Confessions of an Ex Catholic Turned Protestant | Mike Gendron 

Thank you, Father. heartbreaking isn’t it, that someone who was catechized Catholic could speak these falsehoods about our church. And make a living from it.

Our sins were forgiven at the cross-it's up to us to accept this free gift.

Don't worry, they'll be back in God's time. Amen.

What does a catechism have to do with being saved by grace alone? Why would any church need an explanation manual to further "explain" God's loving Bible? I pray everyone finds Jesus the way God intended, not the way human self would lead us. God bless

@@jamesirvin2967 What for you is the pillar and foundation of the truth?

We were Roman Catholic "Nun" for most of our life. We left the church and have come to accept our Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour. It is a miracle and a great grace which we received to see the TRUTH. "Us" former Catholics KNOW that Catholics Worship Mary. God Bless you

@@servantsofthegospel6388 of course we know they worship Mary. We used to do that too. We were them. Bowing down in front of the statue. Pray to the saints and angels. Rosary... Only Jesus saves. He is our Lord and Savior. There is no other way to the Father. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life💖

@@patriciaw4270 You were never Catholic if you worshipped Mary. Catholics only worship God. Catholics HONOR Mary. If you had been any kind of Catholic, you would know that inside and out. Jesus never said "this is going to be just between you and me". God created family, fathers and mothers and children, it's a pattern that God created and said "HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER!". "And Mary said: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior. For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name." Look around yourself, isn't it obvious that God, though he could have had a singular relationship with only you and him, instead created a more beautiful relationship with the entire holy family that you are invited to be part of?

I pray all Catholics eyes would be open to the truth of God's word and be born again.

Amen,amen,and amen.Thank you Jesus.! Very beautiful testimony of God opening your mind and heart to his word..!! God truly gives a new heart,new desires, all things have become new..!! Glory to God..!,

Never spoken more clearly

Why don't you identify as a Christian, instead of identifying with a church?

@@RS54321 "Why don't you identify as a Christian, instead of identifying with a church?" Because it's only protestants who try to make a distinction, a reflection of animosity and a source of division never found in Christianity for over 1500 years. *St Ignatius of Antioch was a disciple of St John. His words below* “See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Christ Jesus does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles. Do ye also reverence the deacons, as those that carry out the appointment of God. *Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it.* Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, *wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.”* Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Smyrneans, 8:2 (c. A.D. 110). *St Irenaeus below* “[N]or does it consist in this, that he should again falsely imagine, as being above this [fancied being], a Pleroma at one time supposed to contain thirty, and at another time an innumerable tribe of Aeons, as these teachers who are destitute of truly divine wisdom maintain; while *the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world,* as we have already said.” Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 1: 10,3 (A.D. 180). *St Cyprian* ”Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop; and if any one be not with the bishop, that he is not in the Church, and that those flatter themselves in vain who creep in, not having peace with God’s priests, and think that they communicate secretly with some; while *the Church, which is Catholic and one, is not cut nor divided, but is indeed connected and bound together by the cement of priests who cohere with one another.”* Cyprian, To Florentius, Epistle 66/67 (A.D. 254). *St Cyril of Jerusalem* *“[T]he Article, In one Holy Catholic Church,’ on which, though one might say many things, we will speak but briefly. It is called Catholic then because it extends over all the world, from one end of the earth to the other; and because it teaches universally and completely one and all the doctrines which ought to come to men’s knowledge, concerning things both visible and invisible, heavenly and earthly… for this cause the Faith has securely delivered to thee now the Article, And in one Holy Catholic Church;’ that thou mayest avoid their wretched meetings, and ever abide with the Holy Church Catholic in which thou wast regenerated. And if ever thou art sojourning in cities, inquire not simply where the Lord’s House is (for the other sects of the profane also attempt to call their own dens houses of the Lord), nor merely where the Church is, but where is the Catholic Church. For this is the peculiar name of this Holy Church, the mother of us all, which is the spouse of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Only-begotten Son of God.”* Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures, 18: 23,26 (A.D. 350). I could go on .... and on.

This is a poor argument, as well as a shot at protestants. I see this same argument over and over. Any criticisms leveled against the Catholic church is apparently false and based on the ignorance of individual. I find it highly unlikely that somany former Catholics are mistaken.

@@vladtheinhaler8940 it isn’t meant to be a dig at Protestants. This is the experience of so many, lots of us were bought up Catholic didn’t know the faith, left it for Protestant denominations and discovered the truth years later. I personally know lots of reverts with this. When an “ex-Catholic” tells you what we believe check it against the catechism

True this.... to be deep in history is to cease to be protestant (Newman). At least this is true for many and its very interesting that it's the most uneducated (and not attending) Catholic's that leave for protestantism and the most educated protestants who go the other way, for many because they find out that the early Church didn't hold protestant beliefs at all. And, those who led Christians at Sunday "Service" were all Catholic priests including Catholic Bishops. Not a protestant pastor to be found. "Yea I’m not a Catholic " Congrats on your exploring the Church. What denomination do you belong to currently and are there any teachings that you are wrestling with?

Yeah, they join the CC even after knowing the sadistic bloody history of the inquisition. No accounting for taste.

"become Catholic because most of those people are the ones who read the church fathers " And in doing so, they find that those who the disciples taught, and their descendants, all believed the words of Jesus : THIS IS MY BODY. None of them taught that the Lord's Supper was symbolically only. This would be a 16th man-made invention of a priest named Zwingli and a Catholic lawyer named Calvin. They didn't even agree between themselves on the topic, let alone with a Catholic priest named Luther. And that's only one topic. Protestant grape juice and crackers is just that. I can get the same in my kitchen.

Like what? I'm sure you can come up with hundreds of nit-picks, but I'm talking big picture. I've started investigating Catholicism myself, and so far Gendron seems to be spot on with his understanding of Catholic soteriology (although granted this was one of his poorest recitations of his understanding here, because at times here he can make it sound like the Catholic Church is a pure works based soteriology, but I've seen numerous other videos with him where he presents the correct soteriology, namely Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist for venial sins, Confession for mortal sins, working out one's salvation with fear and trembling, etc...) So far every time I've asked for specific examples, I get explanations of Catholic theology that I 100% heard Gendron correctly describe. Does he get dates wrong sometimes? Of course. Does he have an odd theory about the Catholic Church being a parallel apostate church for 2000 years next to the true invisible church? Yes he's said that and I'm scratching my head as a Protestant as well trying to find out where he gets that from because I can't find it myself. But that doesn't mean he misunderstands Catholic soteriology. All these "Mike Gendron doesn't understand anything" comments I see on all his videos seem somewhat misleading because the main thing he's always talking about is soteriology. Everything else is just a minor nit pick. If he understands Catholic soteriology, he understands the most important part about his former church, and it seems to me he does.

@JustAskingQuestions8571 when you claim to be investigating the beliefs of the catholic church, are you referencing catholic or archaeological/ scholar sources? OR So far, only read from sources outside the church like this fellow Mike?

@JustAskingQuestions8571 And so, my most beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but even more so now in my absence: work toward your salvation with fear and trembling. Philippians 2:12 If you know you confidently "saved" what does St Paul mean by working out your salvation? With fear and trembling!

@@DUZCO10 I'm aware of that, but I'm chatting either another Catholic person who's saying Catholicism isn't a works based salvation, not even faith plus works. Which is nice to hear and I wish is true, but somehow I always get different answers (which to be fair this is true about most religions, but at least Protestants are consistent about soteriology for the most part, except maybe Anglicans, everything else, not so much).

@JustAskingQuestions8571 The Catechis teaches that we are saved by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ. This means that our salvation is a gift from God, freely given to us through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. But this faith is not by faith alone. Matthew 25:31-46 presents the parable of the Sheep and the Goats, where Jesus describes the final judgment. Jesus emphasize the importance of acts of charity and mercy as evidence of true discipleship. Those who are saved are commended for their acts of kindness toward the least of their brothers and sisters, while those who are condemned are rebuked for neglecting these acts of mercy. We clearly see here the inseparable connection between faith and works in the true Christian life, affirming that genuine faith will naturally produce good works as a fruit of salvation. Whereas faith alone without these charitable works is expressly condemned. James 2 24 spells it out verbatim

John Bergen’s is a great example; so is Mark Griodi (started the Catholic channel, Journey Home); also, Keith Nester.

What I'd like to hear is how y'all justify the evils ofvthe RCC that is defended. Just the basic history of the greed for power & keep the Roman empire that fell. The compromises during Constantine mingling pagan doctrine & rituals because pagans wanted to adopt Christianity like Constantine, the long list of pope's that committed such sexual immorality atrocities, persecutions, tortures, murders, selling of indulgences, keeping scripture from the people forbidding it & punishing those who had & read it, the inquisitions and the pedifilia that gets covered up. How can one attribute this physical church to Jesus?

because catholics are rarely taught of the basis of their teaching, catholics rarely read their bible and just blindly follow "TrADitiOn" 😂😂😂

Agreed!

It's a smaller matter, but the Mass doesn't go through the whole bible even over years. There is a alot of scripture they don't cover. It is more select scripture. I have heard ex priests note this too. There is not only one church. There is only one body under Christ, and we are all part of it. God bless, may you stay close to our Lord Jesus Christ.

You are mistaken. The Catholic Church's readings cover the entire Bible in three years -- including daily Mass. The verses include raedings from the Old and New Testaments the Gospels and tje Book of Psalms. Verses are also used when we pray the Alleluia before the Gospel readings. We read more from the Bible at a single Mass than many Protestants do at their services.

However, the Catholic church doesn't obey the Bible. You have to do more than reading the Holy Bible. You need to live by it

Some Catholics have been told that. It's more an old school thing. My grandma used to say she wouldn't read the bible, because she didn't want to get her head screwed up like me. I've had Catholics online say that only the Catholic church can interpret the bible. They think we are being our own pope for reading it for ourselves.

@@saintejeannedarc9460 "I've had Catholics online say that only the Catholic church can interpret the bible." The Bible has historically (since the time of Christ) been interpreted as a community (i.e., Church). The Catholic, therefore, interprets the Bible within the parameters of Church teaching. We don't determine doctrines the way Protestants do because the 7 perfect Sacraments and doctrines of the Church are infallible. We do read it prayerfully and meditate upon it to grow in our faith. St. Jerome says "ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ!"

In early Church history the only bible allowed in the building was the bible chained to the pulpit

@@PizzaFvngs "In early Church history the only bible allowed in the building was the bible chained to the pulpit" Is that what you were told or can you give us a source? What specific time period are you referring to? The Catholic Church goes back to the time of Christ, but Protestantism is several hundred years later. The books of the NT were complied in the 4th century by the Catholic Church at council under the Pope. Bibles at that time were worth as much as a new sports car in todays money. Since the Bible was so valuable and the Catholic Church wanted EVERYONE to have access to the Bible, they chained them in certain instances. I believe this was mostly after the "Reformation" and happened in libraries. Protestants also chained their Bibles to prevent theft, just like their Catholic counterparts.

There are a lot of priests that don't read the Bible.. it's the truth. There was even a time in history that the Catholic church discouraged the people from reading their bibles: "The Church actually discouraged the populace from reading the Bible on their own -- a policy that intensified through the Middle Ages and later, with the addition of a prohibition forbidding translation of the Bible into native languages." Check Catholic history.

based on the way they preach, this is highly believable.

