For me, as a former Souther Baptist/non-denom now Catholic, I believe one reason why Protestantism didn't work for me is because the Reformers separated justification from sanctification. Being Baptist, that meant on one side (justification) i.e. Faith alone + The altar call + a one-time decision was where our focus was. On the other side (sanctification) we find striving, obeying, doing good deeds, partaking of the Sacraments. When one is taught that salvation cannot be lost, there is no serious need for sanctification. I remained a broken slave to sin for 70 years hoping it was true I was saved waiting on the rapture. It took a Catholic priest to finally look me in the eye and say ' you know you need to actually stop practicing sin'. Something no Protestant even told me. That what once saved always saved did for me and to me. I remained a broken slave to sin merely wearing a Jesus mask.
I was a Protestant for a short time. I became thoroughly disillusioned with it bcoz it teaches the false doctrines you mention, which seem to be the result of stupidity and/or dishonesty.
I see many younger Prot TH-camrs preaching that you don’t need to avoid sin. Your past, present and future sins are forgiven. Extremely dangerous message.
@@AndrewLane-pm2ro I'm thinking it's a part of human nature that we can all possess which stems from pride and is a combination of rebellion against authority and an invincible ignorant sincere desire to make something we view as wrong right. In otherwords, we were each handed what they have and we can sometime mold it into how they understand it even if it's not correct. I believe this is true for Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox i.e. instead of abiding by the authorities Jesus left over us, we can go off on our own preaching something the church did not intend. I know I have probably been guitly of it myself but, as we grow in knowledge and maturity by grace, we are better able to share with clarity in charity wouldn't you agree? That's something we could all strive to do better.
It’s because of the internet. People are being exposed to the truth. The reason people are leaving the schismatic Protestant church is the same reason people are leaving Islam.
I’m thinking the same. The explosion of TH-cam shows and podcasts among other platforms that are dedicated to Catholic truths, teachings, and reflections has given rise to a new wave of interest and a deeper understanding of our faith than ever before. The internet, indeed is a potent weapon of evangelization and of renewed invigoration of our Catholic faith and we thank God for it.
The truth always wins in the end. Protestants didn’t help themselves by teaching lies and bigotry against the Catholic Church. It just helped fuel the eventual backlash.
Well, there are many lies in the internet as well. Just look at all the slandering against the pope by many channels, especially the traditionalist ones. If you are careful choosing your channels, you're safe. In particular I prefer to listen to clergy only. Laity apologists tend to know well the doctrine detail but miss the revealed purpose. They're fine when it's about news or personal opinion, like this one.
People are looking for reverence and the right doctrine which they are not finding in a synodal process that only gradually differs from the German model, albeit it took the most radical proposals into commitees. Traditionalism is seeing most dynamism in Europe compared to the stale synodal 'Amtskirche', this is not just an American temporal phenomenon as even Massimo Faggiolo the progressive Rome based Vatican Journalist pointed out @@chilenobarrucia
@@nightshade99 Judging by your comments, I know you don't know much about Protestantism nor Catholicism. You can keep my smug emoji to your drawer. I don't need it😀
The Catholic Church is the body of Christ. CCC 787-789 John 15 787 CCC references bible at From the beginning, Jesus associated his disciples with his own life, revealed the mystery of the Kingdom to them, and gave them a share in his mission, joy and suffering. Mk 1 : 16-20 Mk 3 : 13-19; Mt 13 : 10-17 Lk 10 : 17-20 Lk 22 : 28-30 Jesus spoke of a still more intimate communion between him and those who follow him: " Abide in me, and I in you... I am the vine, you aee the branches." Jn 15 : 4-5 And he proclaimed a mysterious and real communion between his own body and ours: " He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him." John 6 : 56 788 CCC Just the bible refs... Jn 14 : 18 Jn 20 : 22 Mt 28 : 20 Acts 2 : 33 790-796 CCC There are numerous bible refernces showing the Catholic Church is the body of Christ. Just look at all the Eucharistic miracles. Marian Apparitions with supernatural events showing proof of heavenly interaction... With many revelations of future events within lifetime of mystics or past. Mystics with stigmatas. The 5 Catholic priests that survived an atomic bomb in WW2 at Hiroshima Japan. They did even get radiation poisoning and they were like 2 miles away from drop site... nobody else survived for miles. Some much further away received radiation poisoning. Uncorrupted saints bodies that do not decompose!!!! And instead smell like flowers. A particular tilma that normally disintegrate within 40-50 yrs... that tilma has lasted nearly 500 years... it also has miraculous qualities... such as body temperature... cannot be reproduced artistically... etc... Heaven does not rest in showing the Catholic Church is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church Jesus left us. Does not seem to be a false religion of the one and only God...
My story is I was a weak Catholic so I became a Protestant. When I became a strong Protestant I reverted back to Catholicism. When I reverted I felt like nothing was sacred in the Protestant faith. Everyone was let loose to interpret the Holy Bible on their own and most of the auditoriums were lifeless.
***THANK YOU. YOU DID YOUR BEST, WOW! I AM A CONVERT TOO. BUT I WAS BORN IN MIDDLE EAST NOW CANADIAN. I NEVER BELIEVED IN GOD. BUT WHEN I MOVED TO CANADA I START TO SEE THE REALITY OF CATHOLIC FAITH, EVEN THOU I BECAM A PROTESTANT FIRST FOR 2 YEARS, BUT NOW I AM A DEVOTED CATHOLIC. AGAIN I AM SO CONVINCED AS A CATHOLIC! MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY!
God established the Catholic Church with the 7 Sacraments, the Magisterium, Church Authority, the Priesthood, The Orders of Nuns and Monks. He established the Catholic Church and all will be Catholic in the end. Praying for the conversion of the whole world 🌎. To the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. All other faiths will fall away including Protestantism. I pray all to be Catholic 🙏💕🙏🤗
Thy way, O God, is in thy sanctuary, who is so great a God as our God? {Psalm77:13} ...as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith God, that thou make all things according to *the pattern* shewed to thee in the mount. {Hebrews 8:5} The *sanctuary* [tabernacle] was a pattern of types and shadows of the heavenly temple, and Jesus Christ is the substance of those types and shadows. Jesus Christ is the door to the sanctuary; He is the door to the Kingdom of heaven. He is the inner court surrounded by white linen; which is symbolic of being covered Christ prefect righteousness. He is our passover sacrificed for us on burnt alter for sacrifice. He is the laver for washing; symbolic of the rebirth, being born again of the Spirit. He is the table of Showbread; the two stacks of loves of bread are symbolic of the word of God (the bread of life) in two testaments / witnesses, also the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve Apostles. He is the Lampstand; the oil being symbolic of his Spirit; the Lampstand symbolic of his light unto the world. He is our Altar of incense; making intercession for his saints. He is our Mercy seat covering the Ark of the covenant; Jesus is both our advocate standing for his saints with the Father and He is our judge in judment. Jesus Christ caused the sacrifices and their oblations to cease, (Dan 9:27) by his one perfect sacrifice. In contrast to the time of the Gentiles, wherefore the sanctuary of God is trodden under foot for forty and two months. How so? This church who calls herself the mother church, claims to be *the door* to salvation. And the white linen surrounding the inner court is the righteousness of Mary and the saints of the Roman church. She claims that Christ sacrifice and Atonement for sin was not sufficient, for she instituted seven (works) sacraments. She through infant baptism makes a mockery of the rebirth of the new man. Her Catechism thinks to replace the inspired word of God. Her prayers to dead saints and to Mary, thinks to replace Christ work of intercession at the altar of incense. Hers is a false spirit which thinks to cover the light of truth. This beast and her king think to change times and laws of God. And goeth into perdition.
Thank you ever so much for your kind and heartfelt message. It truly resonated with me. I have been a Catholic my entire life and, until a few years ago, had never stepped inside an Orthodox Church. However, when I arrived in Bristol, England, I discovered that my landlady is Orthodox. To my delight, she was pleased to learn that I am a Catholic Christian. Being new to the area, she graciously introduced me to St. Bonaventure Catholic Church, a lovely parish close to the house, which I soon began attending regularly. On occasion, she also invited me to join her at the Orthodox Church in Bristol. I still remember the first time I attended worship there, it was such a profound experience. In that sacred space, I felt an overwhelming sense of unity, a beautiful reminder of how much we truly share in faith and tradition. I even receive Communion there whenever I attended, a gesture that touched me deeply. It mirrored the spirit of the uplifting message you have shared, which now feels even more meaningful. Thank you again, and may God bless you abundantly.
I was raised a Jew, at Passover we were taught as part of the Seder (Order of service at the Passover ritual and meal) that anyone who participated in the Seder could not say they were remembering what God did to our forefathers in the Desert, bringing them to the Promised land, but must say that we too had participated in the Exodus. God made a past event (the Exodus) present to us today. So when I was presented by Protestants with the idea Jesus was the Messiah, and saw they all disagreed on various issues around Jesus, the only thing they agreed on was that Catholics were not Christians. So I looked at their variety of beliefs, read the NT (being a Sephardic Jew we spoke Greek at home) so I read it in Greek. I saw that in the Mass, Jesus by His own action makes the Last Supper and Calvary (an event from the past) present for us today. It is not an accident that He chose the Passover Seder where God makes past events present, that He makes Calvary and His own Body and Blood present transcending time and space. Only the ancient Churches East and West have this, Protestants abandoned it.
God bless you and your family's journey. 6 years now since I converted to Catholicism; 2 years for my wife. Our families don't understand, but what a blessing its been.
The pope is working on a one world religion that any pagan can follow because he says himself that there are many paths to God. Roman Catholics have been adopting paganism into their church since Constantine made it legal. Diocletian destroyed all the texts, killed many of the leaders, and nearly exterminated all the text. Constantine then tried to put humpty dumpty back together again, but all that was preserved was our scripture. Which is, thankfully, all that we needed. But Catholics love elevating the traditions of men and teaching them as if it were doctrine. Then they adopted beads, pagan holidays, the monstrance, and praying to the dead into their version of Christianity.
@@Thatoneguy-pu8ty• Excuse my ignorance, but what reforms would need to happen to reunite the Orthodox Church with the Catholic Church? I’m currently trying to decide between both.
One really nice thing, among many, about the Catholic Church is that if you go to ANY Roman Catholic Church while on vacation or traveling for work, you will hear the same readings and the structure of the mass is the same. The music might be different, but the words will be the same. The sermons, which are the priest's own words about the readings are only about 10-15 minutes of an hour long service. The rest of the mass is all biblical. Even if you go to a different part of the world the "parts" of the mass are the same. I don't know if you can find that in a protestant service.
Thats true, every church is the same, bec The Catholic Church has its own Liturgical Year to follow each and every Catholic Church. And bec every Church is same, our Lord Jesus Christ wants us to be in His ONE Church, in His HOLY Chuch, in His UNIVERSAL Church, and in His APOSTOLIC Church. 🙏
Retta1231...here's a detailed description of the Mass by Justin Martyr in 155 AD..... m.th-cam.com/video/q-FwgO_s5_A/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUhanVzdGluIG1hcnR5ciBkZXNjcmliaW5nIHRoZSBtYXNz
@@lkae4 I try not to but if you’re a Protestant you probably couldn’t care less right? Fatih alone and once saved always saved garbage? Why do you sin?
Jesus spoke of one true Church. He never said sola scriptura nor sola fidei. The protestants dwell so much on the works of the apostles but never accepts the apostolic succession. Jesus spelled the two most important commandment, love God and love thy neighbor, but never.......love yourself. Jusus taught about selfless love, sacrifice oneself for a friend, being the last if you want to be the first, being a slave before becoming a master, turn the other cheek, forgive 70 times 7, etc. Everything about denying yourself to serve your fellowmen.
Exactly bro. Our Lord Jesus Christ wants us to follow Him, obey Him, and live like Him. Truly He is the begotten Son of God who is God the Son. May God bless us all. 🙏
Born into a Catholic family, baptized Catholic, married a Catholic girl into The Catholic Church, converted to Protestantism.(KJV 1611 only); after 30+ years back to " THE CHURCH ", The Catholic Church. Mary, the most blessed human being, Mother of God, crowned Queen of Heaven, and The Eucharist brought me back... back from this sterile, lifeless, heresy....If Luther/Protestantism removed Marriage as a Sacramento little wonder the State now " kidnaps " our children and treats boy/girl are interchangeable... Of course the diabolical epidemic of divorces is a necessary ingredient of this apostasy... 22:57
Marriage is one more place I see a world of difference in understanding between Catholics and Protestants. In my Baptist faith, marriage was valued but, if it ended in divorce, the thought was hopefully you'd make the next one work and many Protestant churches will marriage divorced people. Not so in the Catholic church where marriage is a serious matter affecting salvation and where love is a decision of the will for the good of the spouse even if you don't like them. You stay and lay down your life for your wife. Now, of course, that doesn't mean all Catholic marriages succeed and all Protestant one fail but it does mean the Catholic church teaching on marriage is what God intended. It's the example Jesus left us when He laid down His life for the church and all of mankind.
@@billlee2194 Yes in Catholicism, marriage is a covenant. In Protestantism, it is a contract that can be broken at any time. I actually read in a book by a Protestant author though, that marriage is meant to make us holy more than it is meant to make us happy. Too many people put their own "personal happiness" above everything else, and that includes many Catholics.
@@julieelizabeth4856 Yes, that was me for 70 years until I became catholic and realized I had been duped and had duped myself. I've paid a heavy price with my marriages and children as I know they have as well.
@@billlee2194 My previous comment here seems to have disappeared (happens frequently) but I remember what I wrote. Blessings to you and welcome to the one true Church.
I was cradle Catholic revert... even though I was gone for many years I knew in my heart the Catholic church was the Church Jesus Christ had left behind on Earth, you can feel the absolute mystery of Faith in the Church and the Holy Spirit is in every breath it takes. You can see this throughout History and in the lives of Heroic virtue and the Miraculous Love of the Saints.
This is a very accurate assessment. My wife and I are lifelong Protestants (Baptist/non-denom) and are currently in RCIA. I studied Catholic doctrine for nearly two years before deciding to convert, so I didn’t take it lightly. Before we decided to convert, we looked at over fifty churches and watched their sermons online. I can’t even explain to you how bad some of them were. Many of them didn’t even have a belief statement on their website. Some of them ignored the Eucharist entirely. One pastor even explained how he got $30,000 from his parents and he just knew God was with him because he needed that money. As the mainline Protestant denominations die, the non-denominational Protestant churches are taking its place. I know there are genuine Christians in this group, but I seriously worry for my Protestant friends and family.
When you get down to it Protestantism isn’t primarily about sola fide, or sola scriptura, it was about rejecting the authority of the church and enthroning oneself as ultimate authority. Everything else is simply a means to support that primary principle. Luther and Calvin cast off the church and set themselves up as authorities to be followed and were shocked to find their disciples imitating them and setting themselves up as their own authorities. They were willing to burn everything down in order to reject the authority of the Catholic Church. The fruit of this leads to the destruction of the political order as well, this is why the old monarchies are now gone, rejecting the church authority logically leads to rejection of political authority. This is why the puritans beheaded the king, long before the French Revolution.
I think you’re right on this, and some of the evidence for that is that most Protestants are simply unable to read the passages about Jesus giving authority to the apostles and take him at his word. John 20:22-23, the bit about Jesus giving them authority to forgive or retain sins stands out to me as a passage that obviously must be rejected by the “you should confess to God, never to a priest” folks. I am so pleased to have finally opened up to the possibility that Ignatius, who was ordained by the Apostle John, might have a better idea of how the Apostles worshipped than John McArthur. I keep reading passages of scripture that were a problem before and thinking “oh, I can believe that one now.”
