From Roman Catholic To Follower of Jesus | Testimony of Dr. Frank Turek
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I also grew up Roman Catholic and I’m now a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ now and making other disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ on my journey with Jesus 24/7
I'm sorry you left the Lord's Church.
@@hilairebelloc3368 I’m now a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ and making other disciples on my journey with the Lord Jesus Christ 24/7 . Have you received your free of eternal life by calling on the Lord Jesus Christ. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be forevermore Call on Jesus and have eternal life
@@hilairebelloc336895% of Catholics and Protestants have heard about the Lord Jesus Christ but have never received their free gift of forgiveness and eternal life. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be forgiven forevermore
Nothing but a pedophile organization !
@@Bugsy0333 So you judge an entire organization by a relatively few bad apples? I'm not condoning what any of them have done. They should be removed from their office. 50 years ago, pedophilia was not understood very well. What about the pedophile 'teachers'? or the pedophile atheists? Or, the pedophile Muslims? Pedophiles are people with a problem, right? It doesn't matter what, if any religion they have, they still have a mental issue.
If I weren't Catholic, I'd look for the Church that the world despises, for the world despised Jesus, and he would be there. - Fulton Sheen
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; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.". Things seemed to be going pretty well. That is until Jesus said “For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood,dwelleth in me, and I in him.” This was too much for many of his disciples and “From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.” Jesus turns to the 12 and asks, “Will ye also go away? Vs 61, Jesus did not back down, for He said, "Does this offend you?" it offends protestants. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Jn 20:21, "As the Father has sent Me, I also send you."
Jn 17:18, "Even as thou hast sent Me into the world, so I have sent them into the world."
Jn 17:22-23, "And the glory that thou hast given Me, I have given to
Matt. 28, 18-20: And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore. and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Jesus says to the crowd, "He who believes and is baptized will be saved." But in reference to the same people, Jesus immediately follows with "He who does not believe will be condemned." This demonstrates that one can be baptized and still not be a believer. This disproves the Protestant argument that one must be a believer to be baptized. There is nothing in the Bible about a "believer's baptism."
"Accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior," or "Ask Jesus into your heart" isn't the biblical answer.
It’s important to be saved from hell, damnation, and the stain of original sin, but what are we saved for? We are saved for union with Christ. Our salvation began when we were born again through baptism and God’s own Divine Life was restored in our souls, making us like Adam and Eve were in the Garden before the Original (first) Sin. As we go through life, we are united with Christ through the Sacraments he left as gifts for us, especially through Penance (forgiveness of our sins committed since Baptism) and the Eucharist (partaking of God’s own Life, His own Divine Nature, 2 Peter 1:4) - until that day when we are truly united with Him in heaven.
Scripture teaches that one’s final salvation depends on the state of the soul at death. As Jesus himself tells us, "He who endures to the end will be saved" (Matt. 24:13; cf. 25:31-46). One who dies in the state of friendship with God (the state of grace) will go to heaven. The one who dies in a state of rebellion against God (the state of mortal sin) will go to hell. (For the teaching on venial (non-deadly) and mortal (deadly) sins, see 1 John 5:16-17)
What I must do to be saved:
*I must be baptized with water and the Spirit. Mark 16:16, John 3:3-5, Titus 3:5, I Peter 3:20-21. (Exceptions: [1] If I desire Baptism but die before I can be baptized with water and the Spirit, God accepts my desire to be baptized, and [2] If I am killed (martyred) because of my faith, but I have not had the opportunity to be baptized, God accepts my death as my baptism, called the Baptism of Blood).
* I must do the will of God the Father. Matthew 7:21
* I must keep the Commandments of God. Matthew 5:19-20, Matthew 7:21, Matthew 19:17, 1 Timothy 6:14, and others.
* I must accept the Cross (suffering). Matthew 10:38, Matthew 16:24-25, Mark 8:34, Luke 9:23, Luke 14:27. Phil 1:29, and others.
* I must be a member of God's true church. Acts 2:46-47.
* I must confess my sins. James 5:16, I John 1:9, John 20:19-23
* I must heed the words of St. Peter, the first Pope. Acts 11:13-14, Acts 15:7.
* I must eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus Christ. John 6:51-58, I Corinthians 10:16-17, 11:23-30.
* I must do unto others as I would have them do unto me and love my neighbor as myself. I must feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit the sick and those in prison or give other aid to those in need. Luke 10:33 ff, Mt 25:31-46. "Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are very pleasing to God" Hebrews 13:16. Good works don’t save us, but we will be judged by them.