He's lying. He was supposedly a devout Catholic. But, he obviously never went to Mass. The Mass is the Bible talking to us. I consider myself a devout Catholic and I can't leave the Church. I wouldn't have any other place to go.

Says who?

But it's the Protestant movement that made the Bible available to anybody who wants.. before that it's wasn't as accessible as it is now. That's one of the reasons I personally can't take Catholicism seriously, let alone more than 10 Popes killing or causing death of the then Pope for their papacy😮 its fishier than an unkempt fish market

@@user-or9cj3vk6thistory.

rharris...Once I read the early Christian writings, which serve as commentaries, I easily saw that the church Jesus left us was the Catholic Church. All the writings are 100% Catholic. Even Ignatius of Antioch, disciple of John and ordained by Peter, called the church the Catholic Church. All their teachings were 100% Catholic. The real presence of Christ in The Eucharist, baptismal degeneration, infant baptism, the 3 authority church with bishops, priests and deacons, the primary of Rome. Protestant churches can insist that they are the right church but they can never say, which any honesty, that they believe like those first Christians. Hope this helps. God bless.

@@billlee2194 nice

I encourage you to seek Christ, not any religion. It's Christ that will give you salvation. It is HE who will save you, not the Catholic church or any church for that matter. I was a Catholic and I was also a Religion teacher. So I know the teachings and the history of Catholicism. The problem was that I realized that I was more focused on religion and rituals and not on a relationship with Jesus. Seek Jesus and you will find HIM, not the catholic church. Spend your time with Christ and build a relationship with Him. That was what I did and He opened my eyes to the truth. I pray the same for you. God bless!

I do seek Jesus and I find him in the Catholic Church. I understand that you had a difficult time recognizing the truth of Catholicism, and I don’t know at all the details of what led you to focus on the rituals and the religion itself in a way that distracted you from personal relationship with Christ, but that is not the focus or truth of Catholicism. The Catholic Church does not call Christians to devote themselves to meaningless ritual or worship of anything but the one true God who is Jesus Christ. The rituals and religious structures of the church are given by Christ as a means to lead us to him. I pray that you may find Christ also and for your peace along the journey. I do also hope that you might recognize the goodness and the presence of God to be found in the Catholic faith.

The catholic church would be wise to eliminate celibacy for priests. There would be no priest shortage.

@@bxd7793 I appreciate your heartfelt and loving response. if someone accused me of not having a relationship with Christ because I was a Catholic, I would not have been so tolerant to my response. It always saddens me to hear the hatred of Catholicism and the accusations made about how Catholics don’t know Christ etc. once people become protestant.

@@twibeltran16 I don’t understand how you could have been a Catholic and not had a relationship with Christ. That was your fault, not the fault of the Catholic Church. if you were focusing solely on rituals and tradition, then you lost the whole purpose of the Catholic Church, which is Jesus. If you felt that you needed something different for whatever reason, that is your choice, but do not tell people that the Catholic Church is false and that you cannot have a relationship with Christ as a Catholic. That is a falsehood.

The ones who have the best light shows and acoustic guitar music and can make people clap and sway to the music. Those are REAL churches. 😁

Seriously look at your leader now he's blessing gay marriage.... you really should read the Bible.

@@chadlee243 I've read it more than you, punkin'. And you never answered the question.

All of them, because none of them disagree on the cause of salvation, which is faith alone by the grace of God. If any one disagrees on this point, they are not Protestant

@@eireannemerald1382you’d ridicule people for praising the Lord with what they have?

Yes, I full agree. There are Catholics that love Jesus and serve God so fervently. Some protestants become Catholic and feel much closer to God. Sometimes it goes this way. They have false doctrines, but I think we all do. I don't know how they have any peace w/ purgatory and all the punishment for temporal sin hanging over their head, but it's their belief. If feels like an oppressive weight to me to even think of it. I'm free in Christ, and I trust him fully for my salvation.

Even the worst Catholic should be able to tell the separated brethren that the most spirit filled person was the Virgin Mary. The bible quotes her as saying "My soul doth magnify the Lord" Gabriel said the Holy Ghost will overshadow you. episkiazō is the Greek word for overshadow used only five times in the whole bible. ἐπισκιάζω

I disagree. In 1985 I was saved in my apt alone. I only knew of Catholicism. Never heard the Gospel or ever met a born again Christian. Didn't even know that term. But I can tell you this. After that wonderful day the Lord came to me..I decided to go to a Catholic Church...when I opened the door I heard the Lord say, "I am not here". I also felt an immense evil and felt nauseated. No one swayed me. No one. It was the Lord. There is no way you can stay in that system. You cannot redeem it. You must come out.

@@maryr130 I have heard of people that were raised protestant Christian convert to Catholicism, because they were in a Catholic Mass and God spoke to them as well. It completely changed their love and devotion to God. One person said they just went through the motions because they were afraid of hell. Once they became Catholic, they loved going to church, the more the better, and continually wanted to praise and serve Jesus. I'm not Catholic either, but I do see it going both ways. Sometimes people have a closer walk w/ God to convert.

That is an incredible story. Thank you for sharing.@@maryr130

That’s what Jesus said in Jn 6

We live in communion with him. He lives in us and we do observe the Lord's Supper, we just don't believe in human flesh chips.

We celebrate The Lord’s Supper and remember His sacrifice. Please don’t refer to our ministers as self-proclaimed false pastors. Mt pastors have been intelligent, educated men who lead their congregations thoughtfully with care and love in the word of God.

Jesus said this is my body which will be given up for you , Jesus did give himself up for us so the body he represents in John 6:.. is his body, haven’t you seen the Eucharist miracle in the world?

@@Catholic101A. John 6:63

Only in pagan religions do they eat the blood and body of their god. ie. Mithraism I know for sure that my sins have been forgiven. I know that I have eternal life and will live forever with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. You should read the Bible and learn the truth.

@@jlewis8145 Good day. ✨🙏 The Catholic Church , with Peter as the first Pope, is glorious. There, you will find the living (flesh) body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ himself. The “Real Presence.” The source and summit of the Catholic Faith. Respectfully, I encourage you to read the words of Jesus himself. Like you, many could not fathom what he instructed. But He was clear. He was very clear. He didn’t mince words. He said: “You must eat my FLESH. And drink my BLOOD. He didn’t say, “…this will be a symbol…I’m trying to confuse you….let me explain it a different way.” No. In fact, he was so crystal clear, that He repeated it multiple (5+) times, so there was absolutely no misunderstanding. Knowing their disdain, lack of understanding and possible horror, he said: “Does this OFFEND you?” It did offend some. It offended many. And as Scripture says: “they couldn’t accept it. And they no longer followed him.” Jesus Christ was very clear. Like yesteryear, some will accept His most important teaching, (“unless” you do this…and whomever eats/drinks will have eternal life and I WILL raise him in the last day). …and some will NOT. John 6:53-59 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. The Words of Eternal Life.

Your comment is an evidence of you being poorly catechized. The Catholic Church is NOT only roman but there are also many rites such as byzantine, syrian, maronite and latin/roman but all of these rites. Doing more research, studying the cathecism, the early church fathers(they've written how the earliest christians worship) and rereading the bible will help you immensely learn more and better understand about the teachings of the Catholic Church.

"after the reading the Gospel of John" And you reject God's Written Word below, based on the fallible teachings of 16th c men: 52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us *his flesh* to eat?” 53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you *eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood,* you have no life in you; 54 he who eats *my flesh* and drinks *my blood* has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For *my flesh* is food indeed, and *my blood* is drink indeed. 56 He who eats *my flesh* and drinks *my blood* abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who *eats me* will live because of me. When the evangelical denomination celebrates the Lord's Supper, if and when it does, it usually has grape juice and bread. That's ALL it ever is, nothing more. When one realizes how novel of a teaching this is, that it can be traced to a 16th Catholic lawyer named Calvin, the intellect can begin to comprehend the error. "got saved at the age of 19 " You got saved scripturally when your Catholic parents baptized you, receiving the indwelling of God within you and sanctifying grace, lost in the sin of Adam.

Jesus left a Church not a book, I can not find any scripture where Jesus send to his disciples to write a book about his life....

did you publish your testimony in written or maybe video? I'd be happy to know about it. God bless

Well, I hope you come back Ms. Carmen. God Bless you.

@@WhiteBraveheart1 She is back. The one true catholic church Jesus established in 30 AD. Not the one Rome disfigured in the 3-400's and beyond.

This guy is lying about Catholicism. I know. I'm a Catholic. He was just either looking for an "out" to indulge in some sinful behavior or he was too lazy to learn what Christ's one, true Church actually teaches.

how about calling him up and ask him questions ...🤣🤣🤣🤣@@gerry30

Good for you Miriam. I've never understood why anyone would leave Jesus' Church and join "some guy's" church. This man clearly was never a devout Catholic. Imagine being 34 years old and never opening up a bible as a "devout Catholic"? Also, if he attended any mass in all those years he must have been sleeping when they had the readings. He clearly left for other reasons. Most leave because of a certain sin that the Church tells them is wrong but they don't want to give up.

Anyone who truly understands the real teachings of the Catholic Church and chooses to stay knows nothing about Christ and the Gospel. I was in Catholic seminar studying to become a priest, i knew all about Catholic doctrine. All it took for me to leave the Catholic Church was an honest reading of the new treatment from cover to cover twice. I wasn’t convinced by any Protestant .

@@samzahaykevitz1840 and no, most people do not leave because of any sin, but because the “Catholic” church has clearly deviated from the true teachings of Christ and now subscribes to another Gospel.

@@somemedic8482 You've read the new testament TWICE! Wow. I'm impressed. Even attended seminar? What part did you not understand?

@@samzahaykevitz1840 I see the bait, but I’m not taking it bro. 😂

Please read your Bible and learn what the true, original church believed. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship/adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture. For the first 280 years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman Empire, and Christians were terribly persecuted. This changed after the “conversion” of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Constantine provided religious toleration with the Edict of Milan in AD 313, effectively lifting the ban on Christianity. Later, in AD 325, Constantine called the Council of Nicea in an attempt to unify Christianity. Constantine envisioned Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire, which at that time was beginning to fragment and divide. While this may have seemed to be a positive development for the Christian church, the results were anything but positive. Just as Constantine refused to fully embrace the Christian faith but continued many of his pagan beliefs and practices, so the Christian church that Constantine and his successors promoted progressively became a mixture of true Christianity and Roman paganism. Following are a few examples: Most Roman Catholic beliefs and practices regarding Mary are completely absent from the Bible. Where did those beliefs come from? The Roman Catholic view of Mary has far more in common with the Isis mother-goddess religion of Egypt than it does with anything taught in the New Testament. Interestingly, the first hints of Catholic Mariology occur in the writings of Origen, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, which happened to be the focal point of Isis worship. The Lord’s Supper being a consumption of the literal body and blood of Jesus is not taught in the Bible. The idea that bread and wine are miraculously transformed into the literal body and blood of Jesus (transubstantiation) is not biblical. However, several ancient pagan religions, including Mithraism, which was very popular in the Roman Empire, had some form of “theophagy” (the eating of one’s god) as a ritualistic practice. Roman Catholicism has “saints” one can pray to in order to gain a particular blessing. For example, Saint Gianna Beretta Molla is the patron saint of fertility. Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of animals. There are multiple patron saints of healing and comfort. Nowhere is even a hint of this taught in Scripture. Just as the Roman pantheon of gods had a god of love, a god of peace, a god of war, a god of strength, a god of wisdom, etc., so the Catholic Church has a saint who is “in charge” over each of these and many other categories. Many Roman cities had a god specific to the city, and the Catholic Church provided “patron saints” for cities as well. The idea that the Roman bishop is the vicar of Christ, the supreme leader of the Christian Church, is utterly foreign to the Word of God. The supremacy of the Roman bishop (the papacy) was created with the support of the Roman emperors. While most other bishops (and Christians) resisted the idea of the Roman bishop being supreme, the Roman bishop eventually rose to supremacy, again, due to the power and influence of the Roman emperors. After the western half of the Roman Empire collapsed, the popes took on the title that had previously belonged to the Roman emperors-Pontifex Maximus. Many more examples could be given. These four should suffice in demonstrating the origin of the Catholic Church. Of course, the Roman Catholic Church denies the pagan origin of its beliefs and practices. The Catholic Church disguises its pagan beliefs under layers of complicated theology and church tradition. Recognizing that many of its beliefs and practices are utterly foreign to Scripture, the Catholic Church is forced to deny the authority and sufficiency of Scripture. The origin of the Catholic Church is the tragic compromise of Christianity with the pagan religions that surrounded it. Instead of proclaiming the gospel and converting the pagans, the Catholic Church “Christianized” the pagan religions and “paganized” Christianity. By blurring the differences and erasing the distinctions, the Catholic Church made itself attractive to the idolatrous people of the Roman Empire. One result was the Catholic Church becoming the supreme religion in the Roman world for centuries. However, another result was the most dominant form of Christianity apostatizing from the true gospel of Jesus Christ and the true proclamation of God’s Word. Second Timothy 4:3-4 declares, “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” www.gotquestions.org/origin-Catholic-church.html

