"Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads...." Martin Luther
Insight on the Eucharistic Real Presence from Archbishop Fulton Sheen A young Wife, who had been taking Instructions for a Year, told the Writer she could Believe everything in the Faith, except the Eucharist. Upon inquiring-about her Husband, it was learned that he was in the Pacific, on Military Duty. In answer to further questions, she admitted that she Corresponded-with him every Two (2) Days, and that she had his Photograph before her, in the House. We argued there was nothing Wanting-for Perfect Happiness. What more could she Want, than the Constant-Memory of him, through the Photograph and a Written-communication, in which Heart poured-out-to Heart. But, she Protested that she could never be Truly Happy, except-through Union (1)-with her Husband. But, it was retorted, if Human Love craves Oneness (1), shall not Divine Love? If Husband and Wife seek-to-be One (1) in the Flesh, shall not the Christian and Christ crave-for that Oneness (1) with One-another? The Memory of the Christ Who lived Twenty (20) Centuries ago, the recalling-of His Mercy and Miracles through Memory, the correspondence-with Him by-reading the Scriptures -- all these are Satisfying, but they do not Satisfy Love. There must-be, on the Level-of Grace, something Unitive (1) with Divine Love. Every Heart seeks a Happiness outside it, and since Perfect Love is God, then the Heart-of Man and the Heart-of Christ must, in some-way, Fuse (1). In Human Friendship, the other-Person is Loved as another-Self, or the other-Half of One's Soul. Divine Friendship must have its 'Mutual-Indwelling': "He who dwells-in Love, dwells-in God, and God in him" (1John 4:17). This Aspiration-of the Soul for its Ecstasy is fulfilled-in the Sacrament of the Eucharist. These are the Sacraments Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
As a former Catholic, it is important to know that the Catholic Church was not founded by Jesus Christ. It was formed and influenced by Constantine a brutal, unrepentant emperor who brought his polytheistic/pagan practices into the Church. Throughout the centuries, Monasterism and Roman beliefs infiltrated the Church. The Catholic church is far from it's apostolic origins. The Reformation brought the Church back to Christ.
@@jesussotelo4775 yes, of course. But I do not consider them as an authority as their writings are non inspired. A tip I give to fellow Catholic friends is to not just read the church fathers or the writings promoted by the RCC or Catholic apologists such as Catholic Answers. It's not unanimous as a catholic might think.
@@elvisisacs3955 so then whose authority and doctrine is inspired, Luther, Calvin, Smith, most reformers have man made doctrine that are only 500 years old, how can sola scriptura be true if the bible wasn't even written or compiled in the first century and nowhere in the bible did Jesus ever establish a book he established a church. Most historical scholars agree that the earliest gospel is Mark and that wasn't written till some 40 years after the death of christ,and the canonization of the all the books were compiled by the catholic church itself. At the end of the day you have to ask which doctrine is correct, that of a post reformed seminary or that of apostolic succession?
Protestantism from a biblical and historical point of view. ua-cam.com/video/Y2Hv9qLFwSY/v-deo.html Thanks for watching, liking, subscribing and sharing. God bless
Be aware of false prophets. Keep praying the Rosary. Wear a scapular. Offer sacrifices and sufferings to Jesus, each time, saying "O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of poor sinners and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” The woman clothed in the sun is our Mother Mary, Mother of God - She has shown us in the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima. Her Immaculate Heart will triumph as the Lord Jesus has planned. Mother Mary will be the one who will defeat the Satan "I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." (Genesis 3:15)
You are definitely right brother/sister! The elephant in the room that our protestant brothers and sisters forget/ignore when they say they are a bible-centered movement is how do you understand & interpret that Bible that we agree on (except for what they ripped out from the Old Testament) & who is in charge of this interpretation to avoid false & misleading teachings that led to their current mess???
The books taken out were not scripture. Did not belong in the bible. You want to talk about misinterpretation, how about we talk about the popes selling indulgences for as long as they did pretending salvation can be bought? Misinterpretation of the Bible was going on long before the reformation, in equally despicable ways.
@@kattula76 Not even remotely right. We don't ignore that question, which is the beautiful part of Protestantism. We don't rely on someone "holier" or " closer to God" than us to tell us what the bible says, we recognize that Christ died to give us each the opportunity to be close to him, and any of us can read the bible and understand it, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The responsibility is on each individual person to read the bible. As is the judgment for getting it wrong. You want to act like your way of only letting Church authority interpret the bible has led to any less of false and misleading teachings? Again, how about when the Pope sold indulgences as if salvation can be bought or sold? How about when the Pope said that you don't actually have to confess Jesus as Lord in order to be saved? These rank heresies were taught as truth for such a long time and accepted by ya'll because? What? The Pope can't be wrong? Even thought the pope has been demonstrably wrong so many times? Also, we took out books that God has revealed as non-scripture, you keeping them is the problem.
@@TommyGunzzz Because he did not consider them scripture. Reading them and elevating them to the same level as scripture is not even remotely the same thing. Terrible argument.
"Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads...." -Martin Luther
@@kevinburke7671 Here is another of the "great"mind of Martin Luther. Luther Said: Polygamy Is Permissible "I confess that I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict the Scripture. If a man wishes to marry more than one wife he should be asked whether he is satisfied in his conscience that he may do so in accordance with the word of God. In such a case the civil authority has nothing to do in the matter." (De Wette II, 459, ibid., pp. 329-330.)
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Probably because it's literally in scripture. But the protestants are lied to and they aren't told the truth at there 40k church's. 1 Corinthians 10:17 [17]Through the one bread, we, though many, are one body: all of us who are partakers of the one bread. "Bread" aka Eucharist found in Catholic Church
1 Corinthians 10:16-17 [16]The cup of benediction that we bless, is it not a communion in the Blood of Christ? And the bread that we break, is it not a participation in the Body of the Lord? [17]Through the one bread, we, though many, are one body: all of us who are partakers of the one bread.
@@JesusChurchBible there are Protestants who take seriously the Lord's supper. And while Satan did divide Christianity, God works with us in our brokenness and all things for good. There are many Protestant changes that are good.
I cant believe some people are trying to defend the concept of indulgences. And where did the concept of purgatory come from? Convince me with scripture, those things are nowhere to be found and they insult the work of Christ on the cross as not enough. There is real action required on our part - sincere repentance, change, walking with the Spirit and abiding in Christ by obeying His Word - but we are saved not by our actions but by God's grace through faith. God enables our heart change and transformation, those are signs and fruits of our salvation and not the cause, or else we have every right to boast in what we do instead of what Christ has done.
Purgatory can be found in a number of Bible passages such as Matthew 12:32, 2 Maccabees 12:43-45, and 1 Corinthians 3:15 just to name a few. As for salvation by works, this to is taught in scripture in many passages like Romans 2:6-7, Galatians 6:7-9, Matthew 12:36-37, Matthew 25:31-46, and James 2:24.
Yup. To be a Protestant is to be selfish. It's all about you and Jesus and screw everyone else. Catholics are about each other. You don't believe me? Just read the lyrics of the songs that are sung.
@Thomas Johns. Well I’ve got to start somewhere that’s what I’m gonna be doing for the rest of my life. Next year I will be entering Seminary to become a traditional Catholic priest. Let me give it my best shot. Are you a protestant or atheist? If you are a protestant are you scripture alone and faith alone?
Luke 22:19 [19]And taking bread, he gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them, saying: "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this as a commemoration of me."
So if you don't do this, your not following scripture and not listening to what Jesus told his disciples to do. If your a protestant your a strict Solo Scriptura, but... you decide not to follow Jesus in this way? Are you not a follower of Christ? Why wouldn't you do this in memory of him?? 🤔
Never mind that reformation word Just do romans 12:1&2 Just do Galatians 6:9. Just do psalms 119:9-11. Benefits ?? “Banner over you is LOVE !” Isaiah 26:3 is way better than any other persuasion .
"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'." -Martin Luther
I am so happy to be a Protestant even though some people laugh at me saying I don’t listen to Ariana,cardi b... But am really thankful to God cause am a Protestant
No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.” (Letter to Melanchthon, August 1, 1521, American Edition, Luther’s Works, vol. 48, pp. 281-82)
No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.” (Letter to Melanchthon, August 1, 1521, American Edition, Luther’s Works, vol. 48, pp. 281-82)
I come from Italy and I was born in a catholic family and I used to go to catholic churches since a friend of mine, that it was Evangelical, spoke to me about his faith. So my wife and I started new research in the Bible about the truth, about salvation, about a personal relationship with God. We understood the truth and we accept the Salvation through Jesus and now we are born again Christians. You are right that the Catholic church is always the same and I'm very afraid when I see some preachers and pastor that think that we could pray together with the catholic. The only way to stay together is to change our faith but that's impossible for me. It is important to have respect for everyone but it's impossible for me to go to a catholic church and make something that it's against my faith and against Jesus. And I see that even if in the catholic church there are many people that could be believers and are sincere, the pope and all the people around him are making horrible statements, they are incredibly rich and they are involved in a lot of crime Italian mysteries. But I don't agree with you in something, in fact, I think that my roots are in the first apostles, in the first church and when I think to my myself the only tag that I can put on myself is 'Christian' without any other tag. I know that in the time of the reformation there were people that fought against catholic because it was important to have, read and applied the Word of God, but they try to go in the first age of the church, not to create a new religion or have some tags and we know that they also made some mistakes or don't had the complete revelation or comprehension. I think that we have to claim ourselves only Christian without any other tag. We are followers of Christ that's all. Thank Tim, I very appreciate your videos.
Any Christian faith that doesn't have the body and blood of Christ for the remission of sin is a lie.. If you where raised Catholic, you where raised very well.. Petty you went to a false Church... Our blessed Mother did said even my children will fall for it... And it seems to be so... According to her in the days of protestantism the souls entering hell is like snow all over the world... AS they say the body and blood of Christ for the remission of sin is just a símbol.. When our Lord said if you don't eat the body and drink his blood we will not enter the kingdom of heaven... Never he said was a símbol.... Not only that. If you read the bible from the point where our Lord stabllish a covenant, stabllish baptism confession... Eucaristy... The Bible has a. completely different meaning.
John 6:53-56 Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed , and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and dtinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
Solar scriptua is a false doctrine, in case most protestants did know the bible didn't exist till decades after the death of christ. Most historical new Testament scholars point to Mark as being the earliest gospel which was written some 40 years after the death of christ and prior to that it was a spoken doctrine that most early Christians adhered to. Also at the end of John it states that Jesus did and said many things that couldn't be put into writing so ask yourself if you are a protestant how old is your doctrine, it cannot be older than 500 years which makes it a man made doctrine by proxy and the reformation is 500 years of recklessness that also gave us the Church of Latter day saints and the jehovah witness movement. If you dont believe me I'll point you to church history and to the 1st century church fathers and before you dismiss my claims just know that I was also an anti catholic protestant for a long time before I sought truth similar to Scott Hahn.
So the argument is apeal to scripture or apeal to tradition. The problem with appealing to a tradion that has been passed down is its telephone easily manipulated because it's not written down, subject to change. Scripture is lock chain, you can't change it. So it's more reasonable to apaeal to scripture.
@@souzajustin19d and a doctrine that's no more that 500 years old is more valid, let me ask I'm assuming you reject the mormon and jehovah witness doctrine but Baptist and Presbyterian doctrine are between 300 and 400 years old. At the end of the day it comes down to a random seminary school or 1st century Christians.
@@jesussotelo4775 both of those religions are disproven not just because they don't follow the cannon, but blunty following a false prophet. It's not because they are new, it's because they meet the standard already written.
kueagle1 but wasn’t the bible written by man as well? And by man part of this same church? I’m a Protestant that doesn’t see any good on diving the church of Christ.
Pilgrims. You can walk across the North of Spain but it's just still a walk. If there is an indulgence involved then it must be an "official" indulgence. No Catholic is bound to seek indulgences. The Jesuits were founded by saint Loyola in response to his fervour for Christ. Did you ask the people why they were bowing " before" relics? No. I thought not. Luther threw themselves into hell by not recanting their hersey. And it's Catholic..btw, not "Roman" Catholic. And finally, reading a book is not union with Christ . Catholic Communion is. Want to have a rethink?
@Ian Where in the bible does it say catholics wrote scripture, where in tue bible does it say jesus started the catholic church, where in scripture doea it mention peter going to rome building a Catholic church, where in the bible doea jesus say pray to mary, where in the bible did jesus demanded u to pray to the saints, where in the bible did jesus say pray to the angels where in the bible dis jesus say make idols of heaven and of sea and pray and bow to them, where in Scripture did jesus say praise the rosery, where in scriptute does it say the catholic is the true church and i want proof in scripture not your catholic man made doctrines but actaul evidence of the catholic church being mention in Scripture. If u can't prove that the word catholic is mention in scripture then u already proven my case that catholics foundings has nothing to do with Jesus at all.
Its amazing that today most Reformed Christians fail to celebrate their freedom from the shackles of Roman Catholicism which subverted the primacy of the Holy Spirit and the Bible and its claim that is the Only One and True Church.
@X "Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed." "Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews." -Martin Luther
I am one of those Catholics that "don't read the bible" I have a verse for you Luke 18:11 . Also you are right most Catholic churches in America are indistinguishable from protestant churches. That is sad. The revolutionaries painted over our beautiful murals they crushed our high altars and even used the stones to pave the parking lot. I have the opposite perspective they did this not to trick protestants into being Catholic but to change the lex oradni so that they can change the lex credendi. I would argue these people are protestants at best. These people have successfully emptied our churches and keep prosecuting (yes I mean that word literally) parishes that hold on to our traditions and are growing and have many vocations .
No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.” (Letter to Melanchthon, August 1, 1521, American Edition, Luther’s Works, vol. 48, pp. 281-82)
"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'." -Martin Luther
Go to a few and you'll hear a few different viewpoints. Lol that's why protestantism is false. They all have different views of the Truth. Best of luck.
