@@basedzealot3680 I had the discussion already. It'll be posted soon. It was a good discussion. none of us changed our minds but we gained better clarity of each others' views
@@basedzealot3680 then who is the real church? EO or RC? Both of you say the same thing. Dont you guys hear yourselves when outsiders hear it or you just listen to your own echo chambers?
1:57 small correction: the Catholic Church actually recognises Eastern Orthodox communion as valid and allows Catholics to take orthodox communion and orthodox Christians to take catholic communion. It's the Eastern Orthodox Church that doesn't allow intercommunion.
On Catholics taking orthodox communion: It is generally considered illicit by being a schismatic act *unless* a church in communion with Rome is unavailable, like getting exiled to Russia as an example. Catholics do not have a blank check to go to orthodox churches.
@@Yulas-yu5ucEastern Orthodox is allowed by the Catholic Church to take Communion in a Catholic Church, but Eastern Orthodox do not allow an Orthodox to take Communion in a Catholic Church nor a Catholic to take Communion in an Eastern Orthodox Church.
@@Yulas-yu5uc- the Catholic church allows both Eastern and Oriental Orthodox to receive Catholic communion, but the Orthodox generally don't return the favor.
When I converted I was researching what denomination to be, I realized that I was using the Scriptures to judge the doctrines of the Churches and, thus, I had already implicitly accepted the notion of Sola Scriptura. I needed to choose a starting point and for me it was obvious that it would be the Word of God and the writings of the Apostles. After it, i became a member of the Presbyterian Church and it has been an incredible experience.
@@jamesvanderhoorn1117 This is not true, since the Apostles in their letters already recognized each other's writings as Scripture (2 Peter 3:15-16; 1 Timothy 5:18) and in the first century their writings were already disseminated throughout all the Churches they founded (Colossians 4:16). What there was not at the time was an established Canon and not all churches had all the letters.
@@pedroguimaraes6094 Those citations do not quite prove your point, I think. There's a difference between recognizing something as divinely inspired, inerrant scripture, on the one hand, and recommending writings as worthy of being taken seriously and being disseminated, on the other hand.
@@jamesvanderhoorn1117 It's clear the apostles' writings were considered Scripture because they were treated with the same authority as the Old Testament. For example, Peter refers to Paul's letters as Scripture in 2 Peter 3:16, placing them on par with "the other Scriptures." Early Christians also read these letters in their gatherings (Colossians 4:16), indicating their scriptural status in the community from the start. Of course, a full defense of it would take much more space that is allowed by TH-cam but, sorry, it is very clear.
I’m loving this series. I’ve gone to a Presbyterian church twice so far since it’s the church my father went to before being more universalist. Part of why it took me so long to go to a church was because I was struggling with denominations. This course has (so far) helped me understand reformed theology so I can ultimately decide whether or not I agree with Presbyterianism or try a different church. Keep up the good work
Well yes, hes making a highly contentious claim that Protestantism is correct when he himself is not an expert, considering he even made a couple of objective mistakes that are just untrue (such as at 1:57) so of course people can argue with him.
@@mdw546"Couple of objective mistakes" - only gives one "mistake" and even that one is disputable since the only exception to It is that the Roman Catholic Church allows Orthodox to have communion with them (but EO don't) but only in extraordinary/emergency circumstances and even that is disputable by some Catholics.
@@pedroguimaraes6094another error in the video is saying that historically all Protestant churches don't believe in one denomination being the one true church, Lutherans historically did claim to be the one true church, the LCMS continues to do it to this day
@@applegaming2345 No it does not. Lutheranism traditionally affirms the priesthood of all believers rather than claims of being the "one true church" in a hierarchical or exclusive sense. This is not their traditional believe. Whastmore, although affirming "close communion", the LCMS does not affirm exclusivism in being the "one true church" and they have a list of sister churches.
@@pedroguimaraes6094 According to the Catholic Church they can, so no its not disputable by some Catholics, some Catholics may not like it however Doctrine is doctrine. He is just wrong here. He isn't an expert.
This video does an excellent job of explaining Protestantism. I'm Baptist, so the idea of tradition isn't seen as required, but I still believe in studying and learning the traditions of the church, church history, and the other denominations. These theology videos you make are great for studying as they are short, straight to the point, easy to understand, and very informational. Thank you brother, and God bless!
I was raised Missionary Baptist, wound up Catholic and then Eastern Orthodox. The purity of Baptist Churches still move me. RZ is a positive influence in Protestant circles.
@@anthonyprose4965 @anthonyprose4965 I don't believe that Baptists think the church died out. I'm sure some Baptists think it did, but I don't know any that do.
Aye man I don’t usually comment on videos but God Bless you Brother. Ever since I subbed you have been feeling me with knowledge, now I am reading a book by Saint Athanasius thanks to you. Continue on brother your ministry is edifying the body❤
I love the graph you put up, especially the part about historic vs restorationist protestant. I came to more or less the same conclusions studying church history. Edit: I love my Baptist brothers and sisters in Christ, please don't take this as a condemnation against them. Plz and thank you
I very much disagree with Baptists being in the restorationist camp! Baptists were in protest of rome since the beginning and were not created as a product of the reformation.
@@ihiohoh2708 Are you kidding me? Maybe according a catholic or presbyterian that has no knowledge of anabaptist and baptist history. You are calling my belief false as if it doesn't exist. I'm here, therefore it does. Church history is not reformed history.
Catholic here. Grew up Methodist. GENUINELY TRULY LOVED this video. I had never heard such a good clear argument that yes, Jesus founded the Catholic Church, but along the way it became lost and Protestantism restored it. That's a great path to take when us Catholics resort to "JESUS started our Church and some dude 1500 years later started yours!" Admittedly, the two things that will likely keep me Catholic forever are 1 it does seem that Jesus gave the Church he started an infallible authority that was maintained through the succession of Peter and 2 our transubstantiated Eucharist and only apostolic priests can consecrate the Eucharist So I need to be convinced that the Catholic Church, started by Jesus, LOST it's authority (or never had it) and/or be convinced that the bread, when consecrated by an apostolic priest, does not actually become the literal body of Christ
Wow, for me it's the same causes. If you have some time, i will talk about my history My protestant friends showed me Jesus, and after i reconized Him as my Lord, they showed the protestant doctrine. So I was "protestant" but I never claimed it because I wanted to know what I was saying, or what "to be protestant" mean. After some months researching, and with all of this doctrine confusion(its more than 500 years of discussion), I found the writings of Saint Ignatius of Antioch(diciple of St. Peter) and Saint Justin Martyr about the Eucharist. The protestant doctrine didn't make a lot of sense to me, and I was trying to understand it, until i found out the truth of Eucharist, than the Catholic doctrine and its authority made a lot more sense to me. But I still try to understand protestants so we can have a better conversation, without stereotypes, because if we can achieve unity again, it is through this real dialogue. (Im not that good at english, i hope you could understand 😅)
If you’re interested in hearing what I believe to be defeaters of transubstantiation, they are the following: 1: There are 7 places in the Old Testament that expressly ban the consumption of blood. The most explicit verse being Leviticus 7:27, “Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people”(ESV). The Douay-Rheims Bible translates that verse as, “Everyone that eateth blood, shall perish from among the people”. This is a command and part of the law from God. God commands us to abstain from consuming blood under penalty of death. If Jesus really did make the wine “become” his blood, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church says in paragraph 1411 in reference to what validly ordained priests do, then this would be a case of Christ encouraging his followers to break the law of God. Also, it would mean that Christ broke the law as well since he ate the last supper with his disciples. (Luke 22; 7-12). In verse 11, Christ tells Peter and John to “Tell the owner of the house, “the teacher asks you, “Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?”’’ This would mean that Jesus was not a perfect sacrifice as he had committed sin. However, we know that he did not do that because 2: AFTER his resurrection we have several verses that indicate that the Apostles did not believe that they had consumed blood at the last supper. Act 15; 20, “but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.” Earlier, we read in Acts 10, that Peter had a vision of animals that were formerly forbidden by the dietary laws. When commanded to kill and eat, Peter said, No, Lord! For I have never eaten anything impure and ritually unclean.” This would mean that Peter did not believe that he had consumed blood because if he had, then he could not make the statement he did. Then, all together, the Apostles agree that the command to abstain from blood would continue to be binding on all believers. How can it be both binding to abstain from blood while at the same time, the consumption of blood be the “heart and summit of the church’s life….”(CCC 1407)? The only thing I can think of is that there is no substantive change of the wine into blood. Instead, there is a real reception in our spirits of the blood of Christ in a manner that our spiritual thirst is satisfied by his blood and atoning death when we drink the wine. I hope you find this interesting and that it helps you in some way. 🙂
I'm sorry but "along the way it became lost" is a major heresy. The Church is infallible and CANNOT defect. Please repent of your heresy and read the Catechism.
"Do this in remembrance of me." I see it as symbolic. It represents his body and blood. Much like how the Passover (and other celebrations the Israelites had) serves as a reminder for the judgments and Exodus from Egypt, so communion serves as a reminder of Christ's sacrifice.
@@TheOtherPhilip Thank you for your response. I always enjoy hearing other's perspectives. Everything you said would likely be correct except that the use of "substantive" change is not being applied correctly. This is an extremely common misunderstanding. There is a difference between the accidents and the substance of a thing. In mass, the accidents of the bread and wine do not change - this means they remain gluten, wheat, grape, sugar, alcohol etc But the substance changes - meaning what the thing actually IS changes Normally, all the ingredients in wine make what we call wine - but in Mass the substance becomes Jesus's literal blood, while appearing as the ingredients of wine. I encourage you to look more into what I am trying to explain in case I am not doing it well. If Peter were indeed consuming the accidents of flesh & blood, skins cells, blood cells, proteins, platelets, etc, etc, that would be cannibalism, and your points would make sense. Thanks friend
Bro this was just something I was wondering and reading about. I have watched many hour long lectures and debates and you somehow this comic sans video synthesized and presented information more effectively than all of those.
Roman Catholic here. Well, yes, the teachings of the Apostles were collected in the New Testament, but it's the Church that ultimately decreed what texts had to be put inside the Canon of the New Testament. For us the Bible is written Tradition technically, written, infallible apostolic tradition, but that's not all. The customs, the prayers, the rituals, the ways of governance, those things are not written in the Bible but are part of a Sacred Tradition that undoubtely descends from their rightful successors. We found the authority of the Church on the authority of the Apostles. Since they had received full authority on the Church from Christ, they had the right to pass that full authority to their successors, that's why the Pope is also considered the Vicar of Christ and the bishops and patriarchs the direct descendents of the Apostles. Does that mean that all that comes out of the Church is infallible? Absolutely not, not even the Apostles were infallible and that's why councils and synods are made since the beggining of the Church, they serve to filter the personal, fallible pastoral views from the totality of the uncorrupted apostolical teachings.
@@adelbertleblanc1846 They excommunicated the Patriarch of Constantinople, and with him all of the EO congregation. They also excommunicated Martin Luther, and with him most of Germany. Seems like painting yourself into a corner, but that's your choice if you want to make it.
@@Procopius464 And, if I may, please notice that : RCC has NOT excomunicated the Patriarch of Constantinople. You invented that. That is the Patriarch of Constantinople that went OUT of Holy Catholic Churc, because he decided so to do. Please also notice the Pope did NOT excomunicated "Germany" . You invented that. the truth is that some Germans princes decides to get out the Holy Catholic Church and to follow the dochtrines of Martin Luther. But you are TRUE when You say the Pope excomunicated Martin Luther. Yes indeed, you are true the Pope excomunicated Martin Luther !