@@jlewis8145 Good day. ✨ 🙏 The Catholic Church , with Peter as the first Pope, is glorious. There, you will find the living (flesh) body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ himself. The “Real Presence.” The source and summit of the Catholic Faith. Respectfully, I encourage you to read the words of Jesus himself. Like you, many could not fathom what he instructed. But He was clear. He was very clear. He didn’t mince words. He said: “You must eat my FLESH. And drink my BLOOD. He didn’t say, “…this will be a symbol…I’m trying to confuse you….let me explain it a different way.” No. In fact, he was so crystal clear, that He repeated it multiple (5+) times, so there was absolutely no misunderstanding. Knowing their disdain, lack of understanding and possible horror, he said: “Does this OFFEND you?” It did offend some. It offended many. And as Scripture says: “they couldn’t accept it. And they no longer followed him.” Jesus Christ was very clear. Like yesteryear, some will accept His most important teaching, (“unless” you do this…and whomever eats/drinks will have eternal life and I WILL raise him in the last day). …and some will NOT. John 6:53-59 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. The Words of Eternal Life.

Ask yourself, do you understand God? Because God says in his supreme word many, many times that our salvation is a free gift from him. Not a reward to be earned because we CAN’T earn it. The Bible says that the best of our works are like menstrual rags unto God. We are condemned by default and only saved by the grace of God. It is horrific to hear the amount of influence the church has over its followers, convincing them that if they don’t go to mass every week they have committed some kind of super duper sin that blemishes their relationship with God. Telling them that Jesus Christ himself descends back to earth every week in order to be present in the eucharist when the Bible explicitly states Christ will not come again until the bitter end. Encouraging them to pray to a created being, ‘venerating’ her while crying HAIL MARY! All when God says he is extremely jealous and will not share his due glory with anyone. Ask yourself, do you know God? Do you have a personal relationship with him to the point where he tells you what is true and guides your hand? Or do you have a devotion to a religion?

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Amen 🙏 We are saved by His grace BTW I'm catholic and Mr Mike never knew His church before he left

@@DUZCO10 I myself was a catholic Then GOD saved me from the man centered Religion of Catholicism.

@savedbygrace8337 its interesting, people call the catholic church "man made" but if you look at the history of ALL churches you will see that a man founded each church. The church you are at split from another church who also split from another before it. ALL EXCEPT ONE: His holy catholic church. His church did not split from any other church. Jesus started one church. Mat 16 18. The catholic church is the original church. Catholics are the early Christians. The remains of the apostles are in catholic churches ⛪️ Really, truly pray and think about that

@@DUZCO10 1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” NOT MARY,JESUS! Isaiah 2:8 “Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:” NOT STATUES JESUS Matthew 6:7 “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.” NOT ROSARYS .

@@DUZCO10 Catholicism say that Mary was immaculately conceived, Born without sin,could you give me a Bible verse that I can verify that with? Something as earth shattering as that, For the first time in human history even Predating the birth of JESUS Someone was born without sin and there is no mention of it ? Even in the catholic bible? Enlighten me if you will Book ,chapter,and verse please! ,

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How did you conclude this “massive claim on authority” is more reasonable than the protestant position?

@@theodorebe Protestant position is 30,000 different positions. They have no unity. Catholics have 1 pope. Catholics have 2000yrs of continuous history.

@@theodorebe They had the authority to put the Bible together for one thing.

@@gerry30 that’s another empty claim

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Mikes testimony’s is not credible, total misleading I’ve been catholic my lifetime and never heard anything that he said happened the fact he said he never read the Bible is total nonsense he’s lying in mass we read from O.T. The psalms, N.T. And the gospel and there Bible study in all churches if you go to mass everyday which you can unlike Protestants places where the pastor is married and only has time for a weekly service, you can read the entire Bible in a three year cycle liturgical tradition, front to back no kidding, so he’s misleading false pastor, wolf in sheep clothing….beware of false pastors Matthew 7:15..

I have Catholic friends that I absolutely love. I have Catholic friends that absolutely love God and wish to see the face of God upon death. Let us continue to pray for one another. The bible clearly states: Be careful ye who stand lest you FALL.' In another place, it is asked: What do you have that I have not given to you. Where then is your BOASTING? Wonderful questions to ponder all times.

I'm glad that I'm not a protestant, a spin-off of Christianity which was founded in the early 16th century by fallible men. Remember that Our Lord, before he rose into heaven, said that he is with us (the Church) always even unto the consummation of the world. Catholicism was founded by Our Lord. Protestantism was started by men who each tried to take the place of the Magisterium of the Church and ended up not agreeing on much, except that their hatred for Catholicism.

Many people are grateful to be Catholic and not heretics..

A lot of truth to that statement

Its very eye opening that only catholics are so concerned with denominations. Its clear satan has a strong influence and has planted the sin of Pride deep in their hearts believing their own traditions and men to be superior to the word of God. Only Catholics get so offended and become so full of vile hatred at the though of others being protestant rather than catholic. Their sin is deep rooted and blinds them to the truth of God,.

such sayings comfort the heart of the speakers but it does not mean that what is said is truth. Cliches are nor truth, God's word is truth. What does God's word say about how one finds God.

@@thelinkeducationalsupports2949 Here's a question: Did the Early Church have the entirety of God's Written Word? No, they relied on the Old Testament and Church councils.

What are the three angels messages? MESSAGE ONE Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. 7 And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.” MESSAGE TWO 8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion[ of her sexual immorality.” MESSAGE THREE 9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.” *************************************************** Now what does the SDA church say are the three angels messages. By the way, is the date 1844 in the Bible somewhere? MESSAGE ONE The first angel's message was proclaimed in 1843/1844 through those who were erroneously announcing the imminent return of Jesus. Ellen White, Seventh-day Adventism's prophet, wrote: Prophecy was fulfilled in the first and second angels' messages. They were given at the right time and accomplished the work which God designed to accomplish by them. MESSAGE TWO 2. The second angel's message is a call for Christians attending non-Adventist churches to leave those churches and join the one true remnant church--the Seventh-day Adventists. As Mrs. White noted above, SDAs believed this prophecy was fulfilled in 1844 when some Christians left their churches to unite with the Millerite movement: As the churches refused to receive the first angel's message, they rejected the light from heaven and fell from the favor of God. They trusted to their own strength, and by opposing the first message placed themselves where they could not see the light of the second angel's message. But the beloved of God, who were oppressed, accepted the message, "Babylon is fallen," and left the churches. When the churches spurned the counsel of God by rejecting the advent message, the Lord rejected them. The first angel was followed by a second, proclaiming, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." Revelation 14:8. This message was understood by Adventists to be an announcement of the moral fall of the churches in consequence of their rejection of the first message. The proclamation, "Babylon is fallen," was given in the summer of 1844, and as the result, about fifty thousand withdrew from these churches. God has rejected the church that I attend. I will be destroyed. Scary, eh? THIRD MESSAGE 3. The third angel's message is a warning against receiving the Mark of the Beast, which is said to be worship on Sunday. According to the SDA end-time scenario, the last great battle between good and evil will be fought over the day of worship. Those who keep the Seventh-day Sabbath will receive the Seal of God, while those who keep Sunday receive the Mark of the Beast. According to SDA teachings, all the world will unite under the leadership of Satan to impose Sunday laws upon Seventh-day Adventists. As this frightening scenario unfolds, eventually Sunday laws will be passed requiring a death sentence for anyone who refuses to worship on Sunday. Ellen White explains: As the Sabbath has become the special point of controversy throughout Christendom, and religious and secular authorities have combined to enforce the observance of the Sunday, the persistent refusal of a small minority to yield to the popular demand will make them objects of universal execration. ...a decree will finally be issued against those who hallow the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, denouncing them as deserving of the severest punishment and giving the people liberty, after a certain time, to put them to death. Romanism in the Old World and apostate Protestantism in the New will pursue a similar course toward those who honor all the divine precepts. After this death decree has been passed by the evil Catholics and wicked Protestants, Jesus will return to save the holy Seventh-day Adventists. Then, He will execute the judgment described in Revelation 14:10-11 by sending fire to destroy all Sunday-keeping Christians. God is going to send fire to destroy everyone who worships on Sunday. Ellen White, The Great Controversy (1911), pp. 615-616. nonsda.org/study1.shtml

James 2:10 Have you kept the whole law perfectly? God requires perfection to get into heaven. You need the righteousness of God. Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect. God started the church on a Sunday. It was called Pentecost. 50 days after Passover. Leviticus 23 and Acts 2 A Bible based church would never say that God needs to do an Investigative Judgment to determine those who are saved. The true and living God of the Bible is omniscient. God knew those who would be born before He even created the world. Ephesians 1:4 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Out of the over 35,000 Christian denominations only one was created and sanctified by God and that is the Catholic Church. You need to study the apostolic fathers or any of the church father to know this and what true church is. All others are heretics. Study St Ignatius of Antioch who was on of the Apostolic fathers where the first documented use in calling Gods one true church Catholic. This was even before the Bible was made, which was by the Catholic’s

James 2:14-26 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ...

I would also. “Part I: Explain to Catholics that they are heathens and that Catholicism is of the Devil.”

Funny how he reads the Bible and you read catholic propaganda. The catechism says Mary was co mediator in verse 969 do you believe that?

I know he’s ignorant because he keeps say Roman Catholic It’s actually Catholic, there’s Byzantine Catholic Melkite Catholic 26 rites of the Catholic Church -The Catholic Church is the organization that decides what books made up the New Testament. Why would you or this man follow the the Mew Testament knowing it came from the Catholic Church you shall enter the kingdom of heaven.” Lastly NOWHERE in the Catholic Church is there a doctrine that days you good works must out do your bad works to make it to heaven Jesus said. “Amen amen I say to you unless you eat and drink of my 🎉body and blood

Do you pray for yourself like you pray for Mike. Mike is dead now did you know that. He is enjoying time with his Saviour. What about you? Are you praying for you? Did you go to look at the scriptures he referenced? If not, why not? Does any one organization have all knowledge on or about God? Do we not all know in part? Can I learn anything from you? Anything? Can you learn anything from a non- Catholic. PRIDE is a sin. It comes before we crash and burn. Be warned.

