Top Scholars Convert to Catholicism 

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“The absence of unity makes the search for truth more difficult” - So true. That is why I decided to read the Early Church Fathers to know what they taught, practiced and believed.

As a Law Professor and son, grandson, nephew and cousin of sincere and faithful Baptist Pastors in Portugal, I came across the writings of the Church Fathers. I was aware of their role in the building of the Western civilization. As I read and studied them I developed a deep love and attraction for the Catholic Church. I was incorporated in the Catholic Church and joined a Parish next to my home. My wife and son joined me and were also incorporated in the Catholic Church. My son plays and sings in the Choir two Masses every Sunday and is now dating a very gentle and sincere Catholic girl from our Parish who has worked as a missionary in Angola for 2 years. All this took us all by surprise and I keep it all in my heart. Next year I will start a formal 3 years theology course in our Diocese, praying for the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

I cannot even escribe what I feel. Halleluiah, Praise the Lord!

As a former (40+ year) devout 5-sola & Calvinist Protestant who was “red-pilled” by the ancient Church, I would like to gently remind my fellow Catholics that no Protestant can reasonably even attempt to objectively process even the most basic Catholic apologetic argument until they acknowledge what I refer to as their “emotional obstacles to objectivity.” Every devout Protestant harbors deeply-ingrained prejudices against Catholicism. Even if they are very ecumenical in their perspective, they believe that the Catholic Church is fundamentally flawed per se. Because of those prejudices, arguments for Catholic faith and practice necessarily elicit fear. That deep-seated fear is essentially, “If I become convinced of the rightness of Catholicism, my entire life would be thrown into upheaval.”It is no exaggeration to say that most devout Protestants have a true existential fear of Catholicism being proven right because of the implicit ramifications in their personal lives. Just as “all politics are local,” so “all theology is personal.”

the problem with non-catholic theologians is their reluctance or disobedience to the plain language of the text of matthew 16. they should be reminded that the authority given by jesus to st. peter precedes any holy tradition and precedes the new testament itself

When looking out at the number of Protestant denominations who disagree about very important things like how you are saved and can you lose your salvation the need for an over all authority becomes obvious. Many thanks for drawing attention to this book.

Another great video. I like how you explain things in clear and relateable terms. Keep the content coming because I’m learning so much and it helps all of us to explain and defend our Catholic faith.

Very good video. The conversion story you narrated reinforced my own stand regarding the interpretation of scripture and final authority.

14:29 this was a big deal to me and when I heard myself arguing with my friends that we can’t know better than people taught by the apostles or taught by those people, I knew I wasn’t Protestant anymore 😅

Every book you have recommended has been outstanding, of course I will get this ASAP. I now wait for your book recommendations!

Appreciate the material and always grateful. Adding another book to the list

The more you dig searching for truth, the more you end up in Catholicism.

What a beautiful talk WOW Keep it on brother...

This is clear and inspiring information. Please fix the echo effect to audio, because we NEED your videos. God Bless You.

Thank you! Yep! In the end they are their own authority and how can each one claim to have the Holy Spirit which leads to all truth yet this same so called Holy Spirit is so divisive on his interpolations? I believe that God’s grace does help them to finally come home to the truth but that’s about it.

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Sola scriptura destroys unity by taking the Word of God and turning it into the words of men. Here is a quote from Jerome that says it all: As St. Jerome put it, in his comments on the Epistle to the Galatians (speaking against the Luciferians), "Let us be persuaded that the gospel consists not in the words but in the sense. A wrong explanation turns the Word of God into the word of man, and, what is worse, into the word of the devil; for the devil himself could quote the text of Scripture; " and he did so when he tempted our Lord in the desert. (Matt. 4.6).

Thank you. 1. The Bible is not organized as a 'How To' manual. It's more like a short story collection. 2. People need leadership to make sense of it. 3. The biggest grifters are Evangelism pastors that claim they're it, lamblasts all others, and give sermons to scare the Hell out of followers. 4. These grifters won't consider others' claims because they could lose their grift.

Absolutely loving this channel and videos, thank you. What would be the best commentary or resource that highlights all the Catholic truths throughout scripture?

Now do a video of the many Catholics who are converting to Holy Orthodoxy.

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The people closest in time and geography believed all these “Catholic things,” yet we’re supposed to believe what is said by medieval Western Europeans?

Question for Protestants, is IVF treatment against God's Will or not? And who decides using Bible alone Theology?

If I'm am a protestant the first question i would ask for an answer is this!? Where is the Bible comes from... Fall from heaven,,,no the Church put together the Bible after the Sacraments and traditional apostolic teachings of the One Holy Catholic Church period.