@@nightshade99 Doctor Bergsma mentioned a church in Michigan that preaches that Jesus is the same as The Father, Son and Holy Spirit because Our Lord said to ""Baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit" but Saint Peter baptized in the name of Jesus. They put themself as the authority and thought that they understood Scripture. But, they came up with an impossible conclusion.
@@nightshade99 Cool. How come so many denominations with conflicting ideas of salvation if they are all led to an understanding of scripture bu the same Holy Spirit?
Protestantism taught me that I had assented to the necessary propositions to have been saved. Then it taught me that Christianity is a relationship. I spent 3 years trying to figure out what that means. I read my Bible and I constantly tried to convince myself that I was being led by the Spirit. Eventually He led me to the Orthodox Church, and for the past 2 years I've been learning how to experience salvation today. The lives of the Saints show me what it means to have a relationship with Christ. I'm learning to pray and to live a life of daily repentance. Oftentimes it's not a pleasant experience. Thank God. I'm never going back.
What a wonderful video! You really nail so many excellent points. I was raised as a Protestant, and because of that divorcing of the material and spiritual, I would eventually deconstruct and fall into occultism/theosophy. My old Prot churches felt so hollow. I was unable to reconcile the idea that I could be saved by my own belief that I'm saved. That merely reading and memorizing scripture was enough. The Solas never sat right with me. I was ignorant of Orthodoxy, believing it was an ethnic church only. Then, in 2020, I was drawn to it via TH-cam videos about the Church and never looked back. My Greek Orthodox parish and even the local Antiochian are 75% converts. I floated through so many Prot churches. I used to attend expensive, 3 day conferences and never felt nourished. Orthodoxy felt like my true home. It allowed for God's mysteries, where most Prots are about total cerebral/intellectual approaches. I like feeding the mind but I hungered for more and found that in Holy Orthodoxy. It's been incredible to witness how the internet was able to steer so many seeking, hungry souls away from the hollow schismatic churches and lead them to the fullness of the faith. God bless!
to me the core issue is what most people fail to identify: protestants don't have worship. sure, they sing some songs and listen to either a peptalk (evangelicals) or a lecture (more traditional) but it's nothing you actually would have to leave the house for. according to protestant logic, scripture is obvious so why even need a minister? just stay at home and read your bible and they'll all come to the same truths. what they ultimately lack is the Eucharist because they reject it and even ridicule it. but they don't realise how empty and poor and nonsensical their churchservices are, they do nothing they can't do themselves at home. because of their very shallow concept of worship ( singing songs, saying a prayer, peptalk) they mistake us for "worshipping" Mary, it simply doesn't occur to them that they themselves aren't worshipping. as a former protestant now catholic I'm painfully aware of this poverty and of the millions well meaning protestants who are stuck in heresy without their own fault. Go to mass or divine liturgy, see the apostolic church in action and recognise true worship and the presence of Christ through the Eucharist.
I had the same perception. The chuches are dark, bland, blah and barren of beauty. The talk is very personal vanity and egoism. The rituals are all repetitious talk on the same thing. The copied rituals are messy and confused. Had the feeling of being in a roomful of kids listening to a longwinded dull brat.
Protestant pastors are not qualified to offer the sacrifice. They are hired teachers who can be dismissed by the deacon board comprising of lay men. Hence, they can't have a meaningful worship service. Their gathering is like Jews gathering in a synagogue whereas Catholic worship is like Jews worship in the Temple with animal sacrifice.
What’s even the point of church in Protestantism if everything is about “my” spiritual experience, “my” personal relationship with Jesus, “my” interpretation of the Bible, etc. ? Like you said, it ends up being a totally gnostic mindset. Thank God for confession, the Eucharist, our ongoing personal accountability to God, writings of saints - to list a few things found in these traditional churches. God wants our faith to be living - not just a one-time “I’m saved and that’s it!” Keep doing what you’re doing!
@nightshade99 if there’s no Eucharist, no confession, and the denomination picks and chooses whatever it deems ‘Biblical’ - and if one doesn’t agree, just hop on over to another church - what is even the point of this?
nightshade99...if you stop and think about it, one can have no greater 'personal relationship' with Christ, if they are abiding in Christ, than to consume His body and blood in the Eucharist. That's the true altar call at every Mass. 🙏🙏🙏
Great video! After 40+ years as a Protestant but always questioning how each denomination were so sure they had it right I walked away from it. Not my faith but being a protester. It took me still years to find my way to the Truth of Catholicism. The real and physical Church Christ established greatly appealed to me through studying the early Church Fathers. This Fall I started attending RCIA but once I recognized the truth and blessing of Confession and the REAL presence of Christ in the Eucharist I just couldn't wait for Easter. I was confirmed on Christ The King Sunday!! Thanks be to God!!
God gave human beings 5 senses so we can use them fully to know him. This is the reason why the Catholic church have stained glasses, incense, art, icons, relics, etc. Protestants have sanitized everything, it is all in the mind. A 2,000 yrs. old sacred tradition from early church fathers vs. 500 yrs. old religion that came from just few men.
I appreciate what you're doing. As a Catholic, I am certainly inclined toward your take in the broad sense insofar as one can see sola fide as a natural antecedent to the relativistic "my truth" "your truth" we see in the secular world today... But it should be said that there is more than enough variation in the Protestant arena, with its thousands of different sects, that any particular criticism won't apply universally.
Once I had access to the internet and read the early Church Fathers and apologetics online, it was clear to me intellectually that the Catholic Church was Christ's Church. However, Jesus in the Eucharist, melted my heart, brought me to my knees, and led me to His Catholic Church.
lellachu1682...you are blessed. Go read John 6 and see your blessed self in the passages. You were called, you heard, you believed and you partook of His flesh and blood. You did not walk away in disbelief in verse 6:66. Remain in Him and you have eternal life and you will be raised up on the last day. I got goosebumps! 🙏🙏🙏
Problems of protestantism. 1) Sola scriptura cannot be defended without exercising a human authority acting in the name of God. 2. Sola scriptura and sola fide were not propagated because these doctrines are true but were invented to counteract the authority of priesthood and the sacred tradition of the Church. 3. Protestantism is driven by the spirit of rebellion. So, every conceivable idea must be used to counter the Catholic teaching. 4) protestantism can't deal with the sins committed after their so called born again event. So they had to teach once saved, always saved. That is why they had to introduce the doctrine of imputation of Christ's righteousness. 5) protestantism recognised sanctification is a process. But they cannot point out when do final sanctification of a believer takes place? Is it during baptism or at born again event or at the moment of death or after death? This is because they wanted to dismiss the concept of purgatory. 6. Since protestantism has abolished priesthood, the authority of priests such as teaching authority, governing authority and sanctifying authority cannot be exercised by their pastors. So they have problems with the passages in New Testament books which referred the role of priests. Hence, they needed to give a new narrative to those passages. 7) when there is no boss, there will be no discipline. Protestantism does not allow hierarchical structure of Church governance. So they had to attack the office of papacy just to make themselves look legitimate. 8) when a Protestant pastor has no authority to define faith and morals, he cannot state with authority what is true, what is false, what are heresies, what is right, what is wrong, what is moral and what is immoral, what are permissible and what are prohibited. 9) since they have no priests, they cannot have altars. So they don't have any place to offer the sacrifice to God. In the Old Testament, priests offer animal sacrifice, sacrifice of bread and wine, .... on the altars. Jesus also said, if you remember that you have sinned against your brother, leave your sacrifice at the altar, go and make peace with your brother and then come back and offer the sacrifice. Paul also said in Hebrews 13:10, we have an altar from which those who still serve in the Jewish Temple have no right to eat. 10) Since Protestant pastors are not priests, they have no sanctifying authority. Therefore, they cannot forgive the sins of men in Jesus's name even though Jesus gave the authority to his disciples to forgive or retain the sins of men. Protestants say they are saved by faith alone. But they don't have faith that Jesus can heal the sin sick souls through the hands of the priests even though they wholeheartedly believe Jesus could heal the physically sick people through faith healers. 11) in Acts, we read that the Samaritans had accepted the gospel and were baptised. But they did not receive the holy spirit. So they sent for Apostle Peter and Apostle John to lay their hands on these baptised people. Apparently those who have received the holy spirit had baptised the Samaritan believers but then the Samaritan believers did not receive the holy spirit. It needed the Apostles' intervention. Protestants don't have Bishops through Apostolic succession. So none of them can lay their hands on the baptised believers in imitation of the acts of the Apostles. 12) Protestant pastors can't sanctify water baptism. So they had to teach that baptism is symbolic. 13) protestants celebrate the Lord's Supper and say the bread represented Jesus's body and the grape juice represented Jesus's blood. They will have to say that the bread and wine are true representation of Jesus body and blood because when Corinthians did not recognise the body and blood of Christ when they celebrated the Lord's supper, many of them got sick and some had died. Yet, they cannot afford to give the credit that priests could sanctify the bread and wine to become the body and blood of Christ. They believed their pastors could make bread and wine the true representation of Christ's body and Christ's blood but they had to say Catholic priests can't consecrate them to become the flesh and blood of Jesus which is done at the command of Jesus Christ. 14) protestants say the Church of Christ is one and is invisible. Well, when the visible Church is not one, how can there be one invisible Church? When a person sins, it has consequences spiritually. So, how can physical Church not have consequences in spiritual Church? 15) protestants take pride to be members of the true church of Christ. But there is no verse in the Bible that supports the establishment of Protestant churches. There is also no verse in the Bible that support the establishment of the office of Protestant pastor. Therefore both the Protestant churches and their pastors are unbiblical and illegitimate. Logically speaking, protestants are not Christians at all. When their baptism is not valid, they cannot be valid Christians.
I was a cradle Catholic who wanted to truly believe what I practiced, not just because my family did. I went to many Protestant services and learned their theology while immersing myself in Our Catholic faith. I don’t mean to express this uncharitably but Protestants and others felt like watered down Christianity. I found the Catholic faith throughout history and they held the faith even today where even the orthodox get confused or bend (like how they rebaptize Christians, which was declared a heresy by the councils they affirm). Or how they allow multiple marriages. The fullness of the faith is quite obviously (in my studying) in the Catholic faith. It is also the only church that truly healed my soul and gave me miracles. My feet won’t be moved. Having said that I pray for God’s blessings on us all.
Good video. I was raised very low church Protestant (Baptist/Nondenom) and for the longest time I never really questioned what I had been raised with. But this past year I decided to really dig into my faith. I remember being taught that the Reformation was a “restoration” of the early Church, free from the “additions” of Rome that supposedly built up over the centuries. So I decided to start reading the early Church Fathers. And what do I find? Talk of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist (I had never even heard the word Eucharist before, it was always just the elements of Communion which is just a memorial meal, nothing more). Talk of the necessity of Bishops. Talk of not following others into schism. (What even is schism in Protestantism?) Realizing that the Bible I’ve been using was the Masoretic Text that had been altered by the Rabbinic Jews after the time of Christ to obscure the fact that He was the Messiah, instead of the Septuagint which was the Bible the early Church used. Not to mention, how do I even justify the Bible I even have, rejecting the Church that gave it to me as having gone apostate and into heresies? There’s just so much that, once I actually stopped to think about it, to allow myself to question my presuppositions, I realized didn’t make sense about the Protestant worldview. Christ promised the gates of Hades will not prevail over the Church, that the Holy Spirit would guide into all truth, Saint Paul’s declaration of the Church being the pillar and ground for truth. Yet the justification for the Protestant movement explicitly relies on these statements being false. They have to come up with novel ideas like the “invisible church” to get around the clear implications of these texts. So now, here I stand, a Catechumen in the Russian Orthodox Church. I could never go back to that world of ever changing, ever evolving goofiness. I know a lot of them are well meaning and just following what they’d be raised with, but it’s an utterly incoherent world. My guess would be down the line, Protestantism will be a tiny faction laying claim to the name Christian. They’ll be a rather insignificant population like the Oriental Orthodox and the vast majority of Christendom will be the standard East/West divide of Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic.
Thank you for your testimonies. If the Catholic Church built up “additions” that corrupted the early Church that Our Lord established after a few centuries, but Protestant churches were founded in the 1500’s and have lasted for five hundred centuries, that would mean that Our Lord was not as good at establishing a church as men like Martin Luther were! If you ever consider leaving the Orthodox Church, please consider the Catholic Church, which He founded on the rock of Saint Peter in Matthew 16:18-19.
@@RitaGatton I initially started with exploring Catholicism. Attending a Latin Mass parish, reading and listening to a lot of Catholic apologetics. I liked a lot of what I saw, but I still had some issues. Once I started consuming Orthodox apologetics and listening to debates between Orthodox and Catholic I've ultimately found the Orthodox arguments more persuasive, personally.
Yes, they have everything except one thing. An earthly authority to settle dsagreements. BTW, you can retain the Orthodox traditions in the Eastern Catholic churches...and....have an earthly authority to settle disagreements. You get the best of both worlds. Just a suggedtion. God bless.
Wow. You got totally right... The de-carnation (just looking at the word - not the word in-carnated) opens up the faith to gnosticism. And gnosticism SUCKS the LIFE out of your SOUL. So well-put! What protestants are left with is just an ephemeral Jesus - totally lonely and without a body. Just His teachings, but no reality for the whole human person - body, soul and mind... Instead the Church is full of incarnation: The Church itself as an organism with a head and a heart, Mary, Joseph and the Saints. And the Real Presence in the Eucharist. This makes us all ONE under and in HIM, and makes Him real. We are truly part of God's family, and not just individual islands that are either saved or not. Thank you! God bless you! Blessed Advent from Berlin / Germany!
There is nor ever will be worship in a protestant service because true worship requires sacrifice. Was that way in the OT and which we now experience in the re-presentation of the sacrifice of the Eucharist at Holy Mass. Protestants have praise services, book studies and veneration, but they can't and don't have worship. It's not possible.
Protestant here. I must say that for me, the Eastern Orthodox Church has a strong appeal. However, curiously, the reasons I have not converted are precisely the reason that she says I should: because for me Orthodox liturgy satisfies a carnal desire for aesthetic experiences, while in the plainness of Protestant worship I am forced to focus on eternal Truth. So, oddly enough, I would say that for me, it is the 'deeper' traditions which are actually more superficial, while the 'shallower' causes me to confront head-on the matters of practical service and the Word. I think there is room for both, and I dearly long for more ancient tradition, but for now I will continue following Christ alone as best as I know how.
Genuine question…why are you equating aesthetic experience of ancient worship as carnal? The Catholic and orthodox style of worship is described in revelation as what we will do for eternity so how exactly are you going to call it carnal to worship properly?
The Divine Liturgy isn’t for you at all. It’s all for God. If you are thinking about how it makes you feel, or how you respond to it, then you are missing the entire point. I think one of the hardest things for Protestants to accept is that it simply doesn’t matter what you think, believe, or feel. Those are all subjective aspects of one’s individuality (which is one of the gods of the West) that are completely immaterial.
The most humbling experience is when you perform the daily Examin and go to confession to give a full accounting to god on how you well short. Its a foretaste of particular judgement. The Catholic church is comprised of 23 churches in communion with Rome. One of them is the Byzantine Church which practices the Eastern Rites. For people who love that type of liturgy and worship can go there and never leave the Catholic church. As Catholics we have the rite of communion when we attend these services because of the patrine unity.