I can say yes in the respect that she is the fulfillment of the OT Gebirah i.e. The queen mother who sat at the Davidic king's side and mediated for the people with her son. That's why we see Mary with a crown of stars processing from the heavenly Tabernacle in heaven as the New Ark and queen of heaven in Revelation 11:19-12:1. Add to that the 2 brothers who asked to sit next to Jesus in His kingdom. Do you recall what He said. He said those places had already been decided. Stop and ponder that for a moment. Now, if you mean the One Mediator between us and the Father, then the answer is no. Jesus is that One Mediator Who shed His blood for Mary and all of us.Hope this helps. God bless.

Irene, do you really think that God is going to think that Mike Gendron is poorly Catechized? Yes, you do. Irene, what if you are wrong and he is correct? Consider that prayerfully for 10 minutes. God, I am so sure I am correct, I have never thought anything else. But what if there is value to what this man is saying? You do realize both cannot be correct right? Be prayerful. Ask Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth. Truth is not the exclusive right of any group. Neither is any one group exclusively accessing TRUTH. IN every denomination there are things we need to abandon and things we need to embrace. May we be humble and constanstly before the throne of grace asking NOT MARY, NOT DEAD SAINTS, but God through Christ for wisdom and understanding so that we do not lose our way.

He has also chosen to live his life teaching others to hate the church who have no understanding of the Catholic faith. he will be held accountable one day. He reminds me of a man named Ian Paisley, from Northern Ireland, who is famous for his hatred of Catholics.

The ministry of hate. Yeah, good for Mike!

Where did you come up with that Lie...?

The Bible is Catholic 😂😂😂

theduke...There were 20,000,000 new converts to the Catholic Church the year before the pandemic. My parish alone has 30 new students in OCIA this fall. Many of them Protestants. We had 17 last year.That doesn't sound like a decline to me. You might be interested to know that the greatest number of current converts are coming from Africa. That's where most of our new priest are coming from. God bless.

"Thank God for Sola scriptura" You mean the manmade doctrine of Wycliffe and Luther? Where in the Bible is the Bible Alone doctrine? If you can show me that the Bible actually teaches that it's the only rule of authority and truth, then I'll convert. "enjoy the King James version of the Bible." It's too Shakespeare like for me. I like the RSV Catholic Bible with all the books, not the truncated Bible that Luther created. "everyone left because of corruption Over time, popes and bishops began selling indulgences as a way of raising money." It is true that sinful Church leaders did bad things, but the appropriate response was to reform the Church, not create a split and new doctrines. "This practice made it seem that people could buy forgiveness for their sins." An indulgence doesn't forgive sins, it takes away the punishment of sins already forgiven. "I would never dishonor the reformers men like John Calvin and Martin Luther by becoming Catholic." Did you know that Luther ADDED the word "alone" to his German translation of Romans 3:28 to support his unbiblical "faith alone" doctrine? You know what the Bible says about adding or subtracting from Scripture? We also know he took out 7 books that were accepted canon for about 1,100 years. I would be honoring Luther too if he had stayed a Catholic monk who worked inside the Church to reform the abuses you mentioned instead of creating a new Bible canon with new doctrines. "Jesus Christ did not come after start a religion" He told Peter He would build a Church on Peter and even gave him the KEYS (a symbol of authority). How is that not a visible Church? The early Church fathers took Jesus at His Word. "Jesus Christ saved by faith alone not works lest any man should boast." The "works" he is referring to are of the over 600 the Jews maintained like circumcision. We are saved by faith in Jesus AND works. James 2 tells us that we are justified by WORKS AND NOT FAITH ALONE. Luther didn't like James and wanted to burn it. You can have all the faith in the world and still go to Hell because not everyone who says to me lord lord, but he who does the will of my father (Mt 7:21). The Devil has faith that Jesus is real, but he made a bad choice in not serving so he fell from the heavens. Salvation is a process that we work out with fear and trembling (Phil 2). It's not a one time event in which you accept Jesus into your heart and then BOOM you're saved. You have to make that decision every day for the love of Jesus. That's real love. You wouldn't tell a spouse that you accept them into your heart so you don't need to do anything in the relationship anymore to keep it up. It's a process of growing in love and doing the things it takes. "Jesus Christ is Lord not Mary." Amen, thank you for stating the obvious. Peace

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⁠@@phil5457hello :) I wanna ask about something you said. You said that indulgences take away the punishment for sins already forgiven. Hebrews 7:26-27 tells us “For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.” ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭7‬:‭26‬-‭27‬ It seems to me like the writer is saying that we no longer have to present sacrifices or payments for our sins anymore because our one and only high priest, Christ, did it “once and for all when He offered up Himself.” So my question is, what do you mean by indulgences take away the punishment for sins that have already been forgiven, for if Jesus already made the payment for his followers once and for all, why do we need to make a payment on our own? Also just wanted to add a note, I don’t say any of this to go against you as a person, I’m a Protestant and am wanting to learn more about Catholic beliefs from Catholics themselves

@@lf6932 Hi, thanks for the respectful question. I'll do my best in answering it as someone who has spent time in a Catholic seminary and studied theology. Catholics believe that Jesus opened heaven for us by his redemptive death on the cross, but how we respond to and receive our salvation is a process. It is true that we no longer need to offer up the blood of animals since the Old Law was fulfilled in the perfect sacrifice of Jesus, as you point out (Heb 7:26-27). However, the Bible says that we still need forgiveness of sins and will be judged on how well we love and do God's will in this life. So, it's a matter of applying the grace of His sacrifice to our lives, and how we receive forgiveness. Jesus gave the power to forgive to the disciples: “Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained" (Jn 20:22-23). It wouldn't be necessary to have forgiveness of sins if the one sacrifice of Christ is enough for everything we do today. I mean, if Jesus paid the price does that mean I can go on sinning and not worry about punishment? “If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions” (Mt 6:14-15). So forgiveness is not automatic. It's not simply we believe and we are saved. In Matthew 25 Jesus says the ones who are saved do the corporal works of mercy and the ones who don't are told: “Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels” (41). The Bible distinguishes between mortal (deadly) and venial sins and that we must pray for those who commit sin: "If any one sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin, he will ask, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin which is mortal; I do not say that one is to pray for that. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal" (1 Jn 5:16-17). Catholics believe in something called the mystical body of Christ (see: www.newadvent.org/cathen/10663a.htm), which enables us to pray for each other and help each other make it to heaven. St. Paul says, "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of His body, that is, the church" (Col 1:24). One of the things I enjoy about being Catholic is praying for people and offering up my sufferings in union with Jesus. In 2 Maccabees chapter 12 Judas' men who died in battle had tokens from idols in their possession. Judas prayed "that the sin which had been committed might be wholly blotted out...Therefore he made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin" (42,45). This, of course, supports the doctrine of purgatory, but also shows that we can help others with punishment due to sin. The Church has the power to "bind" and "loose" (Mt 16:19) and forgive sins (Jn 20:22-23). Along with the power to forgive sins in the name of Christ, the Church can apply His merits to a person doing penance. Let's say I damage a person's property and confess to a priest. As a penance the priest my ask me if I can restore the damaged property in some way, either by fixing it or by money. If I say I can then the priest can require that as my penance I make restitution. But let's say I slander a person's reputation at work and prevent them from getting a raise or something. That would be more difficult to restore. The penance might be to say some prayers, yet that probably wouldn't take care of all the punishment required. For our help, the Church offers indulgences that we can participate in to help remove the temporal punishment due to our sins. There are a lot of ways we can get indulgences by praying and helping others. I don't typically concern myself with them too much. I need them and use them but don't dwell on them as if I'm earning my way to heaven. That's not the way it works. It's a process. We need to be made clean to enter heaven and stand before God. Even Jesus spoke about a third place besides heaven and hell: "And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come." Notice how he says "neither in this world, nor in the world to come"? He is implying that some sin can be forgiven (venial) in the next world. Yet we know that both heaven and hell are eternal and that we must be perfect to enter heaven. Therefore Jesus must be speaking about a place of purification (purgatory). I have heard people with near death experiences describe a place like purgatory and it's well attested in the lives of the saints. Souls of the departed sometimes visit a holy person to ask for prayers and later return to thank them. If your interested in the spiritual life I suggest a book, Divine Mercy in My Soul, Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska. She was a polish nun (d. 1930s) who received visions of Jesus, the Divine Mercy. When I first read the book it blew me away. I still find wisdom in it for my life. The Bible is the inspired Word of God, but spiritual reading helps tremendously since we see how others gained salvation closer to our own time. "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith..." (Heb 12:1-2)

@@phil5457 hey Phil! Thank you for the respectful reply, I greatly appreciate being able to have a peaceful discussion with someone rather than a name-calling yelling match, which happens so often on the internet, so thank you. I agree with you that we cannot be “saved” then live a life of sin, but I don’t think it’s because we lose our salvation, it’s because we were never in Christ. I think many Protestants get salvation wrong by thinking it’s simply a confession of the mouth and that’s it, that’s a simply ridiculous notion that too many people sadly believe gets them to Heaven. Paul tells us “that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭10‬:‭9‬-‭10‬ The confession of the mouth comes after belief in the heart, true sincere belief, which is manifested in life change and conformity of our hearts and lives to be more like Jesus, by the work of the Spirit. So yes I agree with you that salvation is not simply a profession of faith without life change. Like James talks about in James 2, faith without works is dead because if our faith is not producing good works and conformity to Jesus, it’s dead faith, faith which cannot save. However, if we have true faith, sincere faith, the sacrifice of Jesus is applied to our lives and our sins, past present and future, are paid for. Yes, as Christians we still make mistakes and sin, but we can confess those sins straight to Jesus, for He hears our cries for Him. As I’m sure you know, Jesus tells His followers in John 14 that if we love Him, we will obey His commandments. If one is disobeying His commandments and feels no conviction, is comfortable in that life of sin, I do not believe they are truly saved because they have obviously not truly made Jesus lord of their life. If we truly make Jesus lord of our life, we will serve Him obediently because that is what a good servant does, and it is our purpose as humans to live for the glory and praise of God. However, we do not work to pay off our sins. “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭6‬:‭19‬-‭20‬ ‭ Here, Paul is rebuking the Corinthians for their unholy actions, like sexual immorality and drunkenness to name a few, however He still says the Holy Spirit is in them, but according to Catholic theology they have committed a mortal sin, lust, and would have lost their salvation and connection with God. The Holy Spirit cannot be in them if they have no connection with God. However, in verse 20, Paul says Jesus bought them with a price and tells them to glorify God with their bodies, Here, Paul is outlining how their salvation is not if their works, they did not work with Jesus to do the buying of their sins, Jesus bought their sins alone. Therefore, if they sincerely have made Jesus lord, they must repent of their sins and live their life in step with the Spirit, walking the narrow road. Now on the apostles having the authority to give sin, this came through the Holy Spirit, which I’m sure you know, but they weren’t forgiving the sins of Christ followers, they were forgiving the sins of nonbelievers, some being Jews who did not fully understand that the OT was meant to point to Jesus. “And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead. Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.”” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭10‬:‭42‬-‭43‬ ‭ Here, Peter states that the apostles have been ordered to preach to the people and testify in favor of Jesus, to spread the Gospel. He then states that “through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.” All we have to do to receive forgiveness of sins is believe in Christ, truly making Him lord of our lives. Not simply an intellectual belief, for even demons believe that Jesus existed and rose from the dead, but true and complete trust (faith) in Jesus as lord. When we truly put our lives into Jesus’ hands, He forgives all our sins and blesses us with the Holy Spirit inside of us, who further refines and consecrates us through conviction and a new heart. Lastly, in Colossians 1:24, Paul is not saying that by his suffering he is increasing the forgiveness that is offered in Christs sacrifice, but he is saying that he is playing his part in the Gospel, which is to share it to all. Jesus sacrifice was fully sufficient in paying for our sins, but it was not sufficient in the spreading of the news of the Gospel, which is why Jesus tells the apostles to spread the Gospel to all nations and baptize people in His name. John Piper does a great video on explaining this (www.desiringgod.org/labs/what-is-lacking-in-christs-afflictions) Thank you for this discussion Phil, it seems as if you have a genuine love and adoration for Jesus and I encourage you to continue researching and learning, as I will. Thank you for telling me more about the Catholic point of view, it’s so nice to hear from someone who genuinely wants to inform and not bash others :) May you have a blessed day and thank you for this discussion!