It's great and wholesome to be a Catholic which is the pillar & foundation of the Church. In a post you mentioned False teachers, how did you not see Luther the heretic?
Not the pillar, not the foundation. Luther was not a heretic. Your pope is literally an antichrist. You want to talk about false teachers, start with your own perverted leaders and doctrine.
@Thomas Johns. No he doesn't demand money from the poor The Pope helps the poor Everything we Catholics believe in today was believed in by the early Christians
1 Corinthians 10:16-17 [16]The cup of benediction that we bless, is it not a communion in the Blood of Christ? And the bread that we break, is it not a participation in the Body of the Lord? [17]Through the one bread, we, though many, are one body: all of us who are partakers of the one bread.
So according to scripture, as Protestants consider themselves Solo Scripturas, if you don't partake in breaking the bread, which is the Lords Body, you are not part of the Body of Christ??? Why would you not want to partake in something that is clearly stated in the Bible? Why do you pick and choose what to follow and then throw out other parts? If you believe in the scriptures, you must follow and believe in every page. Or you commiting idolatry by "making up your own rules and Christianity". That's also in scripture if you want to read it to understand this teaching. God bless y'all and I pray you find the Truth that's out there.
Amen, you should have talked about the made up role of Mary and the wrong view of the Pope. Also Protestants weren't the first to leave the cult. The Orthodox did it 500 years before the Protestants. Nowadays catholics still leave. Now they just don't go to another church. They stay home.
I know it isn't the same. I was just saying they, the orthodox churches made the jump to independence from Rome 500 years before the Protestants. People tend to blame/talk about the Protestants. They get undeserved attention for being the first to jump when they weren't.
That indulgence with the stairs is taken out of context and without proper education on the matter. In order for the indulgence to work they must also make a valid confession. For someone who thinks they have an indulgence just cause Jesus died for you and you recognize that, I don't think your one to judge.
@@elvisisacs3955 If you truly have Jesus inside of you, you will complete good works! A murderer isn't going to continue to stab people if he is truly following Jesus. Someone who is feeling led by what God is telling them will want to support their church and community. It doesn't matter if its at the beginning of your life or in your last moments. When you truly accept him, you are changed.
@@Kitiwake "brainwashing" is a strong word for someone who believes that the Pope is infallible despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Indulgences are lies.
Your confession to make the indulgence work means nothing. The blood of Christ is the only thing that can cleanse us of our sins. You minimizing that sacrifice is throwing shame on the one you call Savior. You are badly deceived and you need to repent.
Protestant, There are thousands of Protestant denominations and they can't agree on on anything because they're not found by Christ , the Catholic church is found ed by Christ in 33 AD. Through Peter and the apostles. Protestants done away with 1500 years of Christianity what are you crazy?
@Stacy Caruso contrary to what you may believe, you dont have to agree with everything the pope says, many strong Catholics oppose the current papacy because ever since Vatican II the church has been under attack but I remain because of the sacraments in particular the eucharist and if you dont believe that all Catholics oppose the current papacy look up a popular newsletter called The Remnant it's on UA-cam run by a strong Catholic and opposes the current pope
You do know that the catholic church was founded years after the deaths of the apostles. The apostles nor did jesus have anything to do with the catholics. The bible tells us true church was more then one who gathers in christ name not some building that is control by a heretic who thinks he is above God. The apostles where street preachers not priests. Jesus says to go out and teach the words of God not build some man made building. And peter never went to Rome yet catholics claims peter taught in rome even the the bible tells us he never taught in rome.
the thing about martin Luther being in hell. Well I heard that apparently he is in Hell. I believe Sainte. padre Pio said that. obviously he knew that. but yeah, probably the church is right, they are in hell.
@@dudecool7915 A man of incredible holiness can be given visions from God. Hundreds of Saints have been granted visions into all kinds of realities that God allows them to see.
“If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone round his neck and push him over with the words I baptize thee in the name of Abraham” (Grisar, “Luther”, Vol. V. pg. 413.) Here is your great leader Martin Luther. You wish to follow a disturbed man like this???
“Moses must ever be looked upon with suspicion, even as upon a heretic, excommunicated, damned, worse than the Pope and the devil” (Martin Luther's Commentary on Galatians)
@@mchristr Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism talked I'll of Moses, he was a hateful man and was anti-Semitic. He spoke of hanging poor people and Jews. He added words to his new bible. Which the Bible says not to add or take away from the scriptures. If you want more info I can share his quotes from his various writings which show how hateful and racist he was.
Thank you Tim for speaking the truth, praise God for the Reformation! Catholics never know when they have done enough good works, or how much time they will spend in purgatory! The only way they can be made a 'saint' & escape purgatory, is by the Pope & his committee, pondering whether a person has done two miracles & enough good works, really tragic! Praise the Lord, for Jesus Christ's finished work on the cross in His death & resurrection, 100% GRACE! Completely saved by the blood of The Lamb, yours for the asking !!!
"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'." -Martin Luther
The best thing about being a protestant is that you don't even have to go to church. The church will welcome you if you do decide to go, but they'll pretty much leave you alone if you don't go for a couple of weeks, or decades, and that's only if you ever went there in the first place. A church is 'when two or more people gather and discuss Jesus Christ', no building required. Because of this, unlike any other religion, Protestantism has no Days of Obligation (days when followers are obliged to gather 'at the Temple', so to speak). This makes it very difficult to know how many Christians there are in any place or at any time when they only ever get counted at times when they 'gather for the feast' a couple of times a year. Part of being Protestant too is to constantly wrestle with your faith, and if you drift away for a while that's fine, just try to remember to drift back some time. This can happen several times a day with some people. I personally remember questioning it all several times in the matter of a few seconds as I slid down an embankment at high speed in my wrecked car towards some trees. As I accepted the fact that it is quite alright to die my car veered to the left and I somehow managed to avoid several trees before coming to rest, shaken but pretty much unharmed.
I wonder... how does this reflect in the spirit of Scripture, God allowing its people to worship Him as they feel it or please them...? This makes the Gospel a sort of easy-to-digest philosophy just barely a religion (religion means being attached to something)
@@mjvictoriano The Bible never says we need to go to a church building specifically, and if we choose not to it doesn't mean we cannot praise God or that we don't adhere to the Bible or something.
@@northstar2621 WELL, actually it does says you have to go to the Church, being the Church before everything a community. Pentecost was received in the community, the first Christians, as you can read in Acts, gather to hear the Gospel and share the Holy Mass, which was then referred to as "the breaking of the bread". You might be right in meaning that the Bible does not really command to gather in a specific building, because the Church is first of all the Mystical Body of Christ, again, a communion of the saints, but the physical building is somehow implied in several passages. Just to mention one, when Christ expelled the sellers from the Temple, he says: "Is it not written: 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples'? But you have made it a den of thieves." (Mark 11, 17) The Temple is VERY important in the Old Testament, and Jesus did not came to take it out of the map but to transform it in the Universal (Catholic) Church, that's why Scripture said "House of Prayer for all peoples". And yeah, it means the spiritual body of the Church first, but it does not mean the physical temple is obsolete. Specially because YOU NEED that physical place (which in time have become grandiose temples all over the world) to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which the first Christians celebrated in their secret meetings in homes at the beginning because the Church was so new and then persecution came, so churches, as buildings, only began after Christianity was free to have a public worship. If you're to ask me: Where in Scripture is the Holy Mass?, I leave you a video here from Scott Hahn, very funny but very deep, as this former Protestant explains how the Holy Mass is EVERYWHERE in the New Testament: ua-cam.com/video/0uL_IAJWvX0/v-deo.html And, yeah, you can praise God everywhere, that doesn't mean you don't need a Church, either as a community or as a building. But of course you can still praise God when you're alone, at home, at the park, at a trip... BLESSINGS!
Protestants I love you but you're missing important aspects of the faith that were a part of the one church that our Lord Jesus Christ founded! Martin Luther didn't want to start Protestantism, he only wanted to reform Catholicism! He believed a lot of things that Protestants today don't! 20,000 denominations, people starting their own churches left right and centre! Jesus prayed with tears that we would be one! We were one for 1500 years before teachers appeared who drew some of the flock away based on their own understanding and continue to lead Jesus's sheep astray! Come home to the Church Jesus founded! Research Catholicism and what we actually believe and why! God bless you, Jesus loves you!
Martin Luther didn't want to start a new church, but was prepared to when the Catholic church did not mend it's critical errors - namely, the authority of scripture and the fullness of grace in Christ alone. Christ wants His church to be one- and praise Him it is! Despite all the many error-filled demonimations, errors both Catholic and protestant, the Shepard knows who are HIS. We know His voice, we've been cleansed by the blood of Christ and we are all (true christians) his children and brothers and sisters. Many sit in the pews of all types of churches who, no matter how true to the faith the doctrine is, have hearts far away and are enemies of God. The church is always one, and will praise Christ together one day
The church isn't some man made building. The true church of God are where ever more then one gathers in his name. Jesus never founded no catholic church the apostles never taught in no catholic church etheir as the catholic church didn't start until few years after the deaths of the apostles. An roman Emporer started the catholic not Jesus. The apostles where street preachers not no Catholic jesus preached on the streets as well and street preachers still exist to day.
"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'." -Martin Luther
0:49 Thanet. Where St Augustine of Canterbury landed in 597 AD, on orders of Pope St Gregory the Great. Have you been there? Is it a root to you as English-speaking Christian? If so, where was the Church in 597 AD? Were Sts Gregory and Augustine Calvinists? If they weren't, but Calvinism is still the real Christianity, where was the Calvinist Church back then?
“Moses must ever be looked upon with suspicion, even as upon a heretic, excommunicated, damned, worse than the Pope and the devil” (Martin Luther's Commentary on Galatians)
I don't understand what was idea behind papacy - Rome was biggest enemy of faith, new Babylon, and they killed closest companions of Christ, like Peter, so by that deeds they won a primacy in Christianity? or what deeds?
Peter and Paul founded the Church in Rome, and Peter, by Christ HImself, was given stewardship of the Kingdom. It is his chair that the Papacy rests, not Rome. His chair was put in Rome for historical reasons and kept there ever since.
@@strikevipermkII "Peter and Paul" sounds strange for me, interestingly enough - in my language "someone's Peter" stand for "closest friend/companion", but Paul... any man of knowledge in Islam from 7th century till now stress this point- even if you really saw a dream in which you given Revelation, maybe you can use it personally, but you will not be able to clean it from doubt sufficiently enough to change doubtless God's Law on that basis, even for yourself let alone preach and teach literally dream based doctrine that oppose God's word. Peter referred to Rome as Babylon - you name city 'Babylon' only if mean 'most unGodly city on Earth, center of evil, capital of wrongdoers' - really there is no other meaning.
There’s a whole host of problems with doctrines that the Catholic Church considers essential but clearly aren’t: * Purgatory: blatant violation of Ephesians 2:8-10. We’re supposed to let God work through us - AFTER we have already been saved by grace through faith. The Bible is very clear in Revelation 20:1-10 that there are only 2 eternal destinations, not 3 - not only is there no word “purgatory” in the Bible (which alone wouldn’t suffice to debunk), but there’s no explanation of it either - and the lack of any description of anything resembling what Catholics call purgatory in the Bible is enough to clearly declare it unbiblical. There’s only the messianic kingdom and the outside territory of the devil and his minions, followed shortly thereafter by the divine kingdom (New Jerusalem) and the “weeping and gnashing of teeth” outside such. Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus talk about a place for “those who need to prove that they are My children by being temporarily tormented” especially in light of the fact that the Sermon on the Mount clearly drives Paul’s point home by setting a standard that is humanly impossible to live up to. The fact of the matter is that according to Jesus, through His death and resurrection we have all been adopted into God’s family (John 10:7-18). Would a parent in his or her right mind deliberately subject a child to the kind of unspeakable cruelty talked about in the purgatory doctrine? Would a shepherd deliberately torture his sheep instead of caring for them? No? Then what makes you think that the morally perfect deity we profess faith in would? As it is written, “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:9-11). The concept of purgatory completely flies in the face of this by implying exactly what Jesus says God won’t do. The fact that the concept of purgatory was a Maccabean concept before it became a Catholic concept after a long gap drives this point home all the more, because the Pharisees - whom Jesus spends the absolute most time refuting and calling heretics - were themselves deriving all their theology from that of the religious leaders of the Hasmonean period; it’s no secret that the Hebrew word “Parush” that was Hellenicized as “Pharisee” was invented during this time. * Indulgences and associated ritual quid-pro-quo - Matthew 15:3-9. Jesus specifically tells the Pharisees that they are “nullifying the word of God for the sake of their traditions” by using rituals for the purpose of gatekeeping. Salvation is through Jesus (John 14:6), PERIOD. Saying you need to combine it with another way when Jesus clearly stated that He is the only way amounts to a blatant violation of Revelation 22.19. * Papal infallibility: “There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God” (Romans 3.22b-23) - If all have sinned and all have fallen short, that means no one is infallible, not even the Pope. The first church was Eastern Orthodox, NOT Roman Catholic. Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople *before* the state church was established, and the Hagia Sophia, NOT St Peter’s Basilica, was the place where Constantine himself worshipped. It goes without saying that this is why the Eastern Church actually kept a lot of sound doctrine that the Papacy did away with - like the lack of Purgatory, for example. The Eastern concept of hell being a place of eternal decay as a direct consequence of eternal separation (as opposed to the active divine involvement that the Catholics teach) is also far more theologically sound - and in agreement with both the Lutheranism that I grew up in and the soft Calvinism that I identify with currently - than anything the Catholic Church has added to what was written. No, this is not an indictment of all Catholics; I understand full well that there are always good Christians within every church under corrupt leadership, and this is no exception to that rule. That still doesn’t detract from the fact that Pope Gregory was a heresiarch - it was partly because of the changes imposed on the Catholic Church by its new Germanic overseers after Constantinople’s western provinces fell (who smuggled some aspects of Arianism in with them - hence the veneration of Mary, which is another blatant John 14:6 violation) that the Catholic Church became what it is today.