Zoomer, I love all of your videos and have been a, no pun intended, faithful watcher of your videos. I have been moving towards Orthodoxy for a while now and it really saddened me to hear you say, “People that convert to Eastern Orthodoxy are [falling to peer pressure from dead Byzantine emperors].” Then, immediately bringing up the oriental (Assyrian) orthodox who believe in HERESY DENOUNCED BY ORTHODOX AND PROTESTANT ALIKE to support your position that “ecclesialism” is built upon falsity is, to a certain extent, underhanded 8:06 . I still love your videos, as they direct my study, but I think I’ve finally realized them for what they are. When it comes to interdenominational videos, they are superficial ads for your personal beliefs. That being said, I think that most of what you do is exceptional, I will continue to watch your content, and of course I will pray for you as I always have ❤️ EDIT: Grammar
Thats because they do fall under pressure from Dead Byzantine emperors and Orthobros. Also for the fact of how (i will admit) aesthetically pleasing on how much The EO idolize their churches. I will throw in the fact they do kinda have the best looking bishops as well. thats more or less besides the point. When he mentioned the Assyrian Church he did not claim they are better then EO. He made a tier list clearing putting EO above them because the Assyrian Church are near heretical. *Even while trying to be “Nice” you still end up insulting him over your misinterpreted screwed perception of what RZ was trying to say.* “Your videos are nothing more then Superficial ads of your personal beliefs.” The fact you say that but continue watching him for information is insane. - Lol imagine if someone said that EO is led by Jezebel and is a failed recreation of Graceo Buddhism repackaged as Christianity, You would lose your mind over someone saying that. Absolutely shameful to make such a ridiculous CONTRADICTING claim. He bases his theology and history and reformed theology that is also based on the word of God. Reformed protestantism is the catholic church reformed by the word of God
@@xHollow. 1. I didn’t say that he was claiming that the Assyrian Church was better. I was pointing out the fact that he’s using a “near heretical” to support his view of ecclesiology. This seems a little weird, saying essentially “I may not agree with them on all of these things but I’ll use their argument against this group. 2. I wasn’t trying to be nice, I was trying to be honest. I do enjoy RZ’s videos. I will continue to watch them because he has a firm grasp on different Protestant denominations. I like to be informed and I like when my presuppositions are challenged. 3. My opinion is not in contradiction. I think that he gives the barebones, face value perception of churches outside of reformed traditions. So I will continue to watch his videos on reformed theology… because he knows his stuff in those areas. 4. I said when it comes to his “interdenominational videos” they are superficial ads for his own beliefs. He clearly props up beliefs closely related to his own, which is understandable but it’s not what I’m here for. I was raised reformed Presbyterian so I’m by and large looking for unbiased takes on other interpretations and traditions. 5. I have no idea where the whole Jezebel thing came from but it wouldn’t really upset me. I’m not EO, have never been in an EO parish, have never spoken to an EO priest, I’ve never attended a Divine Liturgy. I’ve been searching for the truth and I have been reading/watching content about EO theology. 6. I was saddened because I’ve found a wealth of understanding and theology in the EO tradition. Enough that it has lead me to consider them seriously. 7. I could have handled this comment better. I didn’t mean to insinuate that ALL of his videos are ads for his beliefs. I also should’ve stated that I’m kind of outside the argument between denominations. Like I mentioned before, though I’ve studied a TON of theology, I was raised Presbyterian but haven’t been to church in many years. So after an experience with God that shook me, I have been trying to find the truth between the different traditions (which is why I clicked the video) and get back to church.
@@xHollow. Also the word “superficial” may not be the best word. “Impromptu” might have been a better choice. I don’t think he necessarily planned to prop up his own beliefs but it turns out that way.
I was raised in pentecostal family and came to faith when i was twenty years old. After that i was baptized in pentecostal church and served there. But i was always denominational. I was just christian. My model for christianity was new testament, book of acts and epistles AND chinese underground house churches. Those chinese underground churches really seem to be most authentic modern apostolic churches. They are just like the churches in book pf acts. After years i started to become lukewarm. Ten years ago i started to follow coptic orthodox church and EO church. I joined EO church. But i never had any spiritual experience or any presence of God there. Historically and theologically and spiritually and i am starting to be sure that EO is not original church at all.
I want to say I am so grateful for your videos and mission. I have been avidly studying the bible and the early Christian teachings and looking into all the denominations and I was almost at the point where I believed I was going to have to make some sort of reformation, renewal, restoration, or something. Everywhere I looked it was as if anyone was getting 20-80% of everything wrong. I couldn't find any one group of people that seemed to have any "total package" if you will. There were some groups that seemed right about this thing, but then believed another thing that seemed like obvious heresy, and this happened everywhere I searched. I applaud and thank your efforts, you are the first person or group that I have found that is actually making perfect sense, and following the teachings of Christ. I still have more videos to watch but I am on chapter 4 and I am very pleased with everything I have listened to up unto this point.
The difference between the Pharisees and the Church that you bring up at around the 5:00 minute mark is that the Pharisees didn't have the Holy Spirit. The main role of the Holy Spirit is to guide the Church into the fullness of truth so that we don't misinterpret the Scriptures as the Pharisees did. That's why Sacred Tradition (2 Thess. 2:15) is distinct from traditions of men. You sort of just draw a shallow comparison between the two without acknowledging the third person of the Trinity and His role.
this is exactly what i was thinking, christ said the holy spirt would descend onto the church and claimed it would not go astray, that debased the entire argument
@@yuunoaboi21 Another major function, but when Christ introduces the disciples to the Holy Spirit in John 16, this is what He says: "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into the fullness of truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you."
@@bradyhayes7911 It's *absolutely* true what 2 Thessalonians 2:15 said, but we must recognize tradition for what it is; tradition. Also, I'm not certain the Bible and the teachings of the first Apostles (written in the New Testament of the Bible) can be called sacred tradition, I think calling it "tradition" devalues it, _even if_ one calls it sacred tradition. I recognize the preservative value of tradition, but ultimately, it's most important to preserve the Bible itself and our faith in Jesus. No hard feelings, God bless.
Protestants do believe the Church is the pillar of truth but there is absolutely no promisse of infallibility for the Church in the Bible and almost the entire NT is a proof that the church, even while being personally visited and instructed by the Apostles, could go ashtray.
One of the silliest implications of the video is that the orthodox and Catholic split was only due to geopolitical interests as if Protestantism is shielded from similar accusations. For example: “If you believe in Lutheranism you are just falling for propaganda of dead german princes”
The Reformation literally only survived because heathen HRE (which wasn't H, or R, or an E) governors were interested in weakening the Church in their favor, and naturally decided to protect an heretic just like them, who was neither the first nor the last in all of (true) Church history.
That might've been the point honestly. I've heard the "peer pressure from dead _____" argument used against Protestantism quite a bit. I wouldn't be surprised if this was meant to make fun of those kinds of arguments.
Ok real talk do all RC and EO people that watch RZ are like this? literally have 0 sense of when he's making a joke or not in the video cus this happens all the time
As a Baptist, I’d argue that we do follow tradition in practicing only believers baptism, the oldest of Christian traditions, and one not practiced by any other denomination. Also, I can’t speak for all Baptists, but the reason why we are typically adverse to tradition is because we learn about the Protestant reformation and how tradition can muddy our worship of Jesus Christ. That’s why we focus so much on what is necessary for salvation and pour all of our focus into that. Additionally, the idea that Baptists come from the Anabaptists is generally refuted by modern scholars, and most now believe that it stems from English Separatism, mainly over their objection to the Church of England forcing everyone to be Anglican.
You are correct about the origins of the Baptist faith. They came about from the first great awakening not Anabaptists. Useful charts does a great video on that with his Christian denominations family tree
@@applegaming2345 While the Baptists arose to major prominence in the First Great Awakening, there are at least a handful of notable Baptist confessions predating that event by decades. Baptist originated in the 17th century, not the early-mid-18th century. Indeed, the earliest Baptist congregation in the USA dates to 1638; a century before the Great Awakening! Further, best I can tell from modern sources: using the Smyth-Helwys thesis, Baptists seem to be the result of an ecclesiastical one-night-stand between a few expat English Dissenters and some Dutch Anabaptists who met in Amsterdam around 1607-1608; the English DIssenters returned having fashioned a brand-new-sect. So there evidently WAS a direct influence from the Anabaptists, but it wasn't a splinter group so much as they strongly imprinted on some impressionable Dissenters, who took some of their ideas and ran with it.
RZ is so smart about everything except Baptists. His level of expertise on most church history is top tier, but whenever he talks about Baptists you'd get a better answer from a boiled egg baloney casserole.
@@applegaming2345 midwit take. there's nothing wrong with RZ's content. Stop trying to overcomplicate the scriptures; the gospel is written in a way for children to understand.
Thank you for making these videos. My husband and I are trying to learn more about Christianity. Please keep making more awesome videos! Great voice btw!
4:45 This part leaves out the difference the Holy Spirit makes on the issue of ecleciastic authority. If the holy spirit hasn't kept the church from the same corruptions the pharisees suffered, we are no better then any other religion.
Are you really saying that pre-Incarnational Judaism was no better than other religions? What? The Holy Spirit hasn't kept the Church from splitting (even if you think only one of the remaining parts is the true one), it is not inconcievable that the HS does not provide absolute protection of Ecclesial corruption. If the Old Testament Israel is a prototype of the Church, there is certainly a reason to think the purity of the Church is not a given, but something that needs to be fought for and sometimes renewed.
I had a question; you put the Assyrian Church in the ecclesialist category but they don't claim to be the one true church. Is that not contradicting what an ecclesialist church is?
I also want to know where he found that they don't claim to be the one true church. The only thing I found regarding the Church of the East and claiming the one true church was the wikipedia article on "One, True Church", which just quickly says that the Assyrian Chuch of the East and the Ancient Church of the Each believe they are the one, true church
He also puts Baptists in the Restorationist category, but I've never heard any Baptist claim the church died out. At most they say that biblical Christianity became a minority that survived in remote locations where the Catholic Church couldn't enforce its doctrine against them. I'm guessing he's referring to the sort who object to being called Protestant because they reject the idea that the Catholic Church ever was a legitimate body. The "Constantine founded the Catholics" types.
Every Assyrian I knows claims that they are the one true Church and that they alone have the correct Christology. They even deny that Nestorian reformed groups are valid. And, I love how we are just making up new words now. Ecclesiaists? All of the Apostolic Churches are categories unto themselves.
Wouldn’t the church still need some means of making infallible decisions throughout the ages to keep it from error? Yes God is the greatest authority but we would need some way to guarantee that a decision by the church was actually guided by the Holy spirit. Otherwise anyone can say the Holy spirit is keeping them from error. Thats why it makes sense that councils of men given authority in the hierarchy of the church, can make infallible statements about doctrine.
Nothing said by a man or any Council of man is infallible. The church has an infallible means of making decisions you might have heard it referred to as the word of God or the Bible perhaps
If councils were infallible, why they needed to be corrected by newer councils? That is something that even saint Augustine said in the 4th century. We have the word of God to guide the church through the ages. What happens if the church contradicts the bible? See, as a catholic you can not even entertain that possibility.
@@umnovomundo3738 what have newer councils corrected and what councils have contradicted the Bible? I don’t know of any. It seems like newer, councils expand our understanding of previous things and council may have changed regular church decisions that have nothing to do with doctrine, but I would love some examples.
No, the prophets and the apostles are not infallible. It is the word of God that they delivered that is infallible. We need to be careful in defining what is and isn't infallible.
Similarly to how Moses was not infallible, the apostles aren't either. Again, this is gonna be a very long discussion on the canon of Bible, epistemic uncertainty, our fallible knowledge, and the infallibility of the word of God.
How does it make sense that St. Athanasius would argue that during the Arian Crisis one should simply read the Bible and come to private judgement about who is the Church rather than listen to councils, and then turn around and anathematize Arianism in councils?.. This smells of a quote mine
@@haydnenthusiast That’s ridiculous. That’s like saying the Trinity is true because the Bible says so. Yes, it is, and yes, it does, but that Bible is interpreted by the reader. If someone really wants to read Calvinism onto the text, for example, they can and they will. Then they’ll just say “Calvinism is biblical.” Same thing. If anathemas are just saying a belief contradicts Scripture, the Calvinists today would have to anathematize the men in the councils and of the first 1500 years of Church history for the very canons at the councils they like to inconsistently quote from when convenient and then turn around and argue against believers today for having the same opinions the people they’re quoting have because the Calvinists believe it contradicts Scripture. All data, including Scripture, needs to be interpreted. There’s not some magical perspicuity that prevents people even the well-intentioned from falling into heresies. Vaguely saying “it contradicts Scripture” is begging the question because that’s exactly what the councils met to decide-who is interpreting Scripture correctly and who is not. It needed to be interpreted at the council, so you can’t just say they anathematized them because they were more biblical. Otherwise, what do you do when you get to the Great Schism? Just go with the “biblical” one? According to what, your own reading of the text?
4:06 “God always saves his people before he demands obedience of his people” what?? That’s a wild thing to say. God’s people need saving because they broke His preliminarily demand of obedience. Arguably, the main thing God does is demand obedience. Don’t eat the apple. Also, throughout most of the Old Testament, God only saves his people when they repent and denounce the non-obedient-to-God practices they were partaking in
You could also say they didn’t have enough Faith in God. Without Satan they wouldnt even have eaten the apple in the first place. Without the temper there is no tempting. Without Faith there is no works to begin with. which is exactly what paul stresses in romans. We are saved by Grace through faith and Faith alone. James affirms this. “Without works our (“faith”) is dead” they coincide so imo neither or are wrong but it is really evident that God does save then justifies us making us better in Christ. I was in love with sin before i came to know Jesus and his sacrifice✝️❤️ Glory to God and may he bless you and all those reading this.
