the teachings of St Thomas as I am a beginner to his work. I was told "St Thomas is very easy to understand " then someone else advise that I needed a basic understanding of Aristotle's philosophy. Please advise!
to get the most out of St. Thomas you should study sacred scripture, study Aristotelian philosophy, and study the church fathers.
Better study the Holy Bible and the truth brought by Jesus, and the gospel of salvation which is Romans, and you will find that propitiation is the wrath of God taken from us by the forgiving of past sins before baptism.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch No.
The faith of Abraham is necessary as Paul insists in Romans the gospel of salvation.
I recommend my Ytube video #15 'In Christ without the law?' in the series 'Myths in so-called Christianity", as I show the truth as Paul in his epistles. The site is in my full name 'Simon John Skinner'.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch Then it is not the Catholic faith, it is the Jewish faith, and we must be Born Again Jews.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch Ephesians 2:11-22 covers thus, especially 2:11-12 those Gentiles were without Christ and aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel (Jews), and Romans 11:17 the Gentiles were grafted into the religion of the Jew.
My Ytube video #7 'Behold, thou art called a Jew' in the series 'Myths in so-called Christianity', and is the very video for this conversation, and is the only true rendering of Paul's statement to believers in the law of Abraham.
It would be nice to hear from you or Matt on Liberation Theology. I’m not a fan but wanted to hear from you. Thanks!
Watching from Montreal!
I was wondering what Acquinas was about on this topic. Recreation, great answer, and how that would occur would be next great question to see what he says.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved. Or as Jesus said, like Moses lifted up the Serpent in the wilderness so the Son of Man be lifted up. Asking for grace from the Lord's anointed saves us. Not the priest or a particular church. As there were 12 + apostles and disciples.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch I don't know what you mean by Catholic Lord. I have become very interested in the King of Israel aspect of our Lord, even when they mocked Him on the way to the cross.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch that's nice. Shalom
1:35 Everytime we participate in Christ's self sacrifice to God. We get recreated by God.
Well, I still don't know how I can be saved
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Yeah...No.
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He starts by saying salvation is gratuitous ( which is correct) then ends up saying God rewards us with eternal by our works (merit). Both cannot be correct. Romans 4:4-5 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt. But to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counteth for righteousness.
Too many pints with Aquinas leads in the wrong direction.
Well said
Aquinas did he not doubt the immaculate conception
Yes completely. You should hear how the Dominicans use apologetics to excuse St. Dominick of that faux pas. All of what Fr. Pine is saying is nothing more than a Theological theorem. None of which can be proven or backed by Facts. As Catholics we lump this into the category called ... The Mysterys of Faith.
Hello Father Gregory and Brother Matt. Would you be interested in reaching out to a former Roman Catholic who's now evangelical and doing a ministry to challenge the current cultural narrative about sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular through his personal testimony and biblical truths? His name is Becket Cook. He has a website and UA-cam channel of his ministry 🙏
Thank you so much. So what this is saying to all Christians is that one must first get the Trinity correct before moving a new step, correct?
No you need to get first saved by accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord into your heart ,please read Romans 10: 8-11
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Matthew 7:21
21 "Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Your 4 verses, taken out of context doesn’t override the rest of scripture.
@@michaelibach9063 You cite a verse from Matt 7 :21 did you ever think it could apply to you ? The same goes for you taking one scripture and making a accusation .
@@isrberlinerin4063 the way is hard and few find it - Jesus Christ
Because, I wasn’t the one boiling down salvation to four verses of scripture.
@@michaelibach9063 It is actually broad is the road hat leads to destruction and many will follow ,but narrow is the way (gate) and only few will find it . If you do not want to accept salvation what Romans 10:8-11 state that's up to you ! The plan of salvation is not complicated , but religion has its own man-made doctrinal spin on it !
5:10 Genesis 3:8 "And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day"
This has nothing to do with this video but las lajas Columbia back in 1754 a great miracle happened and Saint Dominic and Saint Francis along with the Blessed Mother and Child Jesus embedded in rock.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved."