@@andreeattieh2963 No it isn’t. If it was then the Catholic Church’s teaching wouldn’t contradict what is written in the Bible - yet it does, *on a continuous basis.* God’s authority on earth is Scripture, NOT the Papacy.
@@andreeattieh2963 I already provided multiple examples in my OP proving that claim wrong and citing Scripture to back them. Try actually using a sound argument for once
When it comes to teachers I trust, they do not include either Luther or Calvin, they do include Sts Thomas Aquinas, Robert Bellarmine and Ignatius of Loyola.
Come on ... * when Luther nailed the theses he was still more Jansenist than Lutheran! * and anyway he would not have approved your take on the "Lord's Supper" as we know from his dispute with Zwingli! Plus, he was an admitted Bible translation forger (Romans 3:28).
There's also no support in the Bible to create your own Church instead of following the unified Church Christ installed. To think you can create a better Church is to think one can do it better then Christ. If you think God wanted 33,000 different Christian Churches you are wrong. Abondoning the Catholic Church is not holy. I pray you one day come home
@@jacobsaint1874 Not true. Historically the Orthodox broke away from the Authority of the See of Peter which is the Pope. Matt. 16:17-19 shows very clearly the authority of the Pope that Christ installed and unfortunately for political reasons the Orthodox left.
@@strive4252 We'll just have to agree to disagree then. The Orthodox Church never followed the authority of the bishop of Rome as Pope. So it's not possible for them to "break away" what they never followed to begin with. Orthodoxy teaches that in St. Matthew 16, it is what Peter says is the foundation of the church. Just a few verses later, Jesus also calls Peter, Satan, because what he says is not the foundation of the church.
@@jacobsaint1874 Well orginally Peters name was Simon, but Christ changed it to Peter which literally means rock and then Jesus said on this rock I will build my Church. Then he gives him the keys to the kingdom referencing the book of Isaiah where they talk about the prime minister position of the old testament to act in the name of the King while the King was away and to be in Charge of the rest of the royal Cabinet. Yes you are right Peter messed up, showing the faults of the individual of this position but in John 21 15-17 we see Christ reinstall Peter and inspire of his human faults, it's is the faith of his position that Christ prays for and says will never fail. Furthermore we have records of the bishop in Rome having authority in 65 AD. And considering the orthodox break away happened in 1054 AD with before that everyone having one Pope, I fail to see how the orthodox church could be the original. That being said, we are separated be schism not heresy, so we still needto work together to save our heretical brothers and sisters in Christ the Protestants.
@@strive4252 You know, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria has had their own Pope since the 1st century, by the succession of St. Mark. So based on what you're saying, along with the historical facts of the Orthodox Church, it appears there had never been one, original church, even from the time of the apostles.
Before someone comments that I'm a Romanist with biases so nothing I say is true, I'm actually an Evangelical Protestant, though I fear not for much longer. "We walked to the front of the room, to the front of the church, and what did I see, I saw a pulpit with an open Bible on it. Right away I knew, this is a Protestant church." This claim isn't incorrect, and Catholic churches don't have just a pulpit and the Bible in the front of their sanctuary, but I feel like the way he said it gives a bad connotation to Catholic churches, implying that they don't preach from the Bible. Now, it is entirely possible that I'm simply misreading this, so please don't bite off my head. However, anyone who has ever been to a Catholic Mass and paid attention during said service knows that time is set aside specifically for reading and preaching from the Scriptures (usually around 15 minutes of the half-hour service). "Who has the authority to tell human beings who they are, what they must believe, and, especially, how they can be made right with God. Well there is that open Bible at the front of the church." Again, I could be misreading, so don't bite my head off. Tim is saying that everything we need to believe to be Christians and to be made right with God is found between the covers of the Bible. Catholics do not dispute this claim; in fact, they argue that all of their doctrines and beliefs can be found in Scripture and can be verified by early Christians writings not found in the Bible, such as the Didache, Clement of Rome's First Letter to the Corinthians, Ignatius of Antioch's Letters to the various churches, and many more (written in late half of 1st century, 97 AD, and 110 AD, respectively). In terms of the relationship between Tradition and the Scriptures held by the Catholic Church, it believes they are complementary. Not everything in the Bible is perfectly clear in meaning (Don't believe me? Check the various different Protestant denominations, none of whom agree on all of the doctrines Christians are required to abide by, not to mention that their are differing interpretations of what requirements have to be met in order to receive salvation amongst the Protestant denominations), so it would make sense that some kind of infallible organization (as a whole, this doesn't mean individuals in the organization can't sin) or magisterium would have been established by Christ, in order to define the boundaries of what a particular doctrine or passage of Scripture could mean (which is essentially the function of the magisterium of the Catholic Church, which is similar to--though not the same as--the magisterium that the Jews had before Christ came and established the New Covenant--a structure which Christ never condemns as being inherently evil or inherently prone to the formation of heresies. It was only when this magisterium ignored what the Scriptures clearly said that Jesus chastised and rebuked them. In Martin Luther's 95 Theses, they are all concerned with either paying for indulgences or why the Church wasn't using more of its resources to help those in need; both problems have since been fixed). Nowadays, the Protestant denominations are divided over subjective interpretations of the Scriptures, while the Catholic Church continues to debate only those topics which the magisterium has not clearly defined or taught authoritatively about, yet. The Scriptures may be described as the inerrant Word of God in the Bible, but nowhere do you read the Apostles saying that the Scriptures are perfectly clear in the communication of those doctrines that are binding on the lives of Christians. Tim talks about how the Catholic Church has trappings. Does that refer to its Traditions (which can be found in the Scriptures, at least implicitly, and in early Christian writings, as stated above) or to the beautiful styles that the cathedrals and parishes are built and decorated in? I've given my answer on Traditions already. In terms of beauty, it isn't inherently wrong to have beautiful churches (especially when many of the decorations are so rich with Biblical connections). In fact, making churches beautiful actually helps to draw in unbelievers and perhaps start the ball rolling towards becoming a follower of Christ. Maybe, they come for the beauty and stay for Jesus. Indulgences. I feel like Tim has a misconception of what an indulgence is. An indulgence does remit some or all of the punishment you may have received in Purgatory for a particular sin. However, the idea is slightly more nuanced. The punishment, or part of it, is remitted because, if someone performs this act with a sincere heart and a sincere love for the Lord, this act should be destroying some of the attachment this person has to sin. Even Protestants will agree that reading your Bible and praying sincerely will change your perception of sinful actions and make you less likely to commit these in the future. Catholics simply believe that this turning away from sin will reduce the amount of punishment one receives in Purgatory to ultimately and completely sever the attachments to sin that you had when you died. Protestants also believe you are cleansed of your attachment to sin before entering heaven, they simply believe it happens instantaneously (which the Catholic Church does not deny is a possibility; they have never specified how long this purification takes, and I seriously doubt they ever will). When Tim says the practice of indulgences is still alive today, he is correct, though indulgences are not the same as they were around the time of the Reformation. Around that time, people were saying if you paid the Church money, then you could receive a plenary indulgence for yourself or you could apply this to someone who has died and is in Purgatory. Indulgences still exist, but you cannot buy one, that was clearly wrong. Contrary to what Tim says about the placard at Scala Sancta, it does not say going up the stairs on your knees will give you a one-year plenary indulgence. If you look at the picture he posted of it in a blog on his website (www.challies.com/articles/the-mischievous-protestants-guide-to-rome/), you can read that it doesn't say the indulgence covers a one-year period. In fact, it doesn't specify any period or a certain number of sins that will be covered by it, implying that it can only be applied to the punishment you would normally have received for a single sin. According to the picture he posted, the placard says, a plenary indulgence may be received "on all Fridays of Lent, and once more each year on an occasion of one's choosing." It says nothing about being applied to all the sin you've committed for the year. Even if indulgences are complete falsehoods, as most Protestants would contend, why is it sad to see people doing this? Sure, if their end-goal is purely to earn an indulgence, then of course it would be sad, but I feel most Catholics who pray up the Scala Sancta do so to simply offer their prayers to Christ, and this beautiful and historically-rich place makes them want to offer prayers to the Lord in a way that pilgrims have done for centuries. Why is that so sad? If anything, one would find such a sight to be beautiful and inspiring. (1/2)
(2/2) Statue. Not really sure what his point is with the statue. The Church, at the time of the statue's carving (and I believe even today), felt that Martin Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli were misleading Christians based on their subjective interpretation of Scripture (which I haven't been able to find anywhere in the writings of the Church Fathers, and the Biblical basis, as I've stated, is a subjective interpretation)(It is also important to point out that in Apologetics debates, Protestants will often attack the Catholic Church's claim of infallibility, and yet, they don't recognize that the entirety of the Reformation and formation of the Protestant denominations was founded on the interpretations of Scripture by three fallible human-beings who, having never met Christ, his Apostles, or their direct successors, could be misinterpreting what the original intent of the writers of the Scriptures was. Does this necessarily mean the Catholic Church is infallible, no; however, we can't presuppose that Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin--who disagreed with each other on certain important doctrines--were right, otherwise we can never look objectively at the Biblical and historical data). Therefore, the Catholic Church excommunicated these individuals for creating such a schism in the church they believe Christ founded. However, this excommunication and anathematizing (damning to Hell) of Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli does not expressly apply to any Protestants living today, as many of them were born into Protestantism, or have never taken the time to research the roots of the Church and what the early Church taught and believed, and are therefore not responsible for their separation from the Church. Does this mean they will all go to Heaven? Most likely, no. The sacraments are the orthodox way in which one enters the body of Christ and receives his gift of grace, but Christ is not bound by the rules which we are bound by, so he can grant his grace to anyone at his own discretion. Again, simply because the Catholic Church grants that some Protestants may be Heaven, does not mean they believe all, or even most, of Protestants will be in Heaven. 300 Day Indulgence for Venerating Picture. If the Catholic Church has the authority to bind and loose on earth and in heaven, as was given to Peter and passed on to his successors (which I believe the Greek in which the New Testament was originally written and the historical evidence from early Church documents and the writings of early Church fathers supports), then the Church has the authority to remit the punishment one would receive in Purgatory for sins committed in this 300 day period. However, I would argue that just because one venerates the saint in the picture, does not mean they are venerating the picture itself, as Tim so callously puts it. When you see a man in an airport kiss a picture of his wife and kids, you don't think he has a fetish for this particular brand of printer paper and ink. No, you realize the kiss is merely a physical expression of the love he has for the people represented in the picture. In the same way, honoring a picture or statue of a saint is not honoring the canvas or marble of which they consist, but an expression of their love and appreciation of saints who lived righteous lives whom we should try to do better than (as no saint has lived as perfectly as Jesus Christ, so to strive to live a more righteous life than even the venerated saints may seem a more manageable goal than living sinlessly, as Christ did--not that we shouldn't strive to do that, as well), not out of a sense of pride, but out of love for Jesus. Praying to Saints. He doesn't talk about it in this video, but he does on the website I linked above. Most Protestants, Tim included, believe it is, if not outright wrong, then useless to pray to dead Saints in Heaven. They're dead, what can they do for you? I'll explain what I've gathered that the Catholic Church teaches on this. Do you believe that all Christians are members of the body of Christ? If yes, do you believe that physical death separates us from the body of Christ? If physical death does not separate from the body of Christ, are not those in Heaven--in the presence of the Holy Trinity--more alive, in some ways, then we are on Earth? If so, then praying to them and asking them to pray for us should be possible, just as you might ask members of your church to pray for you. And according to James, the prayers of a righteous man have great effect, so the prayers of a Saint in Heaven should have greater effect than the prayer of an earthly man, as the earthly man still possesses attachments to sin (this does not mean you shouldn't ask your fellow church members to pray for you).
As a Catholic I found your 7 ways to tell a false teacher and it gave me great comfort because our Catholic Church has been infiltrated successfully. That being said, the Church is the only Christian church that’s been here since Christ. You’re so wrong about the host -which CHRIST told about in John when so many followers walked away. He then instituted the Eucharistic celebration at the Last Supper. You’re a wonderful teacher but you’re wrong that Scripture alone is what people must rely on. It’s not biblically sound as St. Paul put tradition right up at top. Martin Luther was mentally ill-please study Martin Luther and his tyranny and the same with Calvin, both of whom set themselves up as Popes who would execute those who wouldn’t follow their changing interpretation of scripture. Please look up Dr. David Anders’ conversion story after he researched the early Reformation & found that Protestantism today doesn’t resemble it at all. Pax
"Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed." "Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews." -Martin Luther
@@JesusChurchBible I think that was from Against the Jews and their Lies, it was from 1535 or 1534 or sth, when he had been away from the Catholic Church for quite a time. Back when he was Catholic, his views were very different. So, rejoicing he didn't lose _all_ of his Catholic doctrine is not hatemongering against the Jews, if that was what you were trying to imply. But seriously, why would his idiotic take at variance with the natural law on how to deal with Jews have anything to do with his views on Matthew 26, which is what I commented on?
No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.” (Letter to Melanchthon, August 1, 1521, American Edition, Luther’s Works, vol. 48, pp. 281-82)
Purgatory isn't for punishment. It's for sanctification. Also, indulgences are a good thing - we aren't justified by faith alone. (James 2:24) God Bless.
And a "challenge" for all the happy protestants: can you tell me how it wouldn't be a heresy and a blasphemy against the Holy Spirit to believe that for nearly 1500 years (or for nearly a 1000 years at least) the Church that Christ founded fell completely into the most despicable error and abandonment from God and went astray from the true discernment about the doctrine taught by Jesus?