*I must strive to be holy. "Strive for peace with everyone and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord." Hebrews 12:14
*I must endure (persevere) to the end. Matthew 10:22, Matthew 24:13, Mark 13:13.
And ... ? What else must I do?
Catechism
#432 The name "Jesus" signifies that the very name of God is present in the person of his Son, made man for the universal and definitive redemption from sins. It is the divine name that alone brings salvation, and henceforth all can invoke his name, for Jesus united himself to all men through his Incarnation, so that "there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."😎😎
Ditto!
You're funny your first pope Peter had a wife yet popes and priests have to be celibate. Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. Matthew 8:14 That false teaching has caused so much harm to the Name of Christ. Hope this helps you on a path to a real revelation of Jesus Christ.
@@DarkHorseCrusader You're funny your first pope Peter had a wife yet popes and priests have to be celibate. Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. Matthew 8:14 That false teaching has caused so much harm to the Name of Christ. Hope this helps you on a path to a real revelation of Jesus Christ.
@@cliffbailey6474 your funny guess you didnt know we have married priest is the Catholic church 👏👏looks like your the one with false teaching
Celibacy is Church Practice, Not Dogma
Matt. 19:11-12 - Jesus says celibacy is a gift from God and whoever can bear it should bear it. Jesus praises and recommends celibacy for full-time ministers in the Church. Because celibacy is a gift from God, those who criticize the Church’s practice of celibacy are criticizing God and this wonderful gift He bestows on His chosen ones.
Matt. 19:29 - Jesus says that whoever gives up children for the sake of His name will receive a hundred times more and will inherit eternal life. Jesus praises celibacy when it is done for the sake of His kingdom.
Matt. 22:30 - Jesus explains that in heaven there are no marriages. To bring about Jesus’ kingdom on earth, priests live the heavenly consecration to God by not taking a wife in marriage. This way, priests are able to focus exclusively on the spiritual family, and not have any additional pressures of the biological family (which is for the vocation of marriage). This also makes it easier for priests to be transferred to different parishes where they are most needed without having to worry about the impact of their transfer on wife and children.
1 Cor 7:1 - Paul teaches that it is well for a man not to touch a woman. This is the choice that the Catholic priests of the Roman rite freely make.
1 Cor. 7:7 - Paul also acknowledges that celibacy is a gift from God and wishes that all were celibate like he is.
1 Cor. 7:27 - Paul teaches men that they should not seek marriage. In Paul’s opinion, marriage introduces worldly temptations that can interfere with one’s relationship with God, specifically regarding those who will become full-time ministers in the Church.
1 Cor. 7:32-33, 38 - Paul recommends celibacy for full-time ministers in the Church so that they are able to focus entirely upon God and building up His kingdom. He “who refrains from marriage will do better.”
1 Tim. 3:2 - Paul instructs that bishops must be married only once. Many Protestants use this verse to prove that the Church’s celibacy law is in error. But they are mistaken because this verse refers to bishops that were widowers. Paul is instructing that these widowers could not remarry. The verse also refers to those bishops who were currently married. They also could not remarry (in the Catholic Church’s Eastern rite, priests are allowed to marry; celibacy is only a disciplinary rule for the clergy of the Roman rite). Therefore, this text has nothing to do with imposing a marriage requirement on becoming a bishop.
1 Tim. 4:3 - in this verse, Paul refers to deceitful doctrines that forbid marriage. Many non-Catholics also use this verse to impugn the Church’s practice of celibacy. This is entirely misguided because the Catholic Church (unlike many Protestant churches) exalts marriage to a sacrament. In fact, marriage is elevated to a sacrament, but consecrated virginity is not. The Church declares marriage sacred, covenantal and lifegiving. Paul is referring to doctrines that forbid marriage and other goods when done outside the teaching of Christ and for a lessor good. Celibacy is an act of giving up one good (marriage and children) for a greater good (complete spiritual union with God).
1 Tim. 5:9-12 - Paul recommends that older widows take a pledge of celibacy. This was the beginning of women religious orders.
2 Tim. 2:3-4 - Paul instructs his bishop Timothy that no soldier on service gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim his to satisfy the One who enlisted him. Paul is using an analogy to describe the role of the celibate priesthood in the Church.
Rev. 14:4 - unlike our sinful world of the flesh, in heaven, those consecrated to virginity are honored.
Isaiah 56:3-7 - the eunuchs who keep God’s covenant will have a special place in the kingdom of heaven.
Jer. 16:1-4 - Jeremiah is told by God not to take a wife or have children.