-Some old dead guy
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I am a devoted Catholic, I love the sacraments but why do I have the feeling that Protestants do such a better job at explaining the bible and in particular salvation? I learned so much from them that I am afraid that it becomes incompatible at some point with Catholicism... Sometimes it feels like the Church was having a divorce, with both parties having to divide their gifts.. one side gets the sacraments and tradition, the other side the appreciation and insight in Scripture...
Every complete syllogism has simple, immediate understandings that fall apart under further examination.
In other words, a small mistake made for simplicity sake at the foundation causes the top of the building to tilt drastically by the 50th floor.
Salvation is NOT the simple, 2-dimentional, internally inconsistent, religious outlook born in the 16th century.
It's simple because it doesn't care about being complete truth. It doesn't care about reconciling its answers to formal logic, to natural law, to what we know through the traditions passed on from the apostles.
They make up what sounds good to their outlook. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
True religion requires me to conform to God's will, not the other way around.
@@quadrga your gospel is incomplete and thus not the gospel.
Btw, it’s about a deep as mud puddle
Please share with me a video by a Protestant who will explain to Soteriology better than it was explained in this video.
@@perhael, without short-schriffing the theology.
@@perhael I fit the bill as nominally C of E as I have a series of Ytube videos 'Myths in so-called Christianity', and have 16 videos which I hope you will find interesting since you asked. My site is 'Simon John Skinner'.
Was Christ Fully Human before his incarnation?
This analysis was a perfect Seminary religious intellectual mixed Word -Salad . The only thing you can offer the Risen Savior and Lord is your acceptance of salvation with your heart that he purchased with His Blood for the remission of all humanity's Sin by dying on the Cross of Calvary .
That is not all. You also need to offer the Risen Saviour your LOVE because even though salvation is a FREE gift, He grants it to those who fulfill a certain requirement: and that is LOVE. The inheritance that God has prepared in heaven are for those who LOVE HIM (1 Corinthians 2:9; James 2:5). And so you need to keep on loving God EVERY DAY of your life if you want to receive the salvation that Christ will bring when He comes again to "SAVE those who are waiting for him" (Hebrews 9:28)
And what He gives you in return is the power of God to overcome sin and do Gods will, which you need to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, through the sacraments.
@@jerome2642 You quote all those different scripture and yet you have no clue about Salvation . First Jesus Christ loved us First so that we can love Him . He laid His Life down for our redemption and He said when He goes away He will send a Comforter the Holy Spirit that will lead us into all Truth . It is the Holy Spirit that draws a person to Jesus to be saved . Read Romans 10: 8-11 whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved . Not all people that alive now will be there when the Lord comes back .Those that are alive at his second coming that endured to the end shall be saved so you have to read Hebrews in context . Read Hebrews 9:14 .....
When Jesus died on the Cross of Calvary His last words were it is FINISHED . What do you think He meant ? The only requirement is to be saved "Born Again" is repentance of our sin and then in our heart we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord of Life . By His Grace through our faith are we saved . Of course your catholic belief system rejects Gods biblical true Plan of Salvation . Religion has never nor could save a soul only deceptive doctrines are offered and a pagan purgatory that does not exist , its a delusion .
@@isrberlinerin4063 Sorry but you are gravely mistaken
1) When I said that the heavenly inheritance that God has prepared are for those who LOVE HIM (James 2:5; 1 Corinthians 2:9), I was in no way saying that God expects us to take the initiative by loving Him first. God is the one who has taken the initiative to love us by sending His Son to die for us. Our love for God is only a RESPONSE to His love for us (1 John 4:17). But this response from us is actually NOT OPTIONAL. We cannot say that we will possess our heavenly inheritance WHETHER we love Him OR NOT. God EXPECTS us to LOVE Him as a response to His love for us, and has made our love a REQUIREMENT for receiving the salvation that Jesus brings. As Hebrews 5:9 says, Jesus brings salvation to not just anybody but to those WHO OBEY HIM. And our obedience is the manifestation of our LOVE for Him. And so in order to be saved, we need to have FAITH in Him and to LOVE Him.