I think you hit the nail on the head. I’m a cradle Catholic and I’m guilty of not reading my bible enough. Some of us may take what we have for granted and not apply ourselves to prove something we already believe in. I already started reading the Bible daily just to feel spend more time with God and his word. Coming from a very devout Catholic family, I have placed all my trust in the church teachings and I have experienced so many beautiful things in my faith that I could never go to another denomination. I love the Eucharist and have experienced a deeper love and longing for God through the intercession of Mary praying the rosary (Rosary 54 day novenas). I love the mass, adoration, all of the sacraments are beautiful. Please do look deeper in the Catholic faith. Recently I went to the Vatican and it was incredible to see the history and tradition of the church dating back to so many important events. The birth of Jesus and being able to see the relics of baby Jesus manger, a piece of the cross, the stairs Jesus stepped on while drops of his blood remain on these stairs. The succession of the Pope starting from Peter to pope Francis. Blessed Carlos Acutis and his incorrupt body in Assisi Italy. The Catholic Church is rich in tradition, blessings and it is the one true church. I’m leaving you a link of a “movie” that shows what happens during mass, this according to visions Catalina Rivas witnessed. She has the stigmata. God bless you on your journey… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-udzU--dpWEI.htmlsi=4LwijbIz0R_eWEsz

Was it because you like a somber service, rituals and a type of piety which are all seemingly there? What attracted you ? You did not say. Was it the Christ who drew you to the Catholic Church? What exactly was it?

@@thelinkeducationalsupports2949 Jesus Christ present in the Eucharist attracted me to the Catholic Church at age fifteen. While services appear to be somber to some believers, it is all in what attitude you bring to church. If you are in a bad mood or not open to being taught, you will not learn much in any church.

Agree. However, I have built my faith not on what I feel. Faith is like English. Some of the most grammatically correct constructions seem off . I suspect it is because the wrong is heard so frequently that the ear accepts it as TRUE, RIGHT. Ironically, although you are very comfortable with what you practice, I find no evidence for the practice in SCRIPTURE. Absolutely, you will find it in church DOCTRINE. But if you were do make an effort to study biblical apostolic doctrine you wont fine it either. May your heart be opened to doing some homework. Knowing the TRUTH of scripture is very important for your SALVATION. Christ was sarcrificed ONCE and FOR ALL. He does not have to come down each new mass to be sarcrificed again and again. He sits at the right hand of God making intercessions for you daily. He wants you to appropriate all that he has already done for you. @@nicholasgicking4206

@@thelinkeducationalsupports2949 My faith is not built on my feelings or my own faith, for that is a crumbling foundation. The Liturgy of the Eucharist is centered on the re-representation of Calvary not on the re-sacrifice of the Lord. You must understand the entirety of the gifts the Lord gave to reveal Himself. I studied the Scriptures, and I became Catholic. Thanks be to God. I will pray for you.

Why don't you just say you are a Christian?

@@RS54321 How is that your concern?

@@eireannemerald1382 How is what my concern? YT isn't showing any previous comments above yours.

@@RS54321 Apologies. My comment is related to your response to Roselynjoseph2743 comment, “I am Catholic …” was: “Why don’t you just say you are Christian.” And my response was, “Why is that your concern.” We are in the Catholic church and we call ourselves Catholics, just as Lutherans call themselves Lutherans, etc.

@@eireannemerald1382 I'm concerned b/c it's extremely odd as someone who professes to follow Christ to continually define oneself, as Catholics do, as a Catholic or part of the CC instead of as a Christian. The focus is on the CC, not Jesus, which is the issue. I don't identify myself by what church I go to...my identity is in Christ.

What is your definition of an idol? An idol is a false god. The saints in Catholics are not idols because they are not false gods. The saints are people whose souls are now in heaven. Many of them are martyrs for the sake of Jesus.

All true Christian (catholic) churches can be traced back to Christ. Just because they are reformed does not make them untrue. The Roman Catholic church is not true anymore. The Roman Catholic church has committed unspeakable evils and its priests still do to this day. The Roman Catholic yacht club cult and Bank of Europe repels more non-believers and discredits itself as a "Christian" religion more than any other religion due to its pagan practices and idol worship, and to mention the elephant in the room because no one else will: sexual deviancy and molestation of spirituality and of children. In the words of Jesus Christ: "Hypocrites!". You maybe say I am throwing the baby out with the bath water. I say Luther took the baby and ran. We drew a new bath: built on the blueprints with which Jesus left Peter and the apostles. New building, old church. New field, same mustard seed. Being Roman Catholic is akin to being in an abusive relationship. You stay together for the memories (the history), financial security (big grand buildings and gold clad trinkets) and the kinky sex (traditions). Greeting 1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh 4 and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, 6 including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ, 7 To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Longing to Go to Rome 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you 10 always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you- 12 that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,[c] that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians,[d] both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. The Righteous Shall Live by Faith 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith,[e] as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”[f] God's Wrath on Unrighteousness 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[g] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Do you pray to Mary?do you believe she is sinless?

@@user-qv4ed6oe2c No. Do you? If so - why?

Your religion is not Christianity... it is pagan rituals masking as Christianity. I will pray for you in Jesus name

You are very wrong. Read Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

Correct “Catholic” not “Roman Catholic” there’s a difference.

I suppose. The Catholic Church is not merely the Latin (colloquially Roman) Catholic Church. It’s composed of 24 sub iuris churches, of which the Latin (Roman) church is by far the largest

God does NOT bless religion. He will bless all people who follow Him and only Him. Who speaks His name as God and their savior. Amos 5 21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. 22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. 23 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

@@styles3349note how that passage is directly addressing particular religions, not condemning religion wholesale. The scripture actually directly provides the foundations for the religious practices of the Israelites. How is that a condemnation of religion? Also following God and praising him together is literally the entire purpose of religion. If you want to do those things religion provides the most fulfilling way to directly love and follow God without the distractions of your personal intellectual and spiritual shortcomings, united in communion with God through the church.

@@bxd7793 That's true. Amos was called to speak at a time when the kingdom of Israel was doing very well, were gaining land and wealth, but they had forgotten the heart of God. But That doesn't mean it can't be applied in the modern day. It is a reminder that all of these things - false piety, and empty offerings - we do that we think please God are not important. What God simply wants from us is to love Him with all our hearts. so here is a Genuine question that I will not argue on but rather plainly hear. Do you love your religion more than God? Since the Bible says, whatever we love more than God is called idolatry. And loving religion makes us commit idolatry. Jesus says in Matthew 10:37 "He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me." And if you love God more than anything, If God says to you today, give up your religion, your offerings, the catholic sacraments, your love for mary and figures, and "saints" declared by the pope. Give them up and follow Jesus as the only mediator (1 timothy 2:5) , give them up and walk by faith and not by sight (2 cor 5:7). Will you obey Him?

Thank you for this bit of history. recently, after the devastating fires in Maui, the news showed the only building left standing was the Catholic Church.

Your ignorance lies in this. You assumed he had no guidance. What a FANTASTIC leap you have made. How did you conclude that?

Many a times catholics would claim preachers don't understand what they are saying, they know nothing or they are lying. Never do they counter argue or bring some type of proof that they have been "mischaracterized". I challenge you to disprove him just on only one point, if you can.

@@wesleysimelane3423 See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. James 2:24

@@ManofSteel007 Works are the proof that someone has saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 👉 For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” •Rom 1:17• But those who "enjoy" deception/being deceived will continue to twist what is clearly stated in the Bible: 🔶For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life. •Eph 2:8-10• || The only way to God is through God Himself and through what He has done for us; sinful people can never add to it. God created His elect to do good works which can only be done as a result of the saving faith that He has given to them. I pray that the Holy Spirit will make the scales fall from your eyes so that you will repent and believe in the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

@@ManofSteel007 So what are your works??? And how do you know if it will be enough???

@@theextreme7134 I'm sorry but listened to this man..and he's deceiving people..or he's been deceived by infiltrated priests (free-masons). I'm a devout Catholic...and if Mike says, who he says he was..ie..a "devout catholic" then he would have been sincerely seeking a relationship with Christ.and learning to understanding the meaning of the sacraments and the roles they play in developing a sincere relationship with our Savior...He would never believe that he could merit his way into heaven...because the sacraments exist in order for us to develop and cultivate the fruits of the Holy Spirit...Confession and communion are two sacraments which truly help us develop a relationship with the Lord, if we go about it sincerely. ie.and for He must increase and I must decrease. .I've never had a priest tell me not to read the Bible, because I wouldn't understand it like Mike said...In fact, every mass, especially Sunday mass, has 3 reading every week Holy Scripture...in fact when I came back into the church back in 2010.our priest. Fr. Stan, gave me a Catechism of the Catholic Church and a Bible to take home, and he told me to start reading Matthew, Mark, Luke and John..This man isn't being honest...seek the truth people...www.commonsensecatholics.com/why-be-catholic. The church has been infiltrated purposefully by evil people.. Dodd’s re-entrance into the Catholic Church-which as a communist she had so bitterly attacked-was a natural result of her new state of mind. In the early 1950s, she provided detailed explanations of the Communist subversion of the Church, reporting that “in the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within, [and that] right now they are in the highest places in the Church.” From such positions they were working to bring about change in order to weaken the Church’s effectiveness against Communism. She said further that these changes would be so drastic that “you will not recognize the Catholic Church.”

The problem is that for Protestants, “reading” Scripture is synonymous with “interpreting” Scripture, so they don’t like that we can’t interpret Scripture for ourselves.

And the church is believers in Jesus who have repented (according to Jesus).

@@oldplace2844 the church is hierarchical. You can’t listen to a group of believers

She just 'knew' this, eh? What church was she referring to, and where does God confirm this?

@@RS54321 There was only one church in her day. The Roman Catholic Church. 1430ad. There’s only one church now. The Roman Catholic Church. All others are fake. Where does God say this ? Jesus said in Mt 16 “I will build MY CHURCH” church is singular. Jesus said in Mt 18. If your brother won’t listen to the CHURCH, treat him as an outsider. Church is singular. Jesus said in Jn 17. Father let them be one. Singular. Reason also confirms there should be one church.