@@xHollow.Paul never said we are saved by faith alone. The only time the term “faith alone” is used in the Bible is in James 2:24. Paul would say “show me your faith without works, and I will show my faith through my works”
I think he’s actually Russian Orthodox, since he prominently features Russian liturgy and architecture whenever he discusses the good about Orthodoxy. The Russians are currently in schism with Constantinople, so it’d be more like Kirill ordering Kyle to make the series. Idk if this is for sure tho, he’s never confirmed it to my knowledge.
@@christophecrist2171 It's still the same thing the schism is more of a political thing between clergy. Kyle can still take communion from a Greek church if he wanted to.
@@friedchickenlover7291 It’s difficult to say. My local Greek church lost a huge chunk of its members that identified as Russian Orthodox back in 2018, they’ve rented out a room of an episcopalian church and have a Russian priest visit every now and again to celebrate the liturgy. It’s been a sad situation all around
@@christophecrist2171 Thats crazy and saddening. Ive been going to a Russian church near my university and a greek church near my house and haven't had any problems. I even asked about the schism and they told me to just worry about my own salvation.
For everyone saying Kyle shouldn’t see this, he should love this seeing as he’s actually a Protestant in culture. You can’t just cut orthodox propositions and paste them on an individualist Protestant. That being said. Protestantism is a better framework for life. Yet, I am incredibly happy to call the orthobros my orthobrothers in Christ. And there’s valuable contributions the orthodox have for the rest of the church.
@erc And he was a secular Atheist before that (if I remember correctly, maybe he was baptized Catholic and there was a time when he was serious about being Catholic and became a tradcath and then Orthodox). That makes two former secular atheists turned ChristoTubers.
Awesome! Really well done. As an Anglican who has at times felt very drawn toward Roman Catholicism, this perfectly encapsulates both how I see Protestantism and what I continue to value about it.
As an ex-Catholic and now Reformed after experiencing both systems in practice, I am a purist when it comes to soteriology. Your recent tweets about justification and sanctification freezed me, but in this video as usual you explained very well, precisely and politely the essence of the differences between us and Roman Catholics, good job and maybe I will have some more use this film somehow in future. God bless u.
Sorry to hear that. I wish you went deeper in the truths of the Catholic faith. If you have any questions, recommend you call Dr Dave Anders on EWTN radio M-F at 2 pm EST. He was deep into the Reformed Church and went to Wheaton College with a PhD from Univ of Iowa, majoring in the Reformation. He can answer any of your questions. This radio show is specifically for non-Catholics.
Additionally, many assertions he makes on the Catholic Church are not correct in this video. If you know Catholic theology, you will quickly note the misleading statements and outright errors. Imputed grace is a word Catholics don't use. We believe in sanctifying grace that gives us a supernatural grace which leads to holiness. It is not the works that make us holy, but God's grace, which from that comes good works.
@@Shawn-nq7du There's no need for treating me like fool, trust me ;-). Ahh I love how Romanists treat people who oppose their Talmudic theology as stupid. "U don't understand Teaching bro". Anyway, Im used to that, so let's go to meritum. As for sanctifying grace... this is a classic example of Roman sophism. You must adapt biblical terminology to the system so as to retain both, bringing about a situation where in fact a works system (since salvation is accomplished through the use of means both in the form of sacraments and from smaller means in the form of novenas, Friday and Saturday privileges that can help salvation, etc.) And so, in practice, justification is achieved no other way than on the basis of works done with the help of grace, and your understanding of "not by works" is limited only to in the cynical statement that nothing that PRECEDES these actions in the state of sanctifying grace does not in itself merit grace, but after baptism or confession it is of course a different conversation... However, it is worth mentioning the essential problem here, namely the claim that sanctifying grace is effective grace , and its loss is caused by a free decision of the will that leads to mortal sin. The error is that you ignore the fact of the bondage of the will, its natural inclination to sin, which makes falling from the state of grace impossible in pure practice, and EFFIECY of grace only exists hypothetically, which fully justifies the accusations of semi-Pelagianism. The true Gospel makes it clear, that because of the inevitable judgment of the Law on man who is incapable of not sinning, he is justified freely on the basis of fully effective, fully sufficient, and personal redemption made by Christ for everyone who believes. The consequence of this is that no condemnation threatens a sincere convert and believer, therefore any religion that essentially consists in maintaining and renewing the constantly lost gift of grace is blasphemous and attributes a higher value to human channels than to the pure mediation of Christ itslef, wich is grabbed by empty hand of faith, and it isn't held in iron fist of any sacerdotalist institution. Not to mention the doctrine of purgatory which directly rejects the sufficiency of Christ's atonement, and the exit from purgatory is facilitated by HUMAN MERIT, both those of saints coming from the "treasury of merits" and in the form of Marian privileges, such as those associated with the scapular. There is a lot more to say, but I said enough. Papist doctrine, is based on sophisms, and won't ever let people to know the simplicity of pure Gospel, of Christ perfect atonement. For all those justified by faith, there IS peace with God, because He imputed sins of all who believe on Him, and poured His Holy Wrath on Him. His ressurection is message, that everything what came on the world through Adam, is forgiven once forever. Belive in this, and you will have eternal life. Add or remove anything from this, and you will be condemned. Reject this Babylon, and embrace the truth, brother.
I go to a church of Christ college. Pretty much no member of the church of Christ believes this here. There are some that do, my parents grew up in churches that thought that way. But they are a tiny minority as far as I can tell. Like all Protestants, church of Christ believes that they are members of the one true invisible church, but not that they are the entirety of that church. In fact, one of the most famous church of Christ sayings directly contradicts your claim, “we are Christians only, but not the only Christians”.
@@rok4028 thanks for that insight.. I’ve heard that saying but thought the ones that say it were the minority. May I ask where your college is geographically?
I was raised Protestant but believe orthodoxy is the proper way to full truth. This was a very insightful video that I absolutely enjoyed. Great work as always
Why this un-godly division? When did he imply that "his particular sect of Protestantism Ala the tradition of Johnny C is correct"? @@captainfordo1 It seems to be that way...
Please do not project your hyoer centralized hierarchy of Catholic Orthodoxy upon the rest of us. We are quite a de-centralized group of believers who all believe that Jesus is fully God and man, that He died and rose again to save us from our sins and send us the holy spirit to transform us and make us new creatures. Unlike some, we don't make bones about whether or not Jesus had a mind of his own or if God pre-natally controlled it, neither do we engage in squabbling over whether or not you can "dissolve into God" b.c we understand that Christ willfully chose to follow the Father and therefore would have needed to have a mind of his own in order to that, especially since the Bible teaches us that the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet. Read the Bible and follow the example of Jesus and his disciples, mate. You can't be wrong if you do that
i cant imagine how much of your effort is to make this vids. the time spend to read all of those literature and text and put it all in a single, history-saturated and God-centered narration is really amazing dude. God bless all of your works.
Had it not for the Eucharistic miracles and Fatima apparitions, I'd be a protestant now. Those two miracles (along with thousand others) is enough to convince me that the catholic church is what she claimed she is and keeps me from being a protestant. To be honest though, I'm glad I stumbled on this video. It clarified what Protestantism actually is and would avoid straw-manning them next time.
@user-tb5sq6jm2y I've seen it, not convinced. All I hear is association fallacy. All other arguments he has are the typical protestant denialism, like "just because something supernatural happened, doesn't mean it's from God." As if satan is powerful enough to be capable of such wonders. His arguments are nothing new of substance.
@@JamesPreus Seen it, not convinced. All I hear is association fallacy. Other arguments is a typical protestant denialism that has been debunked hundreds of time, nothing new of substance. He's arguments is basically "just because something supernatural happened doesn't mean it's from God." As if satan is powerful enough to do such wonders. But hey, for the sake of argument, say the Fatima message is unbiblical, how about the Eucharistic miracles? You'd be too blind if you deny Christ real presence in the Eucharist. It's what the Scripture, Church fathers and Jesus himself teaches. Another thing, who is Jordan Cooper anyway? Does he have apostolic succession?
@@JamesPreus Seen it, not convinced. All I hear is association fallacy. Other arguments is a typical protestant denialism that has been debunked hundreds of time, nothing new of substance. He's arguments is basically "just because something supernatural happened doesn't mean it's from God." As if satan is powerful enough to do such wonders. But hey, for the sake of argument, say the Fatima message is unbiblical, how about the Eucharistic miracles? You'd be too blind if you deny Christ real presence in the Eucharist. It's what the Scripture, Church fathers and Jesus himself teaches. Another thing, who is Jordan Cooper anyway? Does he have apostolic succession?
Hi Zoomer. I don't know what the situation is like in the Baptist Church in the USA. But in Brazil, the Baptist Church is one of the most traditional. One of the few that was not affected by woke culture. I believe that we belong to the group of "Historic Christianity" because of the value we give to the Bible and the defense of its teachings. God bless you greatly, I love your channel.
@@physicalgrafiti12345exactly. Kyle even acknowledge the Orthobros being incorrect in spamming memes to RZ. There is a respectful way to go about debating and Kyle has been that
Well, this is a great edited video with good arguments.... But I'm a chad trad orthobro so I'm going to dislike it!1!1 Jk, I'm a Catholic so of course I won't completely agree on some things, but you bring good arguments. Why are people surprised when a Protestant they've subbed to says protestant things?
@@redeemedzoomer6053 I did I still stand with my point that protestants are heretical,beacuse the church founded by Jesus Christs and Apostels was/is/will be guided holy spirit.That means they cant go astray if they do that would mean Holy Spirit can make mistakes(He cant).I am not a theology master thats just my understanding I could be wrong
@@redeemedzoomer6053 I dont know if my last comment got deleted but I will say it again Church cant go astray beacuse its guided my Holy Spirit and he cant make mistakes.Thats why protestants got liberal beacuse Holy Spirit didnt guide them. Its my opinion I dont know if I am wrong I am not a theology master
brother why are so many people attacking you and your style of videos , i personally enjoy your channel and it breaks down stuff so i can understand better, i seen some comments calling you a Minecraft youtuber but i feel this is an attack from the enemy to discredit, you, God bless RZ
@@applegaming2345 Not really, I would say it’s a good defence for *historical Protestantism , which includes non Calvinist like Lutherans and Anglicans too. It doesn’t work for modern evangelical/ no denominational Protestants tho
Subscribed! Thank you for the explanation, so brief and easy to understand ❤ I believe The Word of God is the highest Authority of Christianity practice
Ok, why y'all gotta do that dang ol fake southern accent when you say something with a negative connotation. Lol c'mon yall. (Great video, keep up the good work, God bless, much love, bro👍
@@microsoftpain Yeah I think RZ would admit he probably shouldn't do that. Besides, not everyone from the South is Baptist. I'm from the South and I'm not Baptist and never would be again.
@thegreatandmightyseff7214 lol exactly. That's why I said to the feller down in yonder comments, "if i was was from the north, then I'd probably be offended by that." Haha, oh, regional dialectical division is fun. (But for real, much love, God bless America)
Insults EO in video. Makes video about the things he likes about EO. Immediately follows video by insulting EO in another video. Redeemed Zoomer I can't watch your content anymore.
@@redeemedzoomer6053 Hmm, I wonder why the religion that says "If you don't believe that this person who lived 2000 years ago died for your sins, you're going to Hell" has so much black-and-white thinking. A real head-scratcher.
Yes we believe that, the apostles have infallible authority, in their time sola scriptura was not possible, but, time goes on and all of then died, so now, their written testimony (i.e. the NT) is our infallible authority, as it is the OT with the prophets, so, Sola Scriptura is the recognition of the true infallible authority of the prophets and apostles, but only then. So I don't even know why you are surprised
@@famtomerc many reasons, but I sense you are committing the same error all Catholics do, you read fallible as "will always err, and never get nothing right" we are just saying that the Apostles can not err on what they wrote, but some priests or pope later times can in rare accusations err, but in the course of 1500 years, rare cases have accumulated and reformation was needed, the something applies to us, the Church needs a second reformation against the Communism that have infiltrated all branches of Christianity, I live in Brazil, and the Catholic Church here (because is the biggest denomination) is basically a left party with gay priests and lesbian nuns, the same is true to a majority protestant county, you can turn a blind eye, or you can fight for God against these communists. thanks God we don't make our church an idol to be followed blindly
Peter considered Paul’s epistles to be scripture already during their lifetime. “as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other *Scriptures*.” - 2 Peter 3:16
7:23 As a Catholic, I want to make a correction here. As far as I know, the Catholic Church doesn't teach that the bible has less authority than her. We believe that both are divinely instituted. The Church just declared that the bible has the authority it does, rather than giving it that authority.