Sure. Firstly, Christ didn't found the Roman Catholic Church. The Great Church of the Apostolic Age is not the same thing. Secondly, there is Biblical support for neither papal infallibility nor papal supremacy. Papal infallibility is a much later concept, and it cuts against the ideas that only God is perfect. Also, what we know as catholic orthodoxy (what is believed by the Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and Lutherans) was established through councils of bishops in the 4th, 5th, and 6th Centuries. Never during that time was the pope given sole power. He was simply primus inter pares among the great metropolitan bishops in Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. Thirdly, the pope at the time of the East-West Schism impoperly excommunicated the Eastern metropolitans who disagreed with him. Some EO theologians also still consider the filioque to be heresy. I do not. The Roman Catholic Church has its own heresies, as well.
@@mjvictoriano The Great Church is the Christian church after Jesus' time on Earth, but before credal orthodoxy was established in the councils beginning in the 4th Century. It stretched from what is now Iran (possibly as far as India) to Spain and from Germany to Ethiopia. It was not a "Roman" Catholic Church. Rome simply was the most important city and the one to which Peter went.
@@mjvictoriano And what type of orthodoxy? The Apostles', Athanasian, and Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creeds. As Vincent of Lérins wrote: "that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all." In essence, for me it is what was decided by the first four great ecumenical councils at the minimum. Have you heard of Paleo-orthodoxy?
Why would you be happy about being part of a denomination that fell away from the original church? Praying for everyone who denies the Truth of Jesus and His Catholic Church
"Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed." "Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews." -Martin Luther
@@SuperNintendoMii that is veneration asking them to pray for us we don't worship them as the catechism of the Catholic church contains everything we believe and nowhere do we teach worship anyone other than god
@@andreeattieh2963 only God responds to prayers. Not mary. So why bother? It's mary worship. The fact we are having this conversation is proof. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and moves like a duck... It's a duck!
Scripture was never nor should it bee the CENTER of the Christian life. Certainly it is a COMPONENT, a PART of the Christian Life. But it is CHRIST who is the center of the Christian Life. That is why the Altar-Table of the Eucharist is the focal point of all truly Christian worship-spaces (i.e Catholic and Orthodox). CHRIST Himself and His redemptive Incarnation, Death and Resurrection are at the CENTER of Catholic Life and Worship. Protestantism was NOT a reformation of Christianity, but the invention of a new, quasi-Christianity that rejected authentic Christian worship (the Mass) and switched it out for a sing-a-long and a lecture with an occasional sharing in bread and grape juice which is only a pale parody of the Lord's Supper which Jesus bequeathed to His bride. Protestantism ignores in the very Scripture it claims to venerate the passages that demonstrate that Jesus established and promised to maintain a Church of all true Teachers built on the Apostles and Prophets with Christ Himself as the capstone, substituting an anti-church of all true so-called believers - believers who all believe different things! To be thankful for being a protestant is akin to Nimrod being thankful for the tower of Babel.
"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'." -Martin Luther
Be aware of false prophets. Keep praying the Rosary. Wear a scapular. Offer sacrifices and sufferings to Jesus, each time, saying "O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of poor sinners and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” The woman clothed in the sun is our Mother Mary, Mother of God - She has shown us in the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima. Her Immaculate Heart will triumph as the Lord Jesus has planned. Mother Mary will be the one who will defeat the Satan "I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." (Genesis 3:15)
You are full of prejudice, Tim, not showing signs of a basic will to understand the Catholic faith. The problem is that you talk like a propagandist, thinking that stressing some points which are especially hateful to protestant minds due to generations of anti-Catholic prejudice is good enough to show how rightful protestantism is. It's a very sad and silly attitude. It reveals a side of your spiritual life that doesn't correspond to the image of a dialoging person you manifest on many of your comments on other subjects. You go around throughing comments on indulgencies but the few words you said about what indulgencies mean for Catholics doesn't add up. You should know that what indulgencies mean - as well as with all other aspects of Catholic theology tradition and practice with which you don't agree - depend on a theological framework that is probably very different from yours, so that there's the risk you don't truly understand the meaning of the Catholic positions. But the best example of your inability to reason loogically when it comes to 'catholic' things is what you say about the Bible being on the pulpit of that protestant church shows that protestantism is of course true. Of course, the sola scritura principle proves protestantism to be more faithful to the Gospel. Honestly? What about your relation to Scripture in like of the great master Calvin? It doesn't seem to respect in any sense the principle of sola scriptura. Is not the Church allowed to follow the witness of the ancient Church instead of your masters from the 16th onwards? Clearly the sola scriptura position is only a way to justify particular theological positions with the excuse their are from the Bible. However, that principle is a fallacy: for you, the the true theaching Bible is nothing but your interpretation op the Bible. Should I accept that your interpratation of the Bible be the the basis of the Faith of Church. A good example of the abuse behind that principle: you say in another video that those who deny the doctrine of penal substitution are heretics. But where is in the Bible that doctrine presented, can you tell me, please? Or the doctrine of imputation of Christ's justice: what is in Scripture is that our justice is Christ's justice bbeing communicated to those who believe in Him - we receive the grace of dying to sin with Christ, i.e., by sharing in his perfect obedience till death, as well as we resurrect with Him by living in a new way of life - that was also the unanimous teaching of the ancient Church. I hope you may become less attached to your own ideas and more passionate in seeking to go deeper in the truth of the Gospel - and that surely means, less of a anti-catholic bigot...
Tim has knowledge and discipline and a desire to walk in truth. Why waste thoughts on sacredodleism and spooky Mary-Queen of Heaven nonsense. He's much more concerned at being content in the UNMERITED LOVE of the Lord Christ Jesus. Clean out the cobwebs & rejoice in the Lord.
Praying to Mary, dead saints, and kissing the feet of statues is idolatry. Priests dont have the authority to forgive sins and the pope does not, and i repeat, does not have the authority of Jesus Christ.
@@joeschoen112 did you know that all of the early Church unanimously agreed that Christ gave his authority to Peter and his apostles to bind and loose and forgive sins in the name of Jesus. Not them in and of themselves, but rather in who's name their office stands, Christ Jesus. St. Peter holds the keys to the kingdom of heaven. His authority is valid because it was given him by Christ himself.
Don't tell nonsence about Europe! What you saw is not how the Catholic Church is in Europe, but just as it it in corners, were the Reformation had no influence. Rom, Italy is such a corner. Were the Catholicism are confronted with Protestantism, it changes.
Hey Tim! It's SO nice you're devouting yourself to understand your faith and to spread the word of Jesus, Our Lord. However, I think you're missing parts of your homework. Most of what you said here is basically repeating the propaganda against the Catholic Church... which is simply THE CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. When He mentions the word "Church" in the Gospels, He doesn't mean Churches, He means CHURCH. And He explicitly asks the Father for the Church to be ONE like He and the Father are ONE (John 17, 21-23). Read the comment that Kurt Barret wrote for you, he took a serious amount of time to write it, and try to study its content. And do some REAL research about the history of the Church and the story of Martin Luther. I'm sorry but Luther was no hero, he was USED by the German princes to proclaim their sovereignity from Rome. Luther even allowed those princes to have a bigamous marriage. I don't mean to say that Luther is in hell because no one can tell... but the schism of the Church that he initiated was definitely diabolical. And DIABOLOS actually means "the one who divides with lies". I have a very good regard for protestants that genuinely LOVE JESUS and try to make this world a better and more Christian world, don't misjudge me with my comment on Satan. STILL, I really believe protestantism has an incomplete and weaker form of Christianity, and that Christ still calls us all to be ONE like He and the Father are ONE... in the ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH!
@@Valencetheshireman927 that's the case for the "disciples" that 1500 years later protested against the sanctity and unity of the doctrine and started founding churches according to their own understanding and wishes of how the "Bride of Christ" should look like. All Catholics that really want to be Catholic believe in ONE doctrine. They manifest that doctrine differently but they've never changed the doctrine. All the Church Fathers were "Catholic" because they believed that Christ wanted 7 sacraments, a college of bishops and a Vicar (who's the Pope), and had an intense veneration for Jesus Mother Mary and they believed in Purgatory and the communion of Saints and in the fruits of monasticism and celibacy and in justification by faith AND works. It is from Luther that the modernist fallacy of trying to make the mysterious reasonable and the sacred accessible that Protestants decided that they were going to be their own popes, their own heads of liturgy, their own sacramental ministers, their own theologians, and as a result there's your 30 thousand denominations of Christianity that come to even contradict themselves. READ the Church Fathers. If you just read what the Catholic Church is according to your own Protestant dogmas then you're only staring at your own belly. It's a loop. Have the Church Fathers as the judges of this quarrel and ask the Holy Spirit for discernment. Hope to see you on this side in Heaven! Let's work for it! I leave you a message from a former Protestant pastor ua-cam.com/video/kjYOVRqsPUE/v-deo.html And here's a playlist of 466 testimonies of people discovering the Truth of the Catholic Church coming from Protestantism atheism or even other religions! ua-cam.com/video/O2bD5ZxbOUY/v-deo.html God help you find the way HOME!
@@Valencetheshireman927 Today Catholics celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi because Jesus is TRULY present in His Soul in His Body and in His Blood and Divinity in the Holy Eucharist to feed us with His REAL Flesh and Blood. You're missing that as Protestants. If Jesus wasn't literal he would have not missed so many disciples in John 6's passage where they flee scandalized about eating His flesh.
A Protestant here, but I don't hate Catholics and Orthodoxes. Hate is pointless.
"Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads...."
Martin Luther
Insight on the Eucharistic Real Presence from Archbishop Fulton Sheen
A young Wife, who had been taking Instructions for a Year, told the Writer she could Believe everything in the Faith, except the Eucharist. Upon inquiring-about her Husband, it was learned that he was in the Pacific, on Military Duty. In answer to further questions, she admitted that she Corresponded-with him every Two (2) Days, and that she had his Photograph before her, in the House.
We argued there was nothing Wanting-for Perfect Happiness. What more could she Want, than the Constant-Memory of him, through the Photograph and a Written-communication, in which Heart poured-out-to Heart. But, she Protested that she could never be Truly Happy, except-through Union (1)-with her Husband.
But, it was retorted, if Human Love craves Oneness (1), shall not Divine Love? If Husband and Wife seek-to-be One (1) in the Flesh, shall not the Christian and Christ crave-for that Oneness (1) with One-another? The Memory of the Christ Who lived Twenty (20) Centuries ago, the recalling-of His Mercy and Miracles through Memory, the correspondence-with Him by-reading the Scriptures -- all these are Satisfying, but they do not Satisfy Love. There must-be, on the Level-of Grace, something Unitive (1) with Divine Love. Every Heart seeks a Happiness outside it, and since Perfect Love is God, then the Heart-of Man and the Heart-of Christ must, in some-way, Fuse (1). In Human Friendship, the other-Person is Loved as another-Self, or the other-Half of One's Soul. Divine Friendship must have its 'Mutual-Indwelling': "He who dwells-in Love, dwells-in God, and God in him" (1John 4:17). This Aspiration-of the Soul for its Ecstasy is fulfilled-in the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
These are the Sacraments
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
I'm a Catholic but you are really positive. No criticism, nothing. Hope, you will do well in life brother
I don't accept his attack in the body of Christ.... The Catholic Church.
It's obvious... Protestants wouldn't exist without the Catholic Church.
As a former Catholic, it is important to know that the Catholic Church was not founded by Jesus Christ. It was formed and influenced by Constantine a brutal, unrepentant emperor who brought his polytheistic/pagan practices into the Church. Throughout the centuries, Monasterism and Roman beliefs infiltrated the Church. The Catholic church is far from it's apostolic origins. The Reformation brought the Church back to Christ.
@@elvisisacs3955 have you studied the early 1st and 2nd church fathers?
@@jesussotelo4775 yes, of course. But I do not consider them as an authority as their writings are non inspired. A tip I give to fellow Catholic friends is to not just read the church fathers or the writings promoted by the RCC or Catholic apologists such as Catholic Answers. It's not unanimous as a catholic might think.
@@elvisisacs3955 so then whose authority and doctrine is inspired, Luther, Calvin, Smith, most reformers have man made doctrine that are only 500 years old, how can sola scriptura be true if the bible wasn't even written or compiled in the first century and nowhere in the bible did Jesus ever establish a book he established a church. Most historical scholars agree that the earliest gospel is Mark and that wasn't written till some 40 years after the death of christ,and the canonization of the all the books were compiled by the catholic church itself. At the end of the day you have to ask which doctrine is correct, that of a post reformed seminary or that of apostolic succession?
A proud Presbyterian here!! Jesus Christ is The Way, The TRUTH and The Life!! ...Amen! 🙏🏼
Protestantism from a biblical and historical point of view.
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The Catholic Church is the one true Church
@@prylonestrocio Highly doubt that
I say screw all the choices good church! As long as we have a relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ! GRACE so good he comes first
Church of England Protestant here and proud to be so. I enjoyed this video and I agree about ‘indulgences’. Evil practice.
Be aware of false prophets. Keep praying the Rosary. Wear a scapular. Offer sacrifices and sufferings to Jesus, each time, saying "O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of poor sinners and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” The woman clothed in the sun is our Mother Mary, Mother of God - She has shown us in the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima. Her Immaculate Heart will triumph as the Lord Jesus has planned. Mother Mary will be the one who will defeat the Satan "I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." (Genesis 3:15)
You're aware that the church of england was founded because a king was horny?
Same here church of Scotland and proud to be a protestant. 🏴🇬🇧
That open Bible you saw on the pulpit in Switzerland had books torn out because of Martin Luther and has been misinterpreted to the point of abuse.
You are definitely right brother/sister! The elephant in the room that our protestant brothers and sisters forget/ignore when they say they are a bible-centered movement is how do you understand & interpret that Bible that we agree on (except for what they ripped out from the Old Testament) & who is in charge of this interpretation to avoid false & misleading teachings that led to their current mess???