2) But if salvation is a FREE gift, doesn't it mean that we don't have to DO ANYTHING before receiving it? Why then would God make our LOVE for Him a requirement for receiving salvation? Well, salvation is FREE because as human beings we are incapable of BUYING or PURCHASING it or EARNING it. "Free" means "not PAYING for something". It doesn't necessarily mean "not doing anything before receiving something". Our Love for God is a REQUIREMENT and not a PRICE we pay in order to earn salvation. Nothing stops God from expecting certain requirements to be fulfilled before giving out FREE gifts. For instance, Acts 5:32 says that God gives the Holy Spirit to those who OBEY HIM. Obedience here is simply a requirement and not a price because the Holy Spirit is the FREE gift of God and we cannot EARN the Holy Spirit by obeying God.
3) Protestants love to quote the words of Jesus "it is FINISHED" to Catholics because they wrongly think that Catholics do WORKS out of a belief that the death of Jesus was INSUFFICIENT to obtain for us salvation. That is not true. Catholics realize the importance of loving God and the fact that real love manifests itself in our ACTIONS or WORKS.
4) You have clearly misunderstood Matthew 24:13. Jesus said that whoever perseveres to the END will be saved. He didn't specifically say: "whoever perseveres until I come again will be saved". The "End" in Matthew 24:13 more accurately refers to the END of our lives on earth. Anyone who perseveres through trials and tribulations right up to the END of his life on earth will be SAVED by being rewarded with heavenly glory -- it doesn't really matter if such a person dies BEFORE Jesus comes again. In 2 Timothy 4:7 - 8, Paul was confident of receiving his heavenly reward because he had persevered in his faith right up to the END of his life on earth (even though he died BEFORE the second coming of Jesus).
So our salvation is not all about a SINGLE ACTION that we perform ONCE in our lifetime. It is actually about how we live our lives right up to the END of our lives.
@@jerome2642 You are really know how to confuse the issue of salvation . Before you can tell me that i am gravely wrong you must be Born Again and know the Truth otherwise you sound like a clinging symbol . If you are not truly saved you have no reason to obey . You religious catholics just simply do not get it . God never gave such Love requirement , before we accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord . You present a God that is conditional that is absurd , tells me you do not know Him , only from afar . Once we are saved our Love for Jesus sets in , because He changes our hearts and then we are also willing to obey and pray that His will be done in our life . He also fills us with the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth . So much of what you wrote is backwards . Jesus saved me and filled me with His Holy Spirit over 25+ years ago so no catholic can tell me anything when to be saved . Religion is for people that allow themself to be brainwashed by doctrines of men , because it appeals to the carnal mind . You quoted all those scriptures and you still do not know or flat out reject what Jesus said in Romans 10:8-11 whosoever calls upon my Name shall be saved .
Confusing
Also note the title, “how to get to heaven according to Aquinas”. Aquinas has no authority. Why not go to THE authority the Bible?