Been wanting to watch one of your vids for awhile now, ashamed I didn't earlier. May God bring about a(nother) reformation and return to scripture in this new generation of believers (Which, your mileage may vary, but I might be considered a part of) *Extra comments:* 1:24 That was really cool the way you _slowly_ turned this graph into a 2x2 graph up to this point (the point of this time stamp) 2:43 Works are proof of faith, if we don't love God in the way that we live (what might be called works), then we haven't really changed and we don't really love God. But I think Jesus' work on the cross, and our faith in Him is what leads to sanctification. I'm open to discussion. 3:09 Oh, that's what you mean. As you walk in your faith in God, you'll naturally do works (sin and second law of thermodynamics still is a thing), I still think it's by remaining in Jesus that we allow God to prune us. (John 15:1-4) 4:00 *Amen!* It's cool that you used that passage because I think we have that verse in my home on a plaque somewhere, but we put it down for Christmas to put up the Matthew 2:10 passage, "When they saw the star, they were overjoyed". 7:30 This graph illustrates the problem with "liberal christianity", as well. ( I Was tempted to put quotes around it because Jesus already gives us freedom - From *_sin_* ) MAN I wish I had started watching this channel before
@@Mic1904 pointing out when protestants claim we know what the bible says, that statement is presupposing you even have the complete bible and you are interpreting what is means correctly. Not a strawman.
Saying to follow the cannon Jesus used for the OT is such a simple but concise way to explain the absence of those 7 “extra” books And treating Sola Scriptura as Sola apostolica really adds a chef kiss. Acknowledging the Bible didn’t come from the sky but to recognize while an institution was instrumental to the faith, that it is not infallible
Question: Does your old testament translation contain all the books from the Septuagint including apocrypha like 1&2 Macabees? Asking because you said "whatever old testament canon Jesus used is the one we should use". The Septuagint was used by jews in the Greek-speaking world around the time that Jesus lived, so it's reasonable to believe that he accepted those books as scripture.
Well, there’s also a split back then see the Sadducees only used the first five books of the Bible and the pharisees had the rest of the Old Testament as in the Tanakh the Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Hebrew and or Aramaic and included Jewish tradition such as Maccabees but even within the Jewish community it was never seen as authoritative merely the traditional history of the Jewish people. Although you can learn from Maccabees, I personally do not believe it is authoritative. (Btw I a nondenominational biblically based Christian)
@@Caligulashorse1453 First I am not talking about oral torah vs written torah. Everything except the first 5 books as you said were considered "oral torah" at the time and wasn't written down at all until hundreds of years after Christ's death. Sephardic Jews today do not accept the Oral Torah but the Ashkenazi do. We are not talking about modern jews though... Apocryphal books like Maccabees found in the Septuagint might not be considered scripture by modern Jews, but they were DEFINITELY considered scripture by Jews in the Greek-speaking world at the time that Jesus was born (Like Jesus himself). In fact, theology from 1 Maccabees is thought to be a predecessor to the philosophy of the Sadducees. The Hannukah story for example, is an account of the Maccabean revolt which is documented only in the apocryphal texts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadducees The original version of KJV even included some of these texts. I could go on and on.
"Assyrian Church of the East don't think they are the one true church(and they are really OLD), this proves early christianity did not believe in the concept"??? Talk about the logical leap of the century
Catholics and especially Orthodoxy think they are the arc of salvation aka closest to how God wants to be worshipped. Without being apart of either or, you’re less closer to God. Thats what they believe but imo its not what Jesus necessarily preached. After all Jesus told one of his disciples to not stop a person (OUTSIDE HIS group) to cast out demons. A lot of apostolic fathers teach if there is a true church(Not mormons or JH’s) look to the scriptures. Evidence of the Holy spirit CAN be found in other denominational churches. So Yes Jesus ultimately cares if you accept him as your lord and savior.
I believe that Jesus looks at people's hearts individually, so I don't think denomination is the main basis for judgment. Jesus will reveal the truth/Himself to those who genuinely seek the truth/Him in order to prevent us from being led astray by false teachings.
@@OmgKyoyes. Modern Western churches are filled with people who accept Jesus as their spiritual limit-free credit card with no interest and have no desire or plan to change for the sake of the gospel.
Your argument for Sola Scriptura helps to prove that the Protestant canon is wrong, since Christ and the Apostles would have used the Septuagint as their version of the OT/Tanakh, and the Septuagint contains the Deuterocanonical texts.
Stop talking shit man, in the time of the apostle there was not a thing called the Septuagint like we have today. They had only separated scrolls, and initially the Septuagint was only the Torah in Greek. You have to be anachronistic to defend your church and that is pathetic
I've read in the past that some editions of the Septuagint don't actually include the OT apocrypha, similar to how there is a KJV translation of Judith, Tobit, Maccabees, etc., but not every KJV Bible contains those translations within its covers.
@@cameronbailey9704 Was not RZ that said that, it was Paul the Apostle. And I do not get the logical leap that this implies that the OT will be only written in Hebrew. The Aramaic parts were made by Israelites the same way the Greek translation of the Torah did, the language means nothing.
The versions used by fathers such as St Jerome or St Augustine clearly do, since both fathers mention them as being part of the Old Testament. @@Good100
Amazing summary! Thank you so much!! The only statement I would be a bit careful about is the one about the canon Jesus used. When the church took over the Greek Old Testament canon from Jewish tradition, it included more books than we have today. It is not entirely clear how Jesus viewed what we now consider Apocrypha but there are hints he read the Old Testament in Greek at least occasionally.
Excellent video! Love the doing away with straw man arguments and get right to the ACTUAL differences. So many times when Protestants and Catholics talk, it seems to be about caricatured versions of the other side.
I am so blessed to have found your channel. I am Presbyterian myself, and it brings me joy to be able to defend our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ even better with every video I watch. Thank you, brother ❤
@@gilgamesh2832I've been exploring orthodoxy for a while now as someone raised Presbyterian (the good one, not PCUSA). I don't know who the true church is, but I do know that Jay Dyer and most people who bring him up are sorry examples of the orthodox. I'm still considering Orthodoxy, but terminally online orthobros seem to forget that it's about saving eternal souls rather than scoring points in the debate.
Thank you for telling the truth about classical Protestantism on your channel, it's not just 4 green walls and a worship band, but it's an incredibly God-loving and fearing group of people who build beautiful churches and write beautful hymns, and have correct theology too😎
That's it. I'm staying protestant. Thank you redeemed zoomer.
God bless!
May God bless you and those you love✝️
Reconsider. wait until his dialogue with Trent Horn. It’d be interesting to hear your thoughts
@@basedzealot3680 I had the discussion already. It'll be posted soon. It was a good discussion. none of us changed our minds but we gained better clarity of each others' views
@@basedzealot3680 then who is the real church? EO or RC? Both of you say the same thing. Dont you guys hear yourselves when outsiders hear it or you just listen to your own echo chambers?
1:57 small correction: the Catholic Church actually recognises Eastern Orthodox communion as valid and allows Catholics to take orthodox communion and orthodox Christians to take catholic communion. It's the Eastern Orthodox Church that doesn't allow intercommunion.
Eastern Orthodox Sacraments are valid but illicit
On Catholics taking orthodox communion:
It is generally considered illicit by being a schismatic act *unless* a church in communion with Rome is unavailable, like getting exiled to Russia as an example.
Catholics do not have a blank check to go to orthodox churches.
im confused. so Oriental orthodox and catholics can take communion together but easterns cant?
@@Yulas-yu5ucEastern Orthodox is allowed by the Catholic Church to take Communion in a Catholic Church, but Eastern Orthodox do not allow an Orthodox to take Communion in a Catholic Church nor a Catholic to take Communion in an Eastern Orthodox Church.
@@Yulas-yu5uc- the Catholic church allows both Eastern and Oriental Orthodox to receive Catholic communion, but the Orthodox generally don't return the favor.
"Can usually take communion together"
*laughs in Lutheran*
You guys are the reason I had to say “usually”
LMAO@@redeemedzoomer6053
As the old song goes,
"If you believe in the Real Presence,
We'll call you cannibals,
But then get mad when you won't commune us!"
@@NotAGoodUsername360 Who cares what we teach about the sacraments?
@@redeemedzoomer6053 Why are u getting hate bregaded
Dont let kyle see this video lol
I love kyle but he is too pridefull
@@BasiliscBazalong with jay dyer
Lol
no...
@@BasiliscBazExactly my criticism
Joyfully Protestant
Me too but I don't believe in God..
@@herbertvonsauerkrautunterh2513what do you believe?
I'm not protestant but I think you did a very good job explaining Protestantism. This video was very informative.
When I converted I was researching what denomination to be, I realized that I was using the Scriptures to judge the doctrines of the Churches and, thus, I had already implicitly accepted the notion of Sola Scriptura. I needed to choose a starting point and for me it was obvious that it would be the Word of God and the writings of the Apostles. After it, i became a member of the Presbyterian Church and it has been an incredible experience.
Hey you did exactly what I wanted to do at age 18.. look at all the denominations and compare them to the Bible
The apostles and other first Christians had only the Old Testament for a bible.
@@jamesvanderhoorn1117 This is not true, since the Apostles in their letters already recognized each other's writings as Scripture (2 Peter 3:15-16; 1 Timothy 5:18) and in the first century their writings were already disseminated throughout all the Churches they founded (Colossians 4:16). What there was not at the time was an established Canon and not all churches had all the letters.
@@pedroguimaraes6094 Those citations do not quite prove your point, I think. There's a difference between recognizing something as divinely inspired, inerrant scripture, on the one hand, and recommending writings as worthy of being taken seriously and being disseminated, on the other hand.
@@jamesvanderhoorn1117 It's clear the apostles' writings were considered Scripture because they were treated with the same authority as the Old Testament. For example, Peter refers to Paul's letters as Scripture in 2 Peter 3:16, placing them on par with "the other Scriptures." Early Christians also read these letters in their gatherings (Colossians 4:16), indicating their scriptural status in the community from the start.
Of course, a full defense of it would take much more space that is allowed by TH-cam but, sorry, it is very clear.
I’m loving this series. I’ve gone to a Presbyterian church twice so far since it’s the church my father went to before being more universalist. Part of why it took me so long to go to a church was because I was struggling with denominations. This course has (so far) helped me understand reformed theology so I can ultimately decide whether or not I agree with Presbyterianism or try a different church. Keep up the good work
*But now we give space to Experts in comment section:*
Well yes, hes making a highly contentious claim that Protestantism is correct when he himself is not an expert, considering he even made a couple of objective mistakes that are just untrue (such as at 1:57) so of course people can argue with him.
@@mdw546"Couple of objective mistakes" - only gives one "mistake" and even that one is disputable since the only exception to It is that the Roman Catholic Church allows Orthodox to have communion with them (but EO don't) but only in extraordinary/emergency circumstances and even that is disputable by some Catholics.
@@pedroguimaraes6094another error in the video is saying that historically all Protestant churches don't believe in one denomination being the one true church, Lutherans historically did claim to be the one true church, the LCMS continues to do it to this day
@@applegaming2345 No it does not. Lutheranism traditionally affirms the priesthood of all believers rather than claims of being the "one true church" in a hierarchical or exclusive sense. This is not their traditional believe. Whastmore, although affirming "close communion", the LCMS does not affirm exclusivism in being the "one true church" and they have a list of sister churches.
@@pedroguimaraes6094 According to the Catholic Church they can, so no its not disputable by some Catholics, some Catholics may not like it however Doctrine is doctrine. He is just wrong here. He isn't an expert.
This video does an excellent job of explaining Protestantism. I'm Baptist, so the idea of tradition isn't seen as required, but I still believe in studying and learning the traditions of the church, church history, and the other denominations. These theology videos you make are great for studying as they are short, straight to the point, easy to understand, and very informational. Thank you brother, and God bless!
I was raised Missionary Baptist, wound up Catholic and then Eastern Orthodox. The purity of Baptist Churches still move me. RZ is a positive influence in Protestant circles.
@@uverpro3598God bless you brother and your journey to Orthodoxy🙏✝️ May the lord save us for we are wicked sinners✝️❤️
I do not agree with his posit that Baptist is restorationist...