@@bibleman8010 You just make stuff up to puff up. Your attitude and language betray you. Jesus said you must be born from above. I plead with you to repent of your ego and believe the Gospel. Smug Darkness envelopes you. We walk by faith not by sight. That which is not of faith is sin. We are saved by Grace through faith..it is the gift of God, not of works so no one can boast. Take the Gift. Hope this helps.
I'm a cradle Catholic until a girlfriend brought me to a non-denominational church where I understood what it meant to have a relationship in Jesus. I thank my protestant brothers and sisters for making me a better Catholic.
@dphillips83 How do you have a personal relationship with someone who does not exist ?
Praise Jesus!
@@jimtruscott5670 what is your proof? There's no 'proof' Julius Caesar existed, except historical documents. If you look at the books of the new testament as history and include other historical documents from the Romans at that time, they all indicate Jesus did exist. And remember, the Romans never claimed Jesus did not exist. Even the Jews do not claim he never existed; they merely claim, to this day, that the disciples stole his body and claimed resurrection. However, if you really want to know if the books of the new testament are reliable, James Warner Wallace, Lee Strobl, Dr. Brant Pitre, Jimmy Akins... research those authors, openly and honestly, without a philosophical or ideological presupposition.
@@jimtruscott5670 Salvation is only found in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our only savior
We all need to be born again. We get born again by calling on the Lord Jesus from our hearts ♥️Romans 10:9-13
I will pray that some day those who left their Catholic faith know truly what they left 🙏
Amen.
This might be a good reason.
The US Catholic Church spent more than $300 million on abuse-related costs in 12 months
@@Bugsy0333 The Catholic Church is the safest place for young people in the United States. No other institution has so thoroughly reformed itself in the light of the abuse crisis. Most Protestant churches do not have the same rigorous control that the Catholic episcopacy exerts.
@@hilairebelloc3368 The report estimates that 216,000 children were abused by Catholic priests between 1950 and 2020, and that accounting for abuse by other Catholic church employees increases the total number to around 330,000. Around 80% of the victims were boys.
So your full of shit !
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Have a blessed day.
I also was born catholic and even taught in a catholic school. Then after calling out to the Lord Jesus on 24/10/1986 I decided to follow Jesus alone and I was born again and Spirit filled. God spoke to me that he loves as he loved Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Moses . He also told me that his word is true. I started reading John 14
going forward daily. I’m now a disciple of Jesus while making other disciples on my journey with Jesus daily.
Praise God.
@@BiblicalDhiman Thanks again Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be forevermore forgiven and saved for eternal life with Jesus forevermore
@@BiblicalDhiman Jesus said Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest Matthew 11:28 . We don’t have any objections coming to the Lord Jesus Christ only. ?
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Hello brother! I really like your channel!
Thank you!
The title of this video is disingenuous implying Catholics are not followers of Christ.
You are right. 95% of Roman Catholics are really not believers but know about Jesus but have never done business directly with the Lord Jesus Christ. 95% of Catholics believe in Jesus and their denomination. But Jesus is the only way to the Father. Salvation is in the man Jesus Acts 4:12 However some Catholics are born again and Spirit filled as are some Protestants
Because anyone who follows the catholic doctrines taught in their churches, goes against what the bible says and unfortunately is salvation altering
@@swamprat22like doctrines of faith in Christ, the Trinity, the resurrection, the virgin birth, hypostatic union...
no. many other things that completely go against the bible@@WC3isBetterThanReforged
@@swamprat22 such as? I'll pose this question too... Is someone justified by faith alone or the belief in faith alone?
When someone says "I grew up in a Roman Catholic home..." or "I used to be a Catholic..." but not anymore because I haven't found or known Jesus (wholeheartedly) then they are not really Catholics. They just inherited the label "Catholic" from their parents but not by heart. If you really believe in Jesus then you believe in God and since God is everywhere, do you really think that switching teams (e.g. religion or breaking out from one) would make a difference?
Faith, is a manifestation of your personal relationship with God thus, don't make it as an excuse that you only found Jesus if you break away from being a Catholic. Jesus has always been and always will be the center of the Catholic faith.
Peace and Blessings!
Yeah those phrases are thrown around as if to imply they really knew and lived the Catholic Faith. That said I do enjoy Dr. Turek's discussions with others.
You're funny your first pope Peter had a wife yet popes and priests have to be celibate. Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. Matthew 8:14 The Celibacy false teaching has caused so much harm to people and to the Name of Christ. Elevating secondary issues to primary importance is what religion and Catholicism is. Hope this helps you on a path to a real revelation of Jesus Christ and a real born again relationship with HIM.