@@RS54321 Also, what church burned her at the stake? (Yes I know it was the English authorities who did this, but back then Church and state were one, no hiding behind this "it was the secular authorities" B.S., I like it when Catholic apologists own up to the fact that the church burned heretics instead of pretending it didn't happen. They make more opportunities for mutual understanding possible with greater honesty, and I'm very thankful for that).

Idk how you can say that after what Francis said

@@stevenjames6830 What did he say? I honestly don’t know, but he probably is taken out of context. I’m using the catechism which doesn’t teach that and holds more power than the Pope. Also, just do your research into the early church fathers, and you will see the truth.

You talk like Mr Mike. I, me, my understanding etc Christianity is almost 2,000 yrs old. Read the early church

@@DUZCO10after extensive reading of early church fathers, it seems like orthodoxy has a much stronger claim. Papal infallibility was not a doctrine of the first 1000 years of the church. I’m not either Catholic or ortho, just an observation.

@randyorlando67 stronger claim to what? Orthodoxy believes in the legitimacy of the bishop of Rome. It's his primacy vs supremacy that they argue. Either way, welcome home and never forget there's a first among equals brother!

@@DUZCO10 First among equals doesn’t mean papal infallibility though. Perhaps my choice of words was poor. I have no qualms with the Catholics, many I consider to be close friends and brothers. And thank you. God bless.

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Exactly my sister I cannot stop being catholic by gaith

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These traditions were introduced in different times by man. If it were Jesus, it would be in the Bible. You are saying Bible came after tradition, Do you mean that Bible is false as it opposes catholic traditions.

I think he is saying that scripture in their time was the Old Testament. There was no NT in the time of the Apostles. So sacred tradition helped carry and compile what would later become the complete Bible with Old and New Testament. And all sacred tradition comes from sacred scripture Old and New.

That’s one of the biggest misconceptions.. that Catholics worship Mary, big difference between worship and honor… right up there with” praying to the dead”. Work and pray to seek understanding before condemning.

Protestants will gloss right past Josua laying down before the Ark of the Covenant and praying to God but they will always have a problem with a Catholic kneeling in front of a Crucifix in Church. But that's the undiscussed error. Protestants generally know very little of the Bible and only focus on the few verses that fit into the man-made doctrine. Catholicism has ALL of the Bible since the Catholic Church put the Bible together. Add that to Protestants being lied to by other Protestants about what the Church actually teaches and they are the lost sheep scattered into thousands of little gatherings.

​@basil5641 Catholics seek her help as a translator to God to hear their prayers. The Bible says Jesus is the only way. No one goes to the Father but through Him. No one should pray to Saints, we can honor they're life, sure, but all who call upon the name of the Lord become saints. We accept the will of God for our life, just as Mary and Abraham and Isaac did. We have the Bible to read and study and give example of the hardships to come, as believers, as examples and strength but not to pray to.

Mama Mary is the best intercessor between me & Jesus… i dun worship her i adore her coz she is the Mother of Jesus…a mother’s prayer is powerful one, what more if it is from our heavenly mama. mama mary intercede our prayers to her Son, she brought us closer & closer to her Son, she initiated Jesus first miracle in the wedding in Cana, even Jesus say it not His time yet, but Jesus did the miracle anyways, why? because Mama Mary ask Him too, His mother… I venerate her coz she is the queen of heaven …. the best bridge to Jesus, coz i know Jesus will not turn His mama like in Cana …. but i do not depend on just Mama mary…. i do pray direct to Jesus too.. its just that sometime & most of the time I do need my heavenly mama to help to pray for me to…. BUT NO I DO NOT WORSHIP MAMA MARY….

Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny (Matthew 5:26)

Given what he says, one definitely gets the understanding that he did not attend weekly mass, let alone attend bible studies or men's groups as a Catholic.

​@@TruthHasSpoken 📜 Jeremiah.7:18The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger. 19But am I the one they are provoking? declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?

@@HebreosCincoDoce-nt8rx Exactly right. Never worship other Gods!

@@TruthHasSpoken 📜 Jeremiah.16:18I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.” 19Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good. 20Do people make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!”

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I am unimpressed with generalizations on both parts and how no one is willing to admit that no side knows everything. I am appalled at the arrogance of both sides. The pride of both sides. the lack of forgiveness and the need for prayer of both sides. One thing is sure. Both are not true. If you Catholics are correct where is your humility? you sound so arrogant and accusing to me. If you are correct Protestants where is your humility you seem so arrogant and accusing to me. Both groups are in need of a good dose of Godly love. This would be a true character trait of any one walking in TRUTH/]]\\

YES! AMEN! THANKYOU!

It's the Holy Roman Catholic Church for the record. Just a historical fact.

The priesthood was never eliminated, it was changed. You will not find anywhere in the Bible that says it was eliminated. Also in the Old Covenant were 3 kinds of Priests. The people, the priests and the High Priest. The priests celebrated sacrifice outside the Holy Place. Only the High Priest celebrate the sacrifice in the Holy Place. Also a Memorial, means to join the present with the moment when Jesus died in the Cross. The Memorial, the priest only can be found in the Catholic Church. Protestants do not understand all these verses in the Bible.

My guess is that he seldom attended Mass regularly, nor did he participate in the life of the Church (bible studies, men's groups etc).

Nonsense. You have to ignore a lot of bible verses to come up with that idea. Jesus mentions, faith, Baptism, Repentence, and the Holy Eucharist. To only claim he meant one of those is not going to save anyone. Peter states that "Baptism saves." Add that Paul stating "the ministry of Reconciliation" Salvation also doesn't occur until after you die and you go to Heaven. "Redemption" is what you mean.

@@gerry30 repent and believe are too side of the same coin of faith. It's all that's required for salvation and to be born again anyone saying anything else are wrong or lying. Read your bible please your brain washed by your church of men. Once you know Christ and your born again you will want to do good works but it not required to be saved.

@@kevinvest9693 You obviously don't know the bible. Nor do you know who infallibly told you the Bible consists of the books of the bible. Jesus never actually said, "All that's required for salvation..." You made that part up. What is in the Bible is "Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you." "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall he condemned. " Peter says, "Where unto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also:" You also don't know Catholicism. Catholicism teaches that babies who are baptized who die go straight to Heaven. So, how did they get to Heaven if the Catholic Church actually teaches that doing good works gets you to Heaven? Maybe you're the one who is brainwashed. Have you ever actually studied Catholicism from an official Catholic source or is it always filtered and made up by an anti-Catholic?

@@gerry30 I'm taking notes, so true what you told Kevin

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I agree. I am sure this gentleman's heart is in the right place, but he has many misconceptions about the Catholic Church. Perhaps this channel could invite a Catholic on for a conversation (wouldn't have to be hostile or even a debate)? God bless you all.

@@thebapticatholic Tell us these misconceptions. I find that many catholics use that excuse everytime when challenged. They have zero counter arguments. Name a few misconceptions that this gentleman made.

@How To Be Christian The mass! The eucharist of the Sun-day resurrection (as they refer to it) is in their own words a literal sacrifice to Christ resurrection, but Christ made it (the last supper) to be a memorial to his death till he comes again. Placing the significance on the resurrection of Jesus in place of his death, is a denial of the Atonement and reconciliation that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ made with his own blood at the cross. This was set up in 508 A.D. and will continue till Christ comes to execute his judgments.

The catholic mass is a wonderful experience

Many are called but few are chosen and many will say lord lord but Jesus will say. "I never knew you" For the most part Christians view the church as some kind of social club for Sunday. They sip their grape juice and nibble on a piece of bread. Listen to characters like Mike. Mike just wants your ten%

@@uncatila The issue of utmost importance is the FINISHED work of the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. THAT is the ONLY way God will accept for entrance into heaven

@@Over-for-now If you want access to the grace of the finished work of Jesus, you have to go Mass (preferably the traditional Latin Mass) where the Sacrifice of Calvary effective throughout Eternity is made present in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Christ is not sacrificed over and over again. That one sacrifice is spirtually brought to us and we are witnesses to Calvary. This is how Christ could both physically leave us and be with us till the end of time.

@@gerry30 blasphemous, the mass is blood less Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins Thank God for the Excellency of the FINISHED work that Jesus accomplished by HIS shed blood. Totally efficacious

@@Over-for-now At the Mass the Precious Blood is present under what is called the "accidents" of Wine. It IS His Blood but He has made it accessible to us as He did at the Last Supper and as Melchizedek offered bread and wine to bless Abraham. Christ Himself said, "My Flesh is real meat and My blood is real drink" He told us. these truths, they can't be blasphemy.

None of what you stated is true. First, you wouldn't even have a Bible without the Catholic Church since it was the Church that discerned which of the Scriptures were Divinely Inspired, utilizing that infallibility that you seem to deny but accept when it comes to the content of the New Testament. This is also why you don't read the letter of Clement as part of the Bible. The Orthodox still do, but they have a different understanding of what "inspired" means. They don't believe the Scriptures are necessarily inerrant. The "bible alone" Protestants took those Catholic teachings about the bible that are not in the Bible and they never seem to notice that part. Who was it that decided infallibly that the letter of Jude was Inspired? The "Bible" is actually a Catholic nickname for what was originally called "The Divine Library". And the Blessed Mother and her special privileges are much more present in the Bible than you know. www.scripturecatholic.com/blessed-virgin-mary/ and Mary is "our life" because she said, "yes" to the reason for "our life" in Christ. She is our sweetness because she is our advocate for Christ when we have fallen into sin and like at the Wedding feast of Cana she will bring us back to Him. She is our Hope because she did not despair even at the foot of the Cross. She was not among the women going to the tomb on Sunday because she knew He would not be there. So, no, none of that is heresy. "Heresy" by the way means "choice" so a "heretic" is a person who has been taught of their error and with full knowledge made a "choice" rather than be corrected by the Church.

@@gerry30 well said, thank you

"the Rosary," When praying the Rosary, we reflect on the life Jesus Christ. So too, we follow Mary's words: _Do whatever he tell you._ Mary points us to follow her Son.

God alone has the power to gather His true saints who hear His voice (who repent and believe in His TRUE Gospel)--He doesn't depend on sinful mankind; therefore, there's no need for the biggest apostate church to boast. Please know this fact 👉 (from Got Questions' article "What is the origin of the Roman Catholic Church?") 🔴... Many more examples could be given. These four should suffice in demonstrating the origin of the Catholic Church. Of course, the Roman Catholic Church denies the pagan origin of its beliefs and practices. The Catholic Church disguises its pagan beliefs under layers of complicated theology and church tradition. Recognizing that many of its beliefs and practices are utterly foreign to Scripture, the Catholic Church is forced to deny the authority and sufficiency of Scripture. The origin of the Catholic Church is the tragic compromise of Christianity with the pagan religions that surrounded it. Instead of proclaiming the gospel and converting the pagans, the Catholic Church “Christianized” the pagan religions and “paganized” Christianity. By blurring the differences and erasing the distinctions, the Catholic Church made itself attractive to the idolatrous people of the Roman Empire. One result was the Catholic Church becoming the supreme religion in the Roman world for centuries. However, another result was the most dominant form of Christianity apostatizing from the true gospel of Jesus Christ and the true proclamation of God’s Word.🔴

Reina, where do you think you got the Bible from? Someone had to make the decision what was in the canon of Scripture and what wasn't. Wouldn't the people with that authority have more authority than the book they compiled?