@@uverpro3598 Same here. As a former one, I can confidently say that Missionary Baptists are absolutely clueless on theology.
@@anthonyprose4965 @anthonyprose4965 I don't believe that Baptists think the church died out. I'm sure some Baptists think it did, but I don't know any that do.
ur telling me the pope's favorite cereal isnt infallible???
How dare he
I guess just misrepresent what Catholics believe
He means the brand name isn't "Infallible"
Kinda 😭
No, it's Cheerios.
Aye man I don’t usually comment on videos but God Bless you Brother. Ever since I subbed you have been feeling me with knowledge, now I am reading a book by Saint Athanasius thanks to you. Continue on brother your ministry is edifying the body❤
Guarantee every Lutheran that reached the end of the video all of a sudden got giddy and rocked back and forth humming the tune.
💯
Ein feste burg ist unser Gott
Can confirm. I smiled and started humming.
@@Swaggless I just knew it was inevitable, haha!
IT IS OCTOBER 31ST UND I HAVE GOT SOME THINGS TO SAYYY
I love the graph you put up, especially the part about historic vs restorationist protestant. I came to more or less the same conclusions studying church history.
Edit: I love my Baptist brothers and sisters in Christ, please don't take this as a condemnation against them. Plz and thank you
Restorationalists aren't protestants and many exist as a response to Protestantism and are known as the sixth branch of Christianity
I very much disagree with Baptists being in the restorationist camp! Baptists were in protest of rome since the beginning and were not created as a product of the reformation.
@@anthonyprose4965 Except Baptists are radical reformers who broke away from church history to interpret the Bible _their_ way.
@@anthonyprose4965 Zero historical basis for that. False claim.
@@ihiohoh2708 Are you kidding me? Maybe according a catholic or presbyterian that has no knowledge of anabaptist and baptist history. You are calling my belief false as if it doesn't exist. I'm here, therefore it does. Church history is not reformed history.
Catholic here. Grew up Methodist. GENUINELY TRULY LOVED this video. I had never heard such a good clear argument that yes, Jesus founded the Catholic Church, but along the way it became lost and Protestantism restored it. That's a great path to take when us Catholics resort to "JESUS started our Church and some dude 1500 years later started yours!"
Admittedly, the two things that will likely keep me Catholic forever are 1 it does seem that Jesus gave the Church he started an infallible authority that was maintained through the succession of Peter and 2 our transubstantiated Eucharist and only apostolic priests can consecrate the Eucharist
So I need to be convinced that the Catholic Church, started by Jesus, LOST it's authority (or never had it) and/or be convinced that the bread, when consecrated by an apostolic priest, does not actually become the literal body of Christ
Wow, for me it's the same causes. If you have some time, i will talk about my history
My protestant friends showed me Jesus, and after i reconized Him as my Lord, they showed the protestant doctrine. So I was "protestant" but I never claimed it because I wanted to know what I was saying, or what "to be protestant" mean. After some months researching, and with all of this doctrine confusion(its more than 500 years of discussion), I found the writings of Saint Ignatius of Antioch(diciple of St. Peter) and Saint Justin Martyr about the Eucharist.
The protestant doctrine didn't make a lot of sense to me, and I was trying to understand it, until i found out the truth of Eucharist, than the Catholic doctrine and its authority made a lot more sense to me.
But I still try to understand protestants so we can have a better conversation, without stereotypes, because if we can achieve unity again, it is through this real dialogue.
(Im not that good at english, i hope you could understand 😅)
If you’re interested in hearing what I believe to be defeaters of transubstantiation, they are the following:
1: There are 7 places in the Old Testament that expressly ban the consumption of blood. The most explicit verse being Leviticus 7:27, “Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people”(ESV). The Douay-Rheims Bible translates that verse as, “Everyone that eateth blood, shall perish from among the people”.
This is a command and part of the law from God. God commands us to abstain from consuming blood under penalty of death. If Jesus really did make the wine “become” his blood, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church says in paragraph 1411 in reference to what validly ordained priests do, then this would be a case of Christ encouraging his followers to break the law of God. Also, it would mean that Christ broke the law as well since he ate the last supper with his disciples. (Luke 22; 7-12). In verse 11, Christ tells Peter and John to “Tell the owner of the house, “the teacher asks you, “Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples?”’’ This would mean that Jesus was not a perfect sacrifice as he had committed sin.
However, we know that he did not do that because
2: AFTER his resurrection we have several verses that indicate that the Apostles did not believe that they had consumed blood at the last supper. Act 15; 20, “but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.” Earlier, we read in Acts 10, that Peter had a vision of animals that were formerly forbidden by the dietary laws. When commanded to kill and eat, Peter said, No, Lord! For I have never eaten anything impure and ritually unclean.”
This would mean that Peter did not believe that he had consumed blood because if he had, then he could not make the statement he did. Then, all together, the Apostles agree that the command to abstain from blood would continue to be binding on all believers.
How can it be both binding to abstain from blood while at the same time, the consumption of blood be the “heart and summit of the church’s life….”(CCC 1407)? The only thing I can think of is that there is no substantive change of the wine into blood. Instead, there is a real reception in our spirits of the blood of Christ in a manner that our spiritual thirst is satisfied by his blood and atoning death when we drink the wine.
I hope you find this interesting and that it helps you in some way. 🙂
I'm sorry but "along the way it became lost" is a major heresy. The Church is infallible and CANNOT defect. Please repent of your heresy and read the Catechism.
"Do this in remembrance of me." I see it as symbolic. It represents his body and blood. Much like how the Passover (and other celebrations the Israelites had) serves as a reminder for the judgments and Exodus from Egypt, so communion serves as a reminder of Christ's sacrifice.
@@TheOtherPhilip Thank you for your response. I always enjoy hearing other's perspectives.
Everything you said would likely be correct except that the use of "substantive" change is not being applied correctly. This is an extremely common misunderstanding.
There is a difference between the accidents and the substance of a thing.
In mass, the accidents of the bread and wine do not change - this means they remain gluten, wheat, grape, sugar, alcohol etc
But the substance changes - meaning what the thing actually IS changes
Normally, all the ingredients in wine make what we call wine - but in Mass the substance becomes Jesus's literal blood, while appearing as the ingredients of wine.
I encourage you to look more into what I am trying to explain in case I am not doing it well.
If Peter were indeed consuming the accidents of flesh & blood, skins cells, blood cells, proteins, platelets, etc, etc, that would be cannibalism, and your points would make sense.
Thanks friend
As an Orthodox Christian I can appreciate this video, May Christ unite us all ❤☦️
I also want to become orthodox
@@NilceLima-s7d Glory to God! Have you been to a church yet?
Bro this was just something I was wondering and reading about. I have watched many hour long lectures and debates and you somehow this comic sans video synthesized and presented information more effectively than all of those.
Thank you for your video, I rethinked my Catholic faith and came to conclusion, that Catholicism is the truth thanks
Roman Catholic here. Well, yes, the teachings of the Apostles were collected in the New Testament, but it's the Church that ultimately decreed what texts had to be put inside the Canon of the New Testament. For us the Bible is written Tradition technically, written, infallible apostolic tradition, but that's not all. The customs, the prayers, the rituals, the ways of governance, those things are not written in the Bible but are part of a Sacred Tradition that undoubtely descends from their rightful successors.
We found the authority of the Church on the authority of the Apostles. Since they had received full authority on the Church from Christ, they had the right to pass that full authority to their successors, that's why the Pope is also considered the Vicar of Christ and the bishops and patriarchs the direct descendents of the Apostles. Does that mean that all that comes out of the Church is infallible? Absolutely not, not even the Apostles were infallible and that's why councils and synods are made since the beggining of the Church, they serve to filter the personal, fallible pastoral views from the totality of the uncorrupted apostolical teachings.
Yet you excommunicated others and created your new religion
@@sus527so, catholics excomunicated others, and then excominicated themselves from the church !
Waouw, you are great !
@@adelbertleblanc1846 They excommunicated the Patriarch of Constantinople, and with him all of the EO congregation. They also excommunicated Martin Luther, and with him most of Germany. Seems like painting yourself into a corner, but that's your choice if you want to make it.
@@Procopius464 Ok You won and I loose ! good job ! Have a nice day !
@@Procopius464 And, if I may, please notice that : RCC has NOT excomunicated the Patriarch of Constantinople. You invented that. That is the Patriarch of Constantinople that went OUT of Holy Catholic Churc, because he decided so to do.
Please also notice the Pope did NOT excomunicated "Germany" . You invented that. the truth is that some Germans princes decides to get out the Holy Catholic Church and to follow the dochtrines of Martin Luther.
But you are TRUE when You say the Pope excomunicated Martin Luther. Yes indeed, you are true the Pope excomunicated Martin Luther !
The way you make graphics to explain the subtle nuances is amazing
Zoomer, I love all of your videos and have been a, no pun intended, faithful watcher of your videos. I have been moving towards Orthodoxy for a while now and it really saddened me to hear you say, “People that convert to Eastern Orthodoxy are [falling to peer pressure from dead Byzantine emperors].” Then, immediately bringing up the oriental (Assyrian) orthodox who believe in HERESY DENOUNCED BY ORTHODOX AND PROTESTANT ALIKE to support your position that “ecclesialism” is built upon falsity is, to a certain extent, underhanded 8:06 . I still love your videos, as they direct my study, but I think I’ve finally realized them for what they are. When it comes to interdenominational videos, they are superficial ads for your personal beliefs. That being said, I think that most of what you do is exceptional, I will continue to watch your content, and of course I will pray for you as I always have ❤️
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Thats because they do fall under pressure from Dead Byzantine emperors and Orthobros. Also for the fact of how (i will admit) aesthetically pleasing on how much The EO idolize their churches. I will throw in the fact they do kinda have the best looking bishops as well.
thats more or less besides the point. When he mentioned the Assyrian Church he did not claim they are better then EO. He made a tier list clearing putting EO above them because the Assyrian Church are near heretical.
*Even while trying to be “Nice” you still end up insulting him over your misinterpreted screwed perception of what RZ was trying to say.*
“Your videos are nothing more then Superficial ads of your personal beliefs.” The fact you say that but continue watching him for information is insane.
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Lol imagine if someone said that EO is led by Jezebel and is a failed recreation of Graceo Buddhism repackaged as Christianity, You would lose your mind over someone saying that. Absolutely shameful to make such a ridiculous CONTRADICTING claim.
He bases his theology and history and reformed theology that is also based on the word of God. Reformed protestantism is the catholic church reformed by the word of God
@@xHollow. 1. I didn’t say that he was claiming that the Assyrian Church was better. I was pointing out the fact that he’s using a “near heretical” to support his view of ecclesiology. This seems a little weird, saying essentially “I may not agree with them on all of these things but I’ll use their argument against this group.
2. I wasn’t trying to be nice, I was trying to be honest. I do enjoy RZ’s videos. I will continue to watch them because he has a firm grasp on different Protestant denominations. I like to be informed and I like when my presuppositions are challenged.
3. My opinion is not in contradiction. I think that he gives the barebones, face value perception of churches outside of reformed traditions. So I will continue to watch his videos on reformed theology… because he knows his stuff in those areas.
4. I said when it comes to his “interdenominational videos” they are superficial ads for his own beliefs. He clearly props up beliefs closely related to his own, which is understandable but it’s not what I’m here for. I was raised reformed Presbyterian so I’m by and large looking for unbiased takes on other interpretations and traditions.
5. I have no idea where the whole Jezebel thing came from but it wouldn’t really upset me. I’m not EO, have never been in an EO parish, have never spoken to an EO priest, I’ve never attended a Divine Liturgy. I’ve been searching for the truth and I have been reading/watching content about EO theology.
6. I was saddened because I’ve found a wealth of understanding and theology in the EO tradition. Enough that it has lead me to consider them seriously.
7. I could have handled this comment better. I didn’t mean to insinuate that ALL of his videos are ads for his beliefs. I also should’ve stated that I’m kind of outside the argument between denominations. Like I mentioned before, though I’ve studied a TON of theology, I was raised Presbyterian but haven’t been to church in many years. So after an experience with God that shook me, I have been trying to find the truth between the different traditions (which is why I clicked the video) and get back to church.
@@xHollow. Also the word “superficial” may not be the best word. “Impromptu” might have been a better choice. I don’t think he necessarily planned to prop up his own beliefs but it turns out that way.
I was raised in pentecostal family and came to faith when i was twenty years old. After that i was baptized in pentecostal church and served there. But i was always denominational. I was just christian. My model for christianity was new testament, book of acts and epistles AND chinese underground house churches. Those chinese underground churches really seem to be most authentic modern apostolic churches. They are just like the churches in book pf acts.