@@rudya.hernandez7238 You're funny your first pope Peter had a wife yet popes and priests have to be celibate. Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. Matthew 8:14 The Celibacy false teaching has caused so much harm to people and to the Name of Christ. Elevating secondary issues to primary importance is what religion and Catholicism is. Hope this helps you on a path to a real revelation of Jesus Christ and a real born again relationship with HIM.
@@cliffbailey6474 "You're funny" - I'm glad that you are amused. Yes, you're right Peter had a wife and he is the first Pope.
But, what does celibacy have to do with my comment above? Is there something that you don't agree with in that comment that you had to brought up another (unrelated) topic?
Don't worry about my path and my relationship with Jesus. He already knows where I stand. But, I thanked you for your concern. Much appreciated.
@@TheWitness-fx4xq One of many false (secondary issues elevated to primary importance to self define as the only way to God) teachings like praying to saints, Mary, transubstantiation, confession, pope infallibility etc that draw you away from Christ to religious legalism and another Gospel. You defend your religion I defend Jesus Christ the only way to God. Take the Gift of God which is eternal life through Jesus Christ our LORD. Hope this helps.
Perhaps you should interview Jimmy Akins or Dr. Scott Hahn or Dr. Brant Pitre... Jimmy and Scott converted to Catholicism... All three already believed in Jesus and had a relationship with him. But there's more to it that just a relationship... I have a relationship with lots of people, but with Jesus is so much more. Jesus gives himself to me in the Eucharist... Protestants merely have bread and grape juice; catholics have the Real Presence.
@@BBPMusicLibrary since when do they have a valid priesthood
Called false conversion.
@@tammicortez4733I do not understand you comment... Can you explain what you really mean?
So many odd comments here. Anyone who was catholic and turns to biblical Christianity is now an actual Christian.
I never knew Frank used to be catholic but God is now using him as a Christian and that's great
"Christian is my name, and Catholic my surname. The one designates me, while the other makes me specific. Thus am I attested and set apart. When we are called Catholics it is by this appellation that our people are kept apart from any heretical name."
St. Pacian of Barcelona, Letter to Sympronian, 1:4, 375 A.D.
Evodius was the first Bishop of Antioch (ordained by Peter) of the Catholic Church, and he is credited with being the first person to call the followers of Christ, "Christians", as shown in Acts 11:26. See Eusebius, book 3, chapter 22.
Saint Ignatius (35-107), the second Bishop of Antioch wrote a letter to the Smyrneans in 107 A.D..
In this letter is recorded the first known use of the words "Catholic Church"... St Ignatius is a holy and blessed martyr for the gospel. St Peter himself appointed Ignatius as bishop of Antioch. The Church of Antioch was a well-established stronghold of the gospel and firmly ground in apostolic teaching. So was St Ignatius a member of your true church? No, he was a DECLARED CATHOLIC who stood up for the Divinity of Christ and for the Real Presence of the Body & Blood of Christ in the Eucharist. I'll stick with the authority of the successors of the apostles.
So what was your family's excuse and yours for not reading Scripture
The Church forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful . . . to learn the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ, by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. Catechism Of the Catholic Church
Pope St. Gregory I (died 604 AD) “The Emperor of heaven, the Lord of men and of angels, has sent you His epistles for your life’s advantage-and yet you neglect to read them eagerly. Study them, I beg you, and meditate daily on the words of your Creator. Learn the heart of God in the words of God, that you may sigh more eagerly for things eternal, that your soul may be kindled with greater longings for heavenly joys.”
Pope Clement XI (1700 - 1720) To forbid Christians to read Sacred Scripture, especially the Gospels, is to forbid the use of light to the sons of light, and to cause them to suffer a kind of excommunication.
Pope Pius VI (April 1st 1778 AD) “the faithful should be excited to the reading of the Holy Scriptures: for these are the most abundant sources which ought to be left open to every one, to draw from them purity of morals and of doctrine”
Pope Pius VII (1800 - 1823) "encourage their people to read the Holy Scriptures ; for nothing can be more useful, more consoling, and more animating, because they serve to confirm the faith, to support the hope, and to influence the charity of the true Christian."
Pope Leo XIII (1893) “The solicitude of the apostolic office naturally urges and even compels us…to desire that this grand source of Catholic revelation (the Bible) should be made safely and abundantly accessible to the flock of Jesus Christ”
Pope Pius X (1903 - 1914) “Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.”
Pope Benedict XV (1914 - 1922) “Our one desire for all the Church’s children is that, being saturated with the Bible, they may arrive at the all-surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ”
Pope Pius XII (1943) “... This author of salvation, Christ, will men more fully know, more ardently love and more faithfully imitate in proportion as they are more assiduously urged to know and meditate the Sacred Letters, especially the New Testament ...”