Maybe it's an a intrinsecally wrong question to made, for our spiritual life and benefits, and in your daily walking. Says in a more humble constant way, Lord please have mercy of me a sinner, it's the right point for living through his grace
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch I just think that it's only for God will that if one is saved or not, and he knows that from the beginning, fulfilling this question its against humility and its a personal human pretest upon his rights, we can do wherever we want, go to mass everyday, pray every moment, becoming priest, married or monk but if he don't want something and if our choice it's against is will, we will live in a wrong state and in a deep sadness that will lead us away from him, in sin. We can't do nothing, for example if one choose a Vocation but if this Vocation its against his will, we will living in a fallen state, despite what we do. Thy will be done, not ours, we can't just says, please lord have mercy of us sinners and accept his will. There's a reason about why he says, many will come in my names but i will not know them.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch I've already sayed in the comment before that those, prayers, sacraments etc etc are only tools for salvation, essential for receiving grace and walk by faith, but in the end its God that choose who want to save, or not, not ours. Believing that if one do nice things and respect things, but if he don't want to become a Saint inside the vocation that Our Lord have called him, but do and acts, in a legalistic way, it's like what the parishees have do it in the Gospels. In fact the last man outside the church without nothing, was accepted by God, but the Parishees that believes that he's saved because he act on doing his things is not accepted, all Jesus parables where about that.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch I know what I talking about, for personal experience, years ago I've walking by faith in seminary, but God don't want that, that I will become a priest.. and in the years I've understood that, his will was not mine. We need to be humble, accept his will, don't made up those questions for the healthy of our souls and yes, prays, walk by faith, takes the Sacraments, trying to love the people's that we meet in our real life, in the end the judgment Wil be his last judgment upon us, not ours, and love him even if for absurd we will die soon or if we will go to hell, amen. 🙏 That's the faith, I think.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch Baptism is needed because it's what Jesus have sayed to us, but also Cornelius the pagan was right in the eyes of God, in the book of acts, the question is don't made up the question, but fulfilling it.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch And they acts like people's that already feels something in themselves and accept soon the truth, because they want to walk with the lord without desire other things , not like a man that believes and acts only because he want something in exchange or he pretend something like.. Only his Salvation, this attempt goes against the spirit and against how the spirit walk inside us, is Just human self intellectualism. The end is the meaning, the meanings are not the sense, if salvation is doing the right things like robots, well we're not inside that tiny hard door, offcourse grace is needed. When the young man says, what I need to do for being saved, the lord explain to him the tools, the struments for grace and the commandments .. But he says Also.. lose yourself, give all to the poor and walk with me, the little guy goes away, because he was rich, how we're rich of many things..and pretend that we're saved only because we do the right job in going to Mass everyday, pray etc etc we'll we just replace, and made the tool at the place of the end, and we don't walk at all with him, but we becoming just like that joung man, that have followed the commandaments from the beginning of his life, but at the lord request, escape.I Love how the gospel says, Jesus watch him with love and says how hard is for a rich go in the kingdom of God, its more easy that camel will go inside a eye of a needle , but anyway nothing it's impossible for God.
Salvation is surrender to Christ. Not just surrender to the authority of our lord Jesus Christ, but actually surrender to the way of Christ, the call to pick up your cross, to become part of Christ in His body. That is to become part of the model of the cross in the world as a living sacrifice. And such a way is salvation. In it you find yourself on Christ and in God and God in you and you find yourself in heaven. In heaven, all are living Christ.
We are saved, we are being saved , and we hope to be saved…
Nobody knows it they are saved or not unless given a revelation by God.
@@mpat100 I know I’m saved
You do not make any sense first you say you saved, then you are being saved and finally you hope to be saved . It seems you are one confused catholic !
@@mpat100 you are very wrong , please read Romans 10: 8-11
@@Wgaither1 thinking isn’t the same as knowing
Don’t think I understood any of that
Same here😂
It's abstract.
This is devilish confusion. What must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. It’s that simple.
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people, To whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,” And, “This is the refreshing”; Yet they would not hear.
5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), 6yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
God is the singularity responsible for the Big bang and according to the many laws of conservation, that singularity had to be equal to or greater than ALL mass, energy, and information/intelligence in the universe combined and since things are neither created or destroyed but rather transfer to transformed this means God became the universe. God is omnipresent omniscient and omnipotent. God is everything everywhere.
The universe is a quantum computer.
cmsw.mit.edu/angles/2015/is-the-universe-actually-a-giant-quantum-computer/
Jesus is God's only begotten son and through him all things were made by God.