The books taken out were not scripture. Did not belong in the bible. You want to talk about misinterpretation, how about we talk about the popes selling indulgences for as long as they did pretending salvation can be bought? Misinterpretation of the Bible was going on long before the reformation, in equally despicable ways.
@@kattula76 Not even remotely right. We don't ignore that question, which is the beautiful part of Protestantism. We don't rely on someone "holier" or " closer to God" than us to tell us what the bible says, we recognize that Christ died to give us each the opportunity to be close to him, and any of us can read the bible and understand it, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The responsibility is on each individual person to read the bible. As is the judgment for getting it wrong. You want to act like your way of only letting Church authority interpret the bible has led to any less of false and misleading teachings? Again, how about when the Pope sold indulgences as if salvation can be bought or sold? How about when the Pope said that you don't actually have to confess Jesus as Lord in order to be saved? These rank heresies were taught as truth for such a long time and accepted by ya'll because? What? The Pope can't be wrong? Even thought the pope has been demonstrably wrong so many times? Also, we took out books that God has revealed as non-scripture, you keeping them is the problem.
@@johnvilyer4340 if Jesus read them and considered them Scripture, why are they not Scripture?
@@TommyGunzzz Because he did not consider them scripture. Reading them and elevating them to the same level as scripture is not even remotely the same thing. Terrible argument.
I am blessed by Jesus Christ to be a Catholic.
I didn't know Darth Vader was a Catholic. Wow, interesting..
Same here!
@@elvisisacs3955 makes sense lol
Me to
Why is being a Protestant dependant on not being a Catholic?
Pat Aherne it is protesting the catholic faith, protest-tant.
it actually isnt.
@@missthunderstormable it is. The name and identity is in reacting to Catholicism, not a thing in itself.
I never heard say anti-protestant but a lot of Catholics converts they said they were Anti-Catholic before their conversion.
It’s almost like The Catholic Church is the church that Jesus founded
Happy to be
Orthodox
Yes! Reformation Day is a thing!! Many churches celebrate the Protestant Reformation on either October 31 or the Sunday before that date.
"Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads...."
-Martin Luther
Hmmm
@@kevinburke7671 Here is another of the "great"mind of Martin Luther.
Luther Said: Polygamy Is Permissible "I confess that I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict the Scripture. If a man wishes to marry more than one wife he should be asked whether he is satisfied in his conscience that he may do so in accordance with the word of God. In such a case the civil authority has nothing to do in the matter." (De Wette II, 459, ibid., pp. 329-330.)
Something isn't right about referring to the Eucharist as a piece of bread. My gosh.
Still great points and speech! Thanks for sharing.
Protestantism from a biblical and historical point of view.
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Probably because it's literally in scripture. But the protestants are lied to and they aren't told the truth at there 40k church's.
1 Corinthians 10:17
[17]Through the one bread, we, though many, are one body: all of us who are partakers of the one bread.
"Bread" aka Eucharist found in Catholic Church
1 Corinthians 10:16-17
[16]The cup of benediction that we bless, is it not a communion in the Blood of Christ? And the bread that we break, is it not a participation in the Body of the Lord?
[17]Through the one bread, we, though many, are one body: all of us who are partakers of the one bread.
Come on now people!!
@@JesusChurchBible there are Protestants who take seriously the Lord's supper. And while Satan did divide Christianity, God works with us in our brokenness and all things for good. There are many Protestant changes that are good.
I cant believe some people are trying to defend the concept of indulgences. And where did the concept of purgatory come from? Convince me with scripture, those things are nowhere to be found and they insult the work of Christ on the cross as not enough. There is real action required on our part - sincere repentance, change, walking with the Spirit and abiding in Christ by obeying His Word - but we are saved not by our actions but by God's grace through faith. God enables our heart change and transformation, those are signs and fruits of our salvation and not the cause, or else we have every right to boast in what we do instead of what Christ has done.
Purgatory can be found in a number of Bible passages such as Matthew 12:32, 2 Maccabees 12:43-45, and 1 Corinthians 3:15 just to name a few.
As for salvation by works, this to is taught in scripture in many passages like Romans 2:6-7, Galatians 6:7-9, Matthew 12:36-37, Matthew 25:31-46, and James 2:24.
@Christian Mouse Thank you so much, I aspire to have your knowlege, through Christ.
@Comrade Knuckles james 2 24 says works are neccecary for salvation and not faith alone
These 5 verses disprove faith alone Romans 2 verse 6 to 7
Galatians 6 verse 7 to 9
Matthew 12 verse 36 to 37
James 2 24
Matthew 25 vs 31 46
Works
Works without faith are dead, but that doesn't mean faith alone will save you lol. Jesus had many works, he didn't just preach.
Amen I thank God I am Protestant!
@Jeannie Marte
I’m a traditional Catholic, and I would love to change your mind on anything!
Yup. To be a Protestant is to be selfish. It's all about you and Jesus and screw everyone else. Catholics are about each other. You don't believe me? Just read the lyrics of the songs that are sung.
@rangers94ism
Are you being sarcastic?
@@rangers94ism Your selfish of thinking protestants are Evil and only selfish
@Thomas Johns.
Well I’ve got to start somewhere that’s what I’m gonna be doing for the rest of my life. Next year I will be entering Seminary to become a traditional Catholic priest. Let me give it my best shot. Are you a protestant or atheist? If you are a protestant are you scripture alone and faith alone?
Luke 22:19
[19]And taking bread, he gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them, saying: "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this as a commemoration of me."
So if you don't do this, your not following scripture and not listening to what Jesus told his disciples to do. If your a protestant your a strict Solo Scriptura, but... you decide not to follow Jesus in this way? Are you not a follower of Christ? Why wouldn't you do this in memory of him?? 🤔
Never mind that reformation word
Just do romans 12:1&2
Just do Galatians 6:9.
Just do psalms 119:9-11.
Benefits ?? “Banner over you is LOVE !”
Isaiah 26:3 is way better than any other persuasion .
I am born as а Macedonian Orthodox and now I am a Protestant and a Macedonian forever :)
"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'." -Martin Luther
@@JesusChurchBible Luther started out as a Catholic so what does that tell you? About where he got his views on Jews from?
I am so happy to be a Protestant even though some people laugh at me saying I don’t listen to Ariana,cardi b...
But am really thankful to God cause am a Protestant
You like protesting?
@@Kitiwake That's not what it means
No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.” (Letter to Melanchthon, August 1, 1521, American Edition, Luther’s Works, vol. 48, pp. 281-82)
Than you protestant brother.
Indulgences exist still yes but the church corruption behind them as it were in Luther's day does not still exist
Was it corrupt?
Recalling the sin of Simony.
No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.” (Letter to Melanchthon, August 1, 1521, American Edition, Luther’s Works, vol. 48, pp. 281-82)
I come from Italy and I was born in a catholic family and I used to go to catholic churches since a friend of mine, that it was Evangelical, spoke to me about his faith. So my wife and I started new research in the Bible about the truth, about salvation, about a personal relationship with God. We understood the truth and we accept the Salvation through Jesus and now we are born again Christians.
You are right that the Catholic church is always the same and I'm very afraid when I see some preachers and pastor that think that we could pray together with the catholic. The only way to stay together is to change our faith but that's impossible for me. It is important to have respect for everyone but it's impossible for me to go to a catholic church and make something that it's against my faith and against Jesus. And I see that even if in the catholic church there are many people that could be believers and are sincere, the pope and all the people around him are making horrible statements, they are incredibly rich and they are involved in a lot of crime Italian mysteries.
But I don't agree with you in something, in fact, I think that my roots are in the first apostles, in the first church and when I think to my myself the only tag that I can put on myself is 'Christian' without any other tag. I know that in the time of the reformation there were people that fought against catholic because it was important to have, read and applied the Word of God, but they try to go in the first age of the church, not to create a new religion or have some tags and we know that they also made some mistakes or don't had the complete revelation or comprehension.
I think that we have to claim ourselves only Christian without any other tag. We are followers of Christ that's all.
Thank Tim, I very appreciate your videos.
Any Christian faith that doesn't have the body and blood of Christ for the remission of sin is a lie.. If you where raised Catholic, you where raised very well.. Petty you went to a false Church... Our blessed Mother did said even my children will fall for it... And it seems to be so... According to her in the days of protestantism the souls entering hell is like snow all over the world... AS they say the body and blood of Christ for the remission of sin is just a símbol.. When our Lord said if you don't eat the body and drink his blood we will not enter the kingdom of heaven... Never he said was a símbol.... Not only that. If you read the bible from the point where our Lord stabllish a covenant, stabllish baptism confession... Eucaristy... The Bible has a. completely different meaning.
John 6:53-56 Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed , and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and dtinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
Until today there are more than 50000 christian denomination and still splitting. Thank you Protestant for dividing us.
Solar scriptua is a false doctrine, in case most protestants did know the bible didn't exist till decades after the death of christ. Most historical new Testament scholars point to Mark as being the earliest gospel which was written some 40 years after the death of christ and prior to that it was a spoken doctrine that most early Christians adhered to. Also at the end of John it states that Jesus did and said many things that couldn't be put into writing so ask yourself if you are a protestant how old is your doctrine, it cannot be older than 500 years which makes it a man made doctrine by proxy and the reformation is 500 years of recklessness that also gave us the Church of Latter day saints and the jehovah witness movement. If you dont believe me I'll point you to church history and to the 1st century church fathers and before you dismiss my claims just know that I was also an anti catholic protestant for a long time before I sought truth similar to Scott Hahn.
So the argument is apeal to scripture or apeal to tradition. The problem with appealing to a tradion that has been passed down is its telephone easily manipulated because it's not written down, subject to change. Scripture is lock chain, you can't change it. So it's more reasonable to apaeal to scripture.
@@souzajustin19d read the first and second century apostolic church fathers like Ignatius, or Polycarp who was a direct disciple of apostle John.
@@jesussotelo4775 why would I read somthing non cannon? Hence lock chained.
@@souzajustin19d and a doctrine that's no more that 500 years old is more valid, let me ask I'm assuming you reject the mormon and jehovah witness doctrine but Baptist and Presbyterian doctrine are between 300 and 400 years old. At the end of the day it comes down to a random seminary school or 1st century Christians.
@@jesussotelo4775 both of those religions are disproven not just because they don't follow the cannon, but blunty following a false prophet. It's not because they are new, it's because they meet the standard already written.
Few of the catholic traditions come from the initial believers. They were made up a 1000 years later by man.
kueagle1 but wasn’t the bible written by man as well? And by man part of this same church? I’m a Protestant that doesn’t see any good on diving the church of Christ.
You obviously haven't read the early church fathers!
Pilgrims. You can walk across the North of Spain but it's just still a walk. If there is an indulgence involved then it must be an "official" indulgence. No Catholic is bound to seek indulgences.
The Jesuits were founded by saint Loyola in response to his fervour for Christ.
Did you ask the people why they were bowing " before" relics?
No. I thought not.
Luther threw themselves into hell by not recanting their hersey.
And it's Catholic..btw, not "Roman" Catholic.
And finally, reading a book is not union with Christ . Catholic Communion is.
Want to have a rethink?
@Ian Jesus never created no catholic church. By saying jesus started the catholic church you are adding to scripture which makes u a heretic.
@Ian Where in the bible does it say catholics wrote scripture, where in tue bible does it say jesus started the catholic church, where in scripture doea it mention peter going to rome building a Catholic church, where in the bible doea jesus say pray to mary, where in the bible did jesus demanded u to pray to the saints, where in the bible did jesus say pray to the angels where in the bible dis jesus say make idols of heaven and of sea and pray and bow to them, where in Scripture did jesus say praise the rosery, where in scriptute does it say the catholic is the true church and i want proof in scripture not your catholic man made doctrines but actaul evidence of the catholic church being mention in Scripture. If u can't prove that the word catholic is mention in scripture then u already proven my case that catholics foundings has nothing to do with Jesus at all.
Its amazing that today most Reformed Christians fail to celebrate their freedom from the shackles of Roman Catholicism which subverted the primacy of the Holy Spirit and the Bible and its claim that is the Only One and True Church.
I was raised and loved being a Protestant, but now I am converting to become a Catholic.
The roman catholic church is gods church
It was started by the one person who had authority to do it from Jesus. St Peter. He was to lead the church and the other apostles.
@X "Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed."
"Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews."
-Martin Luther
All of this makes me proud to be Catholic.
To be fair I think you have mischaracterised the idea of indulgences and how they work.
I am one of those Catholics that "don't read the bible" I have a verse for you Luke 18:11 . Also you are right most Catholic churches in America are indistinguishable from protestant churches. That is sad. The revolutionaries painted over our beautiful murals they crushed our high altars and even used the stones to pave the parking lot. I have the opposite perspective they did this not to trick protestants into being Catholic but to change the lex oradni so that they can change the lex credendi. I would argue these people are protestants at best. These people have successfully emptied our churches and keep prosecuting (yes I mean that word literally) parishes that hold on to our traditions and are growing and have many vocations .
No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.” (Letter to Melanchthon, August 1, 1521, American Edition, Luther’s Works, vol. 48, pp. 281-82)
Can anyone recommend a Protestant Church in the Atlanta area?
Yeah look it up in the yellow pages
of the phone book.
North Point Community Church
4350 North Point Parkway, Alpharetta, GA 30022
678.892.5000
Charles Stanley's church is around Atlanta.
"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'." -Martin Luther
Go to a few and you'll hear a few different viewpoints. Lol that's why protestantism is false. They all have different views of the Truth. Best of luck.
Amen brother!
I'm happy to be Roman catholic. I wish our separate brothers and sisters get the righg and truth information about Catholicism. God bless y'all
I m Catholic...... but our goal is Jesus.... no hate please.
@@decunha75 totally agree
It's great and wholesome to be a Catholic which is the pillar & foundation of the Church. In a post you mentioned False teachers, how did you not see Luther the heretic?