Pope John Paul II (1979) “catechesis must be impregnated and penetrated by the thought, the spirit and the outlook of the Bible and the Gospels through assiduous contact with the texts themselves”
Pope Benedict XVI (2006) “I urge you to become familiar with the Bible, and to have it at hand so that it can be your compass pointing out the road to follow. By reading it, you will learn to know Christ.”
Pope Francis (2015) “The Bible is not meant to be placed on a shelf, but to be in your hands, to read often - every day, both on your own and together with others”
Gee, good thing you don’t like condescending emails, right? Anyway, I am not rebuking God’s Word, I am rebuking man’s word and, in particular, I am rebuking your word. Your fallible, man-made, non-authoritative, biased and bigoted word.
You speak of the “laughable infallible teachings of the [M]agisterium,” yet you tend to also speak as if you yourself are infallible. Do you believe your private interpretations of Scripture to indeed be infallible? And, if not, will you then admit that your private, fallible interpretations of Scripture, in regard to Purgatory and other such Catholic teachings, could be wrong?
He is one of these former Catholics who knows "everything" there is to know about the Catholic Church and its teachings and who feels a special call to save Catholics from the darkness of Romanism that he was, at long last, able to escape from.
I take it that during this time as a Christian you have not sinned even 1 time correct? Naturally due to rising to such a high spiritual level of perfection, your thoughts are totally pure and the passions cease to exist due to your total sanctification and totally pure heart. I must hand it to you, it’s one thing for a Monk to leave the world and live in constant unceasing prayer on the Holy Mountain of Mt. Anthos, but to live in the world like you do and still be able to reach such a high spiritual state of perfection that the Great Saints could never achieve deserves of crown of diamonds
where do you think you Got your bible from it didnt float down from heaven
Jesus Christ founded a Church (Matthew 16:18). He did not command anyone to write a Gospel.
The Word of GOD is a person, and not a book (John 1:1,14).
The Catholic Church is based on the Word of GOD alone and not on Scripture alone.
the Bible came from the Church, and that the Church did not come from the Bible. The Catholic Church is the Mother of the Bible, not the Daughter.
THE BIBLE IS A CATHOLIC BOOK.
For those who deny that the Bible is a Catholic Book, the founder of Protestantism,
Martin Luther, concurred that the Bible is indeed a Catholic Book.
He had this to say:
"We are compelled to concede to the Papists that they have the Word of GOD, that we received it from them, and that without them, we should have no knowledge of it at all."
Martin Luther, commentary on St. John.
Isn't it strange that other Christian Churches have to admit (since they use the same canon) that the Catholic Church made an infallible decision when it decided which books of the New Testament are inspired and which ones aren't, yet these same Churches reject the Canon of the Old Testament decided by the same Bishops in the same Councils?
Even Martin Luther saw the inescapable principle of fragmentation and disunity that lies at the heart of sola scriptura. In a letter to Urlich Zwingli, he complained bitterly about the doctrinal anarchy that was even then rampant among Protestants: "If the world lasts, it will be necessary, on account of the differing interpretations of Scripture which now exist, that to preserve the unity of faith, we should receive the [Catholic] councils and decrees and fly to them for refuge."😂😂
@@bibleman8010 you’re making some immensely judgemental and elitist claims for a Catholic.
Take the log out of your own eye before you focus on the speck in your brothers.
The Catholic Church is not infallible. It is not the end all be all when it comes to Christianity.
@@Lycurgus47 prove different😍😍take the amazon out of your eye
I came to faith through Bible Study.
And did you study historically where the Bible came from?
There are 2 major differences in trying to understand the Christian Bible. 1) The first is Bible Study. There is where a person basically accepts that the Christian Bible is true and only studies it that way. 2) The second is called Bible Scholarship. That is where a person studies the Christian Bible from many different perspectives, some from being true and other from the Christian Bible not being true.
The second one is more honest. The first one is what you will find happening in Bible Colleges and many single books on the Bible trying to promote Christianity as being true. The second one you will find what goes on in major Universities, like Yale, Harvard, University of North Carolina, University of California, etc.. I listened to a preach say, don't send people to the big Universities to learn about the Christian Bible, send them to Bible Colleges, they won't get taught that the Bible is true at the major Universities.
@@ronaldlindeman6136 I disagree with your first premise. Read James Warner Wallace, Lee Strobl... Both were trying their best to disprove the bible was true... Ultimately, neither had enough faith to believe in atheism. I would also add Dr. Brant Pitre and Jimmy Akins to your reading list.