18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who [d]suppress the truth in unrighteousness,19because what may be known of God is [e]manifest [f]in them, for God has shown it to them.20For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and [g]Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.22Professing to be wise, they became fools23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like [h]corruptible man-and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
God said, I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Therefore I will shake the heavens,
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the Lord of hosts
And in the day of His fierce anger.
It shall be as the hunted gazelle,
And as a sheep that no man takes up;
Every man will turn to his own people,
And everyone will flee to his own land.
Jesus will return after Jerusalem gets nuked by the abomination which causes desolation mentioned in Matthew 24.
This is the first resurrection. Blessed and Holy are those who have part of the first resurrection for the second death has no hold of them.
They will reign with Christ for 1000 years.
After the 1000 years the rest of the dead are raised and judged.
Then comes the END.
Jesus must reign until he has defeated all of his enemies. All Power, Dominion, and Authority then the last enemy that will be defeated is death itself. The He will return the kingdom back to the Father so that Gid may he all in all.
The Earth is Hell in the future (2 Peter 3). It gets hit by an asteroid (Revelation 9) and pushed toward the sun (Isaiah 13-13).
In those days men will seek death but it will not find them, they will long to die but death will flee from them.
The New Jerusalem will take the best of humanity and the glory of the nations to a new Earth where righteousness dwells.
But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
The cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Our hope lies in a New Heaven and a New Earth where righteousness dwells.
So 'Am I saved' .. Yip! If you are baptised into Christ (you have 'been' saved, as Noah and those in his Ark had been saved from the watery grave); if you are not in the Ark of Christ's Body, then, Nope!
Are you therefore ever true to that divine call .. i.e. man's salvation from the rewards of sin aka death, in the one Name that offers salvation from it - as a New Creation = in the New Adam .. not necessarily so; Baptism is what God has chosen to do for us, as He promised (a sacramentum = the mystery of a pledge), yet how we freely choose to respond to that gift .. remains up to us, either we accept God's grace to help us be true to Him, or we junk it (you are being 'saved', or you refuse to be saved).
The Day, at the Last Judgement, shall reveal to us all who is saved and who has rejected it; at our own particular judgement, after mortal flesh has died, we will meet that fact, face to face, and receive our recompense in Christ - accepted as His own ('you' are saved, even if you go to Purgatory, the fiery test on our apostolic deeds) or rejected as belonging to another because we do not want to be part of Him (for 'salvation' in Him is just not our thing).
Keep the Faith; tell the truth, shame the devil, and let the demons shriek.
God bless. ;o)
P.S. Can God save us without the Sacrament of Baptism into Christ .. Yip! It is what He has chosen to do, nonetheless, He is free to choose other gifts to give us in lieu of it .. but salvation from death in Old Adam is still His to give in Christ alone, and ours to repudiate it or accept it. There is no other Name by which we can be saved, so we are commanded by Christ to undertake an apostolic mission whether it suits us or not, for Baptism in the Name of the Father, and in the Name of the Son, and in the Name of Holy Ghost is God's Way, the Truth, our Life ... so, dear soul, don't go out and make a mess, get up and do the works which God had prepared beforehand to be our way of life in Christ (that is the Faith, btw, whether or not a passing pope suggests otherwise).
Slow down, please.
Who is the Father the one that glorified Jesus, the one Jesus said is the God of the Israelites?
John 8:54 Jesus answered: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, THE ONE WHO YO SAY IS YOUR GOD.
Luke 1:67 Then Zech·a·riʹah his father was filled with HOLY SPIRIT, and he prophesied, saying:
68 “Let Jehovah be praised, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, because he has turned his attention to his people and has brought them deliverance
Psalm 41:13 May Jehovah, the God of Israel, be praised
Throughout ALL ETERNITY.
Amen and Amen.
@@carolynkimberly4021 :(
John 15:21
But they will do all these things against you on account of my name,
because they do not know the One who sent me.
@@luismejia5224 I know who sent you, satan
Good episode. Thanks.
Just by the way. You mentioned Thomas Aquinas. You probably know that towards the end of his life, he apparently received a divine revelation while saying Mass upon which he said:
"All that I have written is straw, in respect to those things that I have seen and have lately been revealed to me".