Not the pillar, not the foundation. Luther was not a heretic. Your pope is literally an antichrist. You want to talk about false teachers, start with your own perverted leaders and doctrine.
John Vilyer yessir
@@johnvilyer4340 the pope is not the anti christ the catholic church is gods church
@Thomas Johns. No he doesn't demand money from the poor
The Pope helps the poor
Everything we Catholics believe in today was believed in by the early Christians
1 Corinthians 10:16-17
[16]The cup of benediction that we bless, is it not a communion in the Blood of Christ? And the bread that we break, is it not a participation in the Body of the Lord?
[17]Through the one bread, we, though many, are one body: all of us who are partakers of the one bread.
So according to scripture, as Protestants consider themselves Solo Scripturas, if you don't partake in breaking the bread, which is the Lords Body, you are not part of the Body of Christ??? Why would you not want to partake in something that is clearly stated in the Bible? Why do you pick and choose what to follow and then throw out other parts? If you believe in the scriptures, you must follow and believe in every page. Or you commiting idolatry by "making up your own rules and Christianity". That's also in scripture if you want to read it to understand this teaching. God bless y'all and I pray you find the Truth that's out there.
In John 10,Jesus is valled a door.
Do papists believe he is an actual door?
Sooooooo................
Which PROTESTANT church has the HOLY SPIRIT guiding them?
Its not a building or a denomination. The Church is the Body of Christ, and that's what's being guided by the Holy Spirit.
@@malcolmt9917 so WHERE is the body of CHRIST & WHO has the HOLY SPIRIT?
@@languaha The body of Christ is all over the world. It's made up believers. They're the ones who have the Holy Spirit
@@malcolmt9917 JOYCE MEYER,JOEL OSTEEN,BENNY HINN are ALL believers as YOU claim.
WHICH Oone of those believers has the HOLY SPIRIT?
@@languaha I really don't know those guys personal faiths, but if they've all genuinley accepted Christ, then they all do
Jesus said, if somebody is not against me he is for me. Give your attention towards your children. They turning to atheism and other religions.
Amen, you should have talked about the made up role of Mary and the wrong view of the Pope. Also Protestants weren't the first to leave the cult. The Orthodox did it 500 years before the Protestants. Nowadays catholics still leave. Now they just don't go to another church. They stay home.
kueagle1 orthodox is not the same as the Protestant
I know it isn't the same. I was just saying they, the orthodox churches made the jump to independence from Rome 500 years before the Protestants. People tend to blame/talk about the Protestants. They get undeserved attention for being the first to jump when they weren't.
@@kueagle1 actually history shows Role seperated from us
The roman catholic church is gods church
too many good reasons to why I am thankful to be a Roman Catholic Forever Amen
I heard "nailed his 95 faeces to the door" and was so confused 😂😂
That indulgence with the stairs is taken out of context and without proper education on the matter. In order for the indulgence to work they must also make a valid confession. For someone who thinks they have an indulgence just cause Jesus died for you and you recognize that, I don't think your one to judge.
He just assumed through his Protestant brainwashing without knowing or understanding.
@@elvisisacs3955 If you truly have Jesus inside of you, you will complete good works! A murderer isn't going to continue to stab people if he is truly following Jesus. Someone who is feeling led by what God is telling them will want to support their church and community. It doesn't matter if its at the beginning of your life or in your last moments. When you truly accept him, you are changed.
@@stephysaurus absolutely works is the evidence of faith, no Protestant would deny that
@@Kitiwake "brainwashing" is a strong word for someone who believes that the Pope is infallible despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Indulgences are lies.
Your confession to make the indulgence work means nothing. The blood of Christ is the only thing that can cleanse us of our sins. You minimizing that sacrifice is throwing shame on the one you call Savior. You are badly deceived and you need to repent.
Protestant, There are thousands of Protestant denominations and they can't agree on on anything because they're not found by Christ , the Catholic church is found ed by Christ in 33 AD. Through Peter and the apostles. Protestants done away with 1500 years of Christianity what are you crazy?
Agreed!
I was a lost Protestant until I took a deep dive into church history and the 1st century church fathers.
@Stacy Caruso contrary to what you may believe, you dont have to agree with everything the pope says, many strong Catholics oppose the current papacy because ever since Vatican II the church has been under attack but I remain because of the sacraments in particular the eucharist and if you dont believe that all Catholics oppose the current papacy look up a popular newsletter called The Remnant it's on UA-cam run by a strong Catholic and opposes the current pope
You do know that the catholic church was founded years after the deaths of the apostles. The apostles nor did jesus have anything to do with the catholics. The bible tells us true church was more then one who gathers in christ name not some building that is control by a heretic who thinks he is above God. The apostles where street preachers not priests. Jesus says to go out and teach the words of God not build some man made building. And peter never went to Rome yet catholics claims peter taught in rome even the the bible tells us he never taught in rome.
@@SouthernRebels94 read John 6:48-60 and tell me what that passage means objectively.
the thing about martin Luther being in hell. Well I heard that apparently he is in Hell. I believe Sainte. padre Pio said that. obviously he knew that. but yeah, probably the church is right, they are in hell.
No man can claim to know where our Lord sends them. Do not listen to false shepherds who claim things like this. Listen to your one Lord, Christ.
@@dudecool7915 A man of incredible holiness can be given visions from God. Hundreds of Saints have been granted visions into all kinds of realities that God allows them to see.
“If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone round his neck and push him over with the words I baptize thee in the name of Abraham” (Grisar, “Luther”, Vol. V. pg. 413.)
Here is your great leader Martin Luther. You wish to follow a disturbed man like this???
“Moses must ever be looked upon with suspicion, even as upon a heretic, excommunicated, damned, worse than the Pope and the devil” (Martin Luther's Commentary on Galatians)
Context?
@@mchristr Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism talked I'll of Moses, he was a hateful man and was anti-Semitic. He spoke of hanging poor people and Jews. He added words to his new bible. Which the Bible says not to add or take away from the scriptures. If you want more info I can share his quotes from his various writings which show how hateful and racist he was.
Thank you Tim for speaking the truth, praise God for the Reformation!
Catholics never know when they have done enough good works, or how much time they will spend in purgatory!
The only way they can be made a 'saint' & escape purgatory, is by the Pope & his committee, pondering whether a person has done two miracles & enough good works, really tragic!
Praise the Lord, for Jesus Christ's finished work on the cross in His death & resurrection, 100% GRACE!
Completely saved by the blood of The Lamb, yours for the asking !!!
Not accurate.
"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'." -Martin Luther
@@JesusChurchBibleIn that, Luther was wrong !
The best thing about being a protestant is that you don't even have to go to church. The church will welcome you if you do decide to go, but they'll pretty much leave you alone if you don't go for a couple of weeks, or decades, and that's only if you ever went there in the first place. A church is 'when two or more people gather and discuss Jesus Christ', no building required. Because of this, unlike any other religion, Protestantism has no Days of Obligation (days when followers are obliged to gather 'at the Temple', so to speak). This makes it very difficult to know how many Christians there are in any place or at any time when they only ever get counted at times when they 'gather for the feast' a couple of times a year.
Part of being Protestant too is to constantly wrestle with your faith, and if you drift away for a while that's fine, just try to remember to drift back some time. This can happen several times a day with some people. I personally remember questioning it all several times in the matter of a few seconds as I slid down an embankment at high speed in my wrecked car towards some trees. As I accepted the fact that it is quite alright to die my car veered to the left and I somehow managed to avoid several trees before coming to rest, shaken but pretty much unharmed.
I wonder... how does this reflect in the spirit of Scripture, God allowing its people to worship Him as they feel it or please them...? This makes the Gospel a sort of easy-to-digest philosophy just barely a religion (religion means being attached to something)
@@mjvictoriano The Bible never says we need to go to a church building specifically, and if we choose not to it doesn't mean we cannot praise God or that we don't adhere to the Bible or something.
@@northstar2621 WELL, actually it does says you have to go to the Church, being the Church before everything a community. Pentecost was received in the community, the first Christians, as you can read in Acts, gather to hear the Gospel and share the Holy Mass, which was then referred to as "the breaking of the bread".
You might be right in meaning that the Bible does not really command to gather in a specific building, because the Church is first of all the Mystical Body of Christ, again, a communion of the saints, but the physical building is somehow implied in several passages. Just to mention one, when Christ expelled the sellers from the Temple, he says: "Is it not written: 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples'? But you have made it a den of thieves." (Mark 11, 17) The Temple is VERY important in the Old Testament, and Jesus did not came to take it out of the map but to transform it in the Universal (Catholic) Church, that's why Scripture said "House of Prayer for all peoples". And yeah, it means the spiritual body of the Church first, but it does not mean the physical temple is obsolete. Specially because YOU NEED that physical place (which in time have become grandiose temples all over the world) to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which the first Christians celebrated in their secret meetings in homes at the beginning because the Church was so new and then persecution came, so churches, as buildings, only began after Christianity was free to have a public worship.
If you're to ask me: Where in Scripture is the Holy Mass?, I leave you a video here from Scott Hahn, very funny but very deep, as this former Protestant explains how the Holy Mass is EVERYWHERE in the New Testament: ua-cam.com/video/0uL_IAJWvX0/v-deo.html
And, yeah, you can praise God everywhere, that doesn't mean you don't need a Church, either as a community or as a building. But of course you can still praise God when you're alone, at home, at the park, at a trip...
BLESSINGS!
The church is easy on you. So you can be a part time Christian. LoL 🤣
Protestants I love you but you're missing important aspects of the faith that were a part of the one church that our Lord Jesus Christ founded! Martin Luther didn't want to start Protestantism, he only wanted to reform Catholicism! He believed a lot of things that Protestants today don't! 20,000 denominations, people starting their own churches left right and centre! Jesus prayed with tears that we would be one! We were one for 1500 years before teachers appeared who drew some of the flock away based on their own understanding and continue to lead Jesus's sheep astray! Come home to the Church Jesus founded! Research Catholicism and what we actually believe and why! God bless you, Jesus loves you!
Martin Luther didn't want to start a new church, but was prepared to when the Catholic church did not mend it's critical errors - namely, the authority of scripture and the fullness of grace in Christ alone. Christ wants His church to be one- and praise Him it is! Despite all the many error-filled demonimations, errors both Catholic and protestant, the Shepard knows who are HIS. We know His voice, we've been cleansed by the blood of Christ and we are all (true christians) his children and brothers and sisters. Many sit in the pews of all types of churches who, no matter how true to the faith the doctrine is, have hearts far away and are enemies of God. The church is always one, and will praise Christ together one day
The Church is not an organization, nor is it a building; it is all believers in the world, who believe that He died for our sins.
Bless you, brother
The church isn't some man made building. The true church of God are where ever more then one gathers in his name. Jesus never founded no catholic church the apostles never taught in no catholic church etheir as the catholic church didn't start until few years after the deaths of the apostles. An roman Emporer started the catholic not Jesus. The apostles where street preachers not no Catholic jesus preached on the streets as well and street preachers still exist to day.
"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'." -Martin Luther
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0:49 Thanet.
Where St Augustine of Canterbury landed in 597 AD, on orders of Pope St Gregory the Great.
Have you been there?
Is it a root to you as English-speaking Christian?
If so, where was the Church in 597 AD? Were Sts Gregory and Augustine Calvinists? If they weren't, but Calvinism is still the real Christianity, where was the Calvinist Church back then?
Yes, as a Protestant who after years of study became Catholic I’ll say, yes, Luther was a heretic …
“Moses must ever be looked upon with suspicion, even as upon a heretic, excommunicated, damned, worse than the Pope and the devil” (Martin Luther's Commentary on Galatians)
I don't understand what was idea behind papacy - Rome was biggest enemy of faith, new Babylon, and they killed closest companions of Christ, like Peter, so by that deeds they won a primacy in Christianity? or what deeds?
Peter and Paul founded the Church in Rome, and Peter, by Christ HImself, was given stewardship of the Kingdom. It is his chair that the Papacy rests, not Rome. His chair was put in Rome for historical reasons and kept there ever since.
@@strikevipermkII "Peter and Paul" sounds strange for me, interestingly enough - in my language "someone's Peter" stand for "closest friend/companion", but Paul... any man of knowledge in Islam from 7th century till now stress this point- even if you really saw a dream in which you given Revelation, maybe you can use it personally, but you will not be able to clean it from doubt sufficiently enough to change doubtless God's Law on that basis, even for yourself let alone preach and teach literally dream based doctrine that oppose God's word.
Peter referred to Rome as Babylon - you name city 'Babylon' only if mean 'most unGodly city on Earth, center of evil, capital of wrongdoers' - really there is no other meaning.
And another AMEN!!
There is Bible in Catholic altar too.
There’s a whole host of problems with doctrines that the Catholic Church considers essential but clearly aren’t:
* Purgatory: blatant violation of Ephesians 2:8-10. We’re supposed to let God work through us - AFTER we have already been saved by grace through faith. The Bible is very clear in Revelation 20:1-10 that there are only 2 eternal destinations, not 3 - not only is there no word “purgatory” in the Bible (which alone wouldn’t suffice to debunk), but there’s no explanation of it either - and the lack of any description of anything resembling what Catholics call purgatory in the Bible is enough to clearly declare it unbiblical. There’s only the messianic kingdom and the outside territory of the devil and his minions, followed shortly thereafter by the divine kingdom (New Jerusalem) and the “weeping and gnashing of teeth” outside such. Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus talk about a place for “those who need to prove that they are My children by being temporarily tormented” especially in light of the fact that the Sermon on the Mount clearly drives Paul’s point home by setting a standard that is humanly impossible to live up to. The fact of the matter is that according to Jesus, through His death and resurrection we have all been adopted into God’s family (John 10:7-18). Would a parent in his or her right mind deliberately subject a child to the kind of unspeakable cruelty talked about in the purgatory doctrine? Would a shepherd deliberately torture his sheep instead of caring for them? No? Then what makes you think that the morally perfect deity we profess faith in would? As it is written, “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:9-11). The concept of purgatory completely flies in the face of this by implying exactly what Jesus says God won’t do. The fact that the concept of purgatory was a Maccabean concept before it became a Catholic concept after a long gap drives this point home all the more, because the Pharisees - whom Jesus spends the absolute most time refuting and calling heretics - were themselves deriving all their theology from that of the religious leaders of the Hasmonean period; it’s no secret that the Hebrew word “Parush” that was Hellenicized as “Pharisee” was invented during this time.