After years i started to become lukewarm. Ten years ago i started to follow coptic orthodox church and EO church. I joined EO church. But i never had any spiritual experience or any presence of God there.
Historically and theologically and spiritually and i am starting to be sure that EO is not original church at all.
I want to say I am so grateful for your videos and mission. I have been avidly studying the bible and the early Christian teachings and looking into all the denominations and I was almost at the point where I believed I was going to have to make some sort of reformation, renewal, restoration, or something. Everywhere I looked it was as if anyone was getting 20-80% of everything wrong. I couldn't find any one group of people that seemed to have any "total package" if you will. There were some groups that seemed right about this thing, but then believed another thing that seemed like obvious heresy, and this happened everywhere I searched. I applaud and thank your efforts, you are the first person or group that I have found that is actually making perfect sense, and following the teachings of Christ. I still have more videos to watch but I am on chapter 4 and I am very pleased with everything I have listened to up unto this point.
The difference between the Pharisees and the Church that you bring up at around the 5:00 minute mark is that the Pharisees didn't have the Holy Spirit. The main role of the Holy Spirit is to guide the Church into the fullness of truth so that we don't misinterpret the Scriptures as the Pharisees did. That's why Sacred Tradition (2 Thess. 2:15) is distinct from traditions of men. You sort of just draw a shallow comparison between the two without acknowledging the third person of the Trinity and His role.
I thought the main thing the holy spirit does is sign and seal us for the day of redemption
Hes our second nature per say
this is exactly what i was thinking, christ said the holy spirt would descend onto the church and claimed it would not go astray, that debased the entire argument
@@yuunoaboi21 Another major function, but when Christ introduces the disciples to the Holy Spirit in John 16, this is what He says: "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into the fullness of truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you."
@@bradyhayes7911 It's *absolutely* true what 2 Thessalonians 2:15 said, but we must recognize tradition for what it is; tradition. Also, I'm not certain the Bible and the teachings of the first Apostles (written in the New Testament of the Bible) can be called sacred tradition, I think calling it "tradition" devalues it, _even if_ one calls it sacred tradition. I recognize the preservative value of tradition, but ultimately, it's most important to preserve the Bible itself and our faith in Jesus. No hard feelings, God bless.
Protestants do believe the Church is the pillar of truth but there is absolutely no promisse of infallibility for the Church in the Bible and almost the entire NT is a proof that the church, even while being personally visited and instructed by the Apostles, could go ashtray.
1:01 Almost every time that in a protestant church there’s a theological debate a new church is born
literally?
@@merial9not literally, actually.
Yes, because there is only one Catholic sect
Seriously Bro... I thought of the same thing, it's like some whenever there's a disagreement. SPLIT
@@basedzealot3680 But it has 8 main line protestant churches.
One of the silliest implications of the video is that the orthodox and Catholic split was only due to geopolitical interests as if Protestantism is shielded from similar accusations. For example:
“If you believe in Lutheranism you are just falling for propaganda of dead german princes”
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Correct many territories were Lutheran because of the nobility
The Reformation literally only survived because heathen HRE (which wasn't H, or R, or an E) governors were interested in weakening the Church in their favor, and naturally decided to protect an heretic just like them, who was neither the first nor the last in all of (true) Church history.
That might've been the point honestly. I've heard the "peer pressure from dead _____" argument used against Protestantism quite a bit. I wouldn't be surprised if this was meant to make fun of those kinds of arguments.
Ok real talk do all RC and EO people that watch RZ are like this? literally have 0 sense of when he's making a joke or not in the video cus this happens all the time
As a catholic you helped me to demistify false thoughts I had about the protestant church, even thoigh I will stay catholic I thank you educating me!
As a Baptist, I’d argue that we do follow tradition in practicing only believers baptism, the oldest of Christian traditions, and one not practiced by any other denomination. Also, I can’t speak for all Baptists, but the reason why we are typically adverse to tradition is because we learn about the Protestant reformation and how tradition can muddy our worship of Jesus Christ. That’s why we focus so much on what is necessary for salvation and pour all of our focus into that. Additionally, the idea that Baptists come from the Anabaptists is generally refuted by modern scholars, and most now believe that it stems from English Separatism, mainly over their objection to the Church of England forcing everyone to be Anglican.
You are correct about the origins of the Baptist faith. They came about from the first great awakening not Anabaptists. Useful charts does a great video on that with his Christian denominations family tree
@@applegaming2345 While the Baptists arose to major prominence in the First Great Awakening, there are at least a handful of notable Baptist confessions predating that event by decades. Baptist originated in the 17th century, not the early-mid-18th century. Indeed, the earliest Baptist congregation in the USA dates to 1638; a century before the Great Awakening!
Further, best I can tell from modern sources: using the Smyth-Helwys thesis, Baptists seem to be the result of an ecclesiastical one-night-stand between a few expat English Dissenters and some Dutch Anabaptists who met in Amsterdam around 1607-1608; the English DIssenters returned having fashioned a brand-new-sect. So there evidently WAS a direct influence from the Anabaptists, but it wasn't a splinter group so much as they strongly imprinted on some impressionable Dissenters, who took some of their ideas and ran with it.
RZ is so smart about everything except Baptists. His level of expertise on most church history is top tier, but whenever he talks about Baptists you'd get a better answer from a boiled egg baloney casserole.
Well good luck convincing Presbyterians of believers baptism from the scripture alone, or as RZ says “sola apostolica”
@@Jacob.Lionsfood funny because Presbyterians can't claim apostolic succession either
This channel is very useful for people new to faith. You got me interested in theology. Thanks! Soli Deo Gloria!
Its good for starting out but you really shouldn't stick to his content for understanding theology
@@applegaming2345 midwit take. there's nothing wrong with RZ's content. Stop trying to overcomplicate the scriptures; the gospel is written in a way for children to understand.
Don't let Kyle see this 😭🙏
Bros gonna flip
Noone Cares. God Blessed
Hes gonna "debunk" it
Let lil bro do whatever.
Who's kyle?
Thank you for making these videos. My husband and I are trying to learn more about Christianity. Please keep making more awesome videos! Great voice btw!
4:45 This part leaves out the difference the Holy Spirit makes on the issue of ecleciastic authority. If the holy spirit hasn't kept the church from the same corruptions the pharisees suffered, we are no better then any other religion.
I'm not sure where you're drawing this conclusion from. The bible itself makes it clear that individual churches are fallible and easily corruptible.
Are you really saying that pre-Incarnational Judaism was no better than other religions? What?
The Holy Spirit hasn't kept the Church from splitting (even if you think only one of the remaining parts is the true one), it is not inconcievable that the HS does not provide absolute protection of Ecclesial corruption.
If the Old Testament Israel is a prototype of the Church, there is certainly a reason to think the purity of the Church is not a given, but something that needs to be fought for and sometimes renewed.
Also misses what Jesus said. He upheld thier teaching and instructed the crowd to obey.
Huh. My comment mysteriously disappear for anyone else?
@@TemperedMedia
I only have comments of mine disappear when I bring up certain topics and people. I didn't see what you originally said.
Great clear concise info!!! The great desception is upon us. We must continue to spread the gospel regardless of oppression.
I had a question; you put the Assyrian Church in the ecclesialist category but they don't claim to be the one true church. Is that not contradicting what an ecclesialist church is?
I also want to know where he found that they don't claim to be the one true church. The only thing I found regarding the Church of the East and claiming the one true church was the wikipedia article on "One, True Church", which just quickly says that the Assyrian Chuch of the East and the Ancient Church of the Each believe they are the one, true church
He also puts Baptists in the Restorationist category, but I've never heard any Baptist claim the church died out. At most they say that biblical Christianity became a minority that survived in remote locations where the Catholic Church couldn't enforce its doctrine against them. I'm guessing he's referring to the sort who object to being called Protestant because they reject the idea that the Catholic Church ever was a legitimate body. The "Constantine founded the Catholics" types.
Source? Not a "gotcha" - I'm genuinely curious for a source on that claim.
Commenting to get a notification if he replies
Every Assyrian I knows claims that they are the one true Church and that they alone have the correct Christology. They even deny that Nestorian reformed groups are valid. And, I love how we are just making up new words now. Ecclesiaists? All of the Apostolic Churches are categories unto themselves.
Taking communion with Calvinists only over my dead Lutheran body.
Amen, brother!
Since Calvinists also hold to real presence, may I ask, why?
@@ihiohoh2708 They don't believe in physical presence, but merely say it's spiritual, which is very wrong.
Wouldn’t the church still need some means of making infallible decisions throughout the ages to keep it from error? Yes God is the greatest authority but we would need some way to guarantee that a decision by the church was actually guided by the Holy spirit. Otherwise anyone can say the Holy spirit is keeping them from error. Thats why it makes sense that councils of men given authority in the hierarchy of the church, can make infallible statements about doctrine.
Nothing said by a man or any Council of man is infallible. The church has an infallible means of making decisions you might have heard it referred to as the word of God or the Bible perhaps
If councils were infallible, why they needed to be corrected by newer councils? That is something that even saint Augustine said in the 4th century. We have the word of God to guide the church through the ages. What happens if the church contradicts the bible? See, as a catholic you can not even entertain that possibility.
@@umnovomundo3738 Local vs ecumenical councils.
This is why it's dangerous to give status to tradition. Only Scripture is infallible, and it contains all we need to practice our faith
@@umnovomundo3738 what have newer councils corrected and what councils have contradicted the Bible? I don’t know of any. It seems like newer, councils expand our understanding of previous things and council may have changed regular church decisions that have nothing to do with doctrine, but I would love some examples.
Im protestant in a non protestant country but i don't really divide people by religion, all christians belive in one God. One Christ
Same bro, I'm not exactly protestant, but I'm questioning my country's main denomination (Orthodoxy)
No, the prophets and the apostles are not infallible. It is the word of God that they delivered that is infallible.
We need to be careful in defining what is and isn't infallible.
Infallibility means that the person is protected from error. It's not from man, it's from God.
Similarly to how Moses was not infallible, the apostles aren't either. Again, this is gonna be a very long discussion on the canon of Bible, epistemic uncertainty, our fallible knowledge, and the infallibility of the word of God.
How does it make sense that St. Athanasius would argue that during the Arian Crisis one should simply read the Bible and come to private judgement about who is the Church rather than listen to councils, and then turn around and anathematize Arianism in councils?.. This smells of a quote mine
@@JamesPreus
Help me out
Because the Arians' beliefs contradict scripture. The anathematization was only a declaration pointing out this fact.
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That’s ridiculous. That’s like saying the Trinity is true because the Bible says so. Yes, it is, and yes, it does, but that Bible is interpreted by the reader. If someone really wants to read Calvinism onto the text, for example, they can and they will. Then they’ll just say “Calvinism is biblical.” Same thing. If anathemas are just saying a belief contradicts Scripture, the Calvinists today would have to anathematize the men in the councils and of the first 1500 years of Church history for the very canons at the councils they like to inconsistently quote from when convenient and then turn around and argue against believers today for having the same opinions the people they’re quoting have because the Calvinists believe it contradicts Scripture.
All data, including Scripture, needs to be interpreted. There’s not some magical perspicuity that prevents people even the well-intentioned from falling into heresies. Vaguely saying “it contradicts Scripture” is begging the question because that’s exactly what the councils met to decide-who is interpreting Scripture correctly and who is not. It needed to be interpreted at the council, so you can’t just say they anathematized them because they were more biblical. Otherwise, what do you do when you get to the Great Schism? Just go with the “biblical” one? According to what, your own reading of the text?
@@JamesPreus
Help me out
@@JamesPreus
Which part?
4:06 “God always saves his people before he demands obedience of his people” what?? That’s a wild thing to say. God’s people need saving because they broke His preliminarily demand of obedience. Arguably, the main thing God does is demand obedience. Don’t eat the apple. Also, throughout most of the Old Testament, God only saves his people when they repent and denounce the non-obedient-to-God practices they were partaking in
God doesn't "need" to do anything
@@TemperedMedia fair point I’ll rephrase
The reason Adam and Eve sent to this world is they didn't obey. After we disobey, we are saved. You are right.
You could also say they didn’t have enough Faith in God. Without Satan they wouldnt even have eaten the apple in the first place. Without the temper there is no tempting. Without Faith there is no works to begin with. which is exactly what paul stresses in romans. We are saved by Grace through faith and Faith alone.
James affirms this. “Without works our (“faith”) is dead”
they coincide so imo neither or are wrong but it is really evident that God does save then justifies us making us better in Christ.