I believe he was dead serious, because in fact, he never wrote another word, leaving his master work, the Summa Theologiae, unfinished. I honestly believe he had been shown by the Lord God Almighty who made heaven and earth, that his writings were in fact, worthless.
Let us remember that straw is that part of the grain harvest that has no value insofar as human consumption. However:
"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever.
Isaiah 40:8
And; " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
John 1:1-2, 4-5
I am a 69 year old Christian. The Word of God has been my Light, my Life and my Salvation since I got saved about 45 years ago. The writings of the Church Fathers and others like Thomas Aquinas are somewhat interesting but they are not, and are always far inferior to, the Word of that Blessed Person.
My own humble two cents. Immerse yourself in His Word. Love His Word. Embrace and study His Word. You will not be disappointed.
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And, I think you're gonna like this:
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@@quadrga good thing that St Paul is not the only Apostle and just because didn’t use lofty language at Corinth, that doesn’t mean he didn’t use it somewhere else or that everybody used simple language to proclaim the Gospel. Also if you have read any of St. Paul’s writings, you would know they are much much deeper and not written as simply as you think they are.
@@carolynkimberly4021 where does it say "pope"? Where does it say Roman Catholic Church. Where does it say Mary was a perpetual virgin? Etc., Etc., Etc., ...
This is one thing about Catholocism 😂. You ask a simple question and you get a 15 minute answer that only introduces the topic! Let know one say that Catholics have not thought about these things.
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch This is very true - and from where I stand it is an almost fundamental defeater for most of Catholic criticisms against Protestant disunity. The same thing is clearly happening in Catholicism (just under the radar)
If you have to ask the question “am I saved” then sorry but your not. Simply confess your sins believe on the lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. It’s hard to explain but when your saved you just know deep down in your soul.
No, you don’t.
@@michaelibach9063 scripture says so satan.
@@danielrickel8807 you boiling down salvation to four verses doesn’t equate to scripture saying so. It just means you took four verses of scripture and imposed a meaning on them not actually supported by the rest of scripture.
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2 Peter 3:15-16
15 And count the forbearance of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
16 speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.
Jesus died to become the judge of those baptised into his church, and our past sins can be forgiven as a gift, but only if we deserve his grace. I have a Ytube video 'Grace is merited' as only those sanctified are saved.
In Christianity we worship Jesus, not Mary.
Catholics don’t worship Mary, so strawman.
Yes, catholics/orthodox (real christians) as the original Holy Aposotlic Church that Jesus founded & promised Himself obviously don't have such treatment with the the most holy Mother of God.
Now, the discording religion of Protestantism that was founded by a german rebel bible-mutilator pretentious monk +1500 years after Jesus & His apostles, with no connection to Them, and in opposition to the catholic one that does… If obviously not Christianity.
Jesus is Yahweh. You are going to the lake of fire if you don't believe that
@@redrocketbaby You are going to a Hell by CHOICE by ignoring Jesus and His Holy Catholic Apostolic Church that compilated the very Bible, as well as the first 1500 years of the christian era just so your heretical gross "christian" religion can make sense to be called "christian" even though being founded by a Bible-mutilator nobody on his own terrible interpretation of Scripture, millennia and a half after Christ & the Apostles, with no connection to Them and in opposition to the original true mystical body of Christ on Earth (That Catholic Church) that does.
Also Christ does is God (we christians were the first to know that before) but God's name is not sure to be "Yahweh", that's just the best bet on how the original LOST pronunciation was; you using It just exemplifies more how you're a poor modern pretentious know-it-all know nothing dramatic heretic.
Correct.
What is click bait title, 15 minutes with a lot of words and no answers, does this guy even know?