* Indulgences and associated ritual quid-pro-quo - Matthew 15:3-9. Jesus specifically tells the Pharisees that they are “nullifying the word of God for the sake of their traditions” by using rituals for the purpose of gatekeeping. Salvation is through Jesus (John 14:6), PERIOD. Saying you need to combine it with another way when Jesus clearly stated that He is the only way amounts to a blatant violation of Revelation 22.19.
* Papal infallibility: “There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God” (Romans 3.22b-23) - If all have sinned and all have fallen short, that means no one is infallible, not even the Pope.
The first church was Eastern Orthodox, NOT Roman Catholic. Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople *before* the state church was established, and the Hagia Sophia, NOT St Peter’s Basilica, was the place where Constantine himself worshipped. It goes without saying that this is why the Eastern Church actually kept a lot of sound doctrine that the Papacy did away with - like the lack of Purgatory, for example. The Eastern concept of hell being a place of eternal decay as a direct consequence of eternal separation (as opposed to the active divine involvement that the Catholics teach) is also far more theologically sound - and in agreement with both the Lutheranism that I grew up in and the soft Calvinism that I identify with currently - than anything the Catholic Church has added to what was written. No, this is not an indictment of all Catholics; I understand full well that there are always good Christians within every church under corrupt leadership, and this is no exception to that rule. That still doesn’t detract from the fact that Pope Gregory was a heresiarch - it was partly because of the changes imposed on the Catholic Church by its new Germanic overseers after Constantinople’s western provinces fell (who smuggled some aspects of Arianism in with them - hence the veneration of Mary, which is another blatant John 14:6 violation) that the Catholic Church became what it is today.
These teachings are from god because the catholic church is gods authority on earth
@@andreeattieh2963 No it isn’t. If it was then the Catholic Church’s teaching wouldn’t contradict what is written in the Bible - yet it does, *on a continuous basis.* God’s authority on earth is Scripture, NOT the Papacy.
@@kennystrawnmusic the new testament was added to the bible by catholics the bible doesn't contradict the teachings of the Catholic church
@@andreeattieh2963 I already provided multiple examples in my OP proving that claim wrong and citing Scripture to back them. Try actually using a sound argument for once
@@andreeattieh2963 The New Testament was added to the Bible by Constantinople, NOT Rome. The Eastern Orthodox Church was the first one.
When it comes to teachers I trust, they do not include either Luther or Calvin, they do include Sts Thomas Aquinas, Robert Bellarmine and Ignatius of Loyola.
Come on ...
* when Luther nailed the theses he was still more Jansenist than Lutheran!
* and anyway he would not have approved your take on the "Lord's Supper" as we know from his dispute with Zwingli!
Plus, he was an admitted Bible translation forger (Romans 3:28).
There's also no support in the Bible to create your own Church instead of following the unified Church Christ installed. To think you can create a better Church is to think one can do it better then Christ. If you think God wanted 33,000 different Christian Churches you are wrong. Abondoning the Catholic Church is not holy. I pray you one day come home
The Orthodox Church is the original church. Romans broke away from them in 1054.
@@jacobsaint1874 Not true. Historically the Orthodox broke away from the Authority of the See of Peter which is the Pope. Matt. 16:17-19 shows very clearly the authority of the Pope that Christ installed and unfortunately for political reasons the Orthodox left.
@@strive4252 We'll just have to agree to disagree then. The Orthodox Church never followed the authority of the bishop of Rome as Pope. So it's not possible for them to "break away" what they never followed to begin with. Orthodoxy teaches that in St. Matthew 16, it is what Peter says is the foundation of the church. Just a few verses later, Jesus also calls Peter, Satan, because what he says is not the foundation of the church.
@@jacobsaint1874 Well orginally Peters name was Simon, but Christ changed it to Peter which literally means rock and then Jesus said on this rock I will build my Church. Then he gives him the keys to the kingdom referencing the book of Isaiah where they talk about the prime minister position of the old testament to act in the name of the King while the King was away and to be in Charge of the rest of the royal Cabinet. Yes you are right Peter messed up, showing the faults of the individual of this position but in John 21 15-17 we see Christ reinstall Peter and inspire of his human faults, it's is the faith of his position that Christ prays for and says will never fail. Furthermore we have records of the bishop in Rome having authority in 65 AD. And considering the orthodox break away happened in 1054 AD with before that everyone having one Pope, I fail to see how the orthodox church could be the original. That being said, we are separated be schism not heresy, so we still needto work together to save our heretical brothers and sisters in Christ the Protestants.
@@strive4252 You know, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria has had their own Pope since the 1st century, by the succession of St. Mark. So based on what you're saying, along with the historical facts of the Orthodox Church, it appears there had never been one, original church, even from the time of the apostles.
It hurt me to see ppl doomed and they don't no it ..... Just listen to this stuff ranting these nonsense
I am thankful for being a child of God. My heart hurts for you Mr Tim
So glad I left ‘Bible-Alone Christianity’ and came home to the Catholic Church!
The Catholic church has a lot to account for
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And Protestants don’t?
@@christpilled6369 No, they do not.
Friar Papius
Care to explain the unbiblical doctrine of faith-alone then?
Welcome home!!!
Before someone comments that I'm a Romanist with biases so nothing I say is true, I'm actually an Evangelical Protestant, though I fear not for much longer.
"We walked to the front of the room, to the front of the church, and what did I see, I saw a pulpit with an open Bible on it. Right away I knew, this is a Protestant church." This claim isn't incorrect, and Catholic churches don't have just a pulpit and the Bible in the front of their sanctuary, but I feel like the way he said it gives a bad connotation to Catholic churches, implying that they don't preach from the Bible. Now, it is entirely possible that I'm simply misreading this, so please don't bite off my head. However, anyone who has ever been to a Catholic Mass and paid attention during said service knows that time is set aside specifically for reading and preaching from the Scriptures (usually around 15 minutes of the half-hour service).
"Who has the authority to tell human beings who they are, what they must believe, and, especially, how they can be made right with God. Well there is that open Bible at the front of the church." Again, I could be misreading, so don't bite my head off. Tim is saying that everything we need to believe to be Christians and to be made right with God is found between the covers of the Bible. Catholics do not dispute this claim; in fact, they argue that all of their doctrines and beliefs can be found in Scripture and can be verified by early Christians writings not found in the Bible, such as the Didache, Clement of Rome's First Letter to the Corinthians, Ignatius of Antioch's Letters to the various churches, and many more (written in late half of 1st century, 97 AD, and 110 AD, respectively). In terms of the relationship between Tradition and the Scriptures held by the Catholic Church, it believes they are complementary. Not everything in the Bible is perfectly clear in meaning (Don't believe me? Check the various different Protestant denominations, none of whom agree on all of the doctrines Christians are required to abide by, not to mention that their are differing interpretations of what requirements have to be met in order to receive salvation amongst the Protestant denominations), so it would make sense that some kind of infallible organization (as a whole, this doesn't mean individuals in the organization can't sin) or magisterium would have been established by Christ, in order to define the boundaries of what a particular doctrine or passage of Scripture could mean (which is essentially the function of the magisterium of the Catholic Church, which is similar to--though not the same as--the magisterium that the Jews had before Christ came and established the New Covenant--a structure which Christ never condemns as being inherently evil or inherently prone to the formation of heresies. It was only when this magisterium ignored what the Scriptures clearly said that Jesus chastised and rebuked them. In Martin Luther's 95 Theses, they are all concerned with either paying for indulgences or why the Church wasn't using more of its resources to help those in need; both problems have since been fixed). Nowadays, the Protestant denominations are divided over subjective interpretations of the Scriptures, while the Catholic Church continues to debate only those topics which the magisterium has not clearly defined or taught authoritatively about, yet. The Scriptures may be described as the inerrant Word of God in the Bible, but nowhere do you read the Apostles saying that the Scriptures are perfectly clear in the communication of those doctrines that are binding on the lives of Christians.
Tim talks about how the Catholic Church has trappings. Does that refer to its Traditions (which can be found in the Scriptures, at least implicitly, and in early Christian writings, as stated above) or to the beautiful styles that the cathedrals and parishes are built and decorated in? I've given my answer on Traditions already. In terms of beauty, it isn't inherently wrong to have beautiful churches (especially when many of the decorations are so rich with Biblical connections). In fact, making churches beautiful actually helps to draw in unbelievers and perhaps start the ball rolling towards becoming a follower of Christ. Maybe, they come for the beauty and stay for Jesus.
Indulgences. I feel like Tim has a misconception of what an indulgence is. An indulgence does remit some or all of the punishment you may have received in Purgatory for a particular sin. However, the idea is slightly more nuanced. The punishment, or part of it, is remitted because, if someone performs this act with a sincere heart and a sincere love for the Lord, this act should be destroying some of the attachment this person has to sin. Even Protestants will agree that reading your Bible and praying sincerely will change your perception of sinful actions and make you less likely to commit these in the future. Catholics simply believe that this turning away from sin will reduce the amount of punishment one receives in Purgatory to ultimately and completely sever the attachments to sin that you had when you died. Protestants also believe you are cleansed of your attachment to sin before entering heaven, they simply believe it happens instantaneously (which the Catholic Church does not deny is a possibility; they have never specified how long this purification takes, and I seriously doubt they ever will). When Tim says the practice of indulgences is still alive today, he is correct, though indulgences are not the same as they were around the time of the Reformation. Around that time, people were saying if you paid the Church money, then you could receive a plenary indulgence for yourself or you could apply this to someone who has died and is in Purgatory. Indulgences still exist, but you cannot buy one, that was clearly wrong. Contrary to what Tim says about the placard at Scala Sancta, it does not say going up the stairs on your knees will give you a one-year plenary indulgence. If you look at the picture he posted of it in a blog on his website (www.challies.com/articles/the-mischievous-protestants-guide-to-rome/), you can read that it doesn't say the indulgence covers a one-year period. In fact, it doesn't specify any period or a certain number of sins that will be covered by it, implying that it can only be applied to the punishment you would normally have received for a single sin. According to the picture he posted, the placard says, a plenary indulgence may be received "on all Fridays of Lent, and once more each year on an occasion of one's choosing." It says nothing about being applied to all the sin you've committed for the year. Even if indulgences are complete falsehoods, as most Protestants would contend, why is it sad to see people doing this? Sure, if their end-goal is purely to earn an indulgence, then of course it would be sad, but I feel most Catholics who pray up the Scala Sancta do so to simply offer their prayers to Christ, and this beautiful and historically-rich place makes them want to offer prayers to the Lord in a way that pilgrims have done for centuries. Why is that so sad? If anything, one would find such a sight to be beautiful and inspiring. (1/2)
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Statue. Not really sure what his point is with the statue. The Church, at the time of the statue's carving (and I believe even today), felt that Martin Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli were misleading Christians based on their subjective interpretation of Scripture (which I haven't been able to find anywhere in the writings of the Church Fathers, and the Biblical basis, as I've stated, is a subjective interpretation)(It is also important to point out that in Apologetics debates, Protestants will often attack the Catholic Church's claim of infallibility, and yet, they don't recognize that the entirety of the Reformation and formation of the Protestant denominations was founded on the interpretations of Scripture by three fallible human-beings who, having never met Christ, his Apostles, or their direct successors, could be misinterpreting what the original intent of the writers of the Scriptures was. Does this necessarily mean the Catholic Church is infallible, no; however, we can't presuppose that Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin--who disagreed with each other on certain important doctrines--were right, otherwise we can never look objectively at the Biblical and historical data). Therefore, the Catholic Church excommunicated these individuals for creating such a schism in the church they believe Christ founded. However, this excommunication and anathematizing (damning to Hell) of Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli does not expressly apply to any Protestants living today, as many of them were born into Protestantism, or have never taken the time to research the roots of the Church and what the early Church taught and believed, and are therefore not responsible for their separation from the Church. Does this mean they will all go to Heaven? Most likely, no. The sacraments are the orthodox way in which one enters the body of Christ and receives his gift of grace, but Christ is not bound by the rules which we are bound by, so he can grant his grace to anyone at his own discretion. Again, simply because the Catholic Church grants that some Protestants may be Heaven, does not mean they believe all, or even most, of Protestants will be in Heaven.
300 Day Indulgence for Venerating Picture. If the Catholic Church has the authority to bind and loose on earth and in heaven, as was given to Peter and passed on to his successors (which I believe the Greek in which the New Testament was originally written and the historical evidence from early Church documents and the writings of early Church fathers supports), then the Church has the authority to remit the punishment one would receive in Purgatory for sins committed in this 300 day period. However, I would argue that just because one venerates the saint in the picture, does not mean they are venerating the picture itself, as Tim so callously puts it. When you see a man in an airport kiss a picture of his wife and kids, you don't think he has a fetish for this particular brand of printer paper and ink. No, you realize the kiss is merely a physical expression of the love he has for the people represented in the picture. In the same way, honoring a picture or statue of a saint is not honoring the canvas or marble of which they consist, but an expression of their love and appreciation of saints who lived righteous lives whom we should try to do better than (as no saint has lived as perfectly as Jesus Christ, so to strive to live a more righteous life than even the venerated saints may seem a more manageable goal than living sinlessly, as Christ did--not that we shouldn't strive to do that, as well), not out of a sense of pride, but out of love for Jesus.