I was in love with sin before i came to know Jesus and his sacrifice✝️❤️ Glory to God and may he bless you and all those reading this.
@@xHollow.Paul never said we are saved by faith alone. The only time the term “faith alone” is used in the Bible is in James 2:24. Paul would say “show me your faith without works, and I will show my faith through my works”
Loved that you added a mighty fortress is our God for the outro 🙌🏼
It’s all fun and games until the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has Kyle make a series explaining Eastern Orthodoxy 😂
I think he’s actually Russian Orthodox, since he prominently features Russian liturgy and architecture whenever he discusses the good about Orthodoxy. The Russians are currently in schism with Constantinople, so it’d be more like Kirill ordering Kyle to make the series. Idk if this is for sure tho, he’s never confirmed it to my knowledge.
Patriarch Cyril Lucris' confession is pretty based, no Prot has the courage to read it 🔥
@@christophecrist2171 It's still the same thing the schism is more of a political thing between clergy. Kyle can still take communion from a Greek church if he wanted to.
@@friedchickenlover7291 It’s difficult to say. My local Greek church lost a huge chunk of its members that identified as Russian Orthodox back in 2018, they’ve rented out a room of an episcopalian church and have a Russian priest visit every now and again to celebrate the liturgy. It’s been a sad situation all around
@@christophecrist2171 Thats crazy and saddening. Ive been going to a Russian church near my university and a greek church near my house and haven't had any problems. I even asked about the schism and they told me to just worry about my own salvation.
Praise God for this excellent breakdown. May God bless you and your family.
For everyone saying Kyle shouldn’t see this, he should love this seeing as he’s actually a Protestant in culture. You can’t just cut orthodox propositions and paste them on an individualist Protestant.
That being said. Protestantism is a better framework for life. Yet, I am incredibly happy to call the orthobros my orthobrothers in Christ. And there’s valuable contributions the orthodox have for the rest of the church.
Alright 😂😂😂
he said he was raised Catholic tho.....
That's true, which is why we believe adopting the orthodox phronesis takes a lifetime. Over time all of that liberalism will go away.
what are you yapping about
@erc And he was a secular Atheist before that (if I remember correctly, maybe he was baptized Catholic and there was a time when he was serious about being Catholic and became a tradcath and then Orthodox). That makes two former secular atheists turned ChristoTubers.
Awesome! Really well done. As an Anglican who has at times felt very drawn toward Roman Catholicism, this perfectly encapsulates both how I see Protestantism and what I continue to value about it.
In the 16th century, reformation was desperately needed.
As an ex-Catholic and now Reformed after experiencing both systems in practice, I am a purist when it comes to soteriology. Your recent tweets about justification and sanctification freezed me, but in this video as usual you explained very well, precisely and politely the essence of the differences between us and Roman Catholics, good job and maybe I will have some more use this film somehow in future. God bless u.
Sorry to hear that. I wish you went deeper in the truths of the Catholic faith. If you have any questions, recommend you call Dr Dave Anders on EWTN radio M-F at 2 pm EST. He was deep into the Reformed Church and went to Wheaton College with a PhD from Univ of Iowa, majoring in the Reformation. He can answer any of your questions. This radio show is specifically for non-Catholics.
Additionally, many assertions he makes on the Catholic Church are not correct in this video. If you know Catholic theology, you will quickly note the misleading statements and outright errors. Imputed grace is a word Catholics don't use. We believe in sanctifying grace that gives us a supernatural grace which leads to holiness. It is not the works that make us holy, but God's grace, which from that comes good works.
@@Shawn-nq7du There's no need for treating me like fool, trust me ;-). Ahh I love how Romanists treat people who oppose their Talmudic theology as stupid. "U don't understand Teaching bro". Anyway, Im used to that, so let's go to meritum.
As for sanctifying grace... this is a classic example of Roman sophism. You must adapt biblical terminology to the system so as to retain both, bringing about a situation where in fact a works system (since salvation is accomplished through the use of means both in the form of sacraments and from smaller means in the form of novenas, Friday and Saturday privileges that can help salvation, etc.) And so, in practice, justification is achieved no other way than on the basis of works done with the help of grace, and your understanding of "not by works" is limited only to in the cynical statement that nothing that PRECEDES these actions in the state of sanctifying grace does not in itself merit grace, but after baptism or confession it is of course a different conversation...
However, it is worth mentioning the essential problem here, namely the claim that sanctifying grace is effective grace , and its loss is caused by a free decision of the will that leads to mortal sin. The error is that you ignore the fact of the bondage of the will, its natural inclination to sin, which makes falling from the state of grace impossible in pure practice, and EFFIECY of grace only exists hypothetically, which fully justifies the accusations of semi-Pelagianism.
The true Gospel makes it clear, that because of the inevitable judgment of the Law on man who is incapable of not sinning, he is justified freely on the basis of fully effective, fully sufficient, and personal redemption made by Christ for everyone who believes. The consequence of this is that no condemnation threatens a sincere convert and believer, therefore any religion that essentially consists in maintaining and renewing the constantly lost gift of grace is blasphemous and attributes a higher value to human channels than to the pure mediation of Christ itslef, wich is grabbed by empty hand of faith, and it isn't held in iron fist of any sacerdotalist institution.
Not to mention the doctrine of purgatory which directly rejects the sufficiency of Christ's atonement, and the exit from purgatory is facilitated by HUMAN MERIT, both those of saints coming from the "treasury of merits" and in the form of Marian privileges, such as those associated with the scapular.
There is a lot more to say, but I said enough. Papist doctrine, is based on sophisms, and won't ever let people to know the simplicity of pure Gospel, of Christ perfect atonement.
For all those justified by faith, there IS peace with God, because He imputed sins of all who believe on Him, and poured His Holy Wrath on Him. His ressurection is message, that everything what came on the world through Adam, is forgiven once forever. Belive in this, and you will have eternal life. Add or remove anything from this, and you will be condemned.
Reject this Babylon, and embrace the truth, brother.
Excellent reply, brother in Christ! @@tbrskiv
This is great, Zoomer. Really well done.
Bro i would dunk on this vídeo so hard if i had a channel, still you are a great christian
“Church of Christ” is the one Protestant denomination that actually claims to be the one true denomination.
I go to a church of Christ college. Pretty much no member of the church of Christ believes this here. There are some that do, my parents grew up in churches that thought that way. But they are a tiny minority as far as I can tell. Like all Protestants, church of Christ believes that they are members of the one true invisible church, but not that they are the entirety of that church. In fact, one of the most famous church of Christ sayings directly contradicts your claim, “we are Christians only, but not the only Christians”.
@@rok4028 thanks for that insight.. I’ve heard that saying but thought the ones that say it were the minority.
May I ask where your college is geographically?
@@Seekingchristdaily southern u.s.
I was raised Protestant but believe orthodoxy is the proper way to full truth. This was a very insightful video that I absolutely enjoyed. Great work as always
What RZ means is: “my particular sect of Protestantism Ala the tradition of Johnny C is correct”
- guy who clearly hasn’t watched the video
It'd be pretty weird to stay in his church if he didn't think it was the most correct one, wouldn't it?
The basic Common Sense required to assume that someone thinks their church that they personally attend is the correct church seems to elude you
Why this un-godly division? When did he imply that "his particular sect of Protestantism Ala the tradition of Johnny C is correct"?
@@captainfordo1 It seems to be that way...
Please do not project your hyoer centralized hierarchy of Catholic Orthodoxy upon the rest of us. We are quite a de-centralized group of believers who all believe that Jesus is fully God and man, that He died and rose again to save us from our sins and send us the holy spirit to transform us and make us new creatures.
Unlike some, we don't make bones about whether or not Jesus had a mind of his own or if God pre-natally controlled it, neither do we engage in squabbling over whether or not you can "dissolve into God" b.c we understand that Christ willfully chose to follow the Father and therefore would have needed to have a mind of his own in order to that, especially since the Bible teaches us that the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet.
Read the Bible and follow the example of Jesus and his disciples, mate. You can't be wrong if you do that
i cant imagine how much of your effort is to make this vids. the time spend to read all of those literature and text and put it all in a single, history-saturated and God-centered narration is really amazing dude. God bless all of your works.
if you could go a month without mocking southerners, I would like you a lot better.
He can't, he's a jew from the north
Had it not for the Eucharistic miracles and Fatima apparitions, I'd be a protestant now. Those two miracles (along with thousand others) is enough to convince me that the catholic church is what she claimed she is and keeps me from being a protestant. To be honest though, I'm glad I stumbled on this video. It clarified what Protestantism actually is and would avoid straw-manning them next time.
@user-tb5sq6jm2y I've seen it, not convinced. All I hear is association fallacy. All other arguments he has are the typical protestant denialism, like "just because something supernatural happened, doesn't mean it's from God." As if satan is powerful enough to be capable of such wonders. His arguments are nothing new of substance.
@@JamesPreus Seen it, not convinced. All I hear is association fallacy. Other arguments is a typical protestant denialism that has been debunked hundreds of time, nothing new of substance. He's arguments is basically "just because something supernatural happened doesn't mean it's from God." As if satan is powerful enough to do such wonders.
But hey, for the sake of argument, say the Fatima message is unbiblical, how about the Eucharistic miracles? You'd be too blind if you deny Christ real presence in the Eucharist. It's what the Scripture, Church fathers and Jesus himself teaches.
Another thing, who is Jordan Cooper anyway? Does he have apostolic succession?
@@JamesPreus Seen it, not convinced. All I hear is association fallacy. Other arguments is a typical protestant denialism that has been debunked hundreds of time, nothing new of substance. He's arguments is basically "just because something supernatural happened doesn't mean it's from God." As if satan is powerful enough to do such wonders.
But hey, for the sake of argument, say the Fatima message is unbiblical, how about the Eucharistic miracles? You'd be too blind if you deny Christ real presence in the Eucharist. It's what the Scripture, Church fathers and Jesus himself teaches.
Another thing, who is Jordan Cooper anyway? Does he have apostolic succession?
Miracles only prove God's grace and nothing else
Cover more of Bach and Protestantism! Probably the most divinely inspired composer of all time.
Hi Zoomer. I don't know what the situation is like in the Baptist Church in the USA. But in Brazil, the Baptist Church is one of the most traditional. One of the few that was not affected by woke culture. I believe that we belong to the group of "Historic Christianity" because of the value we give to the Bible and the defense of its teachings. God bless you greatly, I love your channel.
Can’t wait for Brother Kyle to see this one and flip 😭🤣
God bless you RZ❤️💯✝️
When has he flipped out? All I've seen is him pointing out RZs mistakes and misconceptions. Which this video is loaded with.
@@physicalgrafiti12345exactly. Kyle even acknowledge the Orthobros being incorrect in spamming memes to RZ. There is a respectful way to go about debating and Kyle has been that
You mean refute it
Flip?
You have a great teaching gift! Thank you for the video!
Well, this is a great edited video with good arguments.... But I'm a chad trad orthobro so I'm going to dislike it!1!1
Jk, I'm a Catholic so of course I won't completely agree on some things, but you bring good arguments. Why are people surprised when a Protestant they've subbed to says protestant things?
Haha God bless
Man gods work in the church is just beautiful
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Bro, I've been a baptist my whole life and putting us in that right box is crazy 😂
Saying faith alone is heretical and you cant interpret the bible however you want
You didn’t watch the video
@@redeemedzoomer6053 I did I still stand with my point that protestants are heretical,beacuse the church founded by Jesus Christs and Apostels was/is/will be guided holy spirit.That means they cant go astray if they do that would mean Holy Spirit can make mistakes(He cant).I am not a theology master thats just my understanding I could be wrong
@@redeemedzoomer6053 I dont know if my last comment got deleted but I will say it again
Church cant go astray beacuse its guided my Holy Spirit and he cant make mistakes.Thats why protestants got liberal beacuse Holy Spirit didnt guide them. Its my opinion I dont know if I am wrong I am not a theology master
The more divided church speaking for itself...is this even a church...what a beautiful spiritual union in faith u have indeed
Rahh methodism mentioned 🔥🔥🗣🗣
brother why are so many people attacking you and your style of videos , i personally enjoy your channel and it breaks down stuff so i can understand better, i seen some comments calling you a Minecraft youtuber but i feel this is an attack from the enemy to discredit, you, God bless RZ
Let's be honest, this is the best defense of Protestantism we've ever seen.
Dr. Gavin Ortlund from the Truth Unites channel does it far better.