Well done, once again! I hope this helps many people. I noticed, however, you mentioning Catholic and Orthodox kind of on the same footing, so I’d like to say a few words of caution regarding the Eastern Orthodox, so please bare with me - will try to make it short. I would not put the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy on the same level. The orthodox are not one church as one would think of the Catholic Church - it’s a collection of independent national churches (14,15, or 16 of them depending which orthodox you ask) who are in constant disunity and quarrels being without a single head of the Church instituted by Christ. Their teaching is roughly that of the first millennium, as after their 11-th century schism they could not gather a ecumenical council, while claiming they are the true Church, to define a dogma as it would have been normally defined when they were part of the Church. For a Church being able to respond to the challenges of the current day with authority is a sign of the true and living Church. So as a consequence of schism they deny many catholic dogmas like Immaculate conception, Purgatory, Filioque, Papal Infallibility, etc borrowing nearly all the arguments from Protestantism, interestingly enough. They suffer from rampant nationalism and caesaropapism (factual head of the church being the roman emperor (or his modern equivalent) instead of the pope or bishop in a local catholic church). They don’t have a clear and officially defined teaching on the number of sacraments, as they went into schism before the Church defined them as being a total of seven. Some of them later unofficially took the same number of sacraments from the Catholic teaching but deny they did so. So it’s a bit of a mess. And of course they openly call Catholics heretics for believing the above-mentioned dogmas, while being material heretics themselves as a consequence of denying the dogmas which Church proclaimed after the Great Schism, thus rejecting their own ancient Tradition, as no Dogma can be proclaimed and taught unless it goes all the way back to the teaching of the Apostles and the early Church Fathers. There’s a whole lot more, and I’ve already taken too much space here. Just so you know, the orthodox in the West are much more “tolerant” and “nice” in general being a tiny minority, and being very cautious with their usual accusations agains the Catholic Church including that the Pope is the anti-Christ or close to it, so I would not judge the whole orthodoxy just by what you encounter in the US (I myself come from a country with overwhelmingly orthodox culture, being baptised in latin rite of the Cath. Ch. as an adult nearly 30 years ago). One would argue that it’s better to join the orthodox than be a protestant. Well, is it better to be at the bottom of the pit or half way up the pit still not seeing any light of the sun or out of the pit all together? If one wants to follow Christ in obedience (which is what word Faith means) why not follow Him to where the truth actually is and not settle for half-truth or a third of the truth? So if anyone made it this far, people, go visit a Catholic mass, read history, church fathers, read the catechism of the Catholic Church to find out what it really teaches, not the lies you’ve been told. And if you’re drawn to an eastern liturgy - and there are many of those, not just eastern orthodox, which is the Constantinopolian Rite (Byzantine Rite), all of these rites are present in the Catholic Church - there are Greek catholics, Armenian catholics, Maronites, Coptic, Chaldeans, Syriac and many others - they all preserve their ancient eastern practices, liturgies and traditions while being in communion with Rome. So yes, you can still be a Catholic and attend Byzantine liturgy in a Greek-Catholic church, which is a great tradition that we all love and cherish, that has thankfully been fully preserved in our Church and which fully embraces its own ancient tradition of the eastern Church Fathers, unlike the Eastern Orthodox. If you want a concise overview of the part of history dealing with the Great Schism I would recommend the Catholic Encyclopaedia as a start (published 1917) online at newadvent.org and is still considered the best encyclopaedic source on practically any topic related to the Church - theology, history, ecclesiology, liturgy, Sacraments, biblical exegesis, arts, etc. Articles like “The Eastern Schism” and “Patriarch and Patriarchate” would be a great starting point to understand that part of our history. God bless!
This is such complete nonsense that it takes a lot of willpower to extend you the benefit of the doubt and not call you a liar. When I started reading this comment I thought I would reply and respond to the points being made, but as it went on I realized that literally every single sentence was false. It strains credibility to believe that someone from an Orthodox country can be this utterly misinformed about Orthodoxy, which is why I have trouble believing you're being honest. I caution you, if you are a sincere Christian who does believe in God, to keep what the scriptures say about bearing false witness in mind in the future. It's not worth refuting what was said wrong here, because the entire comment was so wrong that it doesn't even have a slight similarity with reality. If anyone is reading this who is interested in learning about Orthodoxy or discerning whether to become Orthodox, please pay no attention to a single word in that essay. Nothing he said was remotely correct. There are critics of Orthodoxy, such as Gavin Ortlund, with whom I disagree but who at least operate in good faith. This was not.
@@patrickbarnes9874 As someone raised in a Catholic/Orthodox family, much of what they said is true, and in part, why I reverted to Catholicism. Orthodoxy has a major problem with nationalism and now sadly with Protestant converts who aren't being taught the true faith.
What a great video! This girl is on fire 🔥 One thing I love so much about the catholic faith is that, unlike protestantism, it insists on true holiness. As a protestant, I was told by an "elder" that all my sins would be covered by the blood of the Lamb. I asked: "you mean like sweeping dirt under a rug?" The guy said: "yes, exactly like that." I thought to myself it sounded like cheating, that I wanted to really be holy, not just pretend. Now, as a catholic, I understand that we are all called to holiness, that we have to fight daily to acquire virtue and free ourselves from vices. Through prayer, mortification and the sacraments, with God's grace, we can accomplish this.
Thank you for sharing! Yes, I relate to feeling like a fake. Whenever I asked someone what the Bible means when it says, “Be holy for I am holy” I was told that we can never really be holy that that verse really just means to be declared Holy through faith. It was very confusing for me.
Hope it does disappear. Way easier to have dialogue between Roman Catholics and Orthodox Catholics for a reunion, than to deal with 1 billion self appointed Bishops that come up with new interpretations and try to reinvent the wheel every week. Protestantism is not only wrong, it’s unsustainable.
Because Protestantism was always based on an ahistorical, superficial, de novo rereading of a small number of out-of-context scriptural passages, spread by printing-press enabled pamphlets preying upon frustrations with corruption in the church. It could never withstand an encounter with freely and instantly available information spanning all of Church history, the best apologetic arguments for the Church, and the exposure of the lies and contradictions that have always riddled Protestantism.
To be honest - Orthodoxy offers certainty. Catholicism too , maybe more so. What I sense in Protestantism in the right of private judgment is a lack of certainty. Added to this I agree with your point on the gnostic understanding of material - spiritual distinctions inherent in Protestantism, which again gives you no certainty that the sacraments give Orthodox.
I am a Christian, just as much if not more so than you. There is nothing special about your church. It is full of false doctrines. It has been run by thieves, murderers, and sex offenders. It hollers how the Bible is Catholic while not believing it is true.
Protestants claim that they're interpretation of Scripture is personally guided by the Holy Spirit, yet when you ask them whose interpretation is infallibly correct, they can't tell you! 😂😅
@@AndrewLane-pm2ro That is stupid. The Holy Spirit lets the person who was praying know what the scripture says. It is not a competition to see who is correct. The Douay Rhiems is full of erros. Starting with Genesis 2. Then through out the rest of the Bible it has errors. Jerome's Latin does not match the Sepatuagent or the Hebrew. In Genesis it is Jesus that stomps on the serpents head. It is ridiculous to say Mary did. The birth of Jesus did nothing to stop satan. His dying on the cross and raising from the dead showed satan he was beaten.
Well said. What I do not fully understand is why Protestants always see things as either/or. Maybe it is how they tend to view everything as good/bad or true/false. Scripture itself, in many cases, has many layers of meaning. The Eucharist, for example, is bread and wine, but not just bread and wine. Why not take Jesus at His word that the bread "is" His body and the wine "is" His blood? Catholics recognize the both/and. IMHO I think Protestants miss so much by deciding to place things in small boxes that suit their needs. This is the problem with Sola Scriptura, everyone is their own pope. I also see a spiritual pride, which sadly is very Gnostic. Protestantism also relies on lies about Catholicism to fill the seats. Having an "enemy" can be uniting for a while, but not really satisfying. Channels like yours are providing the truth and Catholics today know and can defend our faith. May God bless you, your family, and your channel.
Well said about how they rely on lies to fill their seats. Some mega-church "planters" specifically look for areas with large populations of Catholics, and then they move in to pull them away.
Ill go a step further by saying they don't care about a person's soul. They still believe in the false belief on OSAS. The bulk of protestants think it's based on a prayer or decision and you're all good no matter what sin you struggle with. Im so glad I left because Jesus is in the sacraments body, blood, soul and divinity. Tp have the sacrament of reconciliation is so life changing. Im truly thankful for my catholic faith.
Wow, you are nailing it! I was Southern Baptist for 40 years before my conversion to Catholic. One Sunday at a “worship” service, I just looked around and thought, “what are we doing? Is this supposed to be pleasing to God? Is this how the first century Christians worshiped God?” You are so correct when you say they have turned into rock concerts with a Ted Talk. When you speak of how Evangelicals try to make everything spiritual. They act as if spiritual means “not physical”.
Why convert to a pagan church. Catholics know more about Mary than what Jesus said and taught, and most of it is lies. She is no queen of heaven, she is no Ark of anything. She can do nothing for you. All you were was bored. You expected the church to fill your needs but that is not what a church is for. Jesus is to do this. All the Catholic church did in your life was to change up the format, but I am pretty sure you will get tired of it also. I have been to a mass and it was the most dead service I have ever attended. It was all planned out and you are to do the same thing every week. There is no life to it.
I think one of the main reasons is just how secular and "modern" the modern world has become. Young people (especially men) aren't wanting to find God in a church that looks and feels like a YMCA or a concert, nor do they want to go to some low-church restorationist church where the preacher is the Pope and there is nothing sacred except listening to a preacher ramble for 15-20 minutes and call that worship (i.e. Baptist, Church of Christ, congregationalists, etc. etc.) Another and possibly the most compelling argument as to why so many evangelicals are converting to traditional Christian churches is simply the fact they have all recorded human knowledge in the palm of their hands... An Amish person could never know if their version of faith is wrong because they could never have that information readily available to them and the Amish congregation is the only form of Christianity they will ever know. The same goes mostly to a lesser extent for evangelicals prior to the internet. How would an average person who has a lot of faith but doesn't study the church history or beliefs seriously know what the early church taught or believed, how could he tell what translation of the Bible is correct or not, how could he know why there were 7 books removed from the Bible and by whom? That information was available, but you would have to go out of your way looking for this information to come to the truth... It would be much easier to go to your elder or preacher of your denomination to ask them to which they will tell you a biased answer, lie, or straight up not know the questions you seek either.
The point you make about the (unitended) effect of Gnosticism, more precisely dualism, on all Protestant theology is very important. I understood this better when I first heard a detailed exposition of Martin Luther's early life which showed that his terrible struggle with his own sinfulness and inability to see himself through the eyes of God's love (evidenced by years of struggle in confession which we know about), and his very rough childhood that included frequent severe physical punishment, could have been the harmful seed that led to his self-created escape from a constant torment of sinfulness. Instead of throwing himself into the arms of Mercy through the Sacraments (which all Christian tradition has done until that point), he created an entire system of (erroneous) theology that tries to get around the issue that he struggled with. He said that we don't need to be concerened about being "dunghills" since God covers us with His snow of righteousness (his doctrine of legal imputation instead of an ontological change in us which he thought he could not experience). Unfortunately, this ill doctrince that tried to solve his own spiritual illness created untold inconsistencies, errors, and an ever deepening system of contradictions and harmed so many millions over the past 500 years. Dualism (separataion of matter and spirit and pitting matter and spirit against each other) is a natural consequence of this kind of theology. This also gave rise to an inability to live in a certain tension of opposites in this age between the first and second coming: holiness and sin coexist, the sinfulness and perfection of the Church coexist, light and darkness coexist. Following Luther's spiritual DNA, protestantism could not handle this tension which then gave rise to a "one OR the other" mentality instead of the ancient "BOTH AND" mentality which, among others, accepts these inevitable tensions in the Age of the Church (age between our redemption and final fulfillment) and does not try to create a simplified, but wrong, theological structure where we can get around the problem of coexisting sin and suffering with an altered theology. The solution given by Christ is to *sanctify matter* (starting with the Incarnation) and heal it through God's transforming grace instead of casting it aside. Where grace *builds on* and does not destroy nature. But then you need means of grace that can embrace matter (our entire reality including the physical) to achieve that which then requires the Sacraments as effective means of grace. And the circle is complete.
"his doctrine of legal imputation instead of an ontological change in us which he thought he could not experience" This is just flat out false, your whole argument is based on a false premise.
@@EmbracingTradition100 The doctrine of imputation is just a one aspect, the other one is the junion with Christ which is a Lutheran doctrine and affects an ontological change, the claim that Luther didn't believe an ontological change is just a flat out lie.
@@EmbracingTradition100 The Large Catechism "Lastly, we must also know what Baptism signifies, and why God has ordained just such external sign and ceremony for the Sacrament by which we are first received into the Christian Church. But the act or ceremony is this, that we are sunk under the water, which passes over us, and afterwards are drawn out again. These two parts, to be sunk under the water and drawn out again, signify the power and operation of Baptism, which is nothing else than putting to death the old Adam, and after that the resurrection of the new man, both of which must take place in us all our lives, so that a truly Christian life is nothing else than a daily baptism, once begun and ever to be continued. For this must be practised without ceasing, that we ever keep purging away whatever is of the old Adam, and that that which belongs to the new man come forth. But what is the old man? It is that which is born in us from Adam, angry, hateful, envious, unchaste, stingy, lazy, haughty, yea, unbelieving, infected with all vices, and having by nature nothing good in it. Now, when we are come into the kingdom of Christ, these things must daily decrease, that the longer we live we become more gentle, more patient, more meek, and ever withdraw more and more from unbelief, avarice, hatred, envy, haughtiness."
Protestantism is crude masculine without the holy feminine that the Virgin Mother is and is having the Holy Masculine through Her...May the church be forever the Bride of fluidity that we in Asia need that is not the western face of Christianity...
Explains why so many in Protestantism have a hard time relating to god, because they don’t use any icons, no Devine feminine(Mary) or other aspects like with the saints. It’s an abstract unknowable being that cannot be shown or it’s considered blasphemy..
Amen 🙏❤️✝️. There are a lot of great apologetics and I will recommend it to you Sam Shamoun who were protestant and now he is Catholic and he is incredible how he connects the dots. Check his videos, you won't be disappointed. Ignore his harsh speak sometimes, his hero is St Paul obviously 😂, and he admits that he probably has a Adhd or something other issues from mental spectrum, but his memory and knowledge is amazing
Im certainly in this category. I was raised Mormon and left to become a pagan for years. I have only recently come back to Christianity after researching the rabbit hole of demonology and being left to conclude that "shadows" and darkness are certainly real, and that consequently the light that gives them form must also be real. So, here I am torn between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Ive attended one of the evangelical "megachurches" recently on the invitation of a friend and found the live band, big screen tvs, in church shops and coffee bars to be somewhat off-putting. Even my Buddhist Southeast Asian wife commented about how corporate and plastic everything felt. I was inclined to agree. It was a far cry from the solemnity, spirit and feelings of sacredness I remember from my youth. Calling it a rock concert is an apt analogy, and bottom line, the spirit of God was not in that place, regardless of the intentions of its attendants, which I will not speculate on. I feel God's presence more by simply walking out into the forest near my home than I do when I enter a church like that, and its sad because Im sure many of those people really love God and want to do what is right, but that reality is all they've ever known.