Praying to Saints. He doesn't talk about it in this video, but he does on the website I linked above. Most Protestants, Tim included, believe it is, if not outright wrong, then useless to pray to dead Saints in Heaven. They're dead, what can they do for you? I'll explain what I've gathered that the Catholic Church teaches on this. Do you believe that all Christians are members of the body of Christ? If yes, do you believe that physical death separates us from the body of Christ? If physical death does not separate from the body of Christ, are not those in Heaven--in the presence of the Holy Trinity--more alive, in some ways, then we are on Earth? If so, then praying to them and asking them to pray for us should be possible, just as you might ask members of your church to pray for you. And according to James, the prayers of a righteous man have great effect, so the prayers of a Saint in Heaven should have greater effect than the prayer of an earthly man, as the earthly man still possesses attachments to sin (this does not mean you shouldn't ask your fellow church members to pray for you).
As a Catholic I found your 7 ways to tell a false teacher and it gave me great comfort because our Catholic Church has been infiltrated successfully. That being said, the Church is the only Christian church that’s been here since Christ. You’re so wrong about the host -which CHRIST told about in John when so many followers walked away. He then instituted the Eucharistic celebration at the Last Supper. You’re a wonderful teacher but you’re wrong that Scripture alone is what people must rely on. It’s not biblically sound as St. Paul put tradition right up at top. Martin Luther was mentally ill-please study Martin Luther and his tyranny and the same with Calvin, both of whom set themselves up as Popes who would execute those who wouldn’t follow their changing interpretation of scripture. Please look up Dr. David Anders’ conversion story after he researched the early Reformation & found that Protestantism today doesn’t resemble it at all. Pax
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1:54 Right ... the ex-Lutheran in me notes, Luther would not have been content with your take on Matthew 26.
"Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed."
"Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews."
-Martin Luther
@@JesusChurchBible I think that was from Against the Jews and their Lies, it was from 1535 or 1534 or sth, when he had been away from the Catholic Church for quite a time.
Back when he was Catholic, his views were very different.
So, rejoicing he didn't lose _all_ of his Catholic doctrine is not hatemongering against the Jews, if that was what you were trying to imply.
But seriously, why would his idiotic take at variance with the natural law on how to deal with Jews have anything to do with his views on Matthew 26, which is what I commented on?
Kurt Barret's comment here is AMAZING!
No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.” (Letter to Melanchthon, August 1, 1521, American Edition, Luther’s Works, vol. 48, pp. 281-82)
Purgatory isn't for punishment. It's for sanctification. Also, indulgences are a good thing - we aren't justified by faith alone. (James 2:24) God Bless.
all it is archeological politics
And a "challenge" for all the happy protestants: can you tell me how it wouldn't be a heresy and a blasphemy against the Holy Spirit to believe that for nearly 1500 years (or for nearly a 1000 years at least) the Church that Christ founded fell completely into the most despicable error and abandonment from God and went astray from the true discernment about the doctrine taught by Jesus?
STILL waiting for an answer...! :)
Sure. Firstly, Christ didn't found the Roman Catholic Church. The Great Church of the Apostolic Age is not the same thing. Secondly, there is Biblical support for neither papal infallibility nor papal supremacy. Papal infallibility is a much later concept, and it cuts against the ideas that only God is perfect. Also, what we know as catholic orthodoxy (what is believed by the Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and Lutherans) was established through councils of bishops in the 4th, 5th, and 6th Centuries. Never during that time was the pope given sole power. He was simply primus inter pares among the great metropolitan bishops in Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. Thirdly, the pope at the time of the East-West Schism impoperly excommunicated the Eastern metropolitans who disagreed with him. Some EO theologians also still consider the filioque to be heresy. I do not. The Roman Catholic Church has its own heresies, as well.
@@puremercury Interesting. What's according to you the Great Church of the Apostolic Age? And to what kind of orthodoxy do you subscribe yourself?
@@mjvictoriano The Great Church is the Christian church after Jesus' time on Earth, but before credal orthodoxy was established in the councils beginning in the 4th Century. It stretched from what is now Iran (possibly as far as India) to Spain and from Germany to Ethiopia. It was not a "Roman" Catholic Church. Rome simply was the most important city and the one to which Peter went.
@@mjvictoriano And what type of orthodoxy? The Apostles', Athanasian, and Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creeds. As Vincent of Lérins wrote: "that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all."
In essence, for me it is what was decided by the first four great ecumenical councils at the minimum. Have you heard of Paleo-orthodoxy?
Why would you be happy about being part of a denomination that fell away from the original church? Praying for everyone who denies the Truth of Jesus and His Catholic Church
The church that wasn’t even founded by Jesus.
Roman Catholocism is sorry how anyone could accept the novus ordo mass or unscriptural doctrines like absolute divine simplicity is beyond me.
"Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed."
"Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews."
-Martin Luther
Imagine being thankful to be a heretic….
Exactly.
Lots of Catholic salt here!😆😆
Catholics can't say protestants do anything wrong, considering they worship Mary
Where in the teachings of the Catholic church does it say worship mary
@@andreeattieh2963 not in words, in actions. The idols to her. The hail Mary. The massive reverence they have over her
@@SuperNintendoMii that is veneration asking them to pray for us we don't worship them as the catechism of the Catholic church contains everything we believe and nowhere do we teach worship anyone other than god
@@andreeattieh2963 only God responds to prayers. Not mary. So why bother? It's mary worship. The fact we are having this conversation is proof. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and moves like a duck... It's a duck!
@@SuperNintendoMii Timothy talks about praying to each other so it's biblical
Scripture was never nor should it bee the CENTER of the Christian life. Certainly it is a COMPONENT, a PART of the Christian Life. But it is CHRIST who is the center of the Christian Life. That is why the Altar-Table of the Eucharist is the focal point of all truly Christian worship-spaces (i.e Catholic and Orthodox). CHRIST Himself and His redemptive Incarnation, Death and Resurrection are at the CENTER of Catholic Life and Worship.
Protestantism was NOT a reformation of Christianity, but the invention of a new, quasi-Christianity that rejected authentic Christian worship (the Mass) and switched it out for a sing-a-long and a lecture with an occasional sharing in bread and grape juice which is only a pale parody of the Lord's Supper which Jesus bequeathed to His bride.
Protestantism ignores in the very Scripture it claims to venerate the passages that demonstrate that Jesus established and promised to maintain a Church of all true Teachers built on the Apostles and Prophets with Christ Himself as the capstone, substituting an anti-church of all true so-called believers - believers who all believe different things!
To be thankful for being a protestant is akin to Nimrod being thankful for the tower of Babel.
I disagree
"If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the river Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words `I baptize thee in the name of Abraham'." -Martin Luther
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Be aware of false prophets. Keep praying the Rosary. Wear a scapular. Offer sacrifices and sufferings to Jesus, each time, saying "O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of poor sinners and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
The woman clothed in the sun is our Mother Mary, Mother of God - She has shown us in the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima. Her Immaculate Heart will triumph as the Lord Jesus has planned. Mother Mary will be the one who will defeat the Satan "I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." (Genesis 3:15)
The Catholic Church is the one true Church
No it isn’t.
Amen!
You are full of prejudice, Tim, not showing signs of a basic will to understand the Catholic faith. The problem is that you talk like a propagandist, thinking that stressing some points which are especially hateful to protestant minds due to generations of anti-Catholic prejudice is good enough to show how rightful protestantism is. It's a very sad and silly attitude. It reveals a side of your spiritual life that doesn't correspond to the image of a dialoging person you manifest on many of your comments on other subjects. You go around throughing comments on indulgencies but the few words you said about what indulgencies mean for Catholics doesn't add up. You should know that what indulgencies mean - as well as with all other aspects of Catholic theology tradition and practice with which you don't agree - depend on a theological framework that is probably very different from yours, so that there's the risk you don't truly understand the meaning of the Catholic positions. But the best example of your inability to reason loogically when it comes to 'catholic' things is what you say about the Bible being on the pulpit of that protestant church shows that protestantism is of course true. Of course, the sola scritura principle proves protestantism to be more faithful to the Gospel. Honestly? What about your relation to Scripture in like of the great master Calvin? It doesn't seem to respect in any sense the principle of sola scriptura. Is not the Church allowed to follow the witness of the ancient Church instead of your masters from the 16th onwards? Clearly the sola scriptura position is only a way to justify particular theological positions with the excuse their are from the Bible. However, that principle is a fallacy: for you, the the true theaching Bible is nothing but your interpretation op the Bible. Should I accept that your interpratation of the Bible be the the basis of the Faith of Church. A good example of the abuse behind that principle: you say in another video that those who deny the doctrine of penal substitution are heretics. But where is in the Bible that doctrine presented, can you tell me, please? Or the doctrine of imputation of Christ's justice: what is in Scripture is that our justice is Christ's justice bbeing communicated to those who believe in Him - we receive the grace of dying to sin with Christ, i.e., by sharing in his perfect obedience till death, as well as we resurrect with Him by living in a new way of life - that was also the unanimous teaching of the ancient Church. I hope you may become less attached to your own ideas and more passionate in seeking to go deeper in the truth of the Gospel - and that surely means, less of a anti-catholic bigot...
Wrong wrong you couldn't be more wrong
Amen.
Tim has knowledge and discipline and a desire to walk in truth. Why waste thoughts on sacredodleism and spooky Mary-Queen of Heaven nonsense. He's much more concerned at being content in the UNMERITED LOVE of the Lord Christ Jesus. Clean out the cobwebs & rejoice in the Lord.
Praying to Mary, dead saints, and kissing the feet of statues is idolatry.
Priests dont have the authority to forgive sins and the pope does not, and i repeat, does not have the authority of Jesus Christ.
@@joeschoen112 did you know that all of the early Church unanimously agreed that Christ gave his authority to Peter and his apostles to bind and loose and forgive sins in the name of Jesus. Not them in and of themselves, but rather in who's name their office stands, Christ Jesus. St. Peter holds the keys to the kingdom of heaven. His authority is valid because it was given him by Christ himself.
Don't tell nonsence about Europe! What you saw is not how the Catholic Church is in Europe, but just as it it in corners, were the Reformation had no influence. Rom, Italy is such a corner. Were the Catholicism are confronted with Protestantism, it changes.
Up the fuckin ra
Hey Tim! It's SO nice you're devouting yourself to understand your faith and to spread the word of Jesus, Our Lord. However, I think you're missing parts of your homework. Most of what you said here is basically repeating the propaganda against the Catholic Church... which is simply THE CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. When He mentions the word "Church" in the Gospels, He doesn't mean Churches, He means CHURCH. And He explicitly asks the Father for the Church to be ONE like He and the Father are ONE (John 17, 21-23).
Read the comment that Kurt Barret wrote for you, he took a serious amount of time to write it, and try to study its content.
And do some REAL research about the history of the Church and the story of Martin Luther. I'm sorry but Luther was no hero, he was USED by the German princes to proclaim their sovereignity from Rome. Luther even allowed those princes to have a bigamous marriage. I don't mean to say that Luther is in hell because no one can tell... but the schism of the Church that he initiated was definitely diabolical. And DIABOLOS actually means "the one who divides with lies".
I have a very good regard for protestants that genuinely LOVE JESUS and try to make this world a better and more Christian world, don't misjudge me with my comment on Satan. STILL, I really believe protestantism has an incomplete and weaker form of Christianity, and that Christ still calls us all to be ONE like He and the Father are ONE... in the ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH!
Amen brother
Highly disagree
Tim why did you delete my comment about Martin Luther and his hateful antisemitism?
There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church.
So wrong.
@CALEB ALVAREZ yes, that’s one of the reason for me.
Is this a joke 😂😂😂
This sounds so stupid... (And I am not even catholic.)
That’s not very nice
I’m so proud to be heretic
The Church Christ founded was the Catholic Church, One, Holy, Universal, Apostolic!
(Just stating a fact)
It was founded by his disciples not Christ himself. Funny how Catholics “forget” that difference.
@@Valencetheshireman927 that's the case for the "disciples" that 1500 years later protested against the sanctity and unity of the doctrine and started founding churches according to their own understanding and wishes of how the "Bride of Christ" should look like. All Catholics that really want to be Catholic believe in ONE doctrine. They manifest that doctrine differently but they've never changed the doctrine. All the Church Fathers were "Catholic" because they believed that Christ wanted 7 sacraments, a college of bishops and a Vicar (who's the Pope), and had an intense veneration for Jesus Mother Mary and they believed in Purgatory and the communion of Saints and in the fruits of monasticism and celibacy and in justification by faith AND works. It is from Luther that the modernist fallacy of trying to make the mysterious reasonable and the sacred accessible that Protestants decided that they were going to be their own popes, their own heads of liturgy, their own sacramental ministers, their own theologians, and as a result there's your 30 thousand denominations of Christianity that come to even contradict themselves. READ the Church Fathers. If you just read what the Catholic Church is according to your own Protestant dogmas then you're only staring at your own belly. It's a loop. Have the Church Fathers as the judges of this quarrel and ask the Holy Spirit for discernment.
Hope to see you on this side in Heaven! Let's work for it! I leave you a message from a former Protestant pastor ua-cam.com/video/kjYOVRqsPUE/v-deo.html
And here's a playlist of 466 testimonies of people discovering the Truth of the Catholic Church coming from Protestantism atheism or even other religions!
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God help you find the way HOME!
@@Valencetheshireman927 Today Catholics celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi because Jesus is TRULY present in His Soul in His Body and in His Blood and Divinity in the Holy Eucharist to feed us with His REAL Flesh and Blood. You're missing that as Protestants. If Jesus wasn't literal he would have not missed so many disciples in John 6's passage where they flee scandalized about eating His flesh.
Submit to Rome don't be a schismatic
Wow what amazing insight. Thanks for sharing your valuable experiences. Soli Deo Gloria 🤍✝️🧡
It hurt me to see ppl doomed and they don't no it ..... Just listen to this stuff ranting these nonsense