@@JP2GiannaT, NO--it was because of the SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD.

@Renia, so it just fell fully formed and printed out of the sky one day? How did the Bible come about?

@@JP2GiannaT Do you not know about God's sovereign will? If you sincerely want to know the answer to your question and seek truth, as a start, you can read Got Questions' articles "What is the canon of Scripture?" and "The closed canon-what are the implications?" Considering your various comments on this channel, I'm not going to respond to you any further. Only God can make the scales fall from your eyes; the elect of God have been determined anyway. Pride has hindered you from knowing THE REAL TRUTH. I pray that you will truly repent before it's too late and believe in THE TRUE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. By the way, worshiping the eucharist is idolatry; idolaters will end up in hell. Only the One True God--Yahweh (the Holy Trinity)--deserves our worship.

I know you're compelled to defend the eucharistic because of what you think it means, but it really has nothing to do with the true gospel of Jesus.

If you believed in the Eucharist as your church suggest you to believe then You wouldn't be CHANTING 1500 ROSARIES & Depending on SCAPULAR the magic thread around your neck to avoid HELL... That's a mockery in itself of the Eucharist you claim to believe in.

Suit yourselves and stay in the dark that's your wish, I have done my part of spreading the Word of Jesus, Read John 1:1-5, & John 3:16 Cheers🙏

@@veezienhamoruhwande99 So following CHRIST as Apostles & Mother Mary did... leads to darkness ?? John 1:1-5 & John 3:16 is what pretty debunks your Scapular, Evolving Rosary & Praying to Saints does. Thank you for posting God's Powerful word which defies man made addings. GLORY .

​@@jinu03 ohh dear! Bless you...may the Lord Jesus shed his light upon you, you are so full of hatred

None of the church is based on scripture.

@@Enne_esse Respectfully, you haven’t been to Catholic Mass then. ✨ can you speak of things you do not know? 🙏The Catholic Church, with Peter as the first Pope, is glorious. There, you will find the living (flesh) body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ himself. The “Real Presence.” The source and summit of the Catholic Faith. Respectfully, I encourage you to read the words of Jesus himself. Like you, many could not fathom what he instructed. But He was clear. He was very clear. He didn’t mince words. He said: “You must eat my FLESH. And drink my BLOOD. He didn’t say, “…this will be a symbol…I’m trying to confuse you….let me explain it a different way.” No. In fact, he was so crystal clear, that He repeated it multiple (5+) times, so there was absolutely no misunderstanding. Knowing their disdain, lack of understanding and possible horror, he said: “Does this OFFEND you?” It did offend some. It offended many. And as Scripture says: “they couldn’t accept it. And they no longer followed him.” Jesus Christ was very clear. Like yesteryear, some will accept His most important teaching, (“unless” you do this…and whomever eats/drinks will have eternal life and I WILL raise him in the last day). …and some will NOT. John 6:53-59 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. The Words of Eternal Life.

Correct, NO resacrafice.

​@@Enne_esse The scripture was given to us by God, through the Holy Spirit, from the Church. The traditions of the Church, or at least the beginnings of them, started before there was a biblical canon. Why would you accept the Bible that the early Church canonized and not accept the theological things they believed? Also, there are several Catholic apologists that explain the biblical basis of Catholic theological positions.

@@sanchezbenjaming Because man made institutions can become corrupted over time. It is literally the entire point of Paul’s epistles. If people are left to roam for themselves they will corrupt the Holy word of God. The Bible exists as the perfect uncorrupted word of God. If you really believed the early church was the ideal institution, you would follow the blueprints they left behind, instead of hanging on the words of the modern day RCC, which has had 2000 years to endure corruption and outside influences, whereas the Bible has remained the same since it was written.

You don’t follow any kind of religion?

@@johnsteila6049 I know it can sound cringe sometimes but Protestants mean "ritualistic religion" when they say that. Of course Protestants believe in a deity and and following his commandments and other hallmarks of religion. I don't know who started that whole "relationship not religion" thing, but I think it's very counter productive to just re-define already existing words like the far-left does. The relationship part I can get behind, but I think they should say "relationship not dogma" instead of religion, but that's just me.

Religion is good with God you should read james 1:26-27, and if Jesus left his church we must be part of that church Matthew 16:18 and left (man) in and gave them authority to bind & loosen. 18-19

@@JustAskingQuestions8571 I agree. Protestantism emphasizes a personal relationship with Christ to deemphasizes the role of The Church. Both are important in reality.

@@johnsteila6049 You speak like one that is ill informed. How can one have a genuine relationship with Christ and not acknowledge his or her place within the body of Christ. We are grafted into the vine. All Gentiles are . Not all Catholics. All Gentiles.

True, good bless from a recent 24 yo convert from Lutheranism to Catholicism in Germany❤

Grievances? Like the Catholic church removing the 2nd Commandment from the Bible and dividing the 10th into two Commandments? Go read a NKJ, KJ, or NASB Exodus 20. Catholics removed it because they went against God to create images of what God commanded them not to do. Like the mass where priests call Jesus out of heaven to sacrifice him over and over again? Like transubstantiation where the bread and wine are believed to actual transform into the body and blood of Jesus? Like creating the priesthood where Catholics have to go to earthly fathers for the forgiveness of sins, instead of going DIRECTLY to God and asking for His forgiveness. Like priest being a mediator between man and God, when the Bible specifically says There is ONE mediator between man and God, that mediator is Jesus Christ. Like praying to Mary who cannot hear your prayers. No, only the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit can hear our prayers. Like believing that Mary was without sin when Jesus was conceived? Then why did the Bible say she went to the Temple to give a sin offering? Like believing that Mary never had sex with Joseph when the Bible says that Joseph did not KNOW her until the birth of Jesus. Where the Bible says that Jesus had a number of brotherS and sisterS? Like stopping priests and nuns from marrying resulting in sexual abuse because both men and women could not enjoy what God has given us? Like baptizing babies that have NO scriptural basis? and so on and so on. The Bible ALONE is God's will and word. All you have to do is read it to see the contradictions between the Bible and Catholic teachings.

@@karlheven8328 much love

@@karlheven8328 This is one of the reasons why I've always found myself drawn to Baptist/Anabaptist denominations. They seem to attempt to emulate what it would have been like for the first generation of Christian converts in the Roman Empire. First generation Christians didn't get baptized as infants, and neither do they. First generation Christian churches weren't these gigantic Cathedrals with stain glass windows (which I love by the way), they were plain utilitarian places like homes, and so are their churches. First generation Christians often didn't have access to intermediaries like priests and bishops who could help them get to God, they had to foster their relationship with God much more personally and much more one-on-one often times (due to how much smaller the early Christian communities were). And perhaps most importantly, first generation Christians had to freely choose to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior themselves, no one gave them that faith from birth, and they have to as well (hence why the Amish for example have that period of time where their children live outside of the community. They don't want their children to simply say they believe in Jesus and choose to follow him, they want that to be their free choice just like it was for the first generation of Christians). Regardless of which denomination I finally become rooted in, there's something I find beautiful about this, and I hope even the most Conservative Catholics and Orthodox can find at least some beauty in this as well. Unless I'm radically misunderstanding it, I for my part also certainly respect that the Catholic Church's goal is for every member to emulate Jesus' perfection in their working out of their salvation after their baptism and confirmation, even if I ultimately reject that soteriology.

@@karlheven8328 Greetings, Karl. My neighbors were from Stuttgart and Berlin. What was the catalyst for your conversion may I ask?

Bingo. Also, I've never seen a Catholic who knew their faith become a Protestant. It's always Catholics who didn't know their faith. The opposite is true though: when Protestants who knows their faith study more deeply, particularly the early church's beliefs before Constantine allegedly created the Catholic Church, they end up becoming Catholic.

Then you don't know any former catholics. I was a devout tradcath and it was the most toxic religious community and the most corrupt church. I did my homework and the teachers of the faith still did not have any realy answers. Your pride in your faith is sinful and you are closer to dogma than to God.@@KEP1983

Yes! I found myself listening to podcasts titled “Protestant to catholic” so I thought why not listen to some catholic to Protestant vids. Just to hear what people have to say and for some strengthening of faith. But I have noticed the same things!

​@@Enne_esse Neither have I ever known a Catholic who knew their faith and became protestant. " teachers of the faith still did not have any realy answers. " Please explain where in John 6, where Jesus is speaking symbolically ONLY : 53 So *Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you;* 54 he who *eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,* and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For *my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.* 56 *He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.* 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so *he who eats me will live because of me.* Protestantism, wherever and if they celebrate the Lord's Supper, does so most commonly with grape juice and bread. That's all it ever is, nothing more. It's not the resurrected Christ, and there is no grace contained.

@@TruthHasSpoken amen 🙏🏼

MIKE is available to answer you personally ...do you want to know how to reach him ??

You can read Calvin’s institutes and in each section he directly refutes catholic teaching. Calvin also cites the fathers often, chiefly Augustine

@@grantearley4472 I have no reason nor interest in reading his institutes. Calvin, a catholic lawyer, had no authority whatsoever to say that the Church established by Jesus Christ errored and didn't even know it, A heretic, he made Jesus out to be undependable and a liar. Christ is the head of his Church (Col 1: 18) Christ''s Church is the pillar of truth (1 Tim 3: 15) Christ's Church is the bulwark of truth. (1 Tim 3: 15) Christ's Church is where the manifold wisdom of God is made known. (Eph 3: 10) *Christ PROMISED to lead it to ALL Truth.* (Jn 16: 13) Christ PROMISED that he would NEVER leave it. (Mt 28: 20) Christ PROMISED that the gates of hell would not prevail (it will not teach doctrinal error) ; (Mt 16: 18) You can try answering the questions posed in my first post, directed to the fallible Church of Gendron.

@@TruthHasSpoken I won’t even get into Luther. Well done. Thank you. I have three priests in my extended family (fourth, nearly - 7 years in seminary but did not continue); and I am always sucked in by my temper. I just find it fascinating, the voracious hatred, anything that came before Protestantism. The Catholic Church is not perfect, we’ve made plenty of mistakes God knows, but it’s like they don’t know anything. Mary is just a woman, you can’t pray to the dead, they can’t pray for you - same arguments, over and over again. And then Calvin becomes a God and Martin Luther becomes a God and John Wesley, becomes a God; and they have their God like pastors and prosperity gospel pastors. I don’t know, I don’t say any one way is the one way but when I look around I just see how much we have, and what they don’t know.

@@eireannemerald1382What you are describing is the fruit of sola scriptura, which was, is, and shall ever be, doctrinal chaos and confusion. Indeed, the Church is full of Sinners. Some - relatively few - have sinned greatly. Yet, despite all the sinful Popes, some too who have sinned greatly, not one ever changed doctrine. This is the promise of Jesus, to lead his Church to ALL (doctrine) Truth and that the gates of hell would not prevail. He protects it from teaching what is false as true. "anything that came before Protestantism." This would include the canon of scripture, some 1,100 years before Father Luther and the other deformers. The Catholic Church, decided, declared, the New Testament to have 27 writings, no more, no less, out of 300+ early Christian writings - and the same Church at the same time declared the Old Testament to have 46 writings. The men doing this were all Bishops, all priests as you have in your family. They ALL believed through their words of consecration that the bread and wine transformed in the resurrected Christ, a means for receiving his grace. Protestants, whenever and if they receive the Lords Supper, typically grape juice and bread, receive just that, nothing more. A great reason to be Catholic ... to follow Jesus, to believe him: THIS IS MY BODY. " I am always sucked in by my temper." Have to see protestants, most, as what they are, fed by error in their ignorance. The best cure for protestantism is education. The internet is a great means for doing so. It's always interesting how the more educated protestants become Catholic - and the least educated Catholics (those not attending of weekly mass) become protestant. "what they don’t know" For many protestants, worship consists of a few songs, a few prayers, and a longer sermon. This is not worship. Joe Heschmeyer has a terrific video here on the subject of what is worship, and not: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lg4S1VYac-Y.htmlsi=R-kFzltQIPRU11b_

I think he’s referring to Jesus being the other mediator

I agree with you though!!

@@laurenmcnichol5311 Yes indeed. Priest acting as mediators between man and God is heresy. Timothy 2:5 NASV - "For there is ONE God, and ONE mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time."

@@kdjones5149 Yes this was one of his poorest recitations of his understanding of Catholic soteriology here, but I've seen numerous other videos with him where he presents the correct soteriology, namely Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist for venial sins, Confession for mortal sins, working out one's salvation with fear and trembling, etc... You might be the first Gendron basher I've seen so far that provided specific examples that actually have to do with soteriology (the main thing he's obsessed with, and rightly so), and I agree he was sloppy in this interview for some reason, but watch other videos of him and this is one of the only times he's this sloppy.

We have to understand that there is a hardness of heart with people who criticize the Catholic Church. When we offer explanations, they either melt away or continue to insist that they are right. We just need to keep on praying for them.

Where in the bible is said Mary can hear our prayers? Book, chapter and verse Where in the bible is said Mary went to/will go to heaven? Book, chapter and verse Where in the bible is said Mary is a mediator/imtercessor? Book, chapter and verse Where in the bible is said Mary remained a virgin? Book, chapter and verse Where in the bible is said Mary was sinless? Book, chapter and verse Where in the bible is said Mary is to be worshiped.prayed to? Book, chapter and verse I KNOW absolutely NO Catholic will reply!!! If one does, every answer will be either out of context, or twisted scripture. WHERE in the Bible does it say GOD RESTED on the FIRST DAY of the WEEK to make that day special??? WHERE in the Bible does it say GOD BLESSED the FIRST DAY of the WEEK to make that day special??? WHERE in the Bible does it say GOD SANCTIFIED the FIRST DAY of the WEEK to make that day special??? WHERE in the Bible does it say GOD NAMED the FIRST DAY of the WEEK to make that day special??? WHERE in the Bible does it say GOD DECLARED the FIRST DAY of the WEEK as HIS HOLY DAY to make that day special??? Book, chapter and verse!!!! FACTS: Christ NEVER taught that Peter is a pope. Christ NEVER taught that Mary will go to heaven. Christ NEVER taught that Mary is a mediator/intecessor. Christ NEVER taught that Mary never sinned. Christ NEVER taught that Mary remained virgin. Christ NEVER Taught that a mere man is head of His church. Christ NEVER taught about a church named Catholic. Christ NEVER taught that we can pray to the dead. Christ NEVER taught that the dead can hear our prayers. Christ NEVER taught that anyone can change the day of worship.

@@mitchellosmer1293if she is full of grace/highly favored, is it not safe to make the assumption she’s in heaven? Saved by faith, through grace right? Well if she is full of grace, according to Protestant logic, should she not be in heaven? I think you’re probably the only person that believes our Blessed Mother is not in heaven.

@@diegoc9301 quote---if she is full of grace/highly favored, is it not safe to make the assumption she’s in heaven?...unquote NO!! Based on an assumption? To assume----- ass---u--me--------make an ass out of you and me!!! To assume-----a belief with NO facts--No proof!!! ---quote---Saved by faith, through grace right?... unquote But when??? 2000 years ago? At the judgement day!!!!!! --****John 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. ---Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment. (Judgement on Judgement day) >>> Quote---I think you’re probably the only person that believes our Blessed Mother is not in heaven... unquote Nope____ No Christian believes she is in heaven!!! A Christian--a Follower of the teachings of Christ!!! Christ DID NOT teach it--NOR did a disciple!!! >>>Teaching of the Assumption of Mary became widespread across the Christian world, having been celebrated as early as the 5th century and having been established in the East by Emperor Maurice around AD 600... ****Why wait until 600AD to say that, if it was already in the Holy bible????? >>>>>>> Is the Assumption of Mary recorded in the Bible? A: Like the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception, the dogma of the Assumption is not explicitly stated in the Bible. The teaching that 'at the end of her earthly course, Mary was assumed into heavenly glory, body and soul' was dogmatically defined by Pius XII in 1950 in Munificentissimus Deus.. A mere man decided it!! NOT GOD!!!

@@diegoc9301 quote---- I think you’re probably the only person that believes our Blessed Mother is not in heaven.--unquote Nope--ALL Christian know she is NOT!!! >>---Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun. ---Psalm 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? ---Psalm 146:4 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. ---- Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it. ---Ecclesiastes 9:6 Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun. ---Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” ----James 2:26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. ---Job 14:10-12 But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he? As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up, so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep. --****John 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. ---Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment. (Judgement on Judgement day) ---Acts 7:60 And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep (died ---Revelation 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. -----Job 14:12 So a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep. According to Catholics, God and the Gospels are liars !!!! I REQUOTE THESE: -****John 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. ---Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment. (Judgement on Judgement day) Those ARE FACTS!!!!!

The weird thing is, I have known many Catholics that partied and sinned all week then went to mass like a social club as if that made up for it. I do agree that works are evidence that we have faith. But in the case of the criminal on the cross, he was saved by his faith and never had done any works. I don't the Protestant position of faith is all that different from the Catholic faith plus works. But many Catholics seem to believe they must work their way to heaven.

AMEN, Sister. This deceived person is saying a whole lot of words without saying a thing. My soul is sad, and the Holy Spirit within me is sad to hear such a lost soul trying to lead others who are not strong in their Catholic faith like he isn’t, to be lost along side with him. Misery loves company.

Catholic Church is a pagan occult of all traditions of men I'll never believe that puppet show religion.

He didnt change religions, he got out of religions. If you expect mary to save you when you die, you better try something else. mary has let her church become a habitation of devils, homosexual priests and lesbian nuns, and Mary hasnt done one thing to change it.

You literally cannot believe the Bible and follow the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Well, strange. God led me out of this false Church, also by his Word and the Holy Spirit. So....one of us seemed to be fooled.

@@yeshuaisthemessiah8523 i know this church he's talking about right.. so strange

For the good of your NEVER dying soul ask the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation through HIS FINISHED and COMPLETED work for salvation

That’s how you make a living from Anti-Catholicism .

Let's say--as a hypothetical--that the Vatican (with the Pope), the college of cardinals, archbishops, bishops, and parish priests suddenly vanished. Would there still be a Catholic Church? To answer "yes" would be to imply that the aforementioned are essentially unnecessary. And you would be left as simply a follower of Jesus Christ, part of a local body of faithful believers, lead by mature elders and teachers, who know the Scriptures and have been regenerated by the Spirit.

@@mchristr You don't understand the Catholic Church. I don't even understand it as the Church teaches: it is a bride, a mystery, salvation, a building, a lover, an Ark, a light to the nations, etc., Catholic ecclesiology is one of the most difficult theological subjects to get your mind around.

@@WhiteBraveheart1 I appreciate your response. My critique is not with the mystical Church (rationality ultimately fails when describing transcendent things) but rather with how the Church (Church militant if you will) exists as a practical entity. I realize that Roman Catholics and non-Catholics often talk past each other. But that is because the very bedrock of salvation is at stake. A Catholic would say that there is no salvation apart from the Church, while a non-Catholic would say that it is the Gospel, illuminated by the Holy Spirit, that saves. I'm fine with that tension.

@@mchristr The Church would still exist and the See of Peter would be in an interregnum period. Same as when a Pope dies. And whatever and by whatever means a bishop who ends up being the bishop of Rome would be the Pope. Cardinals and conclaves are simply the current means for the new Pope to emerge. If the Pope wanted to, he could appoint his successor.

@@mchristr Your hypothetical is Biblically impossible. But nice try. And because of that, those so called non-hypothetical left over body of faithful believers, Anyone can say they have been regenerated by the Spirit and start their own Church . Sorry your hypothetical doesn't work.

Are you a Catholic?

*”Lord, I am not worthy to receive you but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.”*

remembrance, not for future sacrifice

@@coldtruthrg120 I’m not exactly sure how to respond to this. I can however suggest that you look at some Catholic explanations of the Mass for some more information. God bless you and Our Lady keep you

@@FrancisMary-u3s the Catholic catechism explains the Eucharist as you call it as an ongoing sacrifice which is anti Bible. also there is no lady hearing your words

This is what Christianity teaches too. Not that our works save us, but that w/ our faith, this will result in good works, out of love and gratefulness to God for our redemption. The problem is w/ all the beliefs in needing to work off temporal sin. You ask for forgiveness, and it is apparently granted, but then you must do penance. Even then there is a residue and buildup of temporal sin, so that you have to spend time suffering to burn off your sin in purgatory. This nullifies Christ's atonement. I know Catholics don't believe in a limited atonement like Calvinists, but that might as well be a limited atonement.

It’s not a misunderstanding. I have met many Catholics who all say the same things

Faith is shown by works, but works are not required in order to have faith. Otherwise, works would precede faith. Where you catholics get things wrong is in your chronology of events. It goes faith -> works, not the other way around. You put the cart before the horse. We know that faith is the cause of salvation because the thief on the cross, having no good works, but having faith, was saved. Countless verses in the Bible describe salvation apart from works, yet you all wave a single misinterpreted verse in James like a triumphant flag. The passage in James is supposed to show the utility of faith in serving those around you and the fact that works evidence your faith, as you’ve said. But you don’t hear your own words. Works evidence salvation. They do not cause it

​@TheChadPad don't confuse yourself if you don't have good deeds (works) can that faith save you? Regardless of the order in which you want it in the end you need good works because guess what that's how all of us are going to be judged revelation 20:13...

Praying = good work Reading the Bible = good work Sharing the Gospel = good work Getting baptized = good work A good work is an act of faith, it is the act of being faithful. One does not precede the other, they are not opposed or even separated. To believe is a part of faith but you must also proclaim Jesus as your savior, repent and obey His commandments to the best of your abilities. The gospel urges us to try, because real faith urges us to walk in good works. Faith is partly defined by works. They are interconnected as the heart is a necessary vital organ as part of your body. Faith without works is dead. Don't be blinded by a hardened heart. Read the Bible. If you love Jesus, the Truth matters.

Well, I encourage you to come back :) God Bless You.

The last super is it biblical? Catholics don't use the term "unbiblical". That's protestant speak. Luther ripped 7 book out of the Jesus bible but that's biblical I guess? Jesus never spoke ill of the 7 books present in his bible but it was ok for Luther the trash talker to rip them out 1500 years after Jesus. That's real biblical of you.

Your arrogance and pride is sinful in nature. Repent and find Jesus!@@uncatila

She's already back, she doesn't need catholicism@@WhiteBraveheart1

how about you call mike grendon ...🤣🤣🤣@@WhiteBraveheart1

Your “true” church is now being lead by a non Christian.

What teachings are you talking about?

Name a fact or facts that wer left out.