Title is misleading
Cath priest. From what u preached, u are not saved yet. So pls do it correctly n get yourself saved first
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch pls explain further
@@TheRomanCatholicChurch pls read my comment to alf ray. Christians don't subscribe to wht the popes decree. They are the real heretics
Lol this video could be 10 seconds long. You literally just have to believe the gospel, that Christ died for your sins, and rose again on the third day. That's it, the moment you believe that you are saved for eternity and you can never lose your salvation. Any other "gospel" you preach is wrong, and certainly not good news.
Lol you could just be less of a laughing proud pretentious heretic to acknowledge that your limited terrible personal understanding of God's word, message and plan resulted in this literal heretical presumptuous theology of yours where "you believe that you are saved for eternity and you can never lose salvation" as if Christ took the freewill out of His followers.
But I wanna pat myself on the back for something!
Yeah, let me do that and then go on a mass shooting spree, I'll still get saved - apparently
Except, the Bible doesn’t say that.
Why worry about St. Aquinas. It is Jesus that saves your soul. Have faith that He is your Savior, repent of your sins and then live for Him. No priest involved, and no Eucharist to take.
Why worry about Ben Calvert? It is quite clear he hasn't given this topic any real thought and will lead the foolishly equal astray. Like a typical non-Catholic that doesn't know his bible, nor understand what he is talking about; he merely spouts idiotic troll comments and then runs without explaining himself. I would listen to a drunken Aquinas all day before giving a Ben Calvert a split second of my time.
@@39knights Aquinas had many good things to say. I was talking about salvation and as usual a Catholic shows up that hasn't a clue about what salvation is or how to become saved. It isn't by any catholic doctrine or Mary. One of these Catholics that confesses to a priest on a Friday and Saturday is at the bar drinking with the same priest.
@@39knights This comment is verging on the ad hominem. Not quite, but a very close shave. What happened to Christian charity?
@@bcalvert321 here’s the difference ben, Saint Thomas has actually made it to heaven, so His opinions on Jesus’s teachings are relevant. You on the other hand, are not in heaven, thus your opinion on Jesus’s teachings are not relevant.
Your interpretation of scripture vs Thomas Aquinas’s interpretation of scripture. Your opinion vs Aquinas’s opinion. Your wrong, he’s right. False teachings vs true teachings.
@@bcalvert321 "....a Catholic shows up that hasn't a clue ..." The fact I have remained Catholic and continues to participate in the One True Apostolic Faith that Jesus founded; shows I have more of a clue that you (even if it isn't that much more).
"... It isn't by any catholic doctrine or Mary...." So says Ben Calvert based on his own human authority which somehow trumps that of the Apostles and their duly appointed successors. Would you like to give us poor Catholics a lesson on Soteriology which amounts to more than the evangelical mantra 'Christ did it all on the Cross' which explains nothing; at least nothing we didn't already know before Ben Calvert came along? Go ahead and take a stab at it; let's just see how brilliant your thoughts on the subject are when they are put out there in concrete form for all to see your erroneous thinking. Quite easy to take jabs at others attempt; but see what happens when you try to pen your own thoughts (if you have any).
"....One of these Catholics that confesses to a priest on a Friday...." Well at least you seem to understand one part of the bible where Jesus gives priests the Authority to forgive sins in His name as every real Christian has done since the time of the Apostles. At least it is the biblical way. Though I never drink to get drunk which no well-formed Catholic should do; so I am not sure what you were implying with the rest of your statement.
Anyway let's see some of your clear brilliant thoughts on how salvation is achieved. This should be entertaining.
How catholic of you, quote saint x, y and z, when all you need are the words of Jesus - He who believes in me. I didn't understand a word of what you said, Jesus's own words are much clearer.
Faith alone is a heretical false protesting doctrine, just like sola scriptura. FAITH WITHOUT GOOD WORKS IS DEAD (JAMES 2:14-26). We follow church teaching because Jesus gave authority to the church, not your own personal opinion of the bible i.e. false sola scriptura doctrine. Saints are the heroes of the church and the faith. Protestantism is about division and confusion and has a history of false end timers and preachers.