@@chromedome5252 That is the story they are telling you, that they studied the subject and thought that Christianity is true. But what about all the people who have studied whether Christianity is true or not and have found Christianity to not be true? Do you read from them? I have studied hundreds of books on the subject for the last 40 years and I from what I have found, Christianity is not true.
@@chromedome5252 How do we figure out what stories are true and what stories are not true?
It has to do with making an analogy with stories that we can believe happened, and an analogy with stories that we believe did not happen. And use the thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions of stories that humans have created, both true and not true.
Do we think the stories of the moon landings are true?
Do we think the stories of Star Trek are true?
Why do we think the moon landings and coming back to the Earth actually happened? Because Neil Armstrong was a great pilot of jets, Buzz Aldrin had a PhD from MIT in orbital mechanics. The Scientists and Engineers knew how to build rocket ships.
Why might we think that the stories of Star Trek are not true? Aside from the timeline problems. Because the stories don't contain knowledge on how to make Warp Drive Star Ships, Photon Torpedoes, Transporters. In order for us to think the stories of Star Trek are true, we would have to be able to build a Warp Drive Star Ship and fly to Vulcan and look and see if there is anybody there that looks like Spock. Then we might think that Star Trek is true.
It is all about knowledge vs story claims. In order for someone to turn a 3 day old stinky body to new again, that being would have to know a lot about the human body, about blood, skin, bones, eye balls, liver, heart, etc.. Did Jesus tell us anything about the human body? Anything about first aid that we humans can use? Anything about CPR? Anything that would start Science to research into starting Medical Science so humans can build hospitals, medical research facilities and ways to prevent diseases naturally?
Why would real God do Supernatural healings of humans, but not tell humans about the ways to prevent disease naturally? Look up where Jesus and Disciples did not wash hands before meals. The reason given in the Christian Bible was something Religious, but this would have been a great time to give a lecture on microbiology and the importance of cleanliness before meals. Does your God watch from heaven and not care about how many people would not die to diseases that could be prevented if only your God spoke up?
Could Jesus of Christianity pass a High School Science test?
All Jesus of Christianity gives us is Story Magic. Jesus of Christianity is a Supernatural Superhero. Jesus of Christianity is not a Nature's God.
Did Jesus tell us about Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, Geography, etc.. If Jesus was a God, Jesus should have been able to fill entire books on economics, much more than Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, 1776. Instead of just telling people to give to the poor. If Jesus cared about humans, Jesus would have talked about how to build more wealth with good economic practices to build businesses and on how to make things.
Then lets understand Thomas Jefferson and his phrase in the Declaration of Independence of the United States, "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." Thomas Jefferson did not think that Christianity is true. Jefferson knew that the stories of Christianity only gets to a human created story God, stories created by humans. Jesus is a Supernatural Superhero, who only knows Story Magic. Jefferson thought that a Nature's God would have knowledge of Nature. That is what the Philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment gave us, is to not believe in Supernatural Superhero Story Magic, but to build on knowledge of Nature and Reason. A phrase used to describe the Age of Enlightenment was 'Dare to Know.'
It is the Age of Enlightenment Philosophies that gave us the advances of Nature, like electricity, electronics and machine created power, medical care and medical hospitals. Not the Story Magic thinking from the ancient world.
In university I had a Jesuit priest for a philosophy professor. He wrote a book titled “Natural Theology”. One of the things he taught was that “people live what they learn”. The truth of what people learn does not need to be factual. All they need is a desire, a motive to believe something. Oftentimes the things people come to believe aren’t rooted in fact but emotional needs and it makes no difference what the facts are. Religion taps into that, especially a religion that (falsely) promises life after death because too often the human ego simply does not want to accept the fact some day that body will be dead.
How do you know for a fact that there is no 'life after death'?
@@chromedome5252 Why would anyone believe there is? No one has ever provided ANY empirical evidence there is such a thing. Even "near death experiences" are not proof because the operative word is NEAR which means they weren't necessarily dead in the true sense of the word. And neuroscience has demonstrated that when the brain is in a state of crisis, it floods itself with a number of neurotransmitters that can produce illusions and delusions. Unless someone comes along and can show a direct cause and effect link between life after death [the supernatural] and what people experience inside their skulls there is no good reason to believe there is such a thing as immortality.
Revelations 18:4
“And I heard another voice from heaven,saying, come out of her, my ppl, that ye be not partakers of her sins , & that ye receive not of her plagues.”
Follow God according to His Holy Written Word . By the Holy Spirit that is received during salvation & be filled with the Holy Spirit . Meaning the spirit that guides you in absolute Truth. Giving you the ability to know the difference between Truth & Error. And understanding the Scriptures according to GOD. Not the Vatican !