Psalm 150:4-6: "Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD"
Anglican here. Some of the least reverent services I have been to have been catholic parishes, contemporary music and people arriving late and leaving right after communion.
@@EmbracingTradition100 Agreed, I have been lucky enough to attend traditional Catholic parishes, but even where I live which has a VERY large Catholic community, they are few and far between. Great content and video, sorry if my comment seemed uncharitable.
@@lindaakguest4ever50I have spent time in the Orthodox Church and very much enjoyed it. I haven't been to a Latin Mass yet but plan to at some point. However, I'm quite invested in traditional Anglicanism and don't have any plans of leaving
Zephaniah 3:17 King James Version (KJV)The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
I've only been reading the Bible for a few months but I very quickly realised that the Church of England is not only what I would describe as 'shallow and plastic', but they're (the leadership at least) not even Christian. I am definitely a Christian, but I have no idea what denomination, I need to learn more, I was an atheist until about 9 months a go. I guess when people say 'protestant' they mean the C of E and the other similar denominations?
Protestant is referring to any denomination that falls outside of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. So it includes the COE but also covers a lot more. I will pray for you to have clarity as you search for belonging and truth. 🙂
@@EmbracingTradition100 Yes, I've found a lot of good resources over the last few months, lots of good channels on here and I now know where my local Catholic Church is (it's only 10 minutes walk!!). I came across your channel today, I enjoyed your video, you're very well spoken and very gracious.
Faith alone is calling the game and not even bothering to participate in it. Ignoring most of the New Testament and most of what Jesus Christ taught and commanded. Fun fact: Accepting Jesus as your “personal savior” came from Charles Fullers popular radio show Old Fashioned Revival Hour that aired from 1937 to 1968. What about the sinner’s prayer? Billy Graham 1950s. Neither are in the Bible.
And you care more about Mary than Jesus. Where is that in the Bible? You haven't a clue about anything protestant. Protestantism has always been about a personal God. Jesus said He is a personal God. "I am the Truth. the Way, and the Light, no one comes to the Father but through me. There is no church that can save your soul. Until you say to Jesus you are a sinner and will repent of those sins, and make Jesus your Lord and Savior then you are not saved. You can take the Eucharist every week and be baptized but until you make Him your personal Savior you are not saved.
@@bcalvert321You have no idea about me or Catholicism which is why you parrot dumb slogans. I know quite a lot about Protestantism which is precisely why I am not a Protestant.
@@bcalvert321 Your hero Martin Luther said this: “If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their sqalvation." Do you believe this garbage? Do you think God will reward murder in heaven for eternity because you made a simplistic ascent of the intellect by declaring a radio show slogan that is not in the Bible?
@@Knight-of-the-Immaculata Luther is no hero to me. Catholics think they can sin and then they can a priest forgive them as many times as they need it. This is no different than what Luther said. It seems only Catholics seem to think Luther said this. Is funny that they let him stay a priest. Al Capone had a Catholic priest on his payroll so He could be forgiven of all of his sins. Your church has made wars, stolen and hoarded gold for Rome, and martyred people in the most hideous ways. They even burned people at the stake and then made saints, Joan of Arc. So do you think God will forgive a church for these things including murder?
THE brotherhood🔺⚔️🔻 One of the biggest reasons is because biblical principles the protestant church has become more of a social club then actually a church feminism homosexuality has eroded the protestant church we need we need a church just for men and a church just for women that’s what
@rockyrsmer9134...Yes, Clement of Rome (80 AD companion of Paul), Ignatius of Antioch (107 AD disciple of John) and Irenaeus of Lyon (180 AD knew Polycarp who knew John) speak of this succession.
There is actually one protestant denomination, although they would argue that they are not protestant, that is very conservative and adheres to the same ancient form of worship as the Catholic and Orthodox churches. They also believe that Baptism saves and that you receive Jesus' body and blood in the Eucharist. That denomination is the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
Pretty much what you said. I became Orthodox after 30 years as a Lutheran. There was a 'superficial' depth to their theology. They believed in the Real Presence and the necessity of Baptism... at least on paper. But if you touched on it, eventually you are saved by faith alone as the only answer. So their Sacraments are pointless. Neither is there a necessity for change. There is a push for Repentance, but to say you 'need' to do good works, they will say no you don't. Its just a 'natural' product of faith... i got tired of the runarounds. I looked into the early Church and couldnt stay Protestant anymore.
Very insightful video...To say we are spiritual beings having a human experience is heretical..We are union of body and soul..Protestants Christian promotes gnosticism tremendously i find in my observation n that's why they overspiritualized reality..I find alot of them influenced by Plato philosophy n that's why they denigrates the material world tremendously....Give Thanks...
Around the 23:00 mark on the church ALWAYS being reliable you might want to check out the video "When The Church Betrayed Jesus" by Breaking In The Habit, a Franciscan. Your other comments shows insight delivered with care, concern, and love vs so many comments here left by others. Remember if you have the "right" theology but lack the fullness of love you...have missed the mark completely and you know what missing the mark is called.
I watched the video you suggested. I want to clarify. I didn’t meant to imply that the church has never had bad leaders or made mistakes in the general sense. I was trying to convey that the Church will not fail when it comes to being a dogmatic voice for the truth in faith and morals. 😌 That was a great video btw. Thanks for sharing.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
“Sola scriptura” gives all authority to individual interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures. If every American could interpret the US Constitution however he or she wanted to, and his or her interpretation became the only law for him or her, it would lead to anarchy and chaos.
There are rules of interpretation called hermeneutics, so you cannot interpret the the bible however you want. Sola scriptura only means that the bible is the only infallible authority, there is a tradition of interpretation so your accusation is null and void.
@@EmbracingTradition100 "who gets to infallibly declare how to interpret the scriptures? " There is no infallible authority other than the bible, the bible is a clear book and the church as a whole can preach the gospel and theach how christians should live. Problems arise when somebody (the pope) tries to claim infallible authority and declares dogmas which cannot be found in the bible.
@ isn’t that what you’re doing when you’re declaring that there is a right and wrong way to interpret scripture? When the scriptures themselves don’t give us any such thing? Protestants have such qualms with the authority of the church but they have no problems making authoritative declarations that aren’t explicitly in the Bible and try to authoritatively tell others that they’re wrong…..Protestants are theit own popes. That is the inevitable outcome of sola scriptura.
So the question is: "Why is Everyone Becoming Catholic and Orthodox?". Well, personally, I left my protestant roots because of the writings of the Early Church and the draw to Franciscan Spirituality. So I converted to Anglo-Catholicism; One, because there is so much beauty and sacramental experience in Anglo-Catholic worship. The local Roman Catholic Church is so cold and ugly (60s-70s). I'm now a Deacon in the English expression of the Catholic Faith, and a vowed third order Franciscan. Two, The Orthodox Church makes so much sense to me, but the closest Orthodox parish is more than a 3 hour drive.
Anglo-Catholics consider themselves to be Catholics within the Anglican Church. Furthermore, many traditionalist Anglo Catholics see the liturgical abuses, liberalism, and spiritual decay within the Catholic Church and believe themselves to be more faithful to Catholicism than most Catholics. The typical Anglo-Catholic will look, pray, and worship in a way that looks like a traditional Catholic’s style of worship. He will use Roman liturgies, keep the Roman calendar, pray the rosary, and be Catholic in everything but full communion with the Holy See. The task for the Catholic apologist is to help him see that this one thing he lacks is the most important thing. The traditionalist Anglo-Catholic is very similar to a traditionalist Catholic group in his mentality. He believes himself to be part of a remnant of true believers whose job it is to keep the faith and stand firm, while all the others in his church drift into moral decay, heresy, schism, and apostasy. Rather than seeing full communion with Rome as the answer, he sees it as going out of the frying pan into the fire. He is not convinced that Rome is any purer than the Anglican church. The bottom line in discussion with Anglicans is the question of authority. Should the Catholic apologist point to the disarray within Anglicanism the Anglican may well reply, “You Catholics have just as much variety and dissent and division in your ranks.” To which we must say, “That may be, but we do not claim it as a virtue. We have one authority on earth. We have one clear teaching. We may not all obey it. We may not all unite around it, but it is there. It is one. It is holy. It is Catholic. It is apostolic. It is a rock on which to build, and the rock is Peter and his successor.” (Excerpt from Catholic.com)
@bcalvert321 how so? I see a great deal of respect for the great Saints of Christianity and that veneration really just glorifies God's kingdom on Earth. I think this issue for most protestants is that they don't actually know how to worship God properly, so veneration looks like idol worship.
@@brandonofthedead Saints are not God. They have lived and died. It is okay to respect them and learn about them. But they can do nothing for you. They cannot help you in any way. Prayers to them are empty prayers. Jesus and the Father deserve veneration because they created you. Jesus died on the cross for you. He is the one who has taken your sins away. Catholics are lied to from birth that these saints can somehow from heaven can do special things for us but they have no power in heaven. Only the Godhead has such power and Mary is not a part of the Godhead.
@@EmbracingTradition100 We worship God and Jesus. We do not worship saints or even venerate them. We do not need beads sold by the church to pray to Jesus. We do not pray to saints who have no power to do anything for us. No created beings have any power in heaven. All power is from the Godhead and Mary is not a part of the Godhead.
I keep saying the same thing, please dig deeper. God, Jesus is much larger than what the bible can fit. I feel that some Protestants are too blinded that they closed their hearts for the Holy Spirit to truly work within them to find the truth. Sometimes it seems that they worship the bible more when they know, that the bible was written and edited over and over by a few (who protested) since and interpreted based on each individual's understanding. hence why there are so so many diff. Protestant denominations.. why cant they see this? They blame CC for the flawed humans the Church sometime has and judge the Church as the enemy only based on that. They dig deeper purposely, but only the flaws that they can find.. Not all humans even those in the priesthood can be saints. They hear the negative and they make strong hard assumptions that we dont worship the Almighty God but the enemy. Protestants : divisions Catholics/Orthodoxy : unity ❤❤❤ thank you for another great video!
Jesus said to all of us Mathew 5:8 - "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God". But where is our faith in Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, Lord of heaven and earth who build only one church with the authority of His heavenly Father through his apostle simon peter only, not even through His 11 Apostles and the popes are the successors which they continually preach the Kingdom of God and to heal right from His apostle simon peter. And Jesus said 7:15 - "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves" 21] "Not every one who says to Me Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven". Mathew 12:30 - Jesus said "he who is not with Me is against Me and he who does not gather with Me scatters". Mathew 15:13 - Jesus said "EVERY plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14] LET them alone; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit".
For me, as a former Souther Baptist/non-denom now Catholic, I believe one reason why Protestantism didn't work for me is because the Reformers separated justification from sanctification. Being Baptist, that meant on one side (justification) i.e. Faith alone + The altar call + a one-time decision was where our focus was. On the other side (sanctification) we find striving, obeying, doing good deeds, partaking of the Sacraments. When one is taught that salvation cannot be lost, there is no serious need for sanctification. I remained a broken slave to sin for 70 years hoping it was true I was saved waiting on the rapture. It took a Catholic priest to finally look me in the eye and say ' you know you need to actually stop practicing sin'. Something no Protestant even told me. That what once saved always saved did for me and to me. I remained a broken slave to sin merely wearing a Jesus mask.
Thank you so much for sharing. My husband and I have had the same experience. It is so freeing.
I was a Protestant for a short time. I became thoroughly disillusioned with it bcoz it teaches the false doctrines you mention, which seem to be the result of stupidity and/or dishonesty.
I see many younger Prot TH-camrs preaching that you don’t need to avoid sin. Your past, present and future sins are forgiven. Extremely dangerous message.
@@Knight-of-the-Immaculata Exactly. They're falling into Satan's trap ... a counterfeit "Christianity" that can result in eternal damnation.
@@AndrewLane-pm2ro I'm thinking it's a part of human nature that we can all possess which stems from pride and is a combination of rebellion against authority and an invincible ignorant sincere desire to make something we view as wrong right. In otherwords, we were each handed what they have and we can sometime mold it into how they understand it even if it's not correct. I believe this is true for Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox i.e. instead of abiding by the authorities Jesus left over us, we can go off on our own preaching something the church did not intend. I know I have probably been guitly of it myself but, as we grow in knowledge and maturity by grace, we are better able to share with clarity in charity wouldn't you agree? That's something we could all strive to do better.
It’s because of the internet. People are being exposed to the truth. The reason people are leaving the schismatic Protestant church is the same reason people are leaving Islam.
I’m thinking the same. The explosion of TH-cam shows and podcasts among other platforms that are dedicated to Catholic truths, teachings, and reflections has given rise to a new wave of interest and a deeper understanding of our faith than ever before. The internet, indeed is a potent weapon of evangelization and of renewed invigoration of our Catholic faith and we thank God for it.
The truth always wins in the end. Protestants didn’t help themselves by teaching lies and bigotry against the Catholic Church. It just helped fuel the eventual backlash.
Well, there are many lies in the internet as well. Just look at all the slandering against the pope by many channels, especially the traditionalist ones. If you are careful choosing your channels, you're safe. In particular I prefer to listen to clergy only. Laity apologists tend to know well the doctrine detail but miss the revealed purpose. They're fine when it's about news or personal opinion, like this one.
Thats true
People are looking for reverence and the right doctrine which they are not finding in a synodal process that only gradually differs from the German model, albeit it took the most radical proposals into commitees. Traditionalism is seeing most dynamism in Europe compared to the stale synodal 'Amtskirche', this is not just an American temporal phenomenon as even Massimo Faggiolo the progressive Rome based Vatican Journalist pointed out @@chilenobarrucia
Been to some Protestant denominations churches, I have to say Catholic mass is more solemn and serene.
@@nightshade99 Crying and shouting like trance with hands in the air while praying, dancing and singing with full band is necessary?
@@nightshade99 Huh? Funny, I was gonna ask you the same thing about Protestantism😊
@@nightshade99 Judging by your comments, I know you don't know much about Protestantism nor Catholicism. You can keep my smug emoji to your drawer. I don't need it😀
The Catholic Church is the body of Christ. CCC 787-789
John 15
787 CCC references bible at
From the beginning, Jesus associated his disciples with his own life, revealed the mystery of the Kingdom to them, and gave them a share in his mission, joy and suffering.
Mk 1 : 16-20 Mk 3 : 13-19;
Mt 13 : 10-17
Lk 10 : 17-20 Lk 22 : 28-30
Jesus spoke of a still more intimate communion between him and those who follow him: " Abide in me, and I in you... I am the vine, you aee the branches."
Jn 15 : 4-5
And he proclaimed a mysterious and real communion between his own body and ours: " He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him."
John 6 : 56
788 CCC
Just the bible refs...
Jn 14 : 18 Jn 20 : 22
Mt 28 : 20
Acts 2 : 33
790-796 CCC
There are numerous bible refernces showing the Catholic Church is the body of Christ.
Just look at all the Eucharistic miracles.
Marian Apparitions with supernatural events showing proof of heavenly interaction...
With many revelations of future events within lifetime of mystics or past. Mystics with stigmatas.
The 5 Catholic priests that survived an atomic bomb in WW2 at Hiroshima Japan. They did even get radiation poisoning and they were like 2 miles away from drop site... nobody else survived for miles. Some much further away received radiation poisoning.
Uncorrupted saints bodies that do not decompose!!!! And instead smell like flowers.
A particular tilma that normally disintegrate within 40-50 yrs... that tilma has lasted nearly 500 years... it also has miraculous qualities... such as body temperature... cannot be reproduced artistically... etc...