This is excellent too tho
Its not a good defense of Protestantism as a whole, its a good defense of Calvinism tho
@@applegaming2345 Not really, I would say it’s a good defence for *historical Protestantism , which includes non Calvinist like Lutherans and Anglicans too.
It doesn’t work for modern evangelical/ no denominational Protestants tho
@@sjappiyah4071methodism is a rejection of Calvinism and Lutherans historically did claim to be the one true church
His points are very pro-calvinism
Then Protestantism is done for lmao
Subscribed! Thank you for the explanation, so brief and easy to understand ❤ I believe The Word of God is the highest Authority of Christianity practice
God bless you
Ok, why y'all gotta do that dang ol fake southern accent when you say something with a negative connotation. Lol c'mon yall. (Great video, keep up the good work, God bless, much love, bro👍
Yankees are like that
because to people that don't live in the South, anyone with that accent is just stereotyped as dumb or ignorant.
@@microsoftpain Yeah I think RZ would admit he probably shouldn't do that. Besides, not everyone from the South is Baptist. I'm from the South and I'm not Baptist and never would be again.
@@microsoftpain if I was from the north I'd probably be offended by that. Lol
@thegreatandmightyseff7214 lol exactly. That's why I said to the feller down in yonder comments, "if i was was from the north, then I'd probably be offended by that." Haha, oh, regional dialectical division is fun. (But for real, much love, God bless America)
Insults EO in video.
Makes video about the things he likes about EO.
Immediately follows video by insulting EO in another video.
Redeemed Zoomer I can't watch your content anymore.
Why is it so incomprehensible to people that I can like SOME things about a group and not OTHERS? Why does it have to be so black and white
@@redeemedzoomer6053 Hmm, I wonder why the religion that says "If you don't believe that this person who lived 2000 years ago died for your sins, you're going to Hell" has so much black-and-white thinking. A real head-scratcher.
@@redeemedzoomer6053it would help if you actually bothered to research the subjects you teach others about.
It’s about as black and white as claiming all Eastern Orthodox converts are falling for ancient lies as you said in your video.
Love this vid. Amen solid work and great execution of information. Needed to hear this brother. 😭🙏🏽✝️
6:53
What? Doesn't this prove the Apostles had authority, not Scripture that hadn't been fully written/compiled/canonized/etc yet?
Yes we believe that, the apostles have infallible authority, in their time sola scriptura was not possible, but, time goes on and all of then died, so now, their written testimony (i.e. the NT) is our infallible authority, as it is the OT with the prophets, so, Sola Scriptura is the recognition of the true infallible authority of the prophets and apostles, but only then. So I don't even know why you are surprised
@@umnovomundo3738so ONLY the Apostles were infallible, not their successors or their disciples? Why not?
@@famtomerc many reasons, but I sense you are committing the same error all Catholics do, you read fallible as "will always err, and never get nothing right" we are just saying that the Apostles can not err on what they wrote, but some priests or pope later times can in rare accusations err, but in the course of 1500 years, rare cases have accumulated and reformation was needed, the something applies to us, the Church needs a second reformation against the Communism that have infiltrated all branches of Christianity, I live in Brazil, and the Catholic Church here (because is the biggest denomination) is basically a left party with gay priests and lesbian nuns, the same is true to a majority protestant county, you can turn a blind eye, or you can fight for God against these communists. thanks God we don't make our church an idol to be followed blindly
Peter considered Paul’s epistles to be scripture already during their lifetime.
“as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other *Scriptures*.” - 2 Peter 3:16
7:23 As a Catholic, I want to make a correction here. As far as I know, the Catholic Church doesn't teach that the bible has less authority than her. We believe that both are divinely instituted. The Church just declared that the bible has the authority it does, rather than giving it that authority.
you should make a dark mode version of your videos
Been wanting to watch one of your vids for awhile now, ashamed I didn't earlier.
May God bring about a(nother) reformation and return to scripture in this new generation of believers
(Which, your mileage may vary, but I might be considered a part of)
*Extra comments:*
1:24 That was really cool the way you _slowly_ turned this graph into a 2x2 graph up to this point (the point of this time stamp)
2:43 Works are proof of faith, if we don't love God in the way that we live (what might be called works),
then we haven't really changed and we don't really love God. But I think Jesus' work on the cross, and our faith in Him is what leads to sanctification.
I'm open to discussion.
3:09 Oh, that's what you mean. As you walk in your faith in God, you'll naturally do works (sin and second law of thermodynamics still is a thing),
I still think it's by remaining in Jesus that we allow God to prune us. (John 15:1-4)
4:00 *Amen!* It's cool that you used that passage because I think we have that verse in my home on a plaque somewhere, but we put it down for Christmas to put up the
Matthew 2:10 passage, "When they saw the star, they were overjoyed".
7:30 This graph illustrates the problem with "liberal christianity", as well. ( I Was tempted to put quotes around it because Jesus already gives us freedom - From *_sin_* )
MAN I wish I had started watching this channel before
The pillar of protestantsm: Let me presuppose I interpret the bible perfectly on all accounts, even if the deciples of the apostles condracit me.
*A strawman of protestantism
Fixed.
@@Mic1904 ☝🤓 unless its stated verbatim it is not being implied or meant.
@@Chromebreaks Nope, no idea what avenue you're going down now, but enjoy!
@@Mic1904 pointing out when protestants claim we know what the bible says, that statement is presupposing you even have the complete bible and you are interpreting what is means correctly. Not a strawman.
Praying to saints is wrong. No evidence for apostolic succession either. There is only one mediator between God and heaven.
Saying to follow the cannon Jesus used for the OT is such a simple but concise way to explain the absence of those 7 “extra” books
And treating Sola Scriptura as Sola apostolica really adds a chef kiss. Acknowledging the Bible didn’t come from the sky but to recognize while an institution was instrumental to the faith, that it is not infallible
Question: Does your old testament translation contain all the books from the Septuagint including apocrypha like 1&2 Macabees?
Asking because you said "whatever old testament canon Jesus used is the one we should use". The Septuagint was used by jews in the Greek-speaking world around the time that Jesus lived, so it's reasonable to believe that he accepted those books as scripture.
Well, there’s also a split back then see the Sadducees only used the first five books of the Bible and the pharisees had the rest of the Old Testament as in the Tanakh the Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Hebrew and or Aramaic and included Jewish tradition such as Maccabees but even within the Jewish community it was never seen as authoritative merely the traditional history of the Jewish people. Although you can learn from Maccabees, I personally do not believe it is authoritative. (Btw I a nondenominational biblically based Christian)
@@Caligulashorse1453 First I am not talking about oral torah vs written torah. Everything except the first 5 books as you said were considered "oral torah" at the time and wasn't written down at all until hundreds of years after Christ's death. Sephardic Jews today do not accept the Oral Torah but the Ashkenazi do. We are not talking about modern jews though...
Apocryphal books like Maccabees found in the Septuagint might not be considered scripture by modern Jews, but they were DEFINITELY considered scripture by Jews in the Greek-speaking world at the time that Jesus was born (Like Jesus himself). In fact, theology from 1 Maccabees is thought to be a predecessor to the philosophy of the Sadducees. The Hannukah story for example, is an account of the Maccabean revolt which is documented only in the apocryphal texts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadducees
The original version of KJV even included some of these texts. I could go on and on.
@@mullinaxdarren but did the Jews considered those books authoritative? Or just apart of tradition?
"Assyrian Church of the East don't think they are the one true church(and they are really OLD), this proves early christianity did not believe in the concept"??? Talk about the logical leap of the century
that combined with Imperialist Christianity being a thing does make quite a compelling case
@@redeemedzoomer6053 The Catholic Church was never a state Church. The pope is not subject to emperors.
Yeah I noticed that too, it totally doesn’t follow
AC of the East is technically protestant, then.
Do you guys think Jesus will care what denomination you are, or does he care that you accept him as a saviour
I'll ante up: do you think he cares about whether you "accept Him as a saviour" or repent of your sins (i.e. obey and follow)?
Catholics and especially Orthodoxy think they are the arc of salvation aka closest to how God wants to be worshipped. Without being apart of either or, you’re less closer to God.
Thats what they believe but imo its not what Jesus necessarily preached.
After all Jesus told one of his disciples to not stop a person (OUTSIDE HIS group) to cast out demons.
A lot of apostolic fathers teach if there is a true church(Not mormons or JH’s) look to the scriptures.
Evidence of the Holy spirit CAN be found in other denominational churches. So Yes Jesus ultimately cares if you accept him as your lord and savior.
I believe that Jesus looks at people's hearts individually, so I don't think denomination is the main basis for judgment. Jesus will reveal the truth/Himself to those who genuinely seek the truth/Him in order to prevent us from being led astray by false teachings.
@@TemperedMedia but wait, are you saying to repent of sins for salvation?
@@OmgKyoyes. Modern Western churches are filled with people who accept Jesus as their spiritual limit-free credit card with no interest and have no desire or plan to change for the sake of the gospel.
Spiritual unity is more important than institutional unity. Amennnnnnnnn.
I believe in one, holy, baptist and apostolic Church
You made faith a very complicated matter! Matthew 5:3
[3]“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Your argument for Sola Scriptura helps to prove that the Protestant canon is wrong, since Christ and the Apostles would have used the Septuagint as their version of the OT/Tanakh, and the Septuagint contains the Deuterocanonical texts.
Stop talking shit man, in the time of the apostle there was not a thing called the Septuagint like we have today. They had only separated scrolls, and initially the Septuagint was only the
Torah in Greek. You have to be anachronistic to defend your church and that is pathetic
I've read in the past that some editions of the Septuagint don't actually include the OT apocrypha, similar to how there is a KJV translation of Judith, Tobit, Maccabees, etc., but not every KJV Bible contains those translations within its covers.
@@cameronbailey9704 Was not RZ that said that, it was Paul the Apostle. And I do not get the logical leap that this implies that the OT will be only written in Hebrew. The Aramaic parts were made by Israelites the same way the Greek translation of the Torah did, the language means nothing.
The versions used by fathers such as St Jerome or St Augustine clearly do, since both fathers mention them as being part of the Old Testament. @@Good100
Amazing summary! Thank you so much!! The only statement I would be a bit careful about is the one about the canon Jesus used. When the church took over the Greek Old Testament canon from Jewish tradition, it included more books than we have today. It is not entirely clear how Jesus viewed what we now consider Apocrypha but there are hints he read the Old Testament in Greek at least occasionally.
Big problem with Sola Scriptura: Scripture alone does NOT teach and it does NOT imply or infer use Scripture alone.
Excellent video! Love the doing away with straw man arguments and get right to the ACTUAL differences. So many times when Protestants and Catholics talk, it seems to be about caricatured versions of the other side.
The Catholic church is the one true Church of Jesus Christ.
Wrong 🗿☦️
cap
which one catholic church?
bro that's a heresy, Santa told me so
You lie.
I am so blessed to have found your channel. I am Presbyterian myself, and it brings me joy to be able to defend our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ even better with every video I watch. Thank you, brother ❤
Redeemed Zoomer after Jay Dyer literally destroyed him 🙀🙀🙀:
@@drjanitor3747 D Y E R W A V E
@@drjanitor3747Based on?
@@drjanitor3747 Online Orthobros are a sad representation of Eastern Orthodoxy.
@@gilgamesh2832I've been exploring orthodoxy for a while now as someone raised Presbyterian (the good one, not PCUSA). I don't know who the true church is, but I do know that Jay Dyer and most people who bring him up are sorry examples of the orthodox. I'm still considering Orthodoxy, but terminally online orthobros seem to forget that it's about saving eternal souls rather than scoring points in the debate.
Jay dyer is shame for orthodoxy. His behaviour is worse
That picture of cookies and coke for protestant communion had me genuinely laughing.
I'ma stay Orthodox
With you brother
Thank you for telling the truth about classical Protestantism on your channel, it's not just 4 green walls and a worship band, but it's an incredibly God-loving and fearing group of people who build beautiful churches and write beautful hymns, and have correct theology too😎
Unsubbed 🤢
why is everyone surprised when I, a Protestant, say Protestant things?
🫡 Why are you so salty?
That little bit drastic, chill dude
Announcing it like it's breaking news...😅
I'll pray for you all, don't worry 🙏 (it was a joke guys calm down)
Bro im catholic but you have a great channel and youve made my faith go stronger
I mean practically speaking Catholics worship Mary
nope
No
no
BASED. Thank you bro for this! An ever reforming church is a sanctified church. 🥰
#ProudToBeAProstestant
THANK GOD for your videos!!!!!
Thanks for doing this. You've made it very clear and easy to both grasp and relate to someone else.