Catholicism is Error !
The preserved Word of God , made available to the masses .
KJV-Psalm 12:6-7
No its ísn't yes catholic church screw Up something sometimes but who don't, Jesus is one who foud IT if it something What is wrong just change IT and not run away
@@BasiliscBaz
To leading ppl into worshipping statues of a women holding a baby
Is adulatory .
The real Mary was just a young Jewish girl willing to be used of God .
She is Not a deity to be worshipped !
She is not the Queen of Heaven.
KJV- Jeremiah 44 .
It was WICKED then to worship the queen of heaven ! It is wicked & evil to do it now.
Jesus is the only one to be worshipped , NEVER Mary !
And the Lords supper is just for remembering the Lords work at Calvary .
Not a ongoing unbloody sacrifice , That perpetually continues for ever . God’s holy Word says “ Jesus was sacrifice done only once .”
And if the Vatican honored GOD by bowing to the scriptures as the authority , we would not be having this conversation .
Jesuits are Evil , they were used to create Masonry as the umbrella
Secret org. of all the secret societies. DURING the Rapture the Vatican is destroyed by GOD.
Confess your sins to Jesus !
Not another man .
Just skimming the surface
KJV read these chapters if you dare.
Rev.17:18
Rev. 18:24
The preserved Word of God , made available to the masses try Gutenberg a Catholic and the first Bible printed was the Catholic Bible🤣🤣
In all, 198 editions of the Bible were in the language of the laity, 626 editions all together, and all before the first Protestant version, and all having the full approval of the Church. Luther himself noted "it was an effect of God power, that the Papacy should have remained, in the first place, sacred baptism; secondly, the text of the Holy Gospels which it was custom to read from the pulpit in the vernacular tongue of every nation..." (14) Many people both Catholic and Protestant do not realize exactly how much They owe the Catholic Church for the progression of the bible as we know it today. for example before Luther made his German Transition in September of 1522, there were seventeen German Transitions (all before 1518) already in print, twelve of these in the Low-German dialect. (7)
@@Stevevick-ve6kh Mother and Child Statues
Portrayals of Mary holding the Baby Jesus are sometimes said to be copied from statues of Isis holding Horus, or some other goddess holding her child. Motherhood is common to all the cultures of the world, and is a powerful connection for people. It's not hard to believe that this image would have made its way into the various world religions! In fact the Cross has too.
Catholics portray Mary holding the Christ Child because that is what she did when He was a baby. Most mothers hold their infants, and Mary held her Son when He was little. That doesn't make her a pagan goddess! We could make the same charge about any artistic portrait of any mother and child, but it would be no more legitimate.
"And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him" (Mt 2:11). We don't think the Magi committed idolatry when they bowed down before a Child held by his mother. Would you refuse to fall down and worship Christ if you saw Him in his mother's arms?
So when and how did Marian devotion start?
It started with the angel Gabriel who said to Mary, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you" (Luke 1:27). It started when her cousin Elizabeth, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, cried out to her, "Blessed are you among women ...blessed is she who believed" (Luke 1:41-45). It was God who inspired the first honouring of Mary! He even inspired Mary herself to prophesy, "From henceforth all generations shall call me blessed" (Luke 1:47). This is the biblical basis for Marian devotion.
The Catholic relationship to Mary did not originate with pagan goddess worship, but with early Christians who despised paganism and would never have adopted its practices.😊😊
@@Stevevick-ve6kh 1 Corinthians 11 :20-34
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
😜😜The Sacrifice of God is past, present and future! It is eternal because it is outside of space and time. The sacrifice by Christ dying and suffering was done in space and time 2000 years ago, when Christ (God) chose to became man (incarnate), this is when He went inside space and time. The holy sacrifice of the Mass is a "sacrifice" being presented to us again on a daily basis, and this sacrifice is outside space and time in a mystical and spiritual way because God is not limited in space and time, EVERYTHING TO HIM is an eternal event, and this is the only sacrifice pleasing to God The Father.
Why do you think St. Paul was instructing the Corinthians about The Eucharist if it is not an eternal sacrifice or just a mere "symbol".
(1 Corinthians 11:27), Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
- And this was after Christ's Ascension.
does Turek not understand that men must be convicted of their sin before God saves them? interesting that Geisler discipled both Zacharias and Turek and both rarely speak of sin in their apologetic crusades. also we know how Zacharias turned out
If you believe in Jesus, there's a good chance you were raised to.
And if your an atheist, it's also a good chance you were raised that way... Either way, the way you were raised says nothing about whether your belief system is true.
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I was raised southern baptist. The few atheists that I know personally were raised in a religious family. But you're right that it doesn't prove christianity untrue.
Because you are afraid of Being non existent so you cling to an idea that means you can escape non existence We call this God its ad simple as that
no. there is historical, scientifical, and logical evidence for god in many, many ways. its not just to cling to an imaginary figure, but there is more abundance for God than any other belief
@@swamprat22 How can there be scientific evidence about something that exists outside of the Scientific realm I will point you too the statement the top that is the of the post that is way you believe in God it's a way escape death it's just the same old talking points over and over you convince nobody but yourself
I have a firm belief in God and I have many reasons for that. You're right about that there is a hope for everlasting life after death. But it's not as simple as being afraid of death itself. If the atheistic perspective of death would be true, nothing would happen at all so there's nothing to be afraid of. One reason people are afraid is because the inherently know that there is justice, a moral standard that you cannot escape from, even after death. The fear of God's justice is the beginning of wisdom.
You can know one thing for sure: You exist right now, reading this comment. There was a point in time where you didn't exist. So no matter what you believe in, that everything would end when you are dead is extremely unlikely, no matter what you believe in.
From atheism to deism you just have to examine the universe we live in. We can rule out "Nothing created everything", since it's completely irrational. From deism to theism you just have to look at history, society and Jesus, but also personal experience and other people's testimonies. Listen to your conscience that is thirsting for salvation and peace. Jesus is the only way to find everlasting peace, and you can never find that on your own or out there in the world.
There never was nothing there has always been something the trouble Humans are far linear in fact that the whole concept of time is Human construction if fact if there is no matter time does not exist time is merely the change of matter from state to another
@leebennett1821 there can't always have been something
Doctor of bolloxology
The title alone says enough. He is lying about having been a Catholic.
You're funny your first pope Peter had a wife yet popes and priests have to be celibate. Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. Matthew 8:14 The Celibacy false teaching has caused so much harm to people and to the Name of Christ. Elevating secondary issues to primary importance is what religion and Catholicism is. Hope this helps you on a path to a real revelation of Jesus Christ and a real born again relationship with HIM.
Amen.
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1 COR: “If anyone thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, and if a critical moment has come and so it has to be, let him do as he wishes. He is committing no sin; let them get married. 37 The one who stands firm in his resolve, however, who is not under compulsion but has power over his own will, and has made up his mind to keep his virgin, will be doing well. 38 So then, the one who marries his virgin does well; the one who does not marry her will do better.” See the first part even affirms your view but why would God be happy w/ man suppressing his sexual appetite? I guess those blasted Papists shouldn’t have slapped together papyrus writings from across Europe/MED/MENA to form this thing called a “book”. What that thing’s name in Greek I forget. The Catholics, Orthodox Assyrians etc are in unfortunate schism but they agreed on that thing among many. I hope nobody drifts towards more nonsense. God bless.
@@BlueMetalJacket1 What do you mean by that?
@@cliffbailey6474 You are mistaken about the celibacy teaching... It is a discipline and not an article of faith. It ONLY came about later, as it was recognized that a man without a wife can devote all his time to serving the souls he has been entrusted with. But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife, Douay-Rheims Bible But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided. 1 Corinthians 7:33 It appears you are a 'Bible Only' christian... But who/what organization decided which books belong in the bible? It wasn't the Lutherans(unless you believe that James & Revelations should be excluded)... Also, by what authority do you have that you can decide what is primary and secondary? Jesus gave his authority to Peter and the other disciples... Not directly to you or me.
Where in the Bible doe it say, 'All you need is to believe in me and these books that will be written after I'm gone'? I know it doesn't say that, but neither does it say, just read these books and you'll get all the information you need. Jesus never commanded any of his followers to write anything down; He commanded them to preach... Romans 10:17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
Memo to Frank: I get that the human race has evolved in ways that blows the mind. Just look what human kind has done in the blink of the eye. So, it's kind of easy to attribute this hyper fast evolution to something "out there." I get it, after all, human beings are arguable "God Like." The authors of the Bible must have been inspired. But, sorry Frank, none of that proves anything, except that the human race is amazingly intelligent compared to the lessor animals. But, due to over enthusiastic apologists the Bible is made out to be much more than it really is-- a book. Based on this video of yours that I just watched you are just another guy who is lost in a bunch of "words."
Evolution is evolution their are no such thing as hyper fast evolution Numb nut.
I'm a Numb nut? There's no such thing as "hyper fast evolution?" Dude, I was using that wording loosely. At least I don't believe in people coming back from being dead! You resort to name calling. What kind of person are you?