Heaven does not rest in showing the Catholic Church is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church Jesus left us.
Does not seem to be a false religion of the one and only God...
Dull and anb dying,
My story is I was a weak Catholic so I became a Protestant. When I became a strong Protestant I reverted back to Catholicism. When I reverted I felt like nothing was sacred in the Protestant faith. Everyone was let loose to interpret the Holy Bible on their own and most of the auditoriums were lifeless.
Thank you for sharing! I’m glad you found your way back home!
@EmbracingTradition100 I'm so happy I'm back in my father's house and overwhelmed with the fullness of faith.
Weak, unsaved Protestants become Ccatholic.
***THANK YOU. YOU DID YOUR BEST, WOW! I AM A CONVERT TOO. BUT I WAS BORN IN MIDDLE EAST NOW CANADIAN. I NEVER BELIEVED IN GOD. BUT WHEN I MOVED TO CANADA I START TO SEE THE REALITY OF CATHOLIC FAITH, EVEN THOU I BECAM A PROTESTANT FIRST FOR 2 YEARS, BUT NOW I AM A DEVOTED CATHOLIC. AGAIN I AM SO CONVINCED AS A CATHOLIC! MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY!
Thank you! 😊
brava!
"Rock concert with a TED talk." Never heard it put better.
God established the Catholic Church with the 7 Sacraments, the Magisterium, Church Authority, the Priesthood, The Orders of Nuns and Monks. He established the Catholic Church and all will be Catholic in the end. Praying for the conversion of the whole world 🌎. To the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. All other faiths will fall away including Protestantism. I pray all to be Catholic 🙏💕🙏🤗
Thy way, O God, is in thy sanctuary, who is so great a God as our God?
{Psalm77:13}
...as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith God, that thou make all things according to *the pattern* shewed to thee in the mount.
{Hebrews 8:5}
The *sanctuary* [tabernacle] was a pattern of types and shadows of the heavenly temple, and Jesus Christ is the substance of those types and shadows.
Jesus Christ is the door to the sanctuary; He is the door to the Kingdom of heaven.
He is the inner court surrounded by white linen; which is symbolic of being covered Christ prefect righteousness.
He is our passover sacrificed for us on burnt alter for sacrifice.
He is the laver for washing; symbolic of the rebirth, being born again of the Spirit.
He is the table of Showbread; the two stacks of loves of bread are symbolic of the word of God (the bread of life) in two testaments / witnesses, also the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve Apostles.
He is the Lampstand; the oil being symbolic of his Spirit; the Lampstand symbolic of his light unto the world.
He is our Altar of incense; making intercession for his saints.
He is our Mercy seat covering the Ark of the covenant; Jesus is both our advocate standing for his saints with the Father and He is our judge in judment.
Jesus Christ caused the sacrifices and their oblations to cease, (Dan 9:27) by his one perfect sacrifice.
In contrast to the time of the Gentiles, wherefore the sanctuary of God is trodden under foot for forty and two months.
How so?
This church who calls herself the mother church, claims to be *the door* to salvation.
And the white linen surrounding the inner court is the righteousness of Mary and the saints of the Roman church.
She claims that Christ sacrifice and Atonement for sin was not sufficient, for she instituted seven (works) sacraments.
She through infant baptism makes a mockery of the rebirth of the new man.
Her Catechism thinks to replace the inspired word of God.
Her prayers to dead saints and to Mary, thinks to replace Christ work of intercession at the altar of incense.
Hers is a false spirit which thinks to cover the light of truth.
This beast and her king think to change times and laws of God.
And goeth into perdition.
@@larrybedouin2921 How do you dream this up? You simply have no idea, may Jesus and the Holy Spirit enlighten you God Bless
@@inquisitortruth104 He is correct about Mary.
Thank you ever so much for your kind and heartfelt message. It truly resonated with me. I have been a Catholic my entire life and, until a few years ago, had never stepped inside an Orthodox Church. However, when I arrived in Bristol, England, I discovered that my landlady is Orthodox. To my delight, she was pleased to learn that I am a Catholic Christian.
Being new to the area, she graciously introduced me to St. Bonaventure Catholic Church, a lovely parish close to the house, which I soon began attending regularly. On occasion, she also invited me to join her at the Orthodox Church in Bristol. I still remember the first time I attended worship there, it was such a profound experience.
In that sacred space, I felt an overwhelming sense of unity, a beautiful reminder of how much we truly share in faith and tradition. I even receive Communion there whenever I attended, a gesture that touched me deeply. It mirrored the spirit of the uplifting message you have shared, which now feels even more meaningful.
Thank you again, and may God bless you abundantly.
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful story! I love it! And thank you for your kind words! ☺️
I was raised a Jew, at Passover we were taught as part of the Seder (Order of service at the Passover ritual and meal) that anyone who participated in the Seder could not say they were remembering what God did to our forefathers in the Desert, bringing them to the Promised land, but must say that we too had participated in the Exodus. God made a past event (the Exodus) present to us today. So when I was presented by Protestants with the idea Jesus was the Messiah, and saw they all disagreed on various issues around Jesus, the only thing they agreed on was that Catholics were not Christians. So I looked at their variety of beliefs, read the NT (being a Sephardic Jew we spoke Greek at home) so I read it in Greek. I saw that in the Mass, Jesus by His own action makes the Last Supper and Calvary (an event from the past) present for us today. It is not an accident that He chose the Passover Seder where God makes past events present, that He makes Calvary and His own Body and Blood present transcending time and space. Only the ancient Churches East and West have this, Protestants abandoned it.
Thank you for sharing this! That is a great perspective to have. ☺️
God bless you and your family's journey. 6 years now since I converted to Catholicism; 2 years for my wife. Our families don't understand, but what a blessing its been.
Thank you! 😊
Protestantism will eventually be replaced by Catholicism as it all began with the Catholic Church ⛪️
Amen 🙏🙏🙏
@@carakerr4081 As an Orthodox I agree, we pray for the pope to return to defending Orthodoxy as the Orthodox popes of the first millennium once did.
@@Thatoneguy-pu8ty not to Protestantism, that quite clearly is a failed experiment
The pope is working on a one world religion that any pagan can follow because he says himself that there are many paths to God. Roman Catholics have been adopting paganism into their church since Constantine made it legal. Diocletian destroyed all the texts, killed many of the leaders, and nearly exterminated all the text. Constantine then tried to put humpty dumpty back together again, but all that was preserved was our scripture. Which is, thankfully, all that we needed. But Catholics love elevating the traditions of men and teaching them as if it were doctrine. Then they adopted beads, pagan holidays, the monstrance, and praying to the dead into their version of Christianity.
@@Thatoneguy-pu8ty• Excuse my ignorance, but what reforms would need to happen to reunite the Orthodox Church with the Catholic Church? I’m currently trying to decide between both.
One really nice thing, among many, about the Catholic Church is that if you go to ANY Roman Catholic Church while on vacation or traveling for work, you will hear the same readings and the structure of the mass is the same. The music might be different, but the words will be the same. The sermons, which are the priest's own words about the readings are only about 10-15 minutes of an hour long service. The rest of the mass is all biblical. Even if you go to a different part of the world the "parts" of the mass are the same. I don't know if you can find that in a protestant service.
This is the one of the most beautiful things to me about it 😊
Thats true, every church is the same, bec The Catholic Church has its own Liturgical Year to follow each and every Catholic Church. And bec every Church is same, our Lord Jesus Christ wants us to be in His ONE Church, in His HOLY Chuch, in His UNIVERSAL Church, and in His APOSTOLIC Church. 🙏
Retta1231...here's a detailed description of the Mass by Justin Martyr in 155 AD.....
m.th-cam.com/video/q-FwgO_s5_A/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUhanVzdGluIG1hcnR5ciBkZXNjcmliaW5nIHRoZSBtYXNz
Sinning on the presumption of forgiveness is itself a sin
Why do you sin?
@@lkae4 I try not to but if you’re a Protestant you probably couldn’t care less right? Fatih alone and once saved always saved garbage? Why do you sin?
@ "Try not to" which means sinning. Why do you do it? On what presumption?
@@tony1685 Why do you sin?
@@Knight-of-the-Immaculata Roman Catholics continue to sin on what presumption? Please ask your priest and share.
Cradle Catholic here,
Wow, interesting 🤔
Thank you,
Jesus spoke of one true Church. He never said sola scriptura nor sola fidei. The protestants dwell so much on the works of the apostles but never accepts the apostolic succession. Jesus spelled the two most important commandment, love God and love thy neighbor, but never.......love yourself. Jusus taught about selfless love, sacrifice oneself for a friend, being the last if you want to be the first, being a slave before becoming a master, turn the other cheek, forgive 70 times 7, etc. Everything about denying yourself to serve your fellowmen.
Exactly bro. Our Lord Jesus Christ wants us to follow Him, obey Him, and live like Him. Truly He is the begotten Son of God who is God the Son. May God bless us all. 🙏
교회는 신비입니다. ‘두세 사람이 내 이름으로 모인 곳에는 내가 그들
가운데 있습니다.‘
This is extremely well-said, and just what I encounter during every debate with a Protestant.
@tony1685 What are you talking about?!
Born into a Catholic family, baptized Catholic, married a Catholic girl into The Catholic Church, converted to Protestantism.(KJV 1611 only); after 30+ years back to " THE CHURCH ", The Catholic Church. Mary, the most blessed human being, Mother of God, crowned Queen of Heaven, and The Eucharist brought me back... back from this sterile, lifeless, heresy....If Luther/Protestantism removed Marriage as a Sacramento little wonder the State now " kidnaps " our children and treats boy/girl are interchangeable... Of course the diabolical epidemic of divorces is a necessary ingredient of this apostasy... 22:57
Yes! Thank you for sharing your journey! 😊
Marriage is one more place I see a world of difference in understanding between Catholics and Protestants. In my Baptist faith, marriage was valued but, if it ended in divorce, the thought was hopefully you'd make the next one work and many Protestant churches will marriage divorced people. Not so in the Catholic church where marriage is a serious matter affecting salvation and where love is a decision of the will for the good of the spouse even if you don't like them. You stay and lay down your life for your wife. Now, of course, that doesn't mean all Catholic marriages succeed and all Protestant one fail but it does mean the Catholic church teaching on marriage is what God intended. It's the example Jesus left us when He laid down His life for the church and all of mankind.
@@billlee2194 Yes in Catholicism, marriage is a covenant. In Protestantism, it is a contract that can be broken at any time. I actually read in a book by a Protestant author though, that marriage is meant to make us holy more than it is meant to make us happy. Too many people put their own "personal happiness" above everything else, and that includes many Catholics.
@@julieelizabeth4856 Yes, that was me for 70 years until I became catholic and realized I had been duped and had duped myself. I've paid a heavy price with my marriages and children as I know they have as well.
@@billlee2194 My previous comment here seems to have disappeared (happens frequently) but I remember what I wrote. Blessings to you and welcome to the one true Church.
I was cradle Catholic revert... even though I was gone for many years I knew in my heart the Catholic church was the Church Jesus Christ had left behind on Earth, you can feel the absolute mystery of Faith in the Church and the Holy Spirit is in every breath it takes. You can see this throughout History and in the lives of Heroic virtue and the Miraculous Love of the Saints.
This is a very accurate assessment. My wife and I are lifelong Protestants (Baptist/non-denom) and are currently in RCIA. I studied Catholic doctrine for nearly two years before deciding to convert, so I didn’t take it lightly. Before we decided to convert, we looked at over fifty churches and watched their sermons online. I can’t even explain to you how bad some of them were. Many of them didn’t even have a belief statement on their website. Some of them ignored the Eucharist entirely. One pastor even explained how he got $30,000 from his parents and he just knew God was with him because he needed that money. As the mainline Protestant denominations die, the non-denominational Protestant churches are taking its place. I know there are genuine Christians in this group, but I seriously worry for my Protestant friends and family.
Thank you for sharing! It’s not an easy decision for sure! Glad to hear that you’re coming into the church! 🙂
@@EmbracingTradition100thank you! Please also keep my son in your prayers. He’s two years into cancer treatment for leukemia. We are trusting God!
@ I’m so sorry. I’ll be praying for him!
When you get down to it Protestantism isn’t primarily about sola fide, or sola scriptura, it was about rejecting the authority of the church and enthroning oneself as ultimate authority. Everything else is simply a means to support that primary principle. Luther and Calvin cast off the church and set themselves up as authorities to be followed and were shocked to find their disciples imitating them and setting themselves up as their own authorities.
They were willing to burn everything down in order to reject the authority of the Catholic Church. The fruit of this leads to the destruction of the political order as well, this is why the old monarchies are now gone, rejecting the church authority logically leads to rejection of political authority. This is why the puritans beheaded the king, long before the French Revolution.
I think you’re right on this, and some of the evidence for that is that most Protestants are simply unable to read the passages about Jesus giving authority to the apostles and take him at his word. John 20:22-23, the bit about Jesus giving them authority to forgive or retain sins stands out to me as a passage that obviously must be rejected by the “you should confess to God, never to a priest” folks.
I am so pleased to have finally opened up to the possibility that Ignatius, who was ordained by the Apostle John, might have a better idea of how the Apostles worshipped than John McArthur. I keep reading passages of scripture that were a problem before and thinking “oh, I can believe that one now.”
@@nightshade99 Doctor Bergsma mentioned a church in Michigan that preaches that Jesus is the same as The Father, Son and Holy Spirit because Our Lord said to ""Baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit" but Saint Peter baptized in the name of Jesus. They put themself as the authority and thought that they understood Scripture. But, they came up with an impossible conclusion.
@@nightshade99 Cool. How come so many denominations with conflicting ideas of salvation if they are all led to an understanding of scripture bu the same Holy Spirit?
@@nightshade99 are you sure its the Holy Spirit who leads people to rebellion, violence, disenssion, lust and pride?
Jesus said the Holy Spirit would guide the Church, not individuals. @nightshade99
Great video indeed. I am following you from Myanmar. Thanks be to God for the well explanation of the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament
Thanks and welcome 🤗
Desde Argentina, un gran abrazo en Cristo, mi querida hermana!! De un católico de cuna.
“A rock concert and a Ted talk” has to be one of the most perfect summations of modern evangelicalism I’ve ever heard. Lol.
They are not True Biblical Protestant Churches, they are failing their congregations. They are not Christ Centred.
Mary and praying to saints is about the only thing Catholics know and most of this is not in the Bible.
This is a very interesting analysis. Thank you!
Thank you! 😊
Protestantism taught me that I had assented to the necessary propositions to have been saved. Then it taught me that Christianity is a relationship. I spent 3 years trying to figure out what that means. I read my Bible and I constantly tried to convince myself that I was being led by the Spirit. Eventually He led me to the Orthodox Church, and for the past 2 years I've been learning how to experience salvation today. The lives of the Saints show me what it means to have a relationship with Christ. I'm learning to pray and to live a life of daily repentance. Oftentimes it's not a pleasant experience. Thank God. I'm never going back.
Glad to hear you’ve found your place! 😊
Praise God!
People are becoming educated and sharing it! Still love to héar from you to get on the channel! Livestreaming tomorrow night!
How can I set it up? lol I’m so new to this I don’t really know how to collaborate yet.
What a wonderful video! You really nail so many excellent points. I was raised as a Protestant, and because of that divorcing of the material and spiritual, I would eventually deconstruct and fall into occultism/theosophy. My old Prot churches felt so hollow. I was unable to reconcile the idea that I could be saved by my own belief that I'm saved. That merely reading and memorizing scripture was enough. The Solas never sat right with me.