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1 CORINTHIANS 11:18-19 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be *divisions among you;* and I partly believe it. 19For there *must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.* Paul states that heresies must be in order to understand those that are approved (Pastors, teachers) are made known to the Christian. The Church (whether catholic or Protestant) is not infallible. The Apostles were not infallible: Peter denied Jesus THREE TIMES (Matt 26:34). Peter rejected the vision in Acts Ch. 10 TWICE, so God had to show him the vision THREE TIMES (Acts 10:13-16) Paul grieved the Holy Spirit by disobedience: ACTS 21:3-4 (v. 12-14) Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden. 4And *finding disciples,* we tarried there seven days: *who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.* And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, *besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.* 13Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. 14And when *he would not be persuaded,* we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done. Paul disobeyed the Holy Spirit and went to Jerusalem. IF the Apostles were NOT infallible and the early Church was not infallible WHAT was? There are NO errors in the written word. 1 PETER 1:20-21 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: *but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.* Private interpretation has nothing to do with reading the Bible for yourself. JOHN 10:34-35 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, *and the scripture cannot be broken;* HEBREWS 12:12-13 For the *word of God is quick,* and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, *and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.* 13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest *in his sight:* but *all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him* with whom we have to do. QUICK, adjective [If q is a dialectical prefix, as I suppose, this word coincides with the Latin vigeo, vegeo, and vig, veg, radical, coincide with wag.] 1. Primarily, alive; living; opposed to dead or unanimated; as quick flesh. Leviticus 13:10. The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead. 2 Timothy 4:1. The scripture is ALIVE. It can discern your thoughts and intents. It sees ALL MEN. Can "tradition" do this? The church "fathers?" The Church Fathers wrote the epistles and Books of the New Testament: 1. MATTHEW (Levi, son of Alphaeus, an Apostle) [Matthew] 2. JOHN MARK (accompanied Paul and Mark on their missionary journeys) [Mark] 3. LUKE (physician and disciple to Paul) [Luke and Acts] 4. JOHN (son of Zebedee, brother of James, an Apostle) [1,2,3, John, Revelation.] 5. PAUL (the LAST Apostle) [Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon and Hebrews.] 6. JAMES (son of Zebedee, brother of John, an Apostle) [James.] 7. PETER (an Apostle) [1 and 2 Peter] 8.. JUDE (Labbaeus Thaddaeus, an Apostle) [Jude.] and the LORD Himself (9) writes the seven letters to the angels of the seven churches in Revelation. Clement, Ignatius of Antioch, or Polycarp of Smyrna were NOT Church "fathers." REVELATION 2:1-2 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: *and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:* 2 TIMOTHY 3:15 *And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures,* which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. The scripture is INSPIRED, INNERANT and PRESERVED. Heresy existed in Paul's day: GALATIANS 1:6-8 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7Which is not another; but there be *some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.* 8But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Here you have a false gospel. 1 Cor. 15:12-15 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, *how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?* 13But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. Here you have the heresy rejecting the resurrection of the dead. 2 TIMOTHY 2:15-18 *Study* to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing *the word of truth.* *16But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.* 17And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is *Hymenaeus and Philetus;* 18Who concerning *the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.* Here you have two men who were preaching heresy. How do we know they were preaching heresy? SCRIPTURE. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:1-3 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by *spirit,* nor by *word,* *nor by letter as from us,* as that the day of Christ is at hand. *3Let no man deceive you by any means:* for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Here you have Paul warning the Thessalonians about fake letters. 2 TIMOTHY 1:15 This thou knowest, that *all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.* At the end of Paul's ministry, the apostasy was widespread in ASIA. These Christians were led astray by HERETICS. How? By rejecting scripture. Paul also warned of the apostasy to come from those without AND THOSE WITHIN the Church: ACTS 20:27-31 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. 28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29For *I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.* 30Also of *your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.* 31Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. It is strange that men will use the excuse of 1001 "protestant denominations" to NOT STUDY THE BIBLE because they are spiritually lazy. They instead become Catholic because of the "majority" or the "church fathers" or because they are unwilling to read the BOOK. What did Jesus say of the scripture? In His earthly ministry Jesus referred to the scriptures 20 times by the phrase "IT IS WRITTEN", if not more. (Matt. 4:4, Matt. 4:7, Matt. 4:10, Matt. 21:13, Matt. 26:24, Matt. 26:31, Mark 7:6, Mark 9:12, Mark 9:13, Mark 14:21, Mark 14:27, Luke 4:4, Luke 4:8, Luke 4:10, Luke 7:27, Luke 19:46, Luke 24:46, John 6:31, John 6:45, and John 12:14) Jesus quoted scripture, never the tradition of any scribe, priest or Pharisee of His day. Jesus wasted the Pharisees tradition. Paul referred to the scriptures 32 times by the phrase "IT IS WRITTEN," in Acts 23:5, Rom. 1:17, Rom. 2:24, Rom. 3:4, Rom. 3:10, Rom. 4:17, Rom. 8:36, Rom. 9:13, Rom. 9:33, Rom. 10:15, Rom. 11:8, Rom. 11:26, Rom. 12:19, Rom. 14:11, Rom. 15:3, Rom. 15:9, Rom. 15:21, 1 Cor. 1:19, 1 Cor. 1:31, 1 Cor. 2:9, 1 Cor. 3:19, 1 Cor. 9:9, 1 Cor. 10:7, 1 Cor. 14:21, 1 Cor. 15:45, 2 Cor. 4:13, 2 Cor. 8:15, 2 Cor. 9:9, Gal 3:10, Gal 3:13, Gal. 4:22, and Gal 4:27. This does not include other places that Paul cites the Old Testament in his epistles. ROMANS 3:4 God forbid: yea, *let God be true, but every man a liar;* as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. 2 PETER 1:20-21 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: *but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.* The scripture was written down AFTER men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. If every man is a liar because he has LIED (Romans 3:4) the EXCEPTION would be what men spake as MOVED BY THE HOLY GHOST (2 PETER 1:20-21)

Did Peter or Paul say follow me to follow Christ?

I suggest you ban the new version of Tony. He ruins, intentionally, every comment section.

I found the Catholic Faith in Orthodoxy.

Where is the "Sin of presumption" in the NT Church record?

the bible is not in the bible

“Top Scholars”? Define “Top Scholars”?

Beware, @tony1685 & @_ready_ the trolls are back!

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