I was ignorant of Orthodoxy, believing it was an ethnic church only. Then, in 2020, I was drawn to it via TH-cam videos about the Church and never looked back. My Greek Orthodox parish and even the local Antiochian are 75% converts. I floated through so many Prot churches. I used to attend expensive, 3 day conferences and never felt nourished. Orthodoxy felt like my true home. It allowed for God's mysteries, where most Prots are about total cerebral/intellectual approaches. I like feeding the mind but I hungered for more and found that in Holy Orthodoxy. It's been incredible to witness how the internet was able to steer so many seeking, hungry souls away from the hollow schismatic churches and lead them to the fullness of the faith. God bless!
Thank you so much for sharing your journey! I’m so happy that you found your place in the ancient faith. It’s such a beautiful thing. 😌
to me the core issue is what most people fail to identify: protestants don't have worship.
sure, they sing some songs and listen to either a peptalk (evangelicals) or a lecture (more traditional) but it's nothing you actually would have to leave the house for.
according to protestant logic, scripture is obvious so why even need a minister? just stay at home and read your bible and they'll all come to the same truths.
what they ultimately lack is the Eucharist because they reject it and even ridicule it.
but they don't realise how empty and poor and nonsensical their churchservices are, they do nothing they can't do themselves at home.
because of their very shallow concept of worship ( singing songs, saying a prayer, peptalk) they mistake us for "worshipping" Mary, it simply doesn't occur to them that they themselves aren't worshipping.
as a former protestant now catholic I'm painfully aware of this poverty and of the millions well meaning protestants who are stuck in heresy without their own fault.
Go to mass or divine liturgy, see the apostolic church in action and recognise true worship and the presence of Christ through the Eucharist.
Welcome home!
I had the same perception. The chuches are dark, bland, blah and barren of beauty. The talk is very personal vanity and egoism. The rituals are all repetitious talk on the same thing. The copied rituals are messy and confused. Had the feeling of being in a roomful of kids listening to a longwinded dull brat.
Protestant pastors are not qualified to offer the sacrifice. They are hired teachers who can be dismissed by the deacon board comprising of lay men. Hence, they can't have a meaningful worship service. Their gathering is like Jews gathering in a synagogue whereas Catholic worship is like Jews worship in the Temple with animal sacrifice.
Thats a very well said coming from a former protestant. May God bless u and ur family always. 🙏
@@BensWorkshop thank you brother,and thanks to God who guided me back!
What’s even the point of church in Protestantism if everything is about “my” spiritual experience, “my” personal relationship with Jesus, “my” interpretation of the Bible, etc. ? Like you said, it ends up being a totally gnostic mindset. Thank God for confession, the Eucharist, our ongoing personal accountability to God, writings of saints - to list a few things found in these traditional churches. God wants our faith to be living - not just a one-time “I’m saved and that’s it!” Keep doing what you’re doing!
@@nightshade99 yes… first. Second, there’s a good bit about the body of Christ which is the Church.
@@nightshade99 agreed.
@nightshade99 if there’s no Eucharist, no confession, and the denomination picks and chooses whatever it deems ‘Biblical’ - and if one doesn’t agree, just hop on over to another church - what is even the point of this?
nightshade99...if you stop and think about it, one can have no greater 'personal relationship' with Christ, if they are abiding in Christ, than to consume His body and blood in the Eucharist. That's the true altar call at every Mass. 🙏🙏🙏
Great video! After 40+ years as a Protestant but always questioning how each denomination were so sure they had it right I walked away from it. Not my faith but being a protester. It took me still years to find my way to the Truth of Catholicism. The real and physical Church Christ established greatly appealed to me through studying the early Church Fathers. This Fall I started attending RCIA but once I recognized the truth and blessing of Confession and the REAL presence of Christ in the Eucharist I just couldn't wait for Easter. I was confirmed on Christ The King Sunday!! Thanks be to God!!
Thank you so much for sharing!!! Praise God that you came home! ☺️
God gave human beings 5 senses so we can use them fully to know him. This is the reason why the Catholic church have stained glasses, incense, art, icons, relics, etc. Protestants have sanitized everything, it is all in the mind. A 2,000 yrs. old sacred tradition from early church fathers vs. 500 yrs. old religion that came from just few men.
Nah the Eucharist over everything else. The reason for the mass IS the Eucharist... per parts of her video explanation.
Catholics are both exclusive and casual about the Eucharist. Both have their faults.
Truth and wisdom resides in the one Church the Jesus established.
@KenParks most definitely... I like watching they EWTN's Journey Home epidodes... so many stories of deep conversions!!!
@@nightshade99 Correct
@@nightshade99Jesus started the Catholic church
@@bcalvert321Wrong!
@@bcalvert321Google “Which church did Jesus start?” Catholic
I appreciate what you're doing. As a Catholic, I am certainly inclined toward your take in the broad sense insofar as one can see sola fide as a natural antecedent to the relativistic "my truth" "your truth" we see in the secular world today... But it should be said that there is more than enough variation in the Protestant arena, with its thousands of different sects, that any particular criticism won't apply universally.
Yes. I agree. There’s a wide variation and it would be hard to tackle every single Protestant belief in one video 😅
Once I had access to the internet and read the early Church Fathers and apologetics online, it was clear to me intellectually that the Catholic Church was Christ's Church. However, Jesus in the Eucharist, melted my heart, brought me to my knees, and led me to His Catholic Church.
That’s so amazing! 😊 I can’t wait until Easter!
lellachu1682...you are blessed. Go read John 6 and see your blessed self in the passages. You were called, you heard, you believed and you partook of His flesh and blood. You did not walk away in disbelief in verse 6:66. Remain in Him and you have eternal life and you will be raised up on the last day. I got goosebumps! 🙏🙏🙏
Problems of protestantism.
1) Sola scriptura cannot be defended without exercising a human authority acting in the name of God.
2. Sola scriptura and sola fide were not propagated because these doctrines are true but were invented to counteract the authority of priesthood and the sacred tradition of the Church.
3. Protestantism is driven by the spirit of rebellion. So, every conceivable idea must be used to counter the Catholic teaching.
4) protestantism can't deal with the sins committed after their so called born again event. So they had to teach once saved, always saved. That is why they had to introduce the doctrine of imputation of Christ's righteousness.
5) protestantism recognised sanctification is a process. But they cannot point out when do final sanctification of a believer takes place? Is it during baptism or at born again event or at the moment of death or after death? This is because they wanted to dismiss the concept of purgatory.
6. Since protestantism has abolished priesthood, the authority of priests such as teaching authority, governing authority and sanctifying authority cannot be exercised by their pastors. So they have problems with the passages in New Testament books which referred the role of priests. Hence, they needed to give a new narrative to those passages.
7) when there is no boss, there will be no discipline. Protestantism does not allow hierarchical structure of Church governance. So they had to attack the office of papacy just to make themselves look legitimate.
8) when a Protestant pastor has no authority to define faith and morals, he cannot state with authority what is true, what is false, what are heresies, what is right, what is wrong, what is moral and what is immoral, what are permissible and what are prohibited.
9) since they have no priests, they cannot have altars. So they don't have any place to offer the sacrifice to God. In the Old Testament, priests offer animal sacrifice, sacrifice of bread and wine, .... on the altars. Jesus also said, if you remember that you have sinned against your brother, leave your sacrifice at the altar, go and make peace with your brother and then come back and offer the sacrifice. Paul also said in Hebrews 13:10, we have an altar from which those who still serve in the Jewish Temple have no right to eat.
10) Since Protestant pastors are not priests, they have no sanctifying authority. Therefore, they cannot forgive the sins of men in Jesus's name even though Jesus gave the authority to his disciples to forgive or retain the sins of men. Protestants say they are saved by faith alone. But they don't have faith that Jesus can heal the sin sick souls through the hands of the priests even though they wholeheartedly believe Jesus could heal the physically sick people through faith healers.
11) in Acts, we read that the Samaritans had accepted the gospel and were baptised. But they did not receive the holy spirit. So they sent for Apostle Peter and Apostle John to lay their hands on these baptised people. Apparently those who have received the holy spirit had baptised the Samaritan believers but then the Samaritan believers did not receive the holy spirit. It needed the Apostles' intervention. Protestants don't have Bishops through Apostolic succession. So none of them can lay their hands on the baptised believers in imitation of the acts of the Apostles.
12) Protestant pastors can't sanctify water baptism. So they had to teach that baptism is symbolic.
13) protestants celebrate the Lord's Supper and say the bread represented Jesus's body and the grape juice represented Jesus's blood. They will have to say that the bread and wine are true representation of Jesus body and blood because when Corinthians did not recognise the body and blood of Christ when they celebrated the Lord's supper, many of them got sick and some had died. Yet, they cannot afford to give the credit that priests could sanctify the bread and wine to become the body and blood of Christ. They believed their pastors could make bread and wine the true representation of Christ's body and Christ's blood but they had to say Catholic priests can't consecrate them to become the flesh and blood of Jesus which is done at the command of Jesus Christ.
14) protestants say the Church of Christ is one and is invisible.
Well, when the visible Church is not one, how can there be one invisible Church? When a person sins, it has consequences spiritually. So, how can physical Church not have consequences in spiritual Church?
15) protestants take pride to be members of the true church of Christ. But there is no verse in the Bible that supports the establishment of Protestant churches. There is also no verse in the Bible that support the establishment of the office of Protestant pastor. Therefore both the Protestant churches and their pastors are unbiblical and illegitimate.
Logically speaking, protestants are not Christians at all. When their baptism is not valid, they cannot be valid Christians.
You blew my mind. So insightful.
@pemcortes9467
There were spelling mistakes. Autocorrect was the culprit. I have edited them. Thanks for your compliments.
@justthink8952 true, but i appreciate the critical thinking more.
I was a cradle Catholic who wanted to truly believe what I practiced, not just because my family did. I went to many Protestant services and learned their theology while immersing myself in Our Catholic faith. I don’t mean to express this uncharitably but Protestants and others felt like watered down Christianity. I found the Catholic faith throughout history and they held the faith even today where even the orthodox get confused or bend (like how they rebaptize Christians, which was declared a heresy by the councils they affirm). Or how they allow multiple marriages. The fullness of the faith is quite obviously (in my studying) in the Catholic faith. It is also the only church that truly healed my soul and gave me miracles. My feet won’t be moved. Having said that I pray for God’s blessings on us all.
Thank you for sharing! ☺️
I loved how you talked about the old testament God was present and now we have the eucharist which is Jesus himself. I love your videos. Thanks a lot
Good video. I was raised very low church Protestant (Baptist/Nondenom) and for the longest time I never really questioned what I had been raised with. But this past year I decided to really dig into my faith. I remember being taught that the Reformation was a “restoration” of the early Church, free from the “additions” of Rome that supposedly built up over the centuries. So I decided to start reading the early Church Fathers. And what do I find? Talk of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist (I had never even heard the word Eucharist before, it was always just the elements of Communion which is just a memorial meal, nothing more). Talk of the necessity of Bishops. Talk of not following others into schism. (What even is schism in Protestantism?) Realizing that the Bible I’ve been using was the Masoretic Text that had been altered by the Rabbinic Jews after the time of Christ to obscure the fact that He was the Messiah, instead of the Septuagint which was the Bible the early Church used. Not to mention, how do I even justify the Bible I even have, rejecting the Church that gave it to me as having gone apostate and into heresies?
There’s just so much that, once I actually stopped to think about it, to allow myself to question my presuppositions, I realized didn’t make sense about the Protestant worldview. Christ promised the gates of Hades will not prevail over the Church, that the Holy Spirit would guide into all truth, Saint Paul’s declaration of the Church being the pillar and ground for truth. Yet the justification for the Protestant movement explicitly relies on these statements being false. They have to come up with novel ideas like the “invisible church” to get around the clear implications of these texts. So now, here I stand, a Catechumen in the Russian Orthodox Church. I could never go back to that world of ever changing, ever evolving goofiness. I know a lot of them are well meaning and just following what they’d be raised with, but it’s an utterly incoherent world. My guess would be down the line, Protestantism will be a tiny faction laying claim to the name Christian. They’ll be a rather insignificant population like the Oriental Orthodox and the vast majority of Christendom will be the standard East/West divide of Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic.
Thank you for your testimonies. If the Catholic Church built up “additions” that corrupted the early Church that Our Lord established after a few centuries, but Protestant churches were founded in the 1500’s and have lasted for five hundred centuries, that would mean that Our Lord was not as good at establishing a church as men like Martin Luther were! If you ever consider leaving the Orthodox Church, please consider the Catholic Church, which He founded on the rock of Saint Peter in Matthew 16:18-19.
Thank you so much for sharing! 😌Happy to hear you’re finding your way into the ancient tradition.
@@RitaGatton I initially started with exploring Catholicism. Attending a Latin Mass parish, reading and listening to a lot of Catholic apologetics. I liked a lot of what I saw, but I still had some issues. Once I started consuming Orthodox apologetics and listening to debates between Orthodox and Catholic I've ultimately found the Orthodox arguments more persuasive, personally.
@@theeliteelite1873 continue your critical thinking...
Yes, they have everything except one thing. An earthly authority to settle dsagreements. BTW, you can retain the Orthodox traditions in the Eastern Catholic churches...and....have an earthly authority to settle disagreements. You get the best of both worlds. Just a suggedtion. God bless.
Wow. You got totally right... The de-carnation (just looking at the word - not the word in-carnated) opens up the faith to gnosticism. And gnosticism SUCKS the LIFE out of your SOUL. So well-put! What protestants are left with is just an ephemeral Jesus - totally lonely and without a body. Just His teachings, but no reality for the whole human person - body, soul and mind... Instead the Church is full of incarnation: The Church itself as an organism with a head and a heart, Mary, Joseph and the Saints. And the Real Presence in the Eucharist. This makes us all ONE under and in HIM, and makes Him real. We are truly part of God's family, and not just individual islands that are either saved or not. Thank you! God bless you! Blessed Advent from Berlin / Germany!
Your channel is growing sister. Keep going !!
Thank you, I will! 😀
@@EmbracingTradition100You know you’re on the right track when Prot hate demons manifest
Pray, our Lord Jesus Christ continue to bless n guide your beautiful family.🙏
Thank you so much! 😊
Good video. Thanks.
Thank you! 😊
There is nor ever will be worship in a protestant service because true worship requires sacrifice. Was that way in the OT and which we now experience in the re-presentation of the sacrifice of the Eucharist at Holy Mass. Protestants have praise services, book studies and veneration, but they can't and don't have worship. It's not possible.
Amen, clearly this girl was inspired by Holy Spirit to make this video.
I'm really enjoying your channel and loving the thumbnail ❤❤❤❤❤ may your channel continue to grow and touch many hearts
Thank you so much! You are so kind! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it! ☺️
@EmbracingTradition100 I can sense Mary all over your faith journey, would be nice to hear how Mary transformed your faith in Our Lord and Savior
Melkite Greek Catholic here!
Roman Rite Catholic here giving you a big hug!
Many thanks!
Forgot to say well done on getting more that 1,000 subscribers! You should be able to get monetised soon!
Protestant here. I must say that for me, the Eastern Orthodox Church has a strong appeal. However, curiously, the reasons I have not converted are precisely the reason that she says I should: because for me Orthodox liturgy satisfies a carnal desire for aesthetic experiences, while in the plainness of Protestant worship I am forced to focus on eternal Truth. So, oddly enough, I would say that for me, it is the 'deeper' traditions which are actually more superficial, while the 'shallower' causes me to confront head-on the matters of practical service and the Word. I think there is room for both, and I dearly long for more ancient tradition, but for now I will continue following Christ alone as best as I know how.
Genuine question…why are you equating aesthetic experience of ancient worship as carnal? The Catholic and orthodox style of worship is described in revelation as what we will do for eternity so how exactly are you going to call it carnal to worship properly?
Gnostics make you feel that anything that appeals to you physical senses is evil. Nothing could be further from truth
The Divine Liturgy isn’t for you at all. It’s all for God. If you are thinking about how it makes you feel, or how you respond to it, then you are missing the entire point. I think one of the hardest things for Protestants to accept is that it simply doesn’t matter what you think, believe, or feel. Those are all subjective aspects of one’s individuality (which is one of the gods of the West) that are completely immaterial.
I think your point that protestantism lack real substance explains people's hunger for the ancient, traditional churches.
The most humbling experience is when you perform the daily Examin and go to confession to give a full accounting to god on how you well short. Its a foretaste of particular judgement. The Catholic church is comprised of 23 churches in communion with Rome. One of them is the Byzantine Church which practices the Eastern Rites. For people who love that type of liturgy and worship can go there and never leave the Catholic church. As Catholics we have the rite of communion when we attend these services because of the patrine unity.
God bless you
So good! You should do a specific video on how gnostic ideas have made their home within protestantism. I know it would be so helpful to many.
Great suggestion! Thank you! 😊
I’ve never heard anyone put so clearly, simply, and spot on as you did in this video. You gave me words to my thoughts. Nice job
Thank you! 😊
Thank you for the videos keep them coming!! God Bless!!
Thank you! 😊
Well done, once again! I hope this helps many people.
I noticed, however, you mentioning Catholic and Orthodox kind of on the same footing, so I’d like to say a few words of caution regarding the Eastern Orthodox, so please bare with me - will try to make it short.
I would not put the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy on the same level. The orthodox are not one church as one would think of the Catholic Church - it’s a collection of independent national churches (14,15, or 16 of them depending which orthodox you ask) who are in constant disunity and quarrels being without a single head of the Church instituted by Christ. Their teaching is roughly that of the first millennium, as after their 11-th century schism they could not gather a ecumenical council, while claiming they are the true Church, to define a dogma as it would have been normally defined when they were part of the Church. For a Church being able to respond to the challenges of the current day with authority is a sign of the true and living Church. So as a consequence of schism they deny many catholic dogmas like Immaculate conception, Purgatory, Filioque, Papal Infallibility, etc borrowing nearly all the arguments from Protestantism, interestingly enough.
They suffer from rampant nationalism and caesaropapism (factual head of the church being the roman emperor (or his modern equivalent) instead of the pope or bishop in a local catholic church). They don’t have a clear and officially defined teaching on the number of sacraments, as they went into schism before the Church defined them as being a total of seven. Some of them later unofficially took the same number of sacraments from the Catholic teaching but deny they did so. So it’s a bit of a mess. And of course they openly call Catholics heretics for believing the above-mentioned dogmas, while being material heretics themselves as a consequence of denying the dogmas which Church proclaimed after the Great Schism, thus rejecting their own ancient Tradition, as no Dogma can be proclaimed and taught unless it goes all the way back to the teaching of the Apostles and the early Church Fathers. There’s a whole lot more, and I’ve already taken too much space here.
Just so you know, the orthodox in the West are much more “tolerant” and “nice” in general being a tiny minority, and being very cautious with their usual accusations agains the Catholic Church including that the Pope is the anti-Christ or close to it, so I would not judge the whole orthodoxy just by what you encounter in the US (I myself come from a country with overwhelmingly orthodox culture, being baptised in latin rite of the Cath. Ch. as an adult nearly 30 years ago).
One would argue that it’s better to join the orthodox than be a protestant. Well, is it better to be at the bottom of the pit or half way up the pit still not seeing any light of the sun or out of the pit all together? If one wants to follow Christ in obedience (which is what word Faith means) why not follow Him to where the truth actually is and not settle for half-truth or a third of the truth?
So if anyone made it this far, people, go visit a Catholic mass, read history, church fathers, read the catechism of the Catholic Church to find out what it really teaches, not the lies you’ve been told.
And if you’re drawn to an eastern liturgy - and there are many of those, not just eastern orthodox, which is the Constantinopolian Rite (Byzantine Rite), all of these rites are present in the Catholic Church - there are Greek catholics, Armenian catholics, Maronites, Coptic, Chaldeans, Syriac and many others - they all preserve their ancient eastern practices, liturgies and traditions while being in communion with Rome. So yes, you can still be a Catholic and attend Byzantine liturgy in a Greek-Catholic church, which is a great tradition that we all love and cherish, that has thankfully been fully preserved in our Church and which fully embraces its own ancient tradition of the eastern Church Fathers, unlike the Eastern Orthodox.
If you want a concise overview of the part of history dealing with the Great Schism I would recommend the Catholic Encyclopaedia as a start (published 1917) online at newadvent.org and is still considered the best encyclopaedic source on practically any topic related to the Church - theology, history, ecclesiology, liturgy, Sacraments, biblical exegesis, arts, etc. Articles like “The Eastern Schism” and “Patriarch and Patriarchate” would be a great starting point to understand that part of our history.
God bless!
This is such complete nonsense that it takes a lot of willpower to extend you the benefit of the doubt and not call you a liar.
When I started reading this comment I thought I would reply and respond to the points being made, but as it went on I realized that literally every single sentence was false. It strains credibility to believe that someone from an Orthodox country can be this utterly misinformed about Orthodoxy, which is why I have trouble believing you're being honest.
I caution you, if you are a sincere Christian who does believe in God, to keep what the scriptures say about bearing false witness in mind in the future.
It's not worth refuting what was said wrong here, because the entire comment was so wrong that it doesn't even have a slight similarity with reality. If anyone is reading this who is interested in learning about Orthodoxy or discerning whether to become Orthodox, please pay no attention to a single word in that essay. Nothing he said was remotely correct. There are critics of Orthodoxy, such as Gavin Ortlund, with whom I disagree but who at least operate in good faith. This was not.
@@patrickbarnes9874 As someone raised in a Catholic/Orthodox family, much of what they said is true, and in part, why I reverted to Catholicism. Orthodoxy has a major problem with nationalism and now sadly with Protestant converts who aren't being taught the true faith.
필리오케는 괴물입니다. 그것은
니케아 협정과 삼위일체에 대한
원래의 이해 형태를 부정합닏다.
그것은 아히우스주의에 맞서
방어하기 위해 다신교로 향하는
반면, 고대 교회는 아리우스주의와도 싸우지만, 일신교를 확고히
유지합니다.
Amen, the Catholic Church is the original Church started by Jesus and his Apostles.
We are The Church of the senses
Oh I see
3:10
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Her experiences in coming into the Catholic Church and her readings of early Christians.
@@nightshade99 are you using your common sense?
We hear, see see, we smell, we taste. 🙏
@@nightshade99May God cast out the demon that caused you to troll on every person delighted in the Church that Christ has founded
What a great video! This girl is on fire 🔥 One thing I love so much about the catholic faith is that, unlike protestantism, it insists on true holiness.
As a protestant, I was told by an "elder" that all my sins would be covered by the blood of the Lamb. I asked: "you mean like sweeping dirt under a rug?" The guy said: "yes, exactly like that." I thought to myself it sounded like cheating, that I wanted to really be holy, not just pretend. Now, as a catholic, I understand that we are all called to holiness, that we have to fight daily to acquire virtue and free ourselves from vices. Through prayer, mortification and the sacraments, with God's grace, we can accomplish this.
Thank you for sharing! Yes, I relate to feeling like a fake. Whenever I asked someone what the Bible means when it says, “Be holy for I am holy” I was told that we can never really be holy that that verse really just means to be declared Holy through faith. It was very confusing for me.
Hope it does disappear. Way easier to have dialogue between Roman Catholics and Orthodox Catholics for a reunion, than to deal with 1 billion self appointed Bishops that come up with new interpretations and try to reinvent the wheel every week. Protestantism is not only wrong, it’s unsustainable.
Because Protestantism was always based on an ahistorical, superficial, de novo rereading of a small number of out-of-context scriptural passages, spread by printing-press enabled pamphlets preying upon frustrations with corruption in the church. It could never withstand an encounter with freely and instantly available information spanning all of Church history, the best apologetic arguments for the Church, and the exposure of the lies and contradictions that have always riddled Protestantism.
To be honest - Orthodoxy offers certainty. Catholicism too , maybe more so.
What I sense in Protestantism in the right of private judgment is a lack of certainty.
Added to this I agree with your point on the gnostic understanding of material - spiritual distinctions inherent in Protestantism, which again gives you no certainty that the sacraments give Orthodox.
@ spoken like a true Orthodox
I am a Christian, just as much if not more so than you. There is nothing special about your church. It is full of false doctrines. It has been run by thieves, murderers, and sex offenders. It hollers how the Bible is Catholic while not believing it is true.
Protestants claim that they're interpretation of Scripture is personally guided by the Holy Spirit, yet when you ask them whose interpretation is infallibly correct, they can't tell you! 😂😅
@@AndrewLane-pm2ro That is stupid. The Holy Spirit lets the person who was praying know what the scripture says. It is not a competition to see who is correct. The Douay Rhiems is full of erros. Starting with Genesis 2. Then through out the rest of the Bible it has errors. Jerome's Latin does not match the Sepatuagent or the Hebrew. In Genesis it is Jesus that stomps on the serpents head. It is ridiculous to say Mary did. The birth of Jesus did nothing to stop satan. His dying on the cross and raising from the dead showed satan he was beaten.
@@bcalvert321 Is your interpretation of Scripture infallibly correct?
Has the Holy Spirit guided you into "all truth" (John 16:13)?
Well said. What I do not fully understand is why Protestants always see things as either/or. Maybe it is how they tend to view everything as good/bad or true/false. Scripture itself, in many cases, has many layers of meaning. The Eucharist, for example, is bread and wine, but not just bread and wine. Why not take Jesus at His word that the bread "is" His body and the wine "is" His blood? Catholics recognize the both/and. IMHO I think Protestants miss so much by deciding to place things in small boxes that suit their needs. This is the problem with Sola Scriptura, everyone is their own pope. I also see a spiritual pride, which sadly is very Gnostic. Protestantism also relies on lies about Catholicism to fill the seats. Having an "enemy" can be uniting for a while, but not really satisfying. Channels like yours are providing the truth and Catholics today know and can defend our faith. May God bless you, your family, and your channel.
They are indeed very literal and tunnel visioned. Not capable of profoundness or common sense.
Well said about how they rely on lies to fill their seats. Some mega-church "planters" specifically look for areas with large populations of Catholics, and then they move in to pull them away.
God bless you all 😊🙏🏻
Thank you! 😊
Great video Sister!
Thank you!😊
Ill go a step further by saying they don't care about a person's soul. They still believe in the false belief on OSAS. The bulk of protestants think it's based on a prayer or decision and you're all good no matter what sin you struggle with. Im so glad I left because Jesus is in the sacraments body, blood, soul and divinity. Tp have the sacrament of reconciliation is so life changing. Im truly thankful for my catholic faith.
You're a beautiful soul ,thanks. Dios te bendice ❤
Thank you! 😊😌
Wow, you are nailing it! I was Southern Baptist for 40 years before my conversion to Catholic. One Sunday at a “worship” service, I just looked around and thought, “what are we doing? Is this supposed to be pleasing to God? Is this how the first century Christians worshiped God?” You are so correct when you say they have turned into rock concerts with a Ted Talk. When you speak of how Evangelicals try to make everything spiritual. They act as if spiritual means “not physical”.
Thank you for sharing! 😊
Why convert to a pagan church. Catholics know more about Mary than what Jesus said and taught, and most of it is lies. She is no queen of heaven, she is no Ark of anything. She can do nothing for you. All you were was bored. You expected the church to fill your needs but that is not what a church is for. Jesus is to do this. All the Catholic church did in your life was to change up the format, but I am pretty sure you will get tired of it also. I have been to a mass and it was the most dead service I have ever attended. It was all planned out and you are to do the same thing every week. There is no life to it.
I think one of the main reasons is just how secular and "modern" the modern world has become. Young people (especially men) aren't wanting to find God in a church that looks and feels like a YMCA or a concert, nor do they want to go to some low-church restorationist church where the preacher is the Pope and there is nothing sacred except listening to a preacher ramble for 15-20 minutes and call that worship (i.e. Baptist, Church of Christ, congregationalists, etc. etc.)
Another and possibly the most compelling argument as to why so many evangelicals are converting to traditional Christian churches is simply the fact they have all recorded human knowledge in the palm of their hands... An Amish person could never know if their version of faith is wrong because they could never have that information readily available to them and the Amish congregation is the only form of Christianity they will ever know. The same goes mostly to a lesser extent for evangelicals prior to the internet.
How would an average person who has a lot of faith but doesn't study the church history or beliefs seriously know what the early church taught or believed, how could he tell what translation of the Bible is correct or not, how could he know why there were 7 books removed from the Bible and by whom? That information was available, but you would have to go out of your way looking for this information to come to the truth... It would be much easier to go to your elder or preacher of your denomination to ask them to which they will tell you a biased answer, lie, or straight up not know the questions you seek either.
Thank you for sharing your thought. I think you’re right. 🙂
Because "In the END my IMMACULATE HEART wil triumph."
(Our Lady of Fatima, 1917)
Another excellent video. Ignore the critics. Well done!
Thank you! 😊
The point you make about the (unitended) effect of Gnosticism, more precisely dualism, on all Protestant theology is very important. I understood this better when I first heard a detailed exposition of Martin Luther's early life which showed that his terrible struggle with his own sinfulness and inability to see himself through the eyes of God's love (evidenced by years of struggle in confession which we know about), and his very rough childhood that included frequent severe physical punishment, could have been the harmful seed that led to his self-created escape from a constant torment of sinfulness. Instead of throwing himself into the arms of Mercy through the Sacraments (which all Christian tradition has done until that point), he created an entire system of (erroneous) theology that tries to get around the issue that he struggled with. He said that we don't need to be concerened about being "dunghills" since God covers us with His snow of righteousness (his doctrine of legal imputation instead of an ontological change in us which he thought he could not experience). Unfortunately, this ill doctrince that tried to solve his own spiritual illness created untold inconsistencies, errors, and an ever deepening system of contradictions and harmed so many millions over the past 500 years. Dualism (separataion of matter and spirit and pitting matter and spirit against each other) is a natural consequence of this kind of theology. This also gave rise to an inability to live in a certain tension of opposites in this age between the first and second coming: holiness and sin coexist, the sinfulness and perfection of the Church coexist, light and darkness coexist. Following Luther's spiritual DNA, protestantism could not handle this tension which then gave rise to a "one OR the other" mentality instead of the ancient "BOTH AND" mentality which, among others, accepts these inevitable tensions in the Age of the Church (age between our redemption and final fulfillment) and does not try to create a simplified, but wrong, theological structure where we can get around the problem of coexisting sin and suffering with an altered theology. The solution given by Christ is to *sanctify matter* (starting with the Incarnation) and heal it through God's transforming grace instead of casting it aside. Where grace *builds on* and does not destroy nature. But then you need means of grace that can embrace matter (our entire reality including the physical) to achieve that which then requires the Sacraments as effective means of grace. And the circle is complete.
Thank you so much for this response! You said it so well! I appreciate it! ☺️
"his doctrine of legal imputation instead of an ontological change in us which he thought he could not experience"
This is just flat out false, your whole argument is based on a false premise.
It’s not a false premise. Respectfully, Luther was a troubled man. His doctrine of imputation is not an ontological change. It is a legal declaration.
@@EmbracingTradition100
The doctrine of imputation is just a one aspect, the other one is the junion with Christ which is a Lutheran doctrine and affects an ontological change, the claim that Luther didn't believe an ontological change is just a flat out lie.
@@EmbracingTradition100
The Large Catechism
"Lastly, we must also know what Baptism signifies, and why God has ordained just such external sign and ceremony for the Sacrament by which we are first received into the Christian Church. But the act or ceremony is this, that we are sunk under the water, which passes over us, and afterwards are drawn out again. These two parts, to be sunk under the water and drawn out again, signify the power and operation of Baptism, which is nothing else than putting to death the old Adam, and after that the resurrection of the new man, both of which must take place in us all our lives, so that a truly Christian life is nothing else than a daily baptism, once begun and ever to be continued. For this must be practised without ceasing, that we ever keep purging away whatever is of the old Adam, and that that which belongs to the new man come forth. But what is the old man? It is that which is born in us from Adam, angry, hateful, envious, unchaste, stingy, lazy, haughty, yea, unbelieving, infected with all vices, and having by nature nothing good in it. Now, when we are come into the kingdom of Christ, these things must daily decrease, that the longer we live we become more gentle, more patient, more meek, and ever withdraw more and more from unbelief, avarice, hatred, envy, haughtiness."
Protestantism is crude masculine without the holy feminine that the Virgin Mother is and is having the Holy Masculine through Her...May the church be forever the Bride of fluidity that we in Asia need that is not the western face of Christianity...
Explains why so many in Protestantism have a hard time relating to god, because they don’t use any icons, no Devine feminine(Mary) or other aspects like with the saints. It’s an abstract unknowable being that cannot be shown or it’s considered blasphemy..
@LaTierraNueva19 yes they pretend subjectivity like Islam and are never in the present...
Fantastisk video!!! KEEP IT UP
Thank you! 😊
Amen 🙏❤️✝️.
There are a lot of great apologetics and I will recommend it to you Sam Shamoun who were protestant and now he is Catholic and he is incredible how he connects the dots. Check his videos, you won't be disappointed.
Ignore his harsh speak sometimes, his hero is St Paul obviously 😂, and he admits that he probably has a Adhd or something other issues from mental spectrum, but his memory and knowledge is amazing
I watch Sam. He’s got some good stuff! Thank you. 😊
Im certainly in this category. I was raised Mormon and left to become a pagan for years. I have only recently come back to Christianity after researching the rabbit hole of demonology and being left to conclude that "shadows" and darkness are certainly real, and that consequently the light that gives them form must also be real. So, here I am torn between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Ive attended one of the evangelical "megachurches" recently on the invitation of a friend and found the live band, big screen tvs, in church shops and coffee bars to be somewhat off-putting. Even my Buddhist Southeast Asian wife commented about how corporate and plastic everything felt. I was inclined to agree. It was a far cry from the solemnity, spirit and feelings of sacredness I remember from my youth. Calling it a rock concert is an apt analogy, and bottom line, the spirit of God was not in that place, regardless of the intentions of its attendants, which I will not speculate on. I feel God's presence more by simply walking out into the forest near my home than I do when I enter a church like that, and its sad because Im sure many of those people really love God and want to do what is right, but that reality is all they've ever known.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I enjoy hearing what other people think are going through! May you find peace as you decide! 😌
Psalm 150:4-6: "Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD"
This content is a little off the beaten path for me. I like it very much. Thank you.
Thank you! 😊
Anglican here. Some of the least reverent services I have been to have been catholic parishes, contemporary music and people arriving late and leaving right after communion.
Yes. It’s an unfortunate fruit of people abusing Norvus Ordo
@@EmbracingTradition100 Agreed, I have been lucky enough to attend traditional Catholic parishes, but even where I live which has a VERY large Catholic community, they are few and far between. Great content and video, sorry if my comment seemed uncharitable.
@@FruitOvTheDoom no offense taken. ☺️
Check out a Traditional Latin Mass or Divine Liturgy.
@@lindaakguest4ever50I have spent time in the Orthodox Church and very much enjoyed it. I haven't been to a Latin Mass yet but plan to at some point. However, I'm quite invested in traditional Anglicanism and don't have any plans of leaving
Zephaniah 3:17 King James Version (KJV)The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
I've only been reading the Bible for a few months but I very quickly realised that the Church of England is not only what I would describe as 'shallow and plastic', but they're (the leadership at least) not even Christian. I am definitely a Christian, but I have no idea what denomination, I need to learn more, I was an atheist until about 9 months a go. I guess when people say 'protestant' they mean the C of E and the other similar denominations?
Protestant is referring to any denomination that falls outside of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. So it includes the COE but also covers a lot more. I will pray for you to have clarity as you search for belonging and truth. 🙂
@@EmbracingTradition100 Yes, I've found a lot of good resources over the last few months, lots of good channels on here and I now know where my local Catholic Church is (it's only 10 minutes walk!!). I came across your channel today, I enjoyed your video, you're very well spoken and very gracious.
Faith alone is calling the game and not even bothering to participate in it. Ignoring most of the New Testament and most of what Jesus Christ taught and commanded. Fun fact: Accepting Jesus as your “personal savior” came from Charles Fullers popular radio show Old Fashioned Revival Hour that aired from 1937 to 1968. What about the sinner’s prayer? Billy Graham 1950s. Neither are in the Bible.
And you care more about Mary than Jesus. Where is that in the Bible? You haven't a clue about anything protestant. Protestantism has always been about a personal God. Jesus said He is a personal God. "I am the Truth. the Way, and the Light, no one comes to the Father but through me. There is no church that can save your soul. Until you say to Jesus you are a sinner and will repent of those sins, and make Jesus your Lord and Savior then you are not saved. You can take the Eucharist every week and be baptized but until you make Him your personal Savior you are not saved.
@@bcalvert321You have no idea about me or Catholicism which is why you parrot dumb slogans. I know quite a lot about Protestantism which is precisely why I am not a Protestant.
@@bcalvert321 Your hero Martin Luther said this: “If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their sqalvation." Do you believe this garbage? Do you think God will reward murder in heaven for eternity because you made a simplistic ascent of the intellect by declaring a radio show slogan that is not in the Bible?
@@Knight-of-the-Immaculata Luther is no hero to me. Catholics think they can sin and then they can a priest forgive them as many times as they need it. This is no different than what Luther said. It seems only Catholics seem to think Luther said this. Is funny that they let him stay a priest. Al Capone had a Catholic priest on his payroll so He could be forgiven of all of his sins. Your church has made wars, stolen and hoarded gold for Rome, and martyred people in the most hideous ways. They even burned people at the stake and then made saints, Joan of Arc. So do you think God will forgive a church for these things including murder?
@@Knight-of-the-Immaculata Your stupid moniker is all I need to know about you. I know enough about Catholism to know it has many bad doctrines.
A honest soul.
THE brotherhood🔺⚔️🔻
One of the biggest reasons is because biblical principles the protestant church has become more of a social club then actually a church feminism homosexuality has eroded the protestant church we need we need a church just for men and a church just for women that’s what
One thing to add is there was a lot of arguments that protestants couldn't answer mainly to the apostlic sucession
@rockyrsmer9134...Yes, Clement of Rome (80 AD companion of Paul), Ignatius of Antioch (107 AD disciple of John) and Irenaeus of Lyon (180 AD knew Polycarp who knew John) speak of this succession.
@billlee2194 lol agreed
Very insightful and enlightening. You’re on fire and speak with conviction. Thank you and welcome home!
Thank you! 😊
There is actually one protestant denomination, although they would argue that they are not protestant, that is very conservative and adheres to the same ancient form of worship as the Catholic and Orthodox churches. They also believe that Baptism saves and that you receive Jesus' body and blood in the Eucharist. That denomination is the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
Pretty much what you said. I became Orthodox after 30 years as a Lutheran. There was a 'superficial' depth to their theology. They believed in the Real Presence and the necessity of Baptism... at least on paper. But if you touched on it, eventually you are saved by faith alone as the only answer. So their Sacraments are pointless. Neither is there a necessity for change.
There is a push for Repentance, but to say you 'need' to do good works, they will say no you don't. Its just a 'natural' product of faith... i got tired of the runarounds.
I looked into the early Church and couldnt stay Protestant anymore.
Thank you for sharing! 😊
If it dies, it dies (in Russian accent).
Very insightful video...To say we are spiritual beings having a human experience is heretical..We are union of body and soul..Protestants Christian promotes gnosticism tremendously i find in my observation n that's why they overspiritualized reality..I find alot of them influenced by Plato philosophy n that's why they denigrates the material world tremendously....Give Thanks...
Around the 23:00 mark on the church ALWAYS being reliable you might want to check out the video "When The Church Betrayed Jesus" by Breaking In The Habit, a Franciscan. Your other comments shows insight delivered with care, concern, and love vs so many comments here left by others. Remember if you have the "right" theology but lack the fullness of love you...have missed the mark completely and you know what missing the mark is called.
I watched the video you suggested. I want to clarify. I didn’t meant to imply that the church has never had bad leaders or made mistakes in the general sense. I was trying to convey that the Church will not fail when it comes to being a dogmatic voice for the truth in faith and morals. 😌 That was a great video btw. Thanks for sharing.
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2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Yeah that’s what Protestants did. 😊
Without the visible church you have nothing. Invisible church is invisible
“Sola scriptura” gives all authority to individual interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures. If every American could interpret the US Constitution however he or she wanted to, and his or her interpretation became the only law for him or her, it would lead to anarchy and chaos.
Exactly. Great point! ☺️
There are rules of interpretation called hermeneutics, so you cannot interpret the the bible however you want. Sola scriptura only means that the bible is the only infallible authority, there is a tradition of interpretation so your accusation is null and void.
@ who gets to infallibly declare how to interpret the scriptures? That’s just your opinion because there’s no rule of interpretation in the Bible….
@@EmbracingTradition100
"who gets to infallibly declare how to interpret the scriptures? "
There is no infallible authority other than the bible, the bible is a clear book and the church as a whole can preach the gospel and theach how christians should live. Problems arise when somebody (the pope) tries to claim infallible authority and declares dogmas which cannot be found in the bible.
@ isn’t that what you’re doing when you’re declaring that there is a right and wrong way to interpret scripture? When the scriptures themselves don’t give us any such thing? Protestants have such qualms with the authority of the church but they have no problems making authoritative declarations that aren’t explicitly in the Bible and try to authoritatively tell others that they’re wrong…..Protestants are theit own popes. That is the inevitable outcome of sola scriptura.
So the question is: "Why is Everyone Becoming Catholic and Orthodox?". Well, personally, I left my protestant roots because of the writings of the Early Church and the draw to Franciscan Spirituality. So I converted to Anglo-Catholicism; One, because there is so much beauty and sacramental experience in Anglo-Catholic worship. The local Roman Catholic Church is so cold and ugly (60s-70s). I'm now a Deacon in the English expression of the Catholic Faith, and a vowed third order Franciscan. Two, The Orthodox Church makes so much sense to me, but the closest Orthodox parish is more than a 3 hour drive.
Anglo-Catholics consider themselves to be Catholics within the Anglican Church. Furthermore, many traditionalist Anglo Catholics see the liturgical abuses, liberalism, and spiritual decay within the Catholic Church and believe themselves to be more faithful to Catholicism than most Catholics.
The typical Anglo-Catholic will look, pray, and worship in a way that looks like a traditional Catholic’s style of worship. He will use Roman liturgies, keep the Roman calendar, pray the rosary, and be Catholic in everything but full communion with the Holy See. The task for the Catholic apologist is to help him see that this one thing he lacks is the most important thing.
The traditionalist Anglo-Catholic is very similar to a traditionalist Catholic group in his mentality. He believes himself to be part of a remnant of true believers whose job it is to keep the faith and stand firm, while all the others in his church drift into moral decay, heresy, schism, and apostasy. Rather than seeing full communion with Rome as the answer, he sees it as going out of the frying pan into the fire. He is not convinced that Rome is any purer than the Anglican church.
The bottom line in discussion with Anglicans is the question of authority. Should the Catholic apologist point to the disarray within Anglicanism the Anglican may well reply, “You Catholics have just as much variety and dissent and division in your ranks.”
To which we must say, “That may be, but we do not claim it as a virtue. We have one authority on earth. We have one clear teaching. We may not all obey it. We may not all unite around it, but it is there. It is one. It is holy. It is Catholic. It is apostolic. It is a rock on which to build, and the rock is Peter and his successor.” (Excerpt from Catholic.com)
The Apostolic church is Christ's church. 🇻🇦☦️
Gnosticism's real presence in Protestantism is unmistakable...
Idol worship is in the Catholic church.
Respectfully, Protestants don’t worship, they only venerate so I can see why they make that accusation…..
@bcalvert321 how so? I see a great deal of respect for the great Saints of Christianity and that veneration really just glorifies God's kingdom on Earth. I think this issue for most protestants is that they don't actually know how to worship God properly, so veneration looks like idol worship.
@@brandonofthedead Saints are not God. They have lived and died. It is okay to respect them and learn about them. But they can do nothing for you. They cannot help you in any way. Prayers to them are empty prayers. Jesus and the Father deserve veneration because they created you. Jesus died on the cross for you. He is the one who has taken your sins away. Catholics are lied to from birth that these saints can somehow from heaven can do special things for us but they have no power in heaven. Only the Godhead has such power and Mary is not a part of the Godhead.
@@EmbracingTradition100 We worship God and Jesus. We do not worship saints or even venerate them. We do not need beads sold by the church to pray to Jesus. We do not pray to saints who have no power to do anything for us. No created beings have any power in heaven. All power is from the Godhead and Mary is not a part of the Godhead.
I keep saying the same thing, please dig deeper. God, Jesus is much larger than what the bible can fit. I feel that some Protestants are too blinded that they closed their hearts for the Holy Spirit to truly work within them to find the truth. Sometimes it seems that they worship the bible more when they know, that the bible was written and edited over and over by a few (who protested) since and interpreted based on each individual's understanding. hence why there are so so many diff. Protestant denominations.. why cant they see this? They blame CC for the flawed humans the Church sometime has and judge the Church as the enemy only based on that. They dig deeper purposely, but only the flaws that they can find.. Not all humans even those in the priesthood can be saints. They hear the negative and they make strong hard assumptions that we dont worship the Almighty God but the enemy.
Protestants : divisions
Catholics/Orthodoxy : unity
❤❤❤ thank you for another great video!
Thank you! 😊
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Jesus said to all of us
Mathew 5:8 - "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God".
But where is our faith in Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, Lord of heaven and earth who build only one church with the authority of His heavenly Father through his apostle simon peter only, not even through His 11 Apostles and the popes are the successors which they continually preach the Kingdom of God and to heal right from His apostle simon peter. And Jesus said
7:15 - "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves" 21] "Not every one who says to Me Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven".
Mathew 12:30 - Jesus said "he who is not with Me is against Me and he who does not gather with Me scatters".
Mathew 15:13 - Jesus said "EVERY plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14] LET them alone; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit".