Thank you so much Justin. You are faithful in defending the Truth of God's Word. I'm looking forward to see the Lord say to you: "Well done My good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Lord." I was doing research into catholicism back in the 80's. Found a Catholic church thrilled to display what God had done. A woman was given the so-called, 'body of Christ' - and it had turned into raw meet in her mouth. I wouldn't have believed this if I hadn't seen it myself. It made me sick. I was absolutely horrified. You can't unsee what you have seen; but I sure wish I could. 🤢
I was raised Catholic and got saved by Jesus Christ himself. Changed my life and I never forgot it. I went to the catholic priest to discuss what happened and he reprimanded me and made me feel like I should be ashamed because I told him about my real experience with Jesus Christ. I never looked back. I still have a relationship with Jesus and he has shown me over and over how much he loves me.
" he reprimanded me " Well for sure that was poor of him. "got saved by Jesus Christ himself. " You were saved when you were baptized, having the Holy Spirit and sanctifying grace restored to your soul, lost in the sin of Adam. " I still have a relationship with Jesus " When you were Catholic, you received Jesus in the Eucharist, his body, blood, soul and Divinity. It's all part of having the relationship with Jesus that he himself instituted and desires to have with you. This is what he taught the apostles, and the apostles taught their descendants, and the descendant to theirs. Then 1500 years LATER, a couple of Catholic's in central Europe disagreed. They had no authority to do so, and even argued amongst themselves. Rather, we trust the Words of Jesus Christ: _51 I am the living bread[c] which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.”_ _52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”[d] 53 So _*_Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; 54 he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever.”_* Best to be one who believes the Words of Christ and trusts him, and not one who murmurs.
@@Vickie167not necessarily but the Catholic Church doesn’t have a stranglehold on what it means to believe in Jesus Christ. A person can be a Christian and not be Catholic.
@@Vickie167 This is true, but it doesn't make the catholic church right, either. The Bible holds the answers to what we need to know. I know it's scary for some people to even consider that the church they were indoctrinated in might not be as true to Jesus and could even be a new concept that that might be true. It's not a question of right, or wrong. It's a question of how does the church one has attended all of his/her life hold true to the Bible, which is the true word of God in Christ Jesus. I was raised in the Episcopal church, but now, I just am a Christian and nothing else and my husband also calls himself a Christian and nothing else. Jesus finished it all on the cross and nothing else is needed after that except to continue to grow in Christ and the way to do that is to study the Bible.
Praise the Lord you were set free! If you’re comfortable, please do tell what it took to get you to see. I’ve met so many Catholics who are heavily indoctrinated and they have no clue.
the church is not a building or religion. All religion is man made. The church is the followers of Jesus Christ. 🙏🏻 I WAS a Catholic for 51 years, charismatic for the later 20 of those years. I now truly have the saving grace through faith in the one true Savior Jesus Christ. Praise you Jesus for removing the blinders and loving me enough to write my name in your Book of Life!! 🙏🏻✝️
As an x confirmed Catholic i thank Jesus for lifting me out of that evil system ...sadly Catholics do not realize they are preached another Jesus incapable of saving them, only paying the chirch for prayers can lift them out of their so called purgatory... JUDGEMENT BEGINS AT THE PULPIT 😊
Look up "The BIGGEST Misconceptions protestants have About the Catholic Faith with Jimmy Akin " Jimmy used to be a Protestant pastor but like the 3 Church of England Bishops since 2021 became Catholic to get closer to Christ !! How is it that not so bright and weak Catholics can become Protestant but theologians Pastors etc become Catholic ???
Thank you so much brothers for shedding light in exposing false religion of roman catholicism. I myself was in a similar false religion until the LORD saved me through repentance and faith in JESUS CHRIST, and HE brought me out of religious confusion in 2013. Ive been a born again believer and follower of the LORD JESUS CHRIST ever since and never looked back. There have been hardships since but never looked back, instead forward by faith in THE LORD JESUS.
Look up "The BIGGEST Misconceptions protestants have About the Catholic Faith with Jimmy Akin " Jimmy used to be a Protestant pastor but like the 3 Church of England Bishops since 2021 became Catholic to get closer to Christ !! How is it that not so bright and weak Catholics can become Protestant but theologians Pastors etc become Catholic ???
I am currently in a struggle with my ex wife about this. I became catholic when we got married but became evangelical in the future. Not because of spite but because of things that i didn't understand or believed the catholic church taught. We are best friends, and are very cordial with each other. She currently is raising our children catholic and i highly object. I pray the Holy Spirit Spirit guides me through this.
What you need to do is thank your wife for raising your children in the Catholic Christian faith and then look to deepen your understanding of Catholicism to have a deep personal relationship with Christ ......You all need to know that Mike had a debate with Scott Hahn.... In the debate Mike was consistently and politely beaten in his arguments when he could not answer Scott he then just called him names .... Eventually it got so bad for Mike that he found he could not come back after the break... This is all recorded on youtube "Debate Scott Hahn and Mike Gendron "..... He is careful here not to give a reference to the debate but is less than honest in what has been said !!! .....,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.. I will move onto the Eucharist which he brings up here in this you tube clip . Go to the Gospel of John. John 6:30 begins in the synagogue at Capernaum. The Jews asked Jesus what sign he could perform so that they might believe in him. As a challenge, they noted that “our ancestors ate manna in the desert.” Could Jesus top that? He told them the real bread from heaven comes from the Father. “Give us this bread always,” they said. Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” At this point the Jews understood him to be speaking metaphorically. Jesus first repeated what he said, then summarized: “‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’” (John 6:51-52). His listeners were stupefied because now they understood Jesus literally-and correctly. He again repeated his words, but with even greater emphasis, and introduced the statement about drinking his blood: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him” (John 6:53-56). Notice that Jesus made no attempt to soften what he said, no attempt to correct “misunderstandings,” for there were none. Our Lord’s listeners understood him perfectly well. They no longer thought he was speaking metaphorically. In John 6:60 we read: “Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, ‘This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?’” (It is here, in the rejection of the Eucharist, that Judas fell away; look at John 6:64.) “After this, many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him” (John 6:66). This is the only record we have of any of Christ’s followers forsaking him for purely doctrinal reasons. If they erred in taking a metaphor in a literal sense, why didn’t he call them back and straighten things out? Both the Jews, who were suspicious of him, and his disciples, who had accepted everything up to this point, would have remained with him had he said he was speaking only symbolically. But he did not correct these protesters. Twelve times he said he was the bread that came down from heaven; four times he said they would have “to eat my flesh and drink my blood.” John 6 was an extended promise of what would be instituted at the Last Supper-and it was a promise that could not be more explicit. Now when you say Christ was speaking only metaphorically by comparing verses like John 10:9 (“I am the door”) and John 15:1 (“I am the true vine”). The problem is that there is not a connection to John 6:35, “I am the bread of life.” “I am the door” and “I am the vine” make sense as metaphors because Christ is like a door-we go to heaven through him-and he is also like a vine-we get our spiritual sap through him. But Christ takes John 6:35 far beyond symbolism by saying, “For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed” (John 6:55). Jesus continues: “As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me” (John 6:57). The Greek word used for “eats” (trogon) is very blunt and has the sense of “chewing” or “gnawing.” This is not the language of metaphor. You appeal to John 6:63: “It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” You say this means that eating real flesh is a waste. But does this make sense? Are we to understand that Christ had just commanded his disciples to eat his flesh, then said their doing so would be pointless? Is that what “the flesh is of no avail” means? “Eat my flesh, but you’ll find it’s a waste of time”-is that what he was saying? Hardly. In John 6:63 “flesh profits nothing” refers to mankind’s inclination to think using only what their natural human reason would tell them rather than what God would tell them. Thus in John 8:15-16 Jesus tells his opponents: “You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone that judge, but I and he who sent me.” So natural human judgment, unaided by God’s grace, is unreliable; but God’s judgment is always true. Also in John 6:63, “The words I have spoken to you are spirit” does not mean “What I have just said is symbolic.” The word “spirit” is never used that way in the Bible. The line means that what Christ has said will be understood only through faith; only by the power of the Spirit and the drawing of the Father (cf. John 6:37, 44-45, 65). Paul wrote to the Corinthians: “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?” (1 Cor. 10:16). So when we receive Communion, we actually participate in the body and blood of Christ, not just eat symbols of them. Paul also said, “Therefore whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. . . . For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself” (1 Cor. 11:27, 29). “To answer for the body and blood” of someone meant to be guilty of a crime as serious as homicide. How could eating mere bread and wine “unworthily” be so serious? Paul’s comment makes sense only if the bread and wine became the real body and blood of Christ. Anti-Catholics also claim the early Church took this chapter symbolically. Ignatius of Antioch, who had been a disciple of the apostle John and who wrote a letter to the Smyrnaeans about A.D. 110, said, referring to “those who hold heterodox opinions,” that “they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in his goodness, raised up again” (6:2, 7:1). Forty years later, Justin Martyr, wrote, “Not as common bread or common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished, . . . is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus” (First Apology 66:1-20). Origen, in a homily written about A.D. 244, attested to belief in the Real Presence. “You are accustomed to take part in the divine mysteries, so you know how, when you have received the Body of the Lord, you reverently exercise every care lest a particle of it fall and lest anything of the consecrated gift perish” (Homilies on Exodus 13:3). Cyril of Jerusalem, in a catechetical lecture presented in the mid-300s, said, “Do not, therefore, regard the bread and wine as simply that, for they are, according to the Master’s declaration, the body and blood of Christ. Even though the senses suggest to you the other, let faith make you firm” (Catechetical Discourses: Mystagogic 4:22:9). It is this level of research prayer and understanding which has led three Church of England Bishops in just the last two years to give up so much power, wealth and status to join the Catholic Church to get closer to Christ.. (thanks to CA)
True Believers are given the gift of our Precious Holy Spirit as our Helper and Guide in our lives and He does indeed give us answers to questions about what we need to know.
Such EVIL to spout what you WANT to believe Catholics believe in our view of Mary. Catholic's worship God alone ! Mike, if you can remember (which I really doubt) when you were a Catholic and went to Mass (if you really went to Mass), it was ALL about Jesus Christ. We worship God alone! You never experienced, you were never, ever taught, that Catholic's worship ANY creature, Mary included. We DO hold her in high regard. We thank her for saying YES to the Angel. We follow what she tells us : _do whatever he tells you._
Why do you break the commandment and have statues in your churches to anyone or any created thing then? Why did this commandment get deleted from your official 10 commandments? Because the RCC is in constant violation of it? RCC is involved in idol worship whether all the people there take part or not. Being a faithful RCC member and giving money to the church is taking part in it.
@@Ben-pk4cv Ben, why don't you defend Mike in believing Catholic's worship Mary? That is the topic I brought up. Mike teaches what he WANTS to believe. He never - ever - was taught as a Catholic to worship Mary. Quite the opposite. He was taught Catholic's worship God alone. And despite being corrected, Mike continues to spout error. God will hold him accountable for his lies (but as Mike believes in the heretical teaching of Once Saved, Always Saved, he likely does not care about lying one bit).
@@TruthHasSpoken Roman Catholics are taught to worship Mary. Where have you been? Have you noticed they pray to Mary and make statues to Mary? They break God's Commands in doing these idol worship practices.
Thank God for His grace, the grace I never deserved. I was once an alter boy in the Roman Catholic Church for so long and almost became a monk back home in Ghana. The interesting thing is, while I was an alter boy, I was also in line to inherit my voodoo (Fetish Priestess) grand mother. I was really way deep into demonic practices and yet was a great alter boy. Praise God for saving me from the broad road that leads to destruction to the Narrow Path (Jesus Christ) that leads to eternal life. AMAZING GRACE - Grace alone, faith alone, and in Christ alone. There was NOTHING I did but ALL JESUS did.
@@CountryGirl.64 Thank you Valerie! I am now a grown man, almost 56 years old now but whenever I give my testimony I end up crying, tears of joy of course. It was truly an AMAZING grace!!
@@kokumtwe6039 Amen 🙏 Amazing grace indeed !!!!! Yes, it is common among Africans to have one foot in Christianity and the other in animist demonic practices which passes for "tradition". Because of Africa's colonial past, these "traditions" are proudly defended and practiced as a push back against the perceived White supremacy of the colonialists . Yes, it is indeed amazing grace when God delivers one from false religions, and opens one's spiritual eyes to the proper understanding of Who the true God is and the proper worship of our Almighty Father , the king of kings and Lord of Lord's , the ancient of days . May He be forever praised and glorified . Amen and Amen 🙏🙏🙏
I saw a Roman Catholic comment “adhere to the supremacy of Peter’s chair” to which I responded “adhere to the supremacy of God alone” and I was told that I’m arrogant for thinking I can decipher the will of God apart from the teachings of people from church history. I’m just amazed at how Catholics seem to have a lower view of God’s word than the traditions of the Roman church when the Lord Jesus makes it incredibly clear that Scripture trumps the traditions of man
Hey Hannah - We just take Jesus at his word. He gave authority to Peter and the Apostles and they handed down that authority to the bishops. And when there is a dispute in the church, we know where to turn to in order to settle the issue. See Matthew 18 15“If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ 17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector. We Catholics know where the church is. And nothing the church teaches contradicts scripture if understood properly. Also, remember, Paul himself says to listen to the traditions that he had been taught and that he was handing on to them. See 2 Thessalonians: 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold to the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.
@@danielcarriere1958 Matthew 18 is dealing with discipline of a sinning member within a biblical church and not a dispute. CONTEXT MATTERS. You dont understand nor do you hold Gods word as final authority but instead you are taught the RCC has final authority. 2Thes 3: is Paul telling christians to not fellowship with continually disobedient believers. Again; CONTEXT MATTERS and you do not understand it because you are not being taught by the Holy Spirit. The RCC is accursed. Gal 1:8 Unless you repent; you will perish.
@@gigiis526 I grew up Roman Catholic until the Lord called me out. Roman Catholics are very indoctrinated. It’s very difficult for to point out Biblical truth to them. Only God can open their eyes
Any time, anywhere, I’ll prove you false based on scripture and early church truth. I have read the Bible since I was a child. Show me the edict that the Catholic Church forbids its followers to read the Bible!!!!?
The legendary singer, the late Keith Green, said the definition of a Christian is someone who is "bananas about Jesus!" That's the philosophy I operate under.
Not sure that works. Scripture says that there will be many who will say Lord Lord… Also when we hear the parable of the soils we hear of those who accept the word with joy… So just because someone is all about Jesus really doesn’t mean anything. What does is if they do as Romans 10:9 says. They confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in their heart that God raised Him from the dead, they will be saved. As well as John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
@@shawnmason8543 it’s not a deep theological comment that a Christian is somebody who is bananas for Jesus. But what it does say, is that to be a Christian, is to cut through all the outside interference, focus on Christ himself, his heart, who he is, and love who he is. That’s what makes you a Christian more than head knowledge. Maybe you have all your doctrinal ducks lined up in a perfect row, but for most of us we learn new stuff each day about Jesus. And in the end, we don’t get to heaven because of our doctrine, we get there because we love Jesus. Keith Green preached sound doctrine as well, hard against the catholic teachings. He was talking about the true Jesus when he made that comment and wrote those Holy Spirit filled songs. It’ll be great to meet him one day.
@@shawnmason8543your not wrong in what scripture says but maybe not understanding what Keith meant; it is an over simplified way of saying Jesus is to be center of our affection and if so it is implied you have placed your trust and faith in His saving work on the cross.
@@tpharo34 that may be the issue, it overly simplified. We I believe in the church have made salvation to just be a feeling for Jesus. The Bible teaches that it is more than that. It’s an understanding of Jesus, who we are, why we need Him, what He did for us and that we cannot be saved without Him. Like I stated with the earlier scripture there will be many who thought they were saved but will not be. Someone commented back then that I was being too focused on doctrine, but that’s what God encourages us to do, keep sound doctrine. Because the gospel is doctrine.
Mike Gendron bears rotten fruit. He always bears false witness. Also he is a coward. He won’t even debate Trent Horn and wanted to set rules of what kind of resources to bring to the debate. Absolutely ridiculous, he has lost all credibility. Idk how anyone can respect this man’s opinion
"wanted to set rules of what kind of resources to bring to the debate. " Mike brings no Christian witness to his fallible theology before the 1500's, including a symbolic only Eucharist, symbolic only Baptism, eternal security, the evangelical rapture etc. Mike doesn't even agree with other protestants. Trent brings 2000 years of Christian witnesses as to how scripture should be understood.
@@sharonseesink6163 the only one who is holy is Christ, not the harlot church that masquerades as Holy mother church. The Catholic Church preaches a FALSE Gospel and as a result , per scripture, it is condemned along with that false Christ sitting on his throne in the Vatican dressed up in a religious costume. If you follow their teachings you are on your way to HELL . Come out of that church Sharon, trust the Christ of the Gospels and him alone for your salvation.
@@vanillacreem816 I am so happy you found the truth. I am concerned for everyone because every day is evident we might be out of here tomorrow! See you soon! 🙂🙏🎺🕊❤
Right out the gate, there are issues here. For one, they contrast "Catholic authorities" with "their authority", implying the Bible is their only authority. It isn't though. They are their own interpreters, and thus, their own authorities. And worse yet they presume to have the correct interpretation whilst they differ between protestant denominations as to correct interpretation. It is self refuting out the gate.
Look up "The BIGGEST Misconceptions protestants have About the Catholic Faith with Jimmy Akin " Jimmy used to be a Protestant pastor but like the 3 Church of England Bishops since 2021 became Catholic to get closer to Christ !! How is it that not so bright and weak Catholics can become Protestant but theologians Pastors etc become Catholic ???
See the debate ""Debate: Catholic vs Protestant Salvation vesves Justification Tim Staples vs Mike Gendron "" The debate was not exactly as Mike tells it .... Mike found he could not come back after the break !!!!
I was NEVER taught that Mary is my savior. I can’t believe you guys are preverting what Catholics are taught and believe. It’s a shame that you expose the word of faith preachers for spreading false teachings but yet you do the same. Very disappointing.
In the first question asked by Justin, Mike Gendron seemingly cannot give you the name of the one true Church that Jesus founded. This is a problem, if you think about it for a moment. Why? Because does a seeker of the true Church have to talk to every pastor in his area to find what he believes in or not eg Was Jesus talking symbolically or literally when He said "This is My Body"; Is it ok to contracept or not, etc? I don't think Jesus set His Church up this way. You don't need to have biblical knowledge or the correct approach to interpreting scriptures before you find His Church. No. A simple peasant with zero bible knowledge should be able to find _His_ Church - the one true Church. Blessings
Though I agree with some of the things that had been said, I have some objections: Some of your accusations are based on a single event or behavior of a priest that has happened to condemn the teachings of a whole church while you mentioned that there are thousands of RCC in the world. My suggestions about proving that Catholics believe or teach all the accusations that are made by Protestants would be to give written proof of Catholic's books claiming for example that faith in Christ not enough you need to add works to it. Someone told you that you would be stoned there if you proclaim the Word of God is not a proof that Catholics are killing true Christians or combatting them in fact the fact that Catholics objected to some of the claims that were made in the first video is the proof that they attend your true teachings. My point is that a better way would be to present all those claims with facts that Catholic stones preachers of the Gospel, encourages homosexuality and rape... Without proofs those accusations are just claims from a Protestant against Catholic.
Justin Peters I also used to be a Roman Catholic so this is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I grew up in the church and for a long time I was at first as a child not interested and later I became a very devout Roman Catholic. It wasn't long till I started to become disappointed with the church to becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Roman Catholic church. I started to become disappointed when I was reading the word of God and seeing just how different the church was to what was described by the Bible. Then more and more questions began to chip away at my foundation for my belief in Roman Catholicism including the saints, Mary, the pope, the eucharist, etc. Eventually I could not bear going to the church anymore and once the child abuse scandals involving the priests and nuns came out it was the last straw and I eventually renounced Roman Catholicism.
@shooterdownunder ... There are horrific lies that are perpetuated against the Roman Catholic Church and its priests by Satan and his minions -- just as happened to Jesus Christ. Cardinal Pell had horrific charges of sexual rape leveled against him by 2 liars who said the 50-something year old Pell attacked them in the sacristy right after mass, at a time when Pell was always talking to parishoners and was dressed in his heavy priestly robes. One accuser recanted his outrageous lies, but on the other man's (a person of poor character) testimony Pell was convicted by a hating anti-Catholic jury with no evidence. It wasn't until years later that the Autralian HIgh Court UNANIMOUSLY threw out the conviction while harshly condemning the jury who found Pell guilty with ZERO evidence.
@@bobgarrett7134 I’m well aware of the George Pell case which was a disgraceful episode in our judicial system. That doesn’t change the fact that there are many proven cases of sexual abuse in the church and that there’s a massive problem with the theology.
Christ left ONE Church which one of the thousands do you say is it? St. Paul talks about ONE Faith, ONE Baptism but yet there are as many ideas of what these are as thee are denominations out side the Catholic Church. Scripture itself says we are to follow the teaching of the Apostles and that the Church is the foundation of truth.
I remember when I became a Christian and left Catholicism a friend of my mum’s said ‘don’t tell me she is going to read the Bible’ - I was astounded by that! Like did she really think that was a bad thing, a cult or something because I am reading the Bible…
I have a catholic friend. One day at work the subject of purgatory came up. I told her it was never found in the Bible. After several discussions about this subject she went to her priest to ask him. She was told to “beware of anyone who quotes scripture to you”. After that, the subject was closed between us.
@@elainepalmbos5300 wow! I too have a Catholic friend and I have shared the gospel with her which led her to reading Galatians. She read it over and over and thanked me for leading her to scripture. Unfortunately, her take on it after a few weeks was, while she appreciated where I was coming from, she didn’t fully agree with my views on the gospel. All that to say she still believed Catholicism - it is indoctrinated in her. We talked recently and she talked about baptism as a child washing away original sin, I think, and then something about other types of sin. I said to her I have never seen that in the scripture and if she knew where it could be found. I know she is a seeking soul so I pray that she will earnestly consider this and seek God through His word.
@@billy1132 If you ever went to a Catholic service you will find nothing but scripture throughout the whole of the mass. You are very confused about Catholicism.
I'm a former Catholic. My husband and mother were both devout Catholics all their lives. I asked them, "When you get to the pearly gates, and God asks you why should He let you into heaven, what will you say?" They didn't know. I told them, "You say, 'Because Your Son died for me, and He forgives me all my sins, and He will welcome me with open arms,'" and had them repeat it. I know they are in His presence forever.
Simple answer, "Thank God that He raised Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wellesley and many many Reformists, revivalists like Evangelicans, Pentecostal, though we are many but we are one in the Spirit. Praise the Lord, Halleluiah.
I like all the posts that show how far from the Biblical teachings on what Salvation is and where it comes from are. The first posting in this thread shows that GustAdlph believes that the Catholic Church is a false Church and by a magical formula his Catholic family have been saved out of the Catholic Church. Vs what the Catholic Church teaches in the Sixth session of the Council of Trent, (which sounds like good Biblical Christianity.) "In what manner it is to be understood, that the impious is justified by faith, and gratuitously. And whereas the Apostle saith, that man is justified by faith and freely, those words are to be understood in that sense which the perpetual consent of the Catholic Church hath held and expressed; to wit, that we are therefore said to be justified by faith, because faith is the beginning of human salvation, the foundation, and the root of all Justification; without which it is impossible to please God, and to come unto the fellowship of His sons: but we are therefore said to be justified freely, because that none of those things which precede justification-whether faith or works-merit the grace itself of justification. For, if it be a grace, it is not now by works, otherwise, as the same Apostle says, grace is no more grace." Then there is the posting that thanks God for Luther, Calvin and others who have brought back the Biblical Church lost, but ignores that Luther not only removed the seven OT books that pre-Lutheran Protestants accepted, but also removed seven NT books until he was forced by his fellow Protestants to return to the NT (James and Revelation among them) and was forced to remove ALONE which he had added to make the Bible now say we are saved by Faith ALONE. The same Luther who told Prince Phillip of Saxony that he could take a second wife without divorcing his first wife, as long as it was not made public. Luther who at first embraced the Jews who he thought would side with him against the Pope of Rome, but later when they did not support him, said should be expelled from their homes and made to wander without any homes or employment. Who at first said that each man should interpret the Scriptures on their own, later when the Peasantry rejected his interpretation and they followed Menno and other Protestants who disagreed with him, called on the Princes of Germany to war on the peasants, and kill them for refusing Luther's interpretation of the Scriptures. Calvin who put to death Protestants who denied his interpretation of the Scriptures, and who he traded letters with Luther condemning each other in the most pornographic of terms, and called each other servants of the Devil when they were being civil. But then we I guess can overlook that history, and condemn the Catholic Church that has condemned heresy but never pronounced any individual to hell, but prayed for God's mercy.
Mike your arguments about the errors of Roman Catholicism are fantastic…except for the hyperbole, straw-man, and ad hominem statements that pervade everything you say. I do completely agree with one thing you said, though. I agree that it is ALL about authority. In a very real sense, Mike, the Bible doesn’t “say” anything. It is a text that must be read, and reading ALWAYS involves interpretation. So, Mike, please tell me what objective authority you have to declare your interpretation of Scripture to be correct, and another interpretation to be apostate. Many people read the Bible with (apparently) sincere, godly intentions, and arrive at different views of baptism, the Lord’s Supper, eternal security, the means and meaning of salvation, etc. What authority do you have to make declarations that could have eternal consequences for people who choose to accept what you say?
2:07 if the Apostlic Church got off track theologically, than Christ is a liar, because he promised his Church, he himself founded would never be overcome by the fates of hell.
You addressed how priests (as well as nuns) are not allowed to marry. I knew a former nun who was sent to Italy. At they church, the nuns and priests were having sex with each other. When one of the nuns would become pregnant, the child would later be buried behind the church. It's one of the reasons why she left.
@anthonypetrozzelli5429 13 hours ago Excellent video. This dogma of the Holy Church, there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church, is almost completely ignored.Thanks for demonstrating the papal decree regarding this subject. It's amazing how many so-called traditional Catholics reject the dogma of no salvation outside the Catholic Church and water baptism only th-cam.com/video/6FEX01xt__U/w-d-xo.html Now this is what i appreciate. Real catholics, not these..." let anyone into heaven heretic catholics." If one is to be catholic, be catholic. MHFM has my utter respect. Might even be time to rekindle the Holy Inquisition.
@@de1623 Example using the first question asked, "Does the plethora of Protestant denominations prove the RCC is the one true church?" Mike Gendron's non-answer answer in two points that he states: 1. "The Roman Catholic Church is not united in a common teaching..." because "...there are Roman Catholic priest and bishops and even popes that stand stand opposed to one another..." so "...the is no unity in doctrine or teaching in the Roman Catholic Church." HOWEVER, Mike then negates everything he said with "...yes, they do have an official teaching, which is based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church..." ALSO, every Roman Catholic church teaches the SAME gospel reading every Sunday. Mike Gendron did not address why there are a plethora of Protestant denominations (actually more than 20,000). 2. "Yes, there are many different Evangelical and Protestant churches and denominations..." THEN he admits that "...I'm not saying that the Roman Catholic Church is an apostate church in that it's departed from the faith of the Apostles..." Mike then says that "...there are many Protestant churches that also departed from the faith of the Apostles and that they too are apostate..." and that "...many of our mainline Protestant denominations have drifted into apostasy and are no longer following the faith of the Apostles..." and then he admits "...yes, we do have a number of Protestant denominations and churches..." and then Mike closes his answer with "...there is only one true church and that it made up of all those who have been baptized by the spirit into one body..." and then he quotes Bible verses that are supposed to support his non-answer answer. So in other words: 1. Mike Gendron says the Roman Catholic Church is not united in a common teaching and then says all Roman Catholics are taught what is based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 2. Mike Gendron says the Roman Catholic Church does NOT depart from the teachings of the Apostles. That there are many different Evangelical and Protestant churches and denominations because many of the mainline denominations NO LONGER follow the faith of the Apostles. Instead of just admitting that the plethora of Protestant denominations PROVE that the Roman Catholic Church is the one TRUE Church, Mike deflects the original question by ultimately saying that the one true church is "...made up of all those who have been baptized by the spirit into one body...", which contradicts his second point (because more likely than not, all of the mainline Protestant denominations that Mike claims are apostate do practice baptism).
You all need to know that Mike had a debate with Scott Hahn In the debate Mike was consistently and politely beaten in his arguments even when he could not answer Scott he then just called him names .... Eventually it got so bad for Mike that he found he could not come back after the break... This is all recorded on youtube "Debate Scott Hahn and Mike Gendron "..... He is careful here not to give a reference to the debate but is less than honest in what has been said !!! ....... I will move onto the Eucharist which he brings up here in this you tube clip . Go to the Gospel of John. John 6:30 begins in the synagogue at Capernaum. The Jews asked Jesus what sign he could perform so that they might believe in him. As a challenge, they noted that “our ancestors ate manna in the desert.” Could Jesus top that? He told them the real bread from heaven comes from the Father. “Give us this bread always,” they said. Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” At this point the Jews understood him to be speaking metaphorically. Jesus first repeated what he said, then summarized: “‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’” (John 6:51-52). His listeners were stupefied because now they understood Jesus literally-and correctly. He again repeated his words, but with even greater emphasis, and introduced the statement about drinking his blood: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him” (John 6:53-56). Notice that Jesus made no attempt to soften what he said, no attempt to correct “misunderstandings,” for there were none. Our Lord’s listeners understood him perfectly well. They no longer thought he was speaking metaphorically. In John 6:60 we read: “Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, ‘This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?’” (It is here, in the rejection of the Eucharist, that Judas fell away; look at John 6:64.) “After this, many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him” (John 6:66). This is the only record we have of any of Christ’s followers forsaking him for purely doctrinal reasons. If they erred in taking a metaphor in a literal sense, why didn’t he call them back and straighten things out? Both the Jews, who were suspicious of him, and his disciples, who had accepted everything up to this point, would have remained with him had he said he was speaking only symbolically. But he did not correct these protesters. Twelve times he said he was the bread that came down from heaven; four times he said they would have “to eat my flesh and drink my blood.” John 6 was an extended promise of what would be instituted at the Last Supper-and it was a promise that could not be more explicit. Now when you say Christ was speaking only metaphorically by comparing verses like John 10:9 (“I am the door”) and John 15:1 (“I am the true vine”). The problem is that there is not a connection to John 6:35, “I am the bread of life.” “I am the door” and “I am the vine” make sense as metaphors because Christ is like a door-we go to heaven through him-and he is also like a vine-we get our spiritual sap through him. But Christ takes John 6:35 far beyond symbolism by saying, “For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed” (John 6:55). Jesus continues: “As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me” (John 6:57). The Greek word used for “eats” (trogon) is very blunt and has the sense of “chewing” or “gnawing.” This is not the language of metaphor. You appeal to John 6:63: “It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” You say this means that eating real flesh is a waste. But does this make sense? Are we to understand that Christ had just commanded his disciples to eat his flesh, then said their doing so would be pointless? Is that what “the flesh is of no avail” means? “Eat my flesh, but you’ll find it’s a waste of time”-is that what he was saying? Hardly. In John 6:63 “flesh profits nothing” refers to mankind’s inclination to think using only what their natural human reason would tell them rather than what God would tell them. Thus in John 8:15-16 Jesus tells his opponents: “You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone that judge, but I and he who sent me.” So natural human judgment, unaided by God’s grace, is unreliable; but God’s judgment is always true. Also in John 6:63, “The words I have spoken to you are spirit” does not mean “What I have just said is symbolic.” The word “spirit” is never used that way in the Bible. The line means that what Christ has said will be understood only through faith; only by the power of the Spirit and the drawing of the Father (cf. John 6:37, 44-45, 65). Paul wrote to the Corinthians: “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?” (1 Cor. 10:16). So when we receive Communion, we actually participate in the body and blood of Christ, not just eat symbols of them. Paul also said, “Therefore whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. . . . For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself” (1 Cor. 11:27, 29). “To answer for the body and blood” of someone meant to be guilty of a crime as serious as homicide. How could eating mere bread and wine “unworthily” be so serious? Paul’s comment makes sense only if the bread and wine became the real body and blood of Christ. Anti-Catholics also claim the early Church took this chapter symbolically. Ignatius of Antioch, who had been a disciple of the apostle John and who wrote a letter to the Smyrnaeans about A.D. 110, said, referring to “those who hold heterodox opinions,” that “they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in his goodness, raised up again” (6:2, 7:1). Forty years later, Justin Martyr, wrote, “Not as common bread or common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished, . . . is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus” (First Apology 66:1-20). Origen, in a homily written about A.D. 244, attested to belief in the Real Presence. “You are accustomed to take part in the divine mysteries, so you know how, when you have received the Body of the Lord, you reverently exercise every care lest a particle of it fall and lest anything of the consecrated gift perish” (Homilies on Exodus 13:3). Cyril of Jerusalem, in a catechetical lecture presented in the mid-300s, said, “Do not, therefore, regard the bread and wine as simply that, for they are, according to the Master’s declaration, the body and blood of Christ. Even though the senses suggest to you the other, let faith make you firm” (Catechetical Discourses: Mystagogic 4:22:9). It is this level of research prayer and understanding which has led three Church of England Bishops in just the last two years to give up so much power, wealth and status to join the Catholic Church to get closer to Christ.. (thanks to CA)
The Catholic Church teaches we are saved by GOD'S GRACE ALONE; by Faith working through Love. We are not saved by Faith Alone. We are not saved by our Works. We are saved by Grace Alone by faith working through love. Galatians 5:6 “but only Faith Working through Love" James 2:20 Do you want proof you foolish man, that FAITH WITHOUT WORKS WORKS IS USELESS. James 2:22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and FAITH WAS COMPLETED BY WORKS. James 2:24 See how a man is justified by works and NOT by FAITH ALONE. James 2:26 For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD.
ok just a play on words, like saying devotion or veneration of a sprit is not worship as if tgey are omnicient and omnipotent like God ? Acts chapter 8 pray directly to God, Cornelius etc etc. Apostles prayed to God ayour own religion says it teaches the bible and tradition (catechism which tgey keep adding to). Gospel of John, jesus says to an unbeliever that hw will die in his sin. The mortal sin is unbelief when in full knowledge. You need a priest but bible says we are a kingdom of priests, the veil of the physical temple is torn. We have a hugh priest in Jesus. Jesus the only mediator. No need of a catholic priest, mary or deceased saints to act as medators. It even contravenes having the commandment having no other gods. gids in hebrew is elohim. Elohim is the spirit world Just elohim is condemnation of the the religion of catholicism. If I do not fear the God who can destroy body and soul according the bible, I could do what I want and keep adding to the word of God.
Theotokas : Mother of God. There is no problem for Protestants referring to her as Mother of God- this title actually intends to say more about Jesus’s divinity than some special role of Mary/ but Catholics have used this lofty title to justify straight up worship of Mary
The pastors here were talking about the Catholics belief that Mary is the mother of God, they deny it but says she’s a deity meaning the father, son, Mary, holy spirit, she is fully human born from a human father and mother, just like they call the pope the holy father, they pray to Mary a idol, I think people get confused calling her mother Mary only meaning she is Jesus earthly mother the Catholic Church distorted it, God is infinite Mary would’ve had to be there before God, does that make sense? The protestants don’t believe she’s part of the trinity
Is the Earth the mother of Adam? Adam was formed of dust and God breathed into him the breath of life. He went back to dust. Mary went back to dust also. But Christ went to heaven. Mary will be raised like the rest of us. We are all sinners. Christ said, There is none good but God. Read the bible instead of believing catholic priests.
I have a question for these two gentlemen. They keep referring to the “authority” of Scripture. Where did you get it? How do you know that there are 27 Books in the New Testament and not 28 or 29 or 25? How is it that you know Hebrews is Scripture and something like the Gospel of Thomas was not? Are you two guys declaring those 27 as THE Books? The Catholic Church declared those Books as inerrant and inspired at the Council of Rome in 382 A.D. Every time you pick up that Bible you give tacit authority to the same Catholic Church that you are hell-bent on trying to condemn.
"New Testament and not 28 or 29 or 25? " Nor 4 ... or 3 or 54 or 53. Mike has never read all 300+ early Christian writings. He can ONLY defer to the authority of the 4th C Catholic Church to have decided for him. There is no other source. Sola Scriptura fails at the table of contents.
This interview is so full of misconceptions, false assumptions and downright lies about the Catholic Church, its doctrines and practices, I don 't know where to begin. But why should I bother? All the ridiculous assertions you make have been refuted many times over.
Matthew 11:11 says the greatest born of a woman is John the Baptist. So why venerate Mary if she was born holy as Catholics claim? Thank you Justin for loving the truth of the gospel! Soli Deo Gloria
@@danielcarriere1958 Inaccurate. She is born of a woman and requires the blood of Jesus for her own redemption. ALL HAVE SINNED and FALLEN SHORT of the GLORY OF GOD…..including my her. The Bible is clear.
@@michaelarchangel130 she was born under the law and under sin and lives as any other human being. YET God chose her to give birth to Christ. Pretty amazing when it comes to doctrine of election no? She needed salvation from her Son and received salvation. Furthermore if Mary was sinless why did she have to offer sacrifice for sin?
@@CowboyFantastic007 There are two ways of being saved: 1 rescuing the one who has fallen into sin, 2. Preventing one from ever falling into sin. Bot are saved. Both require a savior.
Sadly my mom is a devout Roman Catholic. I have and still continue to witness to her, she insists that she will not change. The hold of catholicism is strong, I know our Lord God is greater, so I keep praying and telling her truth. I come from the region in Italy where the ruling Saint is Padre Pio.. they love him and in Italy, each home has either a statue of either him, Mary or both....it's very sad to see how blind and deceived the catholics are.
"we don't worship idols", bows down, kisses a statues feet, weeps before a statue, prays to a woman, parades a statue sounds, looks for apparations of Mary. God will not give his glory to another! Blessed is the fruit of your womb Mary, Correction, Rather blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.
@@brettheckjenders7338 Well Brett as you are an expert in Catholicism Attending one Catholic Mass. Please tell me all about the reasons that Catholics worship Mary. Could you expand on her giving birth as a virgin Being called Full of Grace by the Angel Gabrielle (were you born full of grace ? Without Original sin) Jesus referred to Mary as Woman. Have you ever read about the Woman in the book of Revelation who will crush the head of Satan. After giving birth to a Saviour ??? At the request of His Mother at the wedding feast of Cana “They have no wine “. Jesus granted His Mothers request even though He said “Woman, my time has not yet come “ Because he loved and honoured Her so much. Catholics Love and Honour Mary as the Virginal Mother of the second person of the blessed Trinity. The Son of God. Jesus honours His Mother and so do Catholics. So keep believing the lie that Catholics worship Mary , Brett. If that makes you feel superior.
You say she lived a sinless life and was ascended into heaven when only Jesus himself was sinless and lived a perfect life, Mary was human and a sinner like anyone else
as to why their are so many protestant denominations? simple, sola scriptura and private judgement two of the reformers pillars of the reformation. in 1577 a protestant scholar christolph rasperger published a book titled "200 interpretations of the words " this is my body". that is how messed up and divided Protestantism is.
As a former Evangelical I can see the errors in this video. One common error done by Protestants/Evangelicals is to make statements against the Catholic Church without providing proof. For example. - Saying that the Catholic is an apostate church without giving a biblical reason for stating that. And when you look at what the NT says about apostasy, only Protestant/Evangelical churches can fit that bill. 1 Timothy 4:1-2 Chapter 4 False Asceticism. Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences.
@@JustinPetersMin This videos demonstrates just how far Baptist have drifted from the Lutheran reformation. The sacraments of holy baptism (baptismal regeneration) private confession and holy absolution, and the true corporal body of blood of Christ, for the forgiveness of sins, are all taught in sacred scripture. So, sad. Luther would not consider Baptist as legitimate churches.
@@blakenaquin-o3j I actually disagree with most of this video. I am kind of embarrassed for them. As a confessional Lutheran we reject “once saved always saved”…I thought you Lutherans believe in faith alone? Well, yes, with a nuanced understanding that works are required for the justified. While, Lutherans believe in solo scriptura (I don’t like using the five Solas, because it doesn’t represent Lutheran nuance), it is really not alone, you have the first seven ecclesiastical councils and the church fathers. Lutherans have a much higher view of tradition than Baptist, etc. These guys reject the blessed virgin St. Mary is the mother of God! There should be absolutely zero debate on this issue, she is obviously the mother of God, etc.
Praying for you, Mike. I also attended protestant seminary and am a Catholic revert. To call Scott Hahn an apsotate is crazy, he's one of the most generous and irenic men from what I can tell truly seeking out God in love. Mike, your teachings don't hold up when taking the full council of God's Word. For those truly interested in searching for the truth in love, watch his video debating Brian Mercier. Brian uses scripture to debunk Mike's teaching over and over. Mike has no answer except to just keep reciting the same handpicked scriptures that back his Calvinist view, while ignoring ones that clearly should force him to shift his position. Unfortunately, Mike is just acting under his own authoritative interpretation of Gods Word. Twisting it as he accuses other of doing. Praying God softens your heart, Mike, to hear his FULL Word...
Catholics have a heart for you also ... You need to know that Mike had a debate with Scott Hahn In the debate Mike was consistently and politely beaten in his arguments even when he could not answer Scott he then just called him names .... Eventually it got so bad for Mike that he found he could not come back after the break... ( This is all recorded on youtube "Debate Scott Hahn and Mike Gendron ")..... He is careful here not to give a reference to the debate but is less than honest in what has been said !!! .......
@@1234poppycat I appreciate you saying that , thank you for that information. I will definitely look at the debate. When we do have these conversations we should always do so with grace and gentleness. I know sometimes it can get frustrating when we are so passionate and alot of times both parties are not listening to the other. However , Calling names is never something we should do as followers or Jesus, I will agree with you there and commend your honesty in bringing that to light. I know none of us are perfect and I know Mike doesn't always have all the answers , and I don't agree with him on everything either. Just as I don't agree with a huge portion of protestants. If this happened maybe he realized what was happening and decided not to return so that he would not again engage in sinful behavior, I do hope he repented and apologized. Regardless the point is I rely on what God says as we all should and the unfortunate fact is that the Roman catholic church has misled A LOT of people and that is why I am passionate about speaking to Catholics about what they believe. Just for reference I'm also not new to the subject, I have many family members who are Roman Catholics ( that I have a great relationship with and love dearly ) and I have done hours upon hours of study to truly understand what the real situation is. That is why I came to the conclusion that there is a big problem going on in the church. We should all examine ourselves and make sure we are in line with God, submissive to him and walking by his spirit and not what any man tells us. This is what God desires. That is all I desire, for Catholics to reexamine what they have been told against what God has said. There are some missteps and it concerns me greatly. If you would like to have a respectful and loving conversation with me outside of TH-cam, I would be greatly honored to make the time. ❤️ I also appreciate very much your kindness towards me. I have spoken to a lot of Catholics and that usually is not how I'm received, especially online.
@@AmeeraG242 Oh please come and talk to me. I am a convert to the Catholic church and I feel like I have finally found the truth that was kept from me for way too long.
I hate to tell Mike Gendron that the early Church fathers were taught by the Apostles. Thus, the apostolic church. One reason Scott Hahn became a Catholic.
the church was corrupted when it BECAME the roman church alone and became state religion of the empire. the pope is the caeser and the cardinals (unbiblical btw like the pope) are the senat of rome.
If the Catholic Church taught that Mary should be worshipped, I wouldn't be Catholic. And when Mike was a Catholic, he never, ever was taught to worship Mary. In fact, worship of any creature is condemned. Mike is duped and confused, and prefers to stay that way (Jane too). Is it all because of the money he makes?
Yes you are right ... See the debate ""Debate: Catholic vs Protestant Salvation vesves Justification Tim Staples vs Mike Gendron "" The debate was not exactly as Mike tells it .... Mike found he could not come back after the break !!!!
As far as James chapter 2 goes it does NOT contradict Paul’s statement regarding works of the “law”. The regenerated Christian is not subject to the old Jewish laws. Paul never mentioned works apart from the old Jewish laws. If you truly believe the Bible is God’s inspired Word then you need to take it literally as James instructed.
A more unclear definition of veneration versus worship could not be given. You yourself deny Mary as “theotokos” or God-bearer. Therefore, you deny Christ was fully divine as well as fully human. Congratulations, you’re officially heretics. Nestorianism teaches that Jesus is two persons. The Catholic Church teaches that Christ is one person with two natures, a divine nature and a human nature. Hence, Mary is the mother of the divine Person who is the Son of God. Logically, she is the Mother of He who is God the Son. She is the Mother of God, though not the Mother of the divine essence of the Trinity. Educate yourselves.
If you want an inspiring video ... Look up "The BIGGEST Misconceptions protestants have About the Catholic Faith with Jimmy Akin " Jimmy used to be a Protestant pastor but like the 3 Church of England Bishops since 2021 became Catholic to get closer to Christ !! How is it that not so bright and weak Catholics can become Protestant but theologians Pastors etc become Catholic ???
@@trailrvs Says the person who worships someone other than God Himself. Sir, you're and idolator and a heretic. Need to get out while the getting is good. Repent.
@@deniseadkins2901 if only you knew anything about Catholicism. Your comment shows you don’t. Your thousands of denominations prove you aren’t the truth!
@@trailrvs I know that you "venerate" Mary with is another word for worship. You have all kinds of nonsensical beliefs about her. I know a great deal about Catholicism. She is your mediator and our thousands of denominations go to the one and only Mediator who is Christ. I don't confess my sins to a sinner and think I'm ok. I confess to a Holy God knowing that He gracefully forgives me. I don't listen to tradition that can't be found in the Scripture. I don't have to have a Church to tell me what to believe and not to believe. I have no dogmas over which someone can be anathema because they don't believe. We have Doctrines that are from Scripture taken in context. Christ died for all of my sins and I don't have to spend any time in purgatory because my Savior is Righteous enough and Just enough to take care of it ALL on the cross. You have a very weak god. And your pope? He needs to repent and stop teaching all of this nonsense. You need to stop following man and turn to God. There is only forgiveness through your Creator not a man. Repent. Also, stop sacrificing Christ every Mass. It insults Christ by the way your priest acts. He says he does things that he can't do. He cannot pull Christ down from Heaven and tell him to get into the host. That is beyond ridiculous. Wise up. Believe Scripture...all of it instead of man.
@@deniseadkins2901 so you knowingly lie and say we worship Mary. Nice try. And Jesus gave them the authority to forgive sins in John 20:23, so wrong again. Your set of beliefs were invented in the 16th Century and are therefore not the faith once for all delivered according to Jude 3. Your righteousness is a legal fiction and you think an omniscient God doesn’t still see your character flaws. You may be fully justified, but you aren’t yet fully sanctified, so again, your righteousness is a legal fiction. You follow the Bible alone, which wasn’t collected and declared to be Scripture for nearly 300 years, wasn’t available or affordable to everyone for 1500 years, and wasn’t able to be read by literate people until 1800 years. When you interpret the Bible outside of the Sacred Tradition and Church magisterium that brought it forth, you are already out of context. Keep your man made religion where every person is the final authority in deciding what the Bible means. I believe God answered the prayer of Jesus in John 17 and kept a unified church. And yes, this pope has issues.
You need to know that Mike had a debate with Scott Hahn In the debate Mike was consistently and politely beaten in his arguments even when he could not answer Scott he then just called him names .... Eventually it got so bad for Mike that he found he could not come back after the break... ( This is all recorded on youtube "Debate Scott Hahn and Mike Gendron ")..... He is careful here not to give a reference to the debate but is less than honest in what has been said !!! .......
As for mortal vs venial sins? Let’s actually have some fairness and try to explain the ACTUAL Catholic teaching on sin before you tear down what you mistakenly built up? What Does the Bible Have to Say? Matt. 5:19: Whoever then relaxes (breaks) one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Our Lord here teaches that there are “least commandments” a person can break and even teach others to do so yet still remain “in the kingdom of heaven.” That is both a good definition of venial sin and perfectly in line with paragraph 1863 of the Catechism. Then, Jesus goes on to warn us in no uncertain terms that there are other sins that will take us to hell-if we do not repent, of course. For example, in Matt. 5: 22, Jesus says, “… whoever says ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire.” In verses 28-29, he says: But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. Clearly Jesus teaches there are some sins that will separate us from God for all eternity and some that will not-mortal and venial sin. Matt. 12:32: And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come (Matthew 12:32, emphasis added). This statement of our Lord implies there are at least some sins that can be forgiven in the next life and some that cannot to a people who already believed it to be so. That sounds awful Catholic, doesn’t it?
My favorite conversations are when the elders speak. I love it!! Thank you for a much needed discussion. May our LORD grow us all in wisdom and lead us out of error whenever error is present. He is merciful!
He came out of the Catholic Faith to become Protestant , Whom I would call an idiot who know not the truth of the redemption , neither do Protestantism , Protestantism, out of a rebellion, sunk in Sodom and Divorce, going about in Christian names underscored in Gnosticism (1John 2;19) , unto its many thousands of sects where one does not agree with the other, denotes the many parts that the body of Jezebel ended up torn by dogs, incidentally the source of the prophesied Apostasy theologically in the leavens of the Faith Here is why ; Bible "By his stripes are ye healed" The stripes that man gave him out of sin (he who had no sin became sin for us) become his own, by which he redeems man unto his words "I Hurt & I Heal " amounting to "My burden is light & my Yoke easy " So the stripes that man gave him, he uses to redeem is but to know why "It pleased God to Bruise (stripe) him " Not for the bruises itself but for its fruit This is a "Conversion act" against Protestantism's erranous "Substitution (magical act) arisen out of the leavens of the Faith ,the philosophies from Faith only" through mis interpretation of Paul & which James specifically says is not, only to another Christ another Gospel even theologically , any wonder why Protestant America is sunk in Sodom and Divorce ", its fruit , Now, Here is another question to ponder, Christ took our sins upon himself , so what did he do with it, give it to the Father ?
Ok, please correct me if I’m reading James 2:24 wrong (which you claim to be the infallible Word of God.) I read it and it’s very clear. Actually the whole chapter 2 tells something different than what you are preaching. I choose to believe the word of God!
Thank you for the subtitles on this video, Justin. I can hear clearly at your end but the sound input from Mike Gendron is very muffled through my low quality pc speakers lol! Helps to see the captions on screen.
Gendron had a debate with ex protestant Tim Sharples on justification (see it on you tube). Just lets say Gendron started insulting Tim Sharples and repeating phrases which did not answer questions put to him then Mr Gendron decided to not come back after the break .... Look up "The BIGGEST Misconceptions protestants have About the Catholic Faith with Jimmy Akin " Jimmy used to be a Protestant pastor but like the 3 Church of England Bishops since 2021 became Catholic to get closer to Christ !! How is it that not so bright and weak Catholics can become Protestant but theologians Pastors etc become Catholic ???
@@vegasgirl1969 Because Catholics don’t believe we are saved by works, but by grace alone. Works justify you, in the sense that they increase justification, but they don’t ever change you from an unsaved state to a saved state. There are far too many lies to even be able to address in several comments.
@@christsavesreadromans1096The Council of Trent and the Catechism both contradict what you just said . I'll include them both so you know that I'm not making this up. Canon 9, Council of Trent: If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone, meaning that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to obtain the grace of justification, and that it is not in any way necessary that he be prepared and disposed by the action of his own will, let him be anathema. Catechism, para. 1821: We can therefore hope in the glory of heaven promised by God to those who love him and do his will. In every circumstance, each one of us should hope, with the grace of God, to persevere "to the end" and to obtain the joy of heaven, as God's eternal reward for the GOOD WORKS ACCOMPLISHED with the grace of Christ. It's very common for Catholics to be unaware of what the Catholic doctrines are. Protestants believe salvation is by faith alone through Christ alone, not Catholics. It may be your individual belief that salvation is through faith alone, but that is not what the Catholic Church teaches. I was raised Catholic and most of my family and friends are still Catholic so I'm very aware of what the Catholic Church teaches about salvation.
This guys ridiculous , he came to meet victims of the scandal that took place , instead of trying to comfort them and help fight justice, he decides to try convert them to man made heretical sects made by Martin Luther than don’t lead to salvation , disgraceful. Then he’s also said he was surprised the woman didn’t leave her faith because of what a nasty man who is sinning according to Catholic doctrine who doesn’t make up a majority did to her child, that infers he believes people should be religious for other men not for God , and would he say that to all the kids who have been abused in Protestant sects like the southern baptist “church” that they should leave Protestant “Christianity” ? No he wouldn’t. And to say 50 percent of Priests are homosexual or the p word Is rediculous and a lie . First of all the majority of the abuse wasn’t by the p word , it was ephebophillia , both nasty and wrong but they are different. Second of all most of the abusers where homos only 15 percent straight and it was approximately ( at the peak ) 2 - 4 percent of priests who Abused so 2 - 4 percent of a group of people the majority where gay , that makes up the average ammount of homos in the public population (2-4 percent). So where you got 50 percent homos I have no clue , and the p word ? That’s just a blatant lie . And all these stats where at the peak of the scandal , far to High yes . But no where near your number and still the vast majority where innocent and no evidence to say half of the innocent where homos . Nowadays there is still a homo problem ( probably 1-2 percent like the average percent of homos in the public , like in every organisation today ) of trying to corrupt the Churches teachings and lead people astray . Abuse scandal (which has only been an large scale issue the past few decades, before then it was very uncommon) is nowadays almost non existent, due to the amount of rules put in place to protect kids . So please when addressing the horrific scandal that happened , give fair honest stats and don’t use it as a representation of all of Catholicism or , priests . That Catholic doctrine on this is clear that any form of sexual activity outside marriage is evil.
Yeah, I think it was more from Mike's mic, if you will,😁 it sounded as though his voice was just dissipating out into the ether. Anyhoo, hopefully Justin sees this before Mike is on again. Blessings from Scotland BTW!🏴🙏
@@caroldonaldson4565 I'd really liked to have heard clearly what Mike has to say as I have a Roman Catholic friend back in Northern Ireland from our school days. Yes, we both went to a 'school for the blind' hence it was a mixed school, being the only school of it's kind in N.I. My background is the 'Brethren Assemblies. I've been witnessing to him about salvation etc and he still clings to the R.C. system.
One thing that stuck out to me is when Mike said that Catholics need to perform penance after the sacrament of reconciliation to receive forgiveness. He's wrong. Absolution is granted when the words of absolution are said, not after one performs penance. Penance is given to help the penitent to overcome certain sins that they have confessed. If he couldn't get a basic detail like this correct, why should I believe him on other things he says?
@@peterzinya1 Yes, there are many members of the Catholic Church, including the clergy, that are corrupt. The first one was Judas, but I'm not going to abandon Christ because of Judas. Are you?
@@brittoncain5090 Judas wasnt some pervert priest. Judas was part of the plan of salvation and he was mentioned in the old test. Your equating Judas with dirty filthy homosexual pedophiles? Be of good cheer.....catholic priests are mentioned in the old test also. They are called "Idol Shepherds" who feed off the flesh of the flock. Notice the spelling "Idol" not Idyl. Catholic priests preside over temples full of idols, images made by human hands. Catholics say.....our statues arent idols. Idols are man made images. Catholics are forced to deny everything. If they admitted anything they are admitting their religion is wicked. Theres a new excuse floating around catholic circles concerning their graven(carved,engraved) images. They are tired of making lame excuses for why they have them , and even bowing befor them. Im sure youve heard this one; God commands us to make images....(;-D Thats a true Hail Mary.......toss it up and hope someone believes it.
@@peterzinya1 He literally has, maybe YOU should try reading the Old Testament. You know, the parts where God commands statues of angels to be made for the Ark of the Covenant. Also, are you trying to say that it was good for Judas to betray Jesus?
@@brittoncain5090 Who did god have make the cherubs? He didnt ask you or me. The cherubs were for his purposes. A couple guys made them and put them on the ark. In Deut god expressly says not to erect statues of men or women, but thats all the CC does. Dont feel bad personally, im not blaming you. Im not asking you to leave your religion either. Im just telling you what is. yes we needed Judas. He had to betray jesus so he could get crucified for our sins. Why do you ask if i think it was good? You must think it was a bad thing. catholics say the darndest things (;-D Catholicism is a catch as catch can religion. Doesnt matter what the flock says or believes, as long as they keep giving money. Its a business and the clergy need to eat and pay bills also.
It is quite disconcerting to hear Mr. Gendron wonder at 18:43 that why should Roman Catholics build their theology on the 'uninspired words of early church fathers when you can directly go to the inspired word of (G)od...". From what I read, those early Church Fathers also believed in Jesus as their Lord and Savior, and they all used the Bible in their expositions of the same. Their teachings and 'uninspired words' were (and still are) very important nowadays because in terms of space and time they were the CLOSEST to the apostolic age, hence, their thoughts are mostly likely in line with the way the Apostles and early Christians must have understood God's written words. Their understanding of the teachings of Jesus during the early Church age is crucial, as it affords scholars and the laity a window on how the early Chruch understood verses of the Word of God. As compared to the teachings and 'inspired word' of people like Mr. Gendron 2,000 years REMOVED from apostolic times, the 'uninspired word' of the early Church Fathers are a gem to behold as they do glorify God and His Word! Those teachings of the Apostolic and Church Fathers were sustained by the Church. Truly, the Church (not even the Bible?) is the foundation and pillar of the truth (1 Tim. 3:15)... Why should Catholic critics like Mr. Gendron even think that their modern day understanding of Christ's teachings are worthier than those of the early Church Fathers? It is like asking: who do you think had a better understanding of the spirit of the American Constitution, the Founding Fathers and framers and signers in 1789, or those who study it more than 200 years AFTER its adoption?... Indeed, as the great St. John Henry Newman (a former Anglican turned Catholic) once wrote: "To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant." [From Newman's "An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine".]
You need to know that Mike had a debate with Scott Hahn In the debate Mike was consistently and politely beaten in his arguments even when he could not answer Scott he then just called him names .... Eventually it got so bad for Mike that he found he could not come back after the break... ( This is all recorded on youtube "Debate Scott Hahn and Mike Gendron ")..... He is careful here not to give a reference to the debate but is less than honest in what has been said !!! .......
I truly love your ministry Justin. It’s been such a blessing to my life and my wife’s. Thank you for being a faithful servant of the Lord and being obedient! May God continue to be glorified through your ministry!
There's only one classification of sin? Will you explain this verse then? If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. - 1 John 5:16-17
When encountering difficult passages such as this, we have to remember to take the entire counsel of God’s word into consideration, then come back to the question. It is very clear from Scripture that sin = death - so how do we reconcile this passage? We actually take John in the literal sense - meaning the physical death of a person from sinning and not in the sense of the spiritual death. There are examples of people being subjected to physical death due to a sin that leads to it, so that their souls are saved. Taking this into consideration, reread this passage with that in mind. God bless!
The Bible in a Year with Father Mike Schmitz is a wildly popular Bible-reading program. I think this the second year it’s been in place; I wonder if the adherents will question purgatory and other catholic teachings, or if such topics will be glossed over and/or justified through Scripture. I’ve also watched apologetics videos from a catholic perspective on TH-cam, and they sure do use Scripture to justify their teachings. Like it or not, they ALWAYS circle back to Scripture. It’s very, very difficult to witness to Catholics.
Why wouldnt they use sacred scripture as they always have.. and use scripture at every catholic mass which is all biblical too and which can be shown to be so
I copy and paste my post today, directed at Mike and the moderator of this video: Such EVIL to spout what you WANT to believe Catholics believe in our view of Mary. Catholic's worship God alone ! Mike, if you can remember (which I really doubt) when you were a Catholic and went to Mass (if you really went to Mass), it was ALL about Jesus Christ. We worship God alone! You never experienced, you were never, ever taught, that Catholic's worship ANY creature, Mary included. We DO hold her in high regard. We thank her for saying YES to the Angel. We follow what she tells us : _do whatever he tells you._
@@Vickie167 Regarding why Catholics seek Mary's intercession, here are 2 cases. First. At Jesus' transfiguration, Moses & Elijah were seen talking with Him. In OT, Elijah had been bodily carried to Heaven, Moses had died. When Peter volunteered to build tents, he was obviously seeing them each in bodily form. So there IS life after death. Second. When Jesus spoke in Parables, He used fictitious figures in His teaching moments like the Prodigal Son, Father & Brother who had no names. However, in the Living Account of the Rich Man(RM) and Beggar Lazarus(BL) - Luke 16:19-31-, the historical Abraham and the BL were named while Jesus did not "care to remember '' the RM's name. In this Parable, Jesus declared that both the RM & BL had died, had been judged and assigned to their places - BL carried by Angels to Abraham's bosom, the RM sent to a place of torment. Despite being dead, there was a request for intercession by the RM to Father Abraham for his brothers. This is the second case of Life after Death, and both cases involve Jesus. Mary is superior to both Moses & Abraham. Moses committed murder and was disobedient at Meribah in the desert that disqualified him from entering the Promised Land. Abraham lied about his wife Sarah being his sister, and committed adultery with Hagar, his servant. Mary was " full of grace " with no biblical faults ascribed to her. And Mary is the mother of Jesus and thus the most excellent intercessor between us and Jesus, God & Judge ( John 5:22). While we pray to God we also have to use human helps like doctors, farmers etc. Possessed persons and their families cannot help themselves without the aid of exorcists. Jesus loved & honored His mother Mary and would therefore treat her better than the error-prone Moses & Abraham. Humanly speaking, we all love and " adore " our Mothers - not worship them. Jesus loved perfectly and also " adored " His Mother. Jesus also commanded us to love as He loved, so Catholics love and honour Mary who is as living as Jesus, Moses & Abraham. In her varied apparitions, Mary calls for prayer, penance and love of her Son, Jesus. (Check the Internet for Mary's picture over a Coptic church in Zeitoun, Egypt for 3 years in 1968-71). On Judgment Day, it will go well for Catholics who loved and honoured His Mother.
Justin, I was thrilled to see your original interview with Mike Gendron and have been following your invaluable ministries avidly. I bought a copy of Preparing for Eternity for my sister and gave it to her yesterday. I am dreading an angry phone call. She has a low view of evangelicals and even more sadly, of the Bible. She believes Mary was a young girl who married a much older man, that Joseph was a widower with children and always remained a virgin. I would value prayer from your readers that the Lord would melt her hard heart. Thank you!
@@Vickie167 Doesnt matter. catholics, being in a false religion, are free to think what ever they want. As long as they give them money and bring their little kids to the priests to feed on their flesh.
@@peterzinya1 That is pretty judgemental for a rapist serial killer. Do you eat your victims before you dispose of the body? Fry them, bake them, BBQ them? Have any recipies you would like to post?
Two forms of Religious beliefs Able or Cain. Your earthier Able who knew that no matter what he did he could not be worthy of Gods love so he offered a sacrifice. If you follow Cain it would be be works not faith. Trying to sho God, how good you are…. For those of you out there watching and reading the comments.. Please if your on the mind set and have been thought that you must prove yourself to enter Heaven. Please repent. Ask Jesus Christ into your heart. Read The Bible. ESV, KING JAMES, NASB. DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU YOUR NOT ALLOWED TO…..
THE EMMAUS EXPERIENCE : LUKE 24:30-31 " While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, "What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, named Cle'opas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?" And he said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since this happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see." And he said to them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He appeared to be going further, but they constrained him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent." So he went in to stay with them. When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their sight.( Luke 24:15-31) Boy, there is so much to learn from this great passage of Scripture. But let's concentrate on just a couple of them. The most obvious lesson is to note how the disciples came to notice him in the breaking of the bread, as is explicated for us in verse 35. Second, notice the first thing that Jesus does with his disciples on His appearance to them is have the Mass. What?, you may say! Look at the text! First Jesus explains the Scriptures to them, just as we do at mass in the Liturgy of the Word. Then He goes on to the Liturgy of the Eucharist by making Himself present to them in the "Breaking of the Bread"
There is at least one major misconception or error on every single one of these points. I almost fell over when they said, "Mary ascended into heaven". The Catholic church explicitly does not teach this, it is assumed and that is a major difference. You would almost have to be purposefully trying to be wrong to mix that up there is no excuse for an ex catholic who claims to be saving catholics to not know something this basic.
@@mistertracey1 See the debate ""Debate: Catholic vs Protestant Salvation vesves Justification Tim Staples vs Mike Gendron "" The debate was not exactly as Mike tells it .... Mike found he could not come back after the break !!!!
@@mistertracey1 To let you know that a number of points were raised in the debate with Mr Gendron and Tim Staples from Catholic Answers like Trent and Mike failed to respond logically or scripturally
This video will not help you at all. It will only make you look foolish if you accidentally end up talking to a Catholic who actually knows not only what to believe but why. If you actually want to learn about Catholicism. Go to Catholic TH-cam channels. Likewise I would suggest a Catholic who wants to learn about protestantism to go to protestant TH-cam channels. If you're actually interested in learning I can give you sources who will faithfully represent Catholicism and its teaching
@@Normicgander The "teachings" in this video are so grossly wrong I literally laughed out loud at some points and had a visible look of confusion at others. Really though its easy to know this is all bull because he simply makes assertions without citations. Any person here who wants to deny that Mary is Theotokos (mother of God or more literally God bearer) will necessarily fall into the Nestorian heresy. Either she is the mother of the person of Jesus Christ or she isn't. And either Jesus was always God or he wasn't. There is no wiggle room there. Here is a simple syllogism for them to contend with. Jesus is God, Mary is Jesus' Mother therefore Mary is the mother of God. Edit to reorder my comment
Mr. Gendron makes too many incorrect statements. I wish he knew what he is talking about. When he quotes Luke 5:21, he is not quoting Jesus or his disciples, but the scribes and the Pharisees. I don't base anything on their statements. The Pope is only infallible under certain circumstances, and there are requirements to be met. There have been only two or three times this has happened. He does not know the difference between infallibility and impeccability, which is the inability to sin. We all sin, and the Pope goes to confession to another priest regularly. He said he had to do his penance - in his case prayers - to be forgiven in Confession. No, again he is wrong. His sins were forgiven in Confession. If he fails to do his penance, he is still forgiven. You can be brought into the Kingdom of God without baptism. The thief on the cross is a good example. Mistranslated Bibles were banned, but translations copied out meticulously by hand were available in the churches, chained to a pillar or small podium to prevent theft. (Can you imagine how hard they would be to replace?) Catholic Bibles always contain a statement of the graces people receive from reading Scripture. I am sure he is sincere, just mistaken. This is just one misleading statement after another. I am giving up after 30 minutes - I can't take any more of this ignorance of the Catholic faith.
Absolutely. At first I wondered if he really had ever been a Catholic. But he seemed so sincere that I finally believed he really believes those lies he tells. Maybe he really is a fake - I just can't understand why he has his facts so wrong if he ever was Catholic.
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Remember what John the Baptist said I Baptized you with water but the one that comes after me will Baptize you with the Holy Spirit
Mike, will you invite me to a speaking event you have coming up? I would love to refute your suppositions proving it through scripture. What say you?
Thank you so much Justin. You are faithful in defending the Truth of God's Word. I'm looking forward to see the Lord say to you:
"Well done My good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Lord."
I was doing research into catholicism back in the 80's. Found a Catholic church thrilled to display what God had done.
A woman was given the so-called, 'body of Christ' - and it had turned into raw meet in her mouth. I wouldn't have believed this if I hadn't seen it myself. It made me sick. I was absolutely horrified. You can't unsee what you have seen; but I sure wish I could. 🤢
I was raised Catholic and got saved by Jesus Christ himself. Changed my life and I never forgot it. I went to the catholic priest to discuss what happened and he reprimanded me and made me feel like I should be ashamed because I told him about my real experience with Jesus Christ. I never looked back. I still have a relationship with Jesus and he has shown me over and over how much he loves me.
" he reprimanded me "
Well for sure that was poor of him.
"got saved by Jesus Christ himself. "
You were saved when you were baptized, having the Holy Spirit and sanctifying grace restored to your soul, lost in the sin of Adam.
" I still have a relationship with Jesus "
When you were Catholic, you received Jesus in the Eucharist, his body, blood, soul and Divinity. It's all part of having the relationship with Jesus that he himself instituted and desires to have with you. This is what he taught the apostles, and the apostles taught their descendants, and the descendant to theirs. Then 1500 years LATER, a couple of Catholic's in central Europe disagreed. They had no authority to do so, and even argued amongst themselves. Rather, we trust the Words of Jesus Christ:
_51 I am the living bread[c] which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.”_
_52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”[d] 53 So _*_Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; 54 he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever.”_*
Best to be one who believes the Words of Christ and trusts him, and not one who murmurs.
A bad priest does not make the Catholic church wrong.
That relationship is far better than any religion! Know Jesus, know Peace! No Jesus, no peace! ♡
@@Vickie167not necessarily but the Catholic Church doesn’t have a stranglehold on what it means to believe in Jesus Christ. A person can be a Christian and not be Catholic.
@@Vickie167 This is true, but it doesn't make the catholic church right, either. The Bible holds the answers to what we need to know. I know it's scary for some people to even consider that the church they were indoctrinated in might not be as true to Jesus and could even be a new concept that that might be true. It's not a question of right, or wrong. It's a question of how does the church one has attended all of his/her life hold true to the Bible, which is the true word of God in Christ Jesus. I was raised in the Episcopal church, but now, I just am a Christian and nothing else and my husband also calls himself a Christian and nothing else. Jesus finished it all on the cross and nothing else is needed after that except to continue to grow in Christ and the way to do that is to study the Bible.
Former Catholic, former charismatic.. it’s actually quite scary how blind I was… Praise God for his faithfulness, patience, and truth. ❤
Praise the Lord you were set free! If you’re comfortable, please do tell what it took to get you to see. I’ve met so many Catholics who are heavily indoctrinated and they have no clue.
@redbird9000 I'm catholic, I do have a "clue"
Do you have a "clue"?
Does the church matter and who founded that church?
the church is not a building or religion. All religion is man made. The church is the followers of Jesus Christ. 🙏🏻
I WAS a Catholic for 51 years, charismatic for the later 20 of those years. I now truly have the saving grace through faith in the one true Savior Jesus Christ. Praise you Jesus for removing the blinders and loving me enough to write my name in your Book of Life!! 🙏🏻✝️
@@bgrace4213 Glory be to God!
@@redbird9000 AMEN!! 🙏🏻
As an x confirmed Catholic i thank Jesus for lifting me out of that evil system ...sadly Catholics do not realize they are preached another Jesus incapable of saving them, only paying the chirch for prayers can lift them out of their so called purgatory... JUDGEMENT BEGINS AT THE PULPIT 😊
Look up "The BIGGEST Misconceptions protestants have About the Catholic Faith with Jimmy Akin " Jimmy used to be a Protestant pastor but like the 3 Church of England Bishops since 2021 became Catholic to get closer to Christ !! How is it that not so bright and weak Catholics can become Protestant but theologians Pastors etc become Catholic ???
Thank you so much brothers for shedding light in exposing false religion of roman catholicism. I myself was in a similar false religion until the LORD saved me through repentance and faith in JESUS CHRIST, and HE brought me out of religious confusion in 2013. Ive been a born again believer and follower of the LORD JESUS CHRIST ever since and never looked back. There have been hardships since but never looked back, instead forward by faith in THE LORD JESUS.
Look up "The BIGGEST Misconceptions protestants have About the Catholic Faith with Jimmy Akin " Jimmy used to be a Protestant pastor but like the 3 Church of England Bishops since 2021 became Catholic to get closer to Christ !! How is it that not so bright and weak Catholics can become Protestant but theologians Pastors etc become Catholic ???
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I am currently in a struggle with my ex wife about this. I became catholic when we got married but became evangelical in the future. Not because of spite but because of things that i didn't understand or believed the catholic church taught. We are best friends, and are very cordial with each other. She currently is raising our children catholic and i highly object. I pray the Holy Spirit Spirit guides me through this.
Stay Catholic and stop being so hardheaded. The Protestant sects are man made and therefore false.
There’s your answer.
What you need to do is thank your wife for raising your children in the Catholic Christian faith and then look to deepen your understanding of Catholicism to have a deep personal relationship with Christ ......You all need to know that Mike had a debate with Scott Hahn.... In the debate Mike was consistently and politely beaten in his arguments when he could not answer Scott he then just called him names .... Eventually it got so bad for Mike that he found he could not come back after the break... This is all recorded on youtube "Debate Scott Hahn and Mike Gendron "..... He is careful here not to give a reference to the debate but is less than honest in what has been said !!! .....,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.. I will move onto the Eucharist which he brings up here in this you tube clip . Go to the Gospel of John. John 6:30 begins in the synagogue at Capernaum. The Jews asked Jesus what sign he could perform so that they might believe in him. As a challenge, they noted that “our ancestors ate manna in the desert.” Could Jesus top that? He told them the real bread from heaven comes from the Father. “Give us this bread always,” they said. Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” At this point the Jews understood him to be speaking metaphorically.
Jesus first repeated what he said, then summarized: “‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’” (John 6:51-52). His listeners were stupefied because now they understood Jesus literally-and correctly. He again repeated his words, but with even greater emphasis, and introduced the statement about drinking his blood: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him” (John 6:53-56).
Notice that Jesus made no attempt to soften what he said, no attempt to correct “misunderstandings,” for there were none. Our Lord’s listeners understood him perfectly well. They no longer thought he was speaking metaphorically.
In John 6:60 we read: “Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, ‘This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?’” (It is here, in the rejection of the Eucharist, that Judas fell away; look at John 6:64.) “After this, many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him” (John 6:66).
This is the only record we have of any of Christ’s followers forsaking him for purely doctrinal reasons. If they erred in taking a metaphor in a literal sense, why didn’t he call them back and straighten things out? Both the Jews, who were suspicious of him, and his disciples, who had accepted everything up to this point, would have remained with him had he said he was speaking only symbolically. But he did not correct these protesters. Twelve times he said he was the bread that came down from heaven; four times he said they would have “to eat my flesh and drink my blood.” John 6 was an extended promise of what would be instituted at the Last Supper-and it was a promise that could not be more explicit.
Now when you say Christ was speaking only metaphorically by comparing verses like John 10:9 (“I am the door”) and John 15:1 (“I am the true vine”). The problem is that there is not a connection to John 6:35, “I am the bread of life.” “I am the door” and “I am the vine” make sense as metaphors because Christ is like a door-we go to heaven through him-and he is also like a vine-we get our spiritual sap through him. But Christ takes John 6:35 far beyond symbolism by saying, “For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed” (John 6:55). Jesus continues: “As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me” (John 6:57). The Greek word used for “eats” (trogon) is very blunt and has the sense of “chewing” or “gnawing.” This is not the language of metaphor.
You appeal to John 6:63: “It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” You say this means that eating real flesh is a waste. But does this make sense?
Are we to understand that Christ had just commanded his disciples to eat his flesh, then said their doing so would be pointless? Is that what “the flesh is of no avail” means? “Eat my flesh, but you’ll find it’s a waste of time”-is that what he was saying? Hardly.
In John 6:63 “flesh profits nothing” refers to mankind’s inclination to think using only what their natural human reason would tell them rather than what God would tell them. Thus in John 8:15-16 Jesus tells his opponents: “You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone that judge, but I and he who sent me.” So natural human judgment, unaided by God’s grace, is unreliable; but God’s judgment is always true.
Also in John 6:63, “The words I have spoken to you are spirit” does not mean “What I have just said is symbolic.” The word “spirit” is never used that way in the Bible. The line means that what Christ has said will be understood only through faith; only by the power of the Spirit and the drawing of the Father (cf. John 6:37, 44-45, 65).
Paul wrote to the Corinthians: “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?” (1 Cor. 10:16). So when we receive Communion, we actually participate in the body and blood of Christ, not just eat symbols of them. Paul also said, “Therefore whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. . . . For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself” (1 Cor. 11:27, 29). “To answer for the body and blood” of someone meant to be guilty of a crime as serious as homicide. How could eating mere bread and wine “unworthily” be so serious? Paul’s comment makes sense only if the bread and wine became the real body and blood of Christ.
Anti-Catholics also claim the early Church took this chapter symbolically.
Ignatius of Antioch, who had been a disciple of the apostle John and who wrote a letter to the Smyrnaeans about A.D. 110, said, referring to “those who hold heterodox opinions,” that “they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in his goodness, raised up again” (6:2, 7:1).
Forty years later, Justin Martyr, wrote, “Not as common bread or common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished, . . . is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus” (First Apology 66:1-20).
Origen, in a homily written about A.D. 244, attested to belief in the Real Presence. “You are accustomed to take part in the divine mysteries, so you know how, when you have received the Body of the Lord, you reverently exercise every care lest a particle of it fall and lest anything of the consecrated gift perish” (Homilies on Exodus 13:3).
Cyril of Jerusalem, in a catechetical lecture presented in the mid-300s, said, “Do not, therefore, regard the bread and wine as simply that, for they are, according to the Master’s declaration, the body and blood of Christ. Even though the senses suggest to you the other, let faith make you firm” (Catechetical Discourses: Mystagogic 4:22:9).
It is this level of research prayer and understanding which has led three Church of England Bishops in just the last two years to give up so much power, wealth and status to join the Catholic Church to get closer to Christ.. (thanks to CA)
Make sure your children have a close relationship with Christ and know that they are saved by grace, not because of a church.
True Believers are given the gift of our Precious Holy Spirit as our Helper and Guide in our lives and He does indeed give us answers to questions about what we need to know.
Your ex is awesome
Such EVIL to spout what you WANT to believe Catholics believe in our view of Mary. Catholic's worship God alone ! Mike, if you can remember (which I really doubt) when you were a Catholic and went to Mass (if you really went to Mass), it was ALL about Jesus Christ. We worship God alone! You never experienced, you were never, ever taught, that Catholic's worship ANY creature, Mary included. We DO hold her in high regard. We thank her for saying YES to the Angel. We follow what she tells us : _do whatever he tells you._
Why do you break the commandment and have statues in your churches to anyone or any created thing then? Why did this commandment get deleted from your official 10 commandments? Because the RCC is in constant violation of it? RCC is involved in idol worship whether all the people there take part or not. Being a faithful RCC member and giving money to the church is taking part in it.
@@Ben-pk4cv Ben, why don't you defend Mike in believing Catholic's worship Mary? That is the topic I brought up. Mike teaches what he WANTS to believe. He never - ever - was taught as a Catholic to worship Mary. Quite the opposite. He was taught Catholic's worship God alone. And despite being corrected, Mike continues to spout error. God will hold him accountable for his lies (but as Mike believes in the heretical teaching of Once Saved, Always Saved, he likely does not care about lying one bit).
@@Ben-pk4cv are you going to defend Mike in believing Catholic's worship Mary?
@@TruthHasSpoken Roman Catholics are taught to worship Mary. Where have you been? Have you noticed they pray to Mary and make statues to Mary? They break God's Commands in doing these idol worship practices.
@@Ben-pk4cv no Ben you have been taught error. No Catholic worships Mary. God alone.
Thank God for His grace, the grace I never deserved. I was once an alter boy in the Roman Catholic Church for so long and almost became a monk back home in Ghana. The interesting thing is, while I was an alter boy, I was also in line to inherit my voodoo (Fetish Priestess) grand mother. I was really way deep into demonic practices and yet was a great alter boy. Praise God for saving me from the broad road that leads to destruction to the Narrow Path (Jesus Christ) that leads to eternal life. AMAZING GRACE - Grace alone, faith alone, and in Christ alone. There was NOTHING I did but ALL JESUS did.
Amen
Great testimony
Praise the Lord for deliverance from sin's stranglehold.
@@CountryGirl.64 Thank you Valerie! I am now a grown man, almost 56 years old now but whenever I give my testimony I end up crying, tears of joy of course. It was truly an AMAZING grace!!
@@kokumtwe6039 Amen 🙏
Amazing grace indeed !!!!!
Yes, it is common among Africans to have one foot in Christianity and the other in animist demonic practices which passes for "tradition".
Because of Africa's colonial past, these "traditions" are proudly defended and practiced as a push back against the perceived White supremacy of the colonialists .
Yes, it is indeed amazing grace when God delivers one from false religions, and opens one's spiritual eyes to the proper understanding of Who the true God is and the proper worship of our Almighty Father , the king of kings and Lord of Lord's , the ancient of days . May He be forever praised and glorified . Amen and Amen 🙏🙏🙏
God bless you my brother Mike.
I saw a Roman Catholic comment “adhere to the supremacy of Peter’s chair” to which I responded “adhere to the supremacy of God alone” and I was told that I’m arrogant for thinking I can decipher the will of God apart from the teachings of people from church history. I’m just amazed at how Catholics seem to have a lower view of God’s word than the traditions of the Roman church when the Lord Jesus makes it incredibly clear that Scripture trumps the traditions of man
Hey Hannah - We just take Jesus at his word. He gave authority to Peter and the Apostles and they handed down that authority to the bishops. And when there is a dispute in the church, we know where to turn to in order to settle the issue. See Matthew 18
15“If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ 17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
We Catholics know where the church is. And nothing the church teaches contradicts scripture if understood properly. Also, remember, Paul himself says to listen to the traditions that he had been taught and that he was handing on to them. See 2 Thessalonians:
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold to the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.
@@danielcarriere1958 Matthew 18 is dealing with discipline of a sinning member within a biblical church and not a dispute. CONTEXT MATTERS. You dont understand nor do you hold Gods word as final authority but instead you are taught the RCC has final authority.
2Thes 3: is Paul telling christians to not fellowship with continually disobedient believers. Again; CONTEXT MATTERS and you do not understand it because you are not being taught by the Holy Spirit. The RCC is accursed. Gal 1:8
Unless you repent; you will perish.
@@gigiis526 great argument 👌 really convincing 😆
@@danielcarriere1958 The truth is recognized by those who have discernment . You have none!
@@gigiis526 I grew up Roman Catholic until the Lord called me out. Roman Catholics are very indoctrinated. It’s very difficult for to point out Biblical truth to them. Only God can open their eyes
Any time, anywhere, I’ll prove you false based on scripture and early church truth. I have read the Bible since I was a child. Show me the edict that the Catholic Church forbids its followers to read the Bible!!!!?
The legendary singer, the late Keith Green, said the definition of a Christian is someone who is "bananas about Jesus!" That's the philosophy I operate under.
Not sure that works. Scripture says that there will be many who will say Lord Lord…
Also when we hear the parable of the soils we hear of those who accept the word with joy…
So just because someone is all about Jesus really doesn’t mean anything.
What does is if they do as Romans 10:9 says.
They confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in their heart that God raised Him from the dead, they will be saved.
As well as John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
@@shawnmason8543 it’s not a deep theological comment that a Christian is somebody who is bananas for Jesus. But what it does say, is that to be a Christian, is to cut through all the outside interference, focus on Christ himself, his heart, who he is, and love who he is. That’s what makes you a Christian more than head knowledge. Maybe you have all your doctrinal ducks lined up in a perfect row, but for most of us we learn new stuff each day about Jesus. And in the end, we don’t get to heaven because of our doctrine, we get there because we love Jesus. Keith Green preached sound doctrine as well, hard against the catholic teachings. He was talking about the true Jesus when he made that comment and wrote those Holy Spirit filled songs. It’ll be great to meet him one day.
Me too! Once I was saved I could not get enough of the Bible!
@@shawnmason8543your not wrong in what scripture says but maybe not understanding what Keith meant; it is an over simplified way of saying Jesus is to be center of our affection and if so it is implied you have placed your trust and faith in His saving work on the cross.
@@tpharo34 that may be the issue, it overly simplified. We I believe in the church have made salvation to just be a feeling for Jesus.
The Bible teaches that it is more than that. It’s an understanding of Jesus, who we are, why we need Him, what He did for us and that we cannot be saved without Him.
Like I stated with the earlier scripture there will be many who thought they were saved but will not be.
Someone commented back then that I was being too focused on doctrine, but that’s what God encourages us to do, keep sound doctrine. Because the gospel is doctrine.
Mike Gendron bears rotten fruit. He always bears false witness. Also he is a coward. He won’t even debate Trent Horn and wanted to set rules of what kind of resources to bring to the debate. Absolutely ridiculous, he has lost all credibility. Idk how anyone can respect this man’s opinion
"wanted to set rules of what kind of resources to bring to the debate. "
Mike brings no Christian witness to his fallible theology before the 1500's, including a symbolic only Eucharist, symbolic only Baptism, eternal security, the evangelical rapture etc. Mike doesn't even agree with other protestants.
Trent brings 2000 years of Christian witnesses as to how scripture should be understood.
All gross misrepresentations and defamation of the Catholic Church herein (deliberate or otherwise), fully addressed and refuted by Michael Lofton
You people are openly lying about what the Catholic Faith teaches!! Mike obviously never understood that and still does not to this day.
Love Mike Gendron. As a former Catholic myself, I appreciate this man’s ministry and how he reaches out to Catholics with the truth.
Well Vanilla Creem. If you had any sense you’d hurry back to the Holy Catholic Church established by Christ himself. You are misled I’m afraid .
@@sharonseesink6163 No she found the truth.
@@carolynmckinnon9185 thanks. Yes I did. BTW: I’m a HE. I know my picture shows long hair but I’m a 👨 guy. 😊
@@sharonseesink6163 the only one who is holy is Christ, not the harlot church that masquerades as Holy mother church. The Catholic Church preaches a FALSE Gospel and as a result , per scripture, it is condemned along with that false Christ sitting on his throne in the Vatican dressed up in a religious costume. If you follow their teachings you are on your way to HELL . Come out of that church Sharon, trust the Christ of the Gospels and him alone for your salvation.
@@vanillacreem816 I am so happy you found the truth. I am concerned for everyone because every day is evident we might be out of here tomorrow! See you soon!
🙂🙏🎺🕊❤
Right out the gate, there are issues here. For one, they contrast "Catholic authorities" with "their authority", implying the Bible is their only authority. It isn't though. They are their own interpreters, and thus, their own authorities. And worse yet they presume to have the correct interpretation whilst they differ between protestant denominations as to correct interpretation. It is self refuting out the gate.
Praise God for the work of you both!
Look up "The BIGGEST Misconceptions protestants have About the Catholic Faith with Jimmy Akin " Jimmy used to be a Protestant pastor but like the 3 Church of England Bishops since 2021 became Catholic to get closer to Christ !! How is it that not so bright and weak Catholics can become Protestant but theologians Pastors etc become Catholic ???
The Church is the Pillar and bulwark of the truth.. 1 Timothy 3:15...and please note the present tense.. IS...
Jesus started one church
The Roman Catholic Church
AH MIKE IS A GREAT BROTHER IN JESUS CHRIST
See the debate ""Debate: Catholic vs Protestant Salvation vesves Justification Tim Staples vs Mike Gendron "" The debate was not exactly as Mike tells it .... Mike found he could not come back after the break !!!!
@@1234poppycatyou are what the Bible calls a moron or fool
I was NEVER taught that Mary is my savior. I can’t believe you guys are preverting what Catholics are taught and believe. It’s a shame that you expose the word of faith preachers for spreading false teachings but yet you do the same. Very disappointing.
In the first question asked by Justin, Mike Gendron seemingly cannot give you the name of the one true Church that Jesus founded. This is a problem, if you think about it for a moment. Why?
Because does a seeker of the true Church have to talk to every pastor in his area to find what he believes in or not eg Was Jesus talking symbolically or literally when He said "This is My Body"; Is it ok to contracept or not, etc?
I don't think Jesus set His Church up this way. You don't need to have biblical knowledge or the correct approach to interpreting scriptures before you find His Church. No. A simple peasant with zero bible knowledge should be able to find _His_ Church - the one true Church.
Blessings
Though I agree with some of the things that had been said, I have some objections:
Some of your accusations are based on a single event or behavior of a priest that has happened to condemn the teachings of a whole church while you mentioned that there are thousands of RCC in the world.
My suggestions about proving that Catholics believe or teach all the accusations that are made by Protestants would be to give written proof of Catholic's books claiming for example that faith in Christ not enough you need to add works to it.
Someone told you that you would be stoned there if you proclaim the Word of God is not a proof that Catholics are killing true Christians or combatting them in fact the fact that Catholics objected to some of the claims that were made in the first video is the proof that they attend your true teachings.
My point is that a better way would be to present all those claims with facts that Catholic stones preachers of the Gospel, encourages homosexuality and rape... Without proofs those accusations are just claims from a Protestant against Catholic.
You must be under a rock. There is proof everywhere if you care to look for it.
@@kd5499 You could maybe give them to me, remember I am "under a rock"
How about a discussion between them and Michael Lofton or Trent Horn?
Justin Peters I also used to be a Roman Catholic so this is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I grew up in the church and for a long time I was at first as a child not interested and later I became a very devout Roman Catholic. It wasn't long till I started to become disappointed with the church to becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Roman Catholic church.
I started to become disappointed when I was reading the word of God and seeing just how different the church was to what was described by the Bible. Then more and more questions began to chip away at my foundation for my belief in Roman Catholicism including the saints, Mary, the pope, the eucharist, etc. Eventually I could not bear going to the church anymore and once the child abuse scandals involving the priests and nuns came out it was the last straw and I eventually renounced Roman Catholicism.
Amen 🙏
@shooter do : welcome home dear brother in the Lord . May the peace of God , envelope you , through Christ our risen Lord. Amen 🙏❤️
@Billy Yoder doesnt sound too good, does it
@shooterdownunder ... There are horrific lies that are perpetuated against the Roman Catholic Church and its priests by Satan and his minions -- just as happened to Jesus Christ. Cardinal Pell had horrific charges of sexual rape leveled against him by 2 liars who said the 50-something year old Pell attacked them in the sacristy right after mass, at a time when Pell was always talking to parishoners and was dressed in his heavy priestly robes. One accuser recanted his outrageous lies, but on the other man's (a person of poor character) testimony Pell was convicted by a hating anti-Catholic jury with no evidence. It wasn't until years later that the Autralian HIgh Court UNANIMOUSLY threw out the conviction while harshly condemning the jury who found Pell guilty with ZERO evidence.
@@bobgarrett7134 I’m well aware of the George Pell case which was a disgraceful episode in our judicial system. That doesn’t change the fact that there are many proven cases of sexual abuse in the church and that there’s a massive problem with the theology.
The Catholic Church is the only church created by Jesus, all other churches are created by man. I'll stick with Jesus
Exact amundo!!!!
Christ left ONE Church which one of the thousands do you say is it?
St. Paul talks about ONE Faith, ONE Baptism but yet there are as many ideas of what these are as thee are denominations out side the Catholic Church.
Scripture itself says we are to follow the teaching of the Apostles and that the Church is the foundation of truth.
And show me the document that says Catholics owe salvation to Mary (as John MacArhur) says??????
I remember when I became a Christian and left Catholicism a friend of my mum’s said ‘don’t tell me she is going to read the Bible’ - I was astounded by that! Like did she really think that was a bad thing, a cult or something because I am reading the Bible…
I have a catholic friend. One day at work the subject of purgatory came up. I told her it was never found in the Bible. After several discussions about this subject she went to her priest to ask him. She was told to “beware of anyone who quotes scripture to you”. After that, the subject was closed between us.
@@elainepalmbos5300 wow! I too have a Catholic friend and I have shared the gospel with her which led her to reading Galatians. She read it over and over and thanked me for leading her to scripture. Unfortunately, her take on it after a few weeks was, while she appreciated where I was coming from, she didn’t fully agree with my views on the gospel. All that to say she still believed Catholicism - it is indoctrinated in her. We talked recently and she talked about baptism as a child washing away original sin, I think, and then something about other types of sin. I said to her I have never seen that in the scripture and if she knew where it could be found. I know she is a seeking soul so I pray that she will earnestly consider this and seek God through His word.
@@elainepalmbos5300
Only shows that they are shut out of The Holy Bible WORD of GOD!!!
@@debm3716
Hey keep her in prayer to JESUS CHRIST to be freed from the non biblical church of rome!!!
@@billy1132 If you ever went to a Catholic service you will find nothing but scripture throughout the whole of the mass. You are very confused about Catholicism.
I'm a former Catholic. My husband and mother were both devout Catholics all their lives. I asked them, "When you get to the pearly gates, and God asks you why should He let you into heaven, what will you say?" They didn't know. I told them, "You say, 'Because Your Son died for me, and He forgives me all my sins, and He will welcome me with open arms,'" and had them repeat it. I know they are in His presence forever.
a BETTER answer Have Mercy on me a sinner
Simple answer, "Thank God that He raised Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wellesley and many many Reformists, revivalists like Evangelicans, Pentecostal, though we are many but we are one in the Spirit. Praise the Lord, Halleluiah.
Is that what is that what God going to ask??? Maybe you need to read the Bible.
Praise God !!!
I like all the posts that show how far from the Biblical teachings on what Salvation is and where it comes from are. The first posting in this thread shows that GustAdlph believes that the Catholic Church is a false Church and by a magical formula his Catholic family have been saved out of the Catholic Church. Vs what the Catholic Church teaches in the Sixth session of the Council of Trent, (which sounds like good Biblical Christianity.)
"In what manner it is to be understood, that the impious is justified by faith, and gratuitously.
And whereas the Apostle saith, that man is justified by faith and freely, those words are to be understood in that sense which the perpetual consent of the Catholic Church hath held and expressed; to wit, that we are therefore said to be justified by faith, because faith is the beginning of human salvation, the foundation, and the root of all Justification; without which it is impossible to please God, and to come unto the fellowship of His sons: but we are therefore said to be justified freely, because that none of those things which precede justification-whether faith or works-merit the grace itself of justification. For, if it be a grace, it is not now by works, otherwise, as the same Apostle says, grace is no more grace."
Then there is the posting that thanks God for Luther, Calvin and others who have brought back the Biblical Church lost, but ignores that Luther not only removed the seven OT books that pre-Lutheran Protestants accepted, but also removed seven NT books until he was forced by his fellow Protestants to return to the NT (James and Revelation among them) and was forced to remove ALONE which he had added to make the Bible now say we are saved by Faith ALONE. The same Luther who told Prince Phillip of Saxony that he could take a second wife without divorcing his first wife, as long as it was not made public. Luther who at first embraced the Jews who he thought would side with him against the Pope of Rome, but later when they did not support him, said should be expelled from their homes and made to wander without any homes or employment. Who at first said that each man should interpret the Scriptures on their own, later when the Peasantry rejected his interpretation and they followed Menno and other Protestants who disagreed with him, called on the Princes of Germany to war on the peasants, and kill them for refusing Luther's interpretation of the Scriptures. Calvin who put to death Protestants who denied his interpretation of the Scriptures, and who he traded letters with Luther condemning each other in the most pornographic of terms, and called each other servants of the Devil when they were being civil. But then we I guess can overlook that history, and condemn the Catholic Church that has condemned heresy but never pronounced any individual to hell, but prayed for God's mercy.
Mike your arguments about the errors of Roman Catholicism are fantastic…except for the hyperbole, straw-man, and ad hominem statements that pervade everything you say. I do completely agree with one thing you said, though. I agree that it is ALL about authority. In a very real sense, Mike, the Bible doesn’t “say” anything. It is a text that must be read, and reading ALWAYS involves interpretation. So, Mike, please tell me what objective authority you have to declare your interpretation of Scripture to be correct, and another interpretation to be apostate. Many people read the Bible with (apparently) sincere, godly intentions, and arrive at different views of baptism, the Lord’s Supper, eternal security, the means and meaning of salvation, etc. What authority do you have to make declarations that could have eternal consequences for people who choose to accept what you say?
This is a question he nor anyone here can answer.
Your "authority" is corrupt, and proven to be fallible since none of them agree from one pope to the next
2:07 if the Apostlic Church got off track theologically, than Christ is a liar, because he promised his Church, he himself founded would never be overcome by the fates of hell.
All Christians believe works are necessary for salvation.Gendron preaches a false gospel.
Love Mike!
You addressed how priests (as well as nuns) are not allowed to marry. I knew a former nun who was sent to Italy. At they church, the nuns and priests were having sex with each other. When one of the nuns would become pregnant, the child would later be buried behind the church. It's one of the reasons why she left.
Ehh..doubt
Thats pretty lame….you leave a church based on the sins of a person? Lame! Jesus chose Judas…..Judas was bad! Is Jesus bad? No! Take RCIA!
@@johnyang1420 Why not have her read the word of God instead, the bible.
@anthonypetrozzelli5429
13 hours ago
Excellent video. This dogma of the Holy Church, there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church, is almost completely ignored.Thanks for demonstrating the papal decree regarding this subject. It's amazing how many so-called traditional Catholics reject the dogma of no salvation outside the Catholic Church and water baptism only
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Now this is what i appreciate. Real catholics, not these..." let anyone into heaven heretic catholics." If one is to be catholic, be catholic. MHFM has my utter respect. Might even be time to rekindle the Holy Inquisition.
@@peterzinya1 Should read more like, is there salvation inside the Catholic church. As a prior Catholic I am not sure how.
Mike Gendron's answers are non-answers. 🤦🏻
How so??
@@de1623 Example using the first question asked, "Does the plethora of Protestant denominations prove the RCC is the one true church?"
Mike Gendron's non-answer answer in two points that he states:
1. "The Roman Catholic Church is not united in a common teaching..." because "...there are Roman Catholic priest and bishops and even popes that stand stand opposed to one another..." so "...the is no unity in doctrine or teaching in the Roman Catholic Church." HOWEVER, Mike then negates everything he said with "...yes, they do have an official teaching, which is based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church..." ALSO, every Roman Catholic church teaches the SAME gospel reading every Sunday. Mike Gendron did not address why there are a plethora of Protestant denominations (actually more than 20,000).
2. "Yes, there are many different Evangelical and Protestant churches and denominations..." THEN he admits that "...I'm not saying that the Roman Catholic Church is an apostate church in that it's departed from the faith of the Apostles..." Mike then says that "...there are many Protestant churches that also departed from the faith of the Apostles and that they too are apostate..." and that "...many of our mainline Protestant denominations have drifted into apostasy and are no longer following the faith of the Apostles..." and then he admits "...yes, we do have a number of Protestant denominations and churches..." and then Mike closes his answer with "...there is only one true church and that it made up of all those who have been baptized by the spirit into one body..." and then he quotes Bible verses that are supposed to support his non-answer answer.
So in other words:
1. Mike Gendron says the Roman Catholic Church is not united in a common teaching and then says all Roman Catholics are taught what is based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
2. Mike Gendron says the Roman Catholic Church does NOT depart from the teachings of the Apostles. That there are many different Evangelical and Protestant churches and denominations because many of the mainline denominations NO LONGER follow the faith of the Apostles.
Instead of just admitting that the plethora of Protestant denominations PROVE that the Roman Catholic Church is the one TRUE Church, Mike deflects the original question by ultimately saying that the one true church is "...made up of all those who have been baptized by the spirit into one body...", which contradicts his second point (because more likely than not, all of the mainline Protestant denominations that Mike claims are apostate do practice baptism).
7:00 the Church started by Chrisr cannot become an Apostaye Church that contradicts Jesus’ own promises to it.
You all need to know that Mike had a debate with Scott Hahn In the debate Mike was consistently and politely beaten in his arguments even when he could not answer Scott he then just called him names .... Eventually it got so bad for Mike that he found he could not come back after the break... This is all recorded on youtube "Debate Scott Hahn and Mike Gendron "..... He is careful here not to give a reference to the debate but is less than honest in what has been said !!! ....... I will move onto the Eucharist which he brings up here in this you tube clip . Go to the Gospel of John. John 6:30 begins in the synagogue at Capernaum. The Jews asked Jesus what sign he could perform so that they might believe in him. As a challenge, they noted that “our ancestors ate manna in the desert.” Could Jesus top that? He told them the real bread from heaven comes from the Father. “Give us this bread always,” they said. Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” At this point the Jews understood him to be speaking metaphorically.
Jesus first repeated what he said, then summarized: “‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’” (John 6:51-52). His listeners were stupefied because now they understood Jesus literally-and correctly. He again repeated his words, but with even greater emphasis, and introduced the statement about drinking his blood: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him” (John 6:53-56).
Notice that Jesus made no attempt to soften what he said, no attempt to correct “misunderstandings,” for there were none. Our Lord’s listeners understood him perfectly well. They no longer thought he was speaking metaphorically.
In John 6:60 we read: “Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, ‘This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?’” (It is here, in the rejection of the Eucharist, that Judas fell away; look at John 6:64.) “After this, many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him” (John 6:66).
This is the only record we have of any of Christ’s followers forsaking him for purely doctrinal reasons. If they erred in taking a metaphor in a literal sense, why didn’t he call them back and straighten things out? Both the Jews, who were suspicious of him, and his disciples, who had accepted everything up to this point, would have remained with him had he said he was speaking only symbolically. But he did not correct these protesters. Twelve times he said he was the bread that came down from heaven; four times he said they would have “to eat my flesh and drink my blood.” John 6 was an extended promise of what would be instituted at the Last Supper-and it was a promise that could not be more explicit.
Now when you say Christ was speaking only metaphorically by comparing verses like John 10:9 (“I am the door”) and John 15:1 (“I am the true vine”). The problem is that there is not a connection to John 6:35, “I am the bread of life.” “I am the door” and “I am the vine” make sense as metaphors because Christ is like a door-we go to heaven through him-and he is also like a vine-we get our spiritual sap through him. But Christ takes John 6:35 far beyond symbolism by saying, “For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed” (John 6:55). Jesus continues: “As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me” (John 6:57). The Greek word used for “eats” (trogon) is very blunt and has the sense of “chewing” or “gnawing.” This is not the language of metaphor.
You appeal to John 6:63: “It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” You say this means that eating real flesh is a waste. But does this make sense?
Are we to understand that Christ had just commanded his disciples to eat his flesh, then said their doing so would be pointless? Is that what “the flesh is of no avail” means? “Eat my flesh, but you’ll find it’s a waste of time”-is that what he was saying? Hardly.
In John 6:63 “flesh profits nothing” refers to mankind’s inclination to think using only what their natural human reason would tell them rather than what God would tell them. Thus in John 8:15-16 Jesus tells his opponents: “You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone that judge, but I and he who sent me.” So natural human judgment, unaided by God’s grace, is unreliable; but God’s judgment is always true.
Also in John 6:63, “The words I have spoken to you are spirit” does not mean “What I have just said is symbolic.” The word “spirit” is never used that way in the Bible. The line means that what Christ has said will be understood only through faith; only by the power of the Spirit and the drawing of the Father (cf. John 6:37, 44-45, 65).
Paul wrote to the Corinthians: “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?” (1 Cor. 10:16). So when we receive Communion, we actually participate in the body and blood of Christ, not just eat symbols of them. Paul also said, “Therefore whoever eats the bread and drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. . . . For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself” (1 Cor. 11:27, 29). “To answer for the body and blood” of someone meant to be guilty of a crime as serious as homicide. How could eating mere bread and wine “unworthily” be so serious? Paul’s comment makes sense only if the bread and wine became the real body and blood of Christ.
Anti-Catholics also claim the early Church took this chapter symbolically.
Ignatius of Antioch, who had been a disciple of the apostle John and who wrote a letter to the Smyrnaeans about A.D. 110, said, referring to “those who hold heterodox opinions,” that “they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in his goodness, raised up again” (6:2, 7:1).
Forty years later, Justin Martyr, wrote, “Not as common bread or common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished, . . . is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus” (First Apology 66:1-20).
Origen, in a homily written about A.D. 244, attested to belief in the Real Presence. “You are accustomed to take part in the divine mysteries, so you know how, when you have received the Body of the Lord, you reverently exercise every care lest a particle of it fall and lest anything of the consecrated gift perish” (Homilies on Exodus 13:3).
Cyril of Jerusalem, in a catechetical lecture presented in the mid-300s, said, “Do not, therefore, regard the bread and wine as simply that, for they are, according to the Master’s declaration, the body and blood of Christ. Even though the senses suggest to you the other, let faith make you firm” (Catechetical Discourses: Mystagogic 4:22:9).
It is this level of research prayer and understanding which has led three Church of England Bishops in just the last two years to give up so much power, wealth and status to join the Catholic Church to get closer to Christ.. (thanks to CA)
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@@DungNguyen-vn3eu Debate: Catholic vs Protestant Salvation vesves Justification Tim Staples vs Mike Gendron
TLDR
Justin; God bless you for these apologistic videos.
The Catholic Church teaches we are saved by GOD'S GRACE ALONE; by Faith working through Love.
We are not saved by Faith Alone.
We are not saved by our Works.
We are saved by Grace Alone by faith working through love.
Galatians 5:6 “but only Faith Working through Love"
James 2:20 Do you want proof you foolish man, that FAITH WITHOUT WORKS WORKS IS USELESS.
James 2:22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and FAITH WAS COMPLETED BY WORKS.
James 2:24 See how a man is justified by works and NOT by FAITH ALONE.
James 2:26 For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD.
ok just a play on words, like saying devotion or veneration of a sprit is not worship as if tgey are omnicient and omnipotent like God ?
Acts chapter 8 pray directly to God, Cornelius etc etc. Apostles prayed to God ayour own religion says it teaches the bible and tradition (catechism which tgey keep adding to). Gospel of John, jesus says to an unbeliever that hw will die in his sin.
The mortal sin is unbelief when in full knowledge. You need a priest but bible says we are a kingdom of priests, the veil of the physical temple is torn. We have a hugh priest in Jesus. Jesus the only mediator. No need of a catholic priest, mary or deceased saints to act as medators. It even contravenes having the commandment having no other gods. gids in hebrew is elohim. Elohim is the spirit world
Just elohim is condemnation of the the religion of catholicism.
If I do not fear the God who can destroy body and soul according the bible, I could do what I want and keep adding to the word of God.
If Christ is God, and Mary is the mother of Christ. Then Mary is the mother of God. Plain and simple.
Theotokas : Mother of God.
There is no problem for Protestants referring to her as Mother of God- this title actually intends to say more about Jesus’s divinity than some special role of Mary/ but Catholics have used this lofty title to justify straight up worship of Mary
These pastors never said Mary was the mother of God, because God is infinite mary could not be before God
The pastors here were talking about the Catholics belief that Mary is the mother of God, they deny it but says she’s a deity meaning the father, son, Mary, holy spirit, she is fully human born from a human father and mother, just like they call the pope the holy father, they pray to Mary a idol, I think people get confused calling her mother Mary only meaning she is Jesus earthly mother the Catholic Church distorted it, God is infinite Mary would’ve had to be there before God, does that make sense? The protestants don’t believe she’s part of the trinity
God is infinite That means there was no one before him, Mary was Jesus‘s earthly mother just like God was Jesus father not a earthly father
Is the Earth the mother of Adam? Adam was formed of dust and God breathed into him the breath of life. He went back to dust. Mary went back to dust also. But Christ went to heaven. Mary will be raised like the rest of us. We are all sinners. Christ said, There is none good but God.
Read the bible instead of believing catholic priests.
I have a question for these two gentlemen. They keep referring to the “authority” of Scripture. Where did you get it? How do you know that there are 27 Books in the New Testament and not 28 or 29 or 25? How is it that you know Hebrews is Scripture and something like the Gospel of Thomas was not? Are you two guys declaring those 27 as THE Books? The Catholic Church declared those Books as inerrant and inspired at the Council of Rome in 382 A.D. Every time you pick up that Bible you give tacit authority to the same Catholic Church that you are hell-bent on trying to condemn.
"New Testament and not 28 or 29 or 25? "
Nor 4 ... or 3 or 54 or 53. Mike has never read all 300+ early Christian writings. He can ONLY defer to the authority of the 4th C Catholic Church to have decided for him. There is no other source. Sola Scriptura fails at the table of contents.
You are so WRONG about baptism . BAPTISM.of a infant removes original sin and makes the child again a child of and a future heir of heaven
No, it doesn't actually. Show me one verse in all of scripture that discusses infants being baptized.
This interview is so full of misconceptions, false assumptions and downright lies about the Catholic Church, its doctrines and practices, I don 't know where to begin. But why should I bother? All the ridiculous assertions you make have been refuted many times over.
Exactly, by engaging these people, you're just giving what is holy to dogs.
Matthew 11:11 says the greatest born of a woman is John the Baptist. So why venerate Mary if she was born holy as Catholics claim? Thank you Justin for loving the truth of the gospel! Soli Deo Gloria
Because she is the ark of the covenant, the woman clothed with the sun in the book of revelations. And she always points us to Jesus.
@@danielcarriere1958 Inaccurate. She is born of a woman and requires the blood of Jesus for her own redemption. ALL HAVE SINNED and FALLEN SHORT of the GLORY OF GOD…..including my her. The Bible is clear.
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Jesus is her savior. He saved her from ever falling into sin.
@@michaelarchangel130 she was born under the law and under sin and lives as any other human being. YET God chose her to give birth to Christ. Pretty amazing when it comes to doctrine of election no? She needed salvation from her Son and received salvation. Furthermore if Mary was sinless why did she have to offer sacrifice for sin?
@@CowboyFantastic007 There are two ways of being saved: 1 rescuing the one who has fallen into sin, 2. Preventing one from ever falling into sin. Bot are saved. Both require a savior.
Sadly my mom is a devout Roman Catholic. I have and still continue to witness to her, she insists that she will not change. The hold of catholicism is strong, I know our Lord God is greater, so I keep praying and telling her truth.
I come from the region in Italy where the ruling Saint is Padre Pio.. they love him and in Italy, each home has either a statue of either him, Mary or both....it's very sad to see how blind and deceived the catholics are.
"we don't worship idols", bows down, kisses a statues feet, weeps before a statue, prays to a woman, parades a statue sounds, looks for apparations of Mary. God will not give his glory to another! Blessed is the fruit of your womb Mary, Correction, Rather blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.
@@jboxy Amen
Well Connie. I make another prediction That your wonderful mothers prayers will lead you out of error and back to Mother Church.
Catholics do worship idols. I've seen it firsthand. a priest doing it at the end of a mass with a statue of Mary
@@brettheckjenders7338 Well Brett as you are an expert in Catholicism Attending one Catholic Mass. Please tell me all about the reasons that Catholics worship Mary. Could you expand on her giving birth as a virgin Being called Full of Grace by the Angel Gabrielle (were you born full of grace ? Without Original sin) Jesus referred to Mary as Woman. Have you ever read about the Woman in the book of Revelation who will crush the head of Satan. After giving birth to a Saviour ??? At the request of His Mother at the wedding feast of Cana “They have no wine “. Jesus granted His Mothers request even though He said “Woman, my time has not yet come “ Because he loved and honoured Her so much. Catholics Love and Honour Mary as the Virginal Mother of the second person of the blessed Trinity. The Son of God. Jesus honours His Mother and so do Catholics. So keep believing the lie that Catholics worship Mary , Brett. If that makes you feel superior.
We do not say Mary saves!!
You say she lived a sinless life and was ascended into heaven when only Jesus himself was sinless and lived a perfect life, Mary was human and a sinner like anyone else
as to why their are so many protestant denominations? simple, sola scriptura and private judgement two of the reformers pillars of the reformation. in 1577 a protestant scholar christolph rasperger published a book titled "200 interpretations of the words " this is my body". that is how messed up and divided Protestantism is.
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As a former Evangelical I can see the errors in this video. One common error done by Protestants/Evangelicals is to make statements against the Catholic Church without providing proof. For example. - Saying that the Catholic is an apostate church without giving a biblical reason for stating that. And when you look at what the NT says about apostasy, only Protestant/Evangelical churches can fit that bill.
1 Timothy 4:1-2
Chapter 4
False Asceticism.
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences.
Nice podcast always
Thank you so much for sharing, dear brothers!
Always informative, always entertaining, and always with Jesus Christ, at its center. Thanks...
You are welcome, Theodora. Blessings to you.
@@JustinPetersMin What is your beef with Blackaby?
@@JustinPetersMin This videos demonstrates just how far Baptist have drifted from the Lutheran reformation. The sacraments of holy baptism (baptismal regeneration) private confession and holy absolution, and the true corporal body of blood of Christ, for the forgiveness of sins, are all taught in sacred scripture. So, sad. Luther would not consider Baptist as legitimate churches.
@@P-el4zd for 1500 years no Christian on earth believed in sola scriptura or once saved always saved so Lutherans claims seem inaccurate.
@@blakenaquin-o3j I actually disagree with most of this video. I am kind of embarrassed for them. As a confessional Lutheran we reject “once saved always saved”…I thought you Lutherans believe in faith alone? Well, yes, with a nuanced understanding that works are required for the justified. While, Lutherans believe in solo scriptura (I don’t like using the five Solas, because it doesn’t represent Lutheran nuance), it is really not alone, you have the first seven ecclesiastical councils and the church fathers. Lutherans have a much higher view of tradition than Baptist, etc. These guys reject the blessed virgin St. Mary is the mother of God! There should be absolutely zero debate on this issue, she is obviously the mother of God, etc.
Praying for you, Mike. I also attended protestant seminary and am a Catholic revert. To call Scott Hahn an apsotate is crazy, he's one of the most generous and irenic men from what I can tell truly seeking out God in love. Mike, your teachings don't hold up when taking the full council of God's Word. For those truly interested in searching for the truth in love, watch his video debating Brian Mercier. Brian uses scripture to debunk Mike's teaching over and over. Mike has no answer except to just keep reciting the same handpicked scriptures that back his Calvinist view, while ignoring ones that clearly should force him to shift his position. Unfortunately, Mike is just acting under his own authoritative interpretation of Gods Word. Twisting it as he accuses other of doing. Praying God softens your heart, Mike, to hear his FULL Word...
12:28 NO you wrote an article telling evangelicals to stay away from him, because he converts so many.
I love this ministry I have a heart for catholics too
Catholics have a heart for you also ... You need to know that Mike had a debate with Scott Hahn In the debate Mike was consistently and politely beaten in his arguments even when he could not answer Scott he then just called him names .... Eventually it got so bad for Mike that he found he could not come back after the break... ( This is all recorded on youtube "Debate Scott Hahn and Mike Gendron ")..... He is careful here not to give a reference to the debate but is less than honest in what has been said !!! .......
@@1234poppycat I appreciate you saying that , thank you for that information. I will definitely look at the debate. When we do have these conversations we should always do so with grace and gentleness. I know sometimes it can get frustrating when we are so passionate and alot of times both parties are not listening to the other. However , Calling names is never something we should do as followers or Jesus, I will agree with you there and commend your honesty in bringing that to light. I know none of us are perfect and I know Mike doesn't always have all the answers , and I don't agree with him on everything either. Just as I don't agree with a huge portion of protestants. If this happened maybe he realized what was happening and decided not to return so that he would not again engage in sinful behavior, I do hope he repented and apologized. Regardless the point is I rely on what God says as we all should and the unfortunate fact is that the Roman catholic church has misled A LOT of people and that is why I am passionate about speaking to Catholics about what they believe. Just for reference I'm also not new to the subject, I have many family members who are Roman Catholics ( that I have a great relationship with and love dearly ) and I have done hours upon hours of study to truly understand what the real situation is. That is why I came to the conclusion that there is a big problem going on in the church. We should all examine ourselves and make sure we are in line with God, submissive to him and walking by his spirit and not what any man tells us. This is what God desires. That is all I desire, for Catholics to reexamine what they have been told against what God has said. There are some missteps and it concerns me greatly. If you would like to have a respectful and loving conversation with me outside of TH-cam, I would be greatly honored to make the time. ❤️
I also appreciate very much your kindness towards me. I have spoken to a lot of Catholics and that usually is not how I'm received, especially online.
@@AmeeraG242 Oh please come and talk to me. I am a convert to the Catholic church and I feel like I have finally found the truth that was kept from me for way too long.
@@2196loganI hope you know catholics adhere to man made traditions and that Mary doctrines were invented 3 centuries after Christ🤡🤡
I hate to tell Mike Gendron that the early Church fathers were taught by the Apostles. Thus, the apostolic church. One reason Scott Hahn became a Catholic.
Christ is the rock and Peter is not the rock. 1 Corinthians 3:11
the church was corrupted when it BECAME the roman church alone and became state religion of the empire. the pope is the caeser and the cardinals (unbiblical btw like the pope) are the senat of rome.
If the Catholic Church taught that Mary should be worshipped, I wouldn't be Catholic. And when Mike was a Catholic, he never, ever was taught to worship Mary. In fact, worship of any creature is condemned. Mike is duped and confused, and prefers to stay that way (Jane too). Is it all because of the money he makes?
Yes you are right ... See the debate ""Debate: Catholic vs Protestant Salvation vesves Justification Tim Staples vs Mike Gendron "" The debate was not exactly as Mike tells it .... Mike found he could not come back after the break !!!!
As far as James chapter 2 goes it does NOT contradict Paul’s statement regarding works of the “law”. The regenerated Christian is not subject to the old Jewish laws. Paul never mentioned works apart from the old Jewish laws. If you truly believe the Bible is God’s inspired Word then you need to take it literally as James instructed.
A more unclear definition of veneration versus worship could not be given. You yourself deny Mary as “theotokos” or God-bearer. Therefore, you deny Christ was fully divine as well as fully human. Congratulations, you’re officially heretics. Nestorianism teaches that Jesus is two persons. The Catholic Church teaches that Christ is one person with two natures, a divine nature and a human nature. Hence, Mary is the mother of the divine Person who is the Son of God. Logically, she is the Mother of He who is God the Son. She is the Mother of God, though not the Mother of the divine essence of the Trinity.
Educate yourselves.
Yaaaaaay ready for another inspiring video 🔥🙏🏽🔥
Thank you, Elliott - blessings to you, brother!
If you want an inspiring video ...
Look up "The BIGGEST Misconceptions protestants have About the Catholic Faith with Jimmy Akin " Jimmy used to be a Protestant pastor but like the 3 Church of England Bishops since 2021 became Catholic to get closer to Christ !! How is it that not so bright and weak Catholics can become Protestant but theologians Pastors etc become Catholic ???
James White has some "Great Debates" that are with the Roman Catholics. They are very interesting. They are also on TH-cam.
Loved watching James White get totally destroyed by Trent Horn in their debate! If the Catholic Church isn’t the true church, then there is no church!
@@trailrvs Says the person who worships someone other than God Himself. Sir, you're and idolator and a heretic. Need to get out while the getting is good. Repent.
@@deniseadkins2901 if only you knew anything about Catholicism. Your comment shows you don’t. Your thousands of denominations prove you aren’t the truth!
@@trailrvs I know that you "venerate" Mary with is another word for worship. You have all kinds of nonsensical beliefs about her. I know a great deal about Catholicism. She is your mediator and our thousands of denominations go to the one and only Mediator who is Christ. I don't confess my sins to a sinner and think I'm ok. I confess to a Holy God knowing that He gracefully forgives me. I don't listen to tradition that can't be found in the Scripture. I don't have to have a Church to tell me what to believe and not to believe. I have no dogmas over which someone can be anathema because they don't believe. We have Doctrines that are from Scripture taken in context. Christ died for all of my sins and I don't have to spend any time in purgatory because my Savior is Righteous enough and Just enough to take care of it ALL on the cross. You have a very weak god. And your pope? He needs to repent and stop teaching all of this nonsense. You need to stop following man and turn to God. There is only forgiveness through your Creator not a man. Repent. Also, stop sacrificing Christ every Mass. It insults Christ by the way your priest acts. He says he does things that he can't do. He cannot pull Christ down from Heaven and tell him to get into the host. That is beyond ridiculous. Wise up. Believe Scripture...all of it instead of man.
@@deniseadkins2901 so you knowingly lie and say we worship Mary. Nice try. And Jesus gave them the authority to forgive sins in John 20:23, so wrong again. Your set of beliefs were invented in the 16th Century and are therefore not the faith once for all delivered according to Jude 3.
Your righteousness is a legal fiction and you think an omniscient God doesn’t still see your character flaws. You may be fully justified, but you aren’t yet fully sanctified, so again, your righteousness is a legal fiction.
You follow the Bible alone, which wasn’t collected and declared to be Scripture for nearly 300 years, wasn’t available or affordable to everyone for 1500 years, and wasn’t able to be read by literate people until 1800 years. When you interpret the Bible outside of the Sacred Tradition and Church magisterium that brought it forth, you are already out of context. Keep your man made religion where every person is the final authority in deciding what the Bible means. I believe God answered the prayer of Jesus in John 17 and kept a unified church. And yes, this pope has issues.
Very informative. Thank you so much.
You need to know that Mike had a debate with Scott Hahn In the debate Mike was consistently and politely beaten in his arguments even when he could not answer Scott he then just called him names .... Eventually it got so bad for Mike that he found he could not come back after the break... ( This is all recorded on youtube "Debate Scott Hahn and Mike Gendron ")..... He is careful here not to give a reference to the debate but is less than honest in what has been said !!! .......
As for mortal vs venial sins? Let’s actually have some fairness and try to explain the ACTUAL Catholic teaching on sin before you tear down what you mistakenly built up?
What Does the Bible Have to Say?
Matt. 5:19:
Whoever then relaxes (breaks) one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Our Lord here teaches that there are “least commandments” a person can break and even teach others to do so yet still remain “in the kingdom of heaven.” That is both a good definition of venial sin and perfectly in line with paragraph 1863 of the Catechism. Then, Jesus goes on to warn us in no uncertain terms that there are other sins that will take us to hell-if we do not repent, of course. For example, in Matt. 5: 22, Jesus says, “… whoever says ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire.” In verses 28-29, he says:
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Clearly Jesus teaches there are some sins that will separate us from God for all eternity and some that will not-mortal and venial sin.
Matt. 12:32:
And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come (Matthew 12:32, emphasis added).
This statement of our Lord implies there are at least some sins that can be forgiven in the next life and some that cannot to a people who already believed it to be so. That sounds awful Catholic, doesn’t it?
Mike, Catholics say that Mary referred to Jesus as her savior because God saved her *preemptively* from sin. What would you say to this?
Thanks Mike and Justin. Wishing both of you brothers a blessed Christmas
My favorite conversations are when the elders speak. I love it!! Thank you for a much needed discussion. May our LORD grow us all in wisdom and lead us out of error whenever error is present. He is merciful!
Me too. Especially when I read what the earliest Christians believed.
See the debate "Debate: Catholic vs Protestant Salvation vesves Justification Tim Staples vs Mike Gendron"
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This is a great interview. Mike Gendron is wonderful. Thank you, Justin. You both were great on the American Gospel.
He came out of the Catholic Faith to become Protestant , Whom I would call an idiot who know not the truth of the redemption , neither do Protestantism ,
Protestantism, out of a rebellion, sunk in Sodom and Divorce, going about in Christian names underscored in Gnosticism (1John 2;19) , unto its many thousands of sects where one does not agree with the other, denotes the many parts that the body of Jezebel ended up torn by dogs, incidentally the source of the prophesied Apostasy theologically in the leavens of the Faith
Here is why ;
Bible "By his stripes are ye healed" The stripes that man gave him out of sin (he who had no sin became sin for us) become his own, by which he redeems man unto his words "I Hurt & I Heal " amounting to "My burden is light & my Yoke easy "
So the stripes that man gave him, he uses to redeem is but to know why "It pleased God to Bruise (stripe) him " Not for the bruises itself but for its fruit
This is a "Conversion act" against Protestantism's erranous "Substitution (magical act) arisen out of the leavens of the Faith ,the philosophies from Faith only" through mis interpretation of Paul & which James specifically says is not, only to another Christ another Gospel even theologically , any wonder why Protestant America is sunk in Sodom and Divorce ", its fruit ,
Now, Here is another question to ponder, Christ took our sins upon himself , so what did he do with it, give it to the Father ?
Ok, please correct me if I’m reading James 2:24 wrong (which you claim to be the infallible Word of God.) I read it and it’s very clear. Actually the whole chapter 2 tells something different than what you are preaching. I choose to believe the word of God!
Thank you for the subtitles on this video, Justin. I can hear clearly at your end but the sound input from Mike Gendron is very muffled through my low quality pc speakers lol! Helps to see the captions on screen.
Gendron had a debate with ex protestant Tim Sharples on justification (see it on you tube). Just lets say Gendron started insulting Tim Sharples and repeating phrases which did not answer questions put to him then Mr Gendron decided to not come back after the break ....
Look up "The BIGGEST Misconceptions protestants have About the Catholic Faith with Jimmy Akin " Jimmy used to be a Protestant pastor but like the 3 Church of England Bishops since 2021 became Catholic to get closer to Christ !! How is it that not so bright and weak Catholics can become Protestant but theologians Pastors etc become Catholic ???
this mary problem was around while jesus was in his ministry luke 11:27 -28 he stopped it with the word of god
Catholic Church is the only church Jesus left us
After everything that was talked about in the video, how could you possibly come to that conclusion? Praying that you'll see the truth.
@@vegasgirl1969 Probably because the entire video is full of misrepresentations and lies.
@@christsavesreadromans1096Please point out the misrepresentations and lies. And be specific.
@@vegasgirl1969 Because Catholics don’t believe we are saved by works, but by grace alone. Works justify you, in the sense that they increase justification, but they don’t ever change you from an unsaved state to a saved state. There are far too many lies to even be able to address in several comments.
@@christsavesreadromans1096The Council of Trent and the Catechism both contradict what you just said . I'll include them both so you know that I'm not making this up.
Canon 9, Council of Trent: If anyone says that the sinner is justified by faith alone, meaning that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to obtain the grace of justification, and that it is not in any way necessary that he be prepared and disposed by the action of his own will, let him be anathema.
Catechism, para. 1821: We can therefore hope in the glory of heaven promised by God to those who love him and do his will. In every circumstance, each one of us should hope, with the grace of God, to persevere "to the end" and to obtain the joy of heaven, as God's eternal reward for the GOOD WORKS ACCOMPLISHED with the grace of Christ.
It's very common for Catholics to be unaware of what the Catholic doctrines are. Protestants believe salvation is by faith alone through Christ alone, not Catholics. It may be your individual belief that salvation is through faith alone, but that is not what the Catholic Church teaches.
I was raised Catholic and most of my family and friends are still Catholic so I'm very aware of what the Catholic Church teaches about salvation.
This guys ridiculous , he came to meet victims of the scandal that took place , instead of trying to comfort them and help fight justice, he decides to try convert them to man made heretical sects made by Martin Luther than don’t lead to salvation , disgraceful. Then he’s also said he was surprised the woman didn’t leave her faith because of what a nasty man who is sinning according to Catholic doctrine who doesn’t make up a majority did to her child, that infers he believes people should be religious for other men not for God , and would he say that to all the kids who have been abused in Protestant sects like the southern baptist “church” that they should leave Protestant “Christianity” ? No he wouldn’t. And to say 50 percent of Priests are homosexual or the p word Is rediculous and a lie . First of all the majority of the abuse wasn’t by the p word , it was ephebophillia , both nasty and wrong but they are different. Second of all most of the abusers where homos only 15 percent straight and it was approximately ( at the peak ) 2 - 4 percent of priests who Abused so 2 - 4 percent of a group of people the majority where gay , that makes up the average ammount of homos in the public population (2-4 percent). So where you got 50 percent homos I have no clue , and the p word ? That’s just a blatant lie . And all these stats where at the peak of the scandal , far to High yes . But no where near your number and still the vast majority where innocent and no evidence to say half of the innocent where homos . Nowadays there is still a homo problem ( probably 1-2 percent like the average percent of homos in the public , like in every organisation today ) of trying to corrupt the Churches teachings and lead people astray . Abuse scandal (which has only been an large scale issue the past few decades, before then it was very uncommon) is nowadays almost non existent, due to the amount of rules put in place to protect kids . So please when addressing the horrific scandal that happened , give fair honest stats and don’t use it as a representation of all of Catholicism or , priests . That Catholic doctrine on this is clear that any form of sexual activity outside marriage is evil.
7:44 another error. It is NOT Catholic teaching that the election of a pope is without error guided by the Holy Spirit. That’s not Catholic teaching.
Thanks Justin and Mike!
Sound quality is indeed a bit of a challenge and I have a really decent pair of headphones.
Yep, I'm struggling with it too!👍Justin is clearer than Mike. Tried changing devices but no joy.
@@caroldonaldson4565 I'm surprised, because Justin's videos are usually very good audio wise.
Yeah, I think it was more from Mike's mic, if you will,😁 it sounded as though his voice was just dissipating out into the ether. Anyhoo, hopefully Justin sees this before Mike is on again. Blessings from Scotland BTW!🏴🙏
@@caroldonaldson4565 I'd really liked to have heard clearly what Mike has to say as I have a Roman Catholic friend back in Northern Ireland from our school days. Yes, we both went to a 'school for the blind' hence it was a mixed school, being the only school of it's kind in N.I. My background is the 'Brethren Assemblies. I've been witnessing to him about salvation etc and he still clings to the R.C. system.
Buy a mac! I am not having any trouble hearing them both.
One thing that stuck out to me is when Mike said that Catholics need to perform penance after the sacrament of reconciliation to receive forgiveness. He's wrong. Absolution is granted when the words of absolution are said, not after one performs penance. Penance is given to help the penitent to overcome certain sins that they have confessed. If he couldn't get a basic detail like this correct, why should I believe him on other things he says?
You can believe the astronomical payouts the CC is paying in molestation lawsuits. So get back on your kneeler befor that graven image.
@@peterzinya1 Yes, there are many members of the Catholic Church, including the clergy, that are corrupt. The first one was Judas, but I'm not going to abandon Christ because of Judas. Are you?
@@brittoncain5090 Judas wasnt some pervert priest. Judas was part of the plan of salvation and he was mentioned in the old test. Your equating Judas with dirty filthy homosexual pedophiles? Be of good cheer.....catholic priests are mentioned in the old test also. They are called "Idol Shepherds" who feed off the flesh of the flock. Notice the spelling "Idol" not Idyl. Catholic priests preside over temples full of idols, images made by human hands. Catholics say.....our statues arent idols. Idols are man made images. Catholics are forced to deny everything. If they admitted anything they are admitting their religion is wicked. Theres a new excuse floating around catholic circles concerning their graven(carved,engraved) images. They are tired of making lame excuses for why they have them , and even bowing befor them. Im sure youve heard this one; God commands us to make images....(;-D Thats a true Hail Mary.......toss it up and hope someone believes it.
@@peterzinya1 He literally has, maybe YOU should try reading the Old Testament. You know, the parts where God commands statues of angels to be made for the Ark of the Covenant. Also, are you trying to say that it was good for Judas to betray Jesus?
@@brittoncain5090 Who did god have make the cherubs? He didnt ask you or me. The cherubs were for his purposes. A couple guys made them and put them on the ark. In Deut god expressly says not to erect statues of men or women, but thats all the CC does. Dont feel bad personally, im not blaming you. Im not asking you to leave your religion either. Im just telling you what is.
yes we needed Judas. He had to betray jesus so he could get crucified for our sins. Why do you ask if i think it was good? You must think it was a bad thing. catholics say the darndest things (;-D Catholicism is a catch as catch can religion. Doesnt matter what the flock says or believes, as long as they keep giving money. Its a business and the clergy need to eat and pay bills also.
It is quite disconcerting to hear Mr. Gendron wonder at 18:43 that why should Roman Catholics build their theology on the 'uninspired words of early church fathers when you can directly go to the inspired word of (G)od...". From what I read, those early Church Fathers also believed in Jesus as their Lord and Savior, and they all used the Bible in their expositions of the same. Their teachings and 'uninspired words' were (and still are) very important nowadays because in terms of space and time they were the CLOSEST to the apostolic age, hence, their thoughts are mostly likely in line with the way the Apostles and early Christians must have understood God's written words. Their understanding of the teachings of Jesus during the early Church age is crucial, as it affords scholars and the laity a window on how the early Chruch understood verses of the Word of God. As compared to the teachings and 'inspired word' of people like Mr. Gendron 2,000 years REMOVED from apostolic times, the 'uninspired word' of the early Church Fathers are a gem to behold as they do glorify God and His Word! Those teachings of the Apostolic and Church Fathers were sustained by the Church. Truly, the Church (not even the Bible?) is the foundation and pillar of the truth (1 Tim. 3:15)... Why should Catholic critics like Mr. Gendron even think that their modern day understanding of Christ's teachings are worthier than those of the early Church Fathers? It is like asking: who do you think had a better understanding of the spirit of the American Constitution, the Founding Fathers and framers and signers in 1789, or those who study it more than 200 years AFTER its adoption?... Indeed, as the great St. John Henry Newman (a former Anglican turned Catholic) once wrote: "To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant." [From Newman's "An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine".]
The Catholic Church teaches that we are saved by the free, unmerited grace of God.
Justin thank you for your content. You are loved and appreciated!
Look forward to more of these discussions
You need to know that Mike had a debate with Scott Hahn In the debate Mike was consistently and politely beaten in his arguments even when he could not answer Scott he then just called him names .... Eventually it got so bad for Mike that he found he could not come back after the break... ( This is all recorded on youtube "Debate Scott Hahn and Mike Gendron ")..... He is careful here not to give a reference to the debate but is less than honest in what has been said !!! .......
I truly love your ministry Justin. It’s been such a blessing to my life and my wife’s. Thank you for being a faithful servant of the Lord and being obedient! May God continue to be glorified through your ministry!
Regarding baptism, what of John 3:5?
There's only one classification of sin? Will you explain this verse then?
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. - 1 John 5:16-17
When encountering difficult passages such as this, we have to remember to take the entire counsel of God’s word into consideration, then come back to the question.
It is very clear from Scripture that sin = death - so how do we reconcile this passage?
We actually take John in the literal sense - meaning the physical death of a person from sinning and not in the sense of the spiritual death.
There are examples of people being subjected to physical death due to a sin that leads to it, so that their souls are saved.
Taking this into consideration, reread this passage with that in mind. God bless!
This is not a difficult passage. It is only difficult if your belief system rejects what the Bible actually says about sin.
The Bible in a Year with Father Mike Schmitz is a wildly popular Bible-reading program. I think this the second year it’s been in place; I wonder if the adherents will question purgatory and other catholic teachings, or if such topics will be glossed over and/or justified through Scripture. I’ve also watched apologetics videos from a catholic perspective on TH-cam, and they sure do use Scripture to justify their teachings. Like it or not, they ALWAYS circle back to Scripture. It’s very, very difficult to witness to Catholics.
Why wouldnt they use sacred scripture as they always have.. and use scripture at every catholic mass which is all biblical too and which can be shown to be so
I copy and paste my post today, directed at Mike and the moderator of this video:
Such EVIL to spout what you WANT to believe Catholics believe in our view of Mary. Catholic's worship God alone ! Mike, if you can remember (which I really doubt) when you were a Catholic and went to Mass (if you really went to Mass), it was ALL about Jesus Christ. We worship God alone! You never experienced, you were never, ever taught, that Catholic's worship ANY creature, Mary included. We DO hold her in high regard. We thank her for saying YES to the Angel. We follow what she tells us : _do whatever he tells you._
@@TruthHasSpoken No one can love Mary more than Jesus did. When we love Mary (not worship her) we are imitating Jesu!
Catholics are scriptural, yes, Catholic apologist are great.
@@Vickie167 Regarding why Catholics seek Mary's intercession, here are 2 cases.
First. At Jesus' transfiguration, Moses & Elijah were seen talking with Him. In OT, Elijah had been bodily carried to Heaven, Moses had died. When Peter volunteered to build tents, he was obviously seeing them each in bodily form. So there IS life after death.
Second. When Jesus spoke in Parables, He used fictitious figures in His teaching moments like the Prodigal Son, Father & Brother who had no names. However, in the Living Account of the Rich Man(RM) and Beggar Lazarus(BL) - Luke 16:19-31-, the historical Abraham and the BL were named while Jesus did not "care to remember '' the RM's name. In this Parable, Jesus declared that both the RM & BL had died, had been judged and assigned to their places - BL carried by Angels to Abraham's bosom, the RM sent to a place of torment. Despite being dead, there was a request for intercession by the RM to Father Abraham for his brothers. This is the second case of Life after Death, and both cases involve Jesus.
Mary is superior to both Moses & Abraham. Moses committed murder and was disobedient at Meribah in the desert that disqualified him from entering the Promised Land. Abraham lied about his wife Sarah being his sister, and committed adultery with Hagar, his servant. Mary was " full of grace " with no biblical faults ascribed to her. And Mary is the mother of Jesus and thus the most excellent intercessor between us and Jesus, God & Judge ( John 5:22).
While we pray to God we also have to use human helps like doctors, farmers etc. Possessed persons and their families cannot help themselves without the aid of exorcists. Jesus loved & honored His mother Mary and would therefore treat her better than the error-prone Moses & Abraham.
Humanly speaking, we all love and " adore " our Mothers - not worship them. Jesus loved perfectly and also " adored " His Mother.
Jesus also commanded us to love as He loved, so Catholics love and honour Mary who is as living as Jesus, Moses & Abraham.
In her varied apparitions, Mary calls for prayer, penance and love of her Son, Jesus. (Check the Internet for Mary's picture over a Coptic church in Zeitoun, Egypt for 3 years in 1968-71).
On Judgment Day, it will go well for Catholics who loved and honoured His Mother.
Justin, I was thrilled to see your original interview with Mike Gendron and have been following your invaluable ministries avidly. I bought a copy of Preparing for Eternity for my sister and gave it to her yesterday. I am dreading an angry phone call. She has a low view of evangelicals and even more sadly, of the Bible. She believes Mary was a young girl who married a much older man, that Joseph was a widower with children and always remained a virgin.
I would value prayer from your readers that the Lord would melt her hard heart.
Thank you!
Thank you, Grace. I will pray for her. Blessings to you.
@@JustinPetersMin Justin, thank you very much.
Mary did remain a virgin. Mary marring a older man an older St. Joseph is just a thought, not a teaching of the church.
@@Vickie167 Doesnt matter. catholics, being in a false religion, are free to think what ever they want. As long as they give them money and bring their little kids to the priests to feed on their flesh.
@@peterzinya1 That is pretty judgemental for a rapist serial killer. Do you eat your victims before you dispose of the body? Fry them, bake them, BBQ them? Have any recipies you would like to post?
Every time I try to have a conversation with a group of catholics I always get rejected and casted out
Ehh..doubt
Don't worry Giovanni, they did the same thing to Jesus.
@@veronicavasco2572 No they didn't reject Christ.
@@Vickie167 I don't understand who you're implying. Who was it that didn't reject Christ?
@@veronicavasco2572 I can't find what I posted, sorry.
Two forms of Religious beliefs Able or Cain. Your earthier Able who knew that no matter what he did he could not be worthy of Gods love so he offered a sacrifice. If you follow Cain it would be be works not faith. Trying to sho God, how good you are…. For those of you out there watching and reading the comments.. Please if your on the mind set and have been thought that you must prove yourself to enter Heaven. Please repent. Ask Jesus Christ into your heart. Read The Bible. ESV, KING JAMES, NASB. DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU YOUR NOT ALLOWED TO…..
THE EMMAUS EXPERIENCE : LUKE 24:30-31
" While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, "What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, named Cle'opas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?" And he said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since this happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see." And he said to them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He appeared to be going further, but they constrained him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent." So he went in to stay with them. When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their sight.( Luke 24:15-31)
Boy, there is so much to learn from this great passage of Scripture. But let's concentrate on just a couple of them. The most obvious lesson is to note how the disciples came to notice him in the breaking of the bread, as is explicated for us in verse 35.
Second, notice the first thing that Jesus does with his disciples on His appearance to them is have the Mass. What?, you may say! Look at the text! First Jesus explains the Scriptures to them, just as we do at mass in the Liturgy of the Word. Then He goes on to the Liturgy of the Eucharist by making Himself present to them in the "Breaking of the Bread"
You are teaching ungodliness 😢
@@suzieaguilar397, no, he's not, he's telling you the truth.
@@brucebarber4104 absolute falsehood. Repent from your wicked ways.
@@countryboyred, the only people preaching falsehoods are protestants.
Justin thank you for being a faithful steward of Gods word. God bless your family and ministry
There is at least one major misconception or error on every single one of these points. I almost fell over when they said, "Mary ascended into heaven". The Catholic church explicitly does not teach this, it is assumed and that is a major difference. You would almost have to be purposefully trying to be wrong to mix that up there is no excuse for an ex catholic who claims to be saving catholics to not know something this basic.
Are you unfamiliar with Roman catholic teachings?
@@mistertracey1 See the debate ""Debate: Catholic vs Protestant Salvation vesves Justification Tim Staples vs Mike Gendron "" The debate was not exactly as Mike tells it .... Mike found he could not come back after the break !!!!
@@1234poppycat I don't know why your want me to do this
@@mistertracey1 To let you know that a number of points were raised in the debate with Mr Gendron and Tim Staples from Catholic Answers like Trent and Mike failed to respond logically or scripturally
@@1234poppycat why do you think I need to know this?
You put such a emphasis on the Word of God. Why then did protestants not except the early churches books of inspired scripture???
Why did Jesus go through water baptism by His cousin John?
Would be great, before posting, to have the references put it.
Thanks; I’ve learnt a lot. This will be a great help to me for when I speak to Catholics (I have a few in my street).
It's the same as speaking to an atheist who's god is evolution.
Check out How to be Christain youtube channel!
This video will not help you at all. It will only make you look foolish if you accidentally end up talking to a Catholic who actually knows not only what to believe but why.
If you actually want to learn about Catholicism. Go to Catholic TH-cam channels. Likewise I would suggest a Catholic who wants to learn about protestantism to go to protestant TH-cam channels.
If you're actually interested in learning I can give you sources who will faithfully represent Catholicism and its teaching
@@jon6car well said!
@@Normicgander The "teachings" in this video are so grossly wrong I literally laughed out loud at some points and had a visible look of confusion at others.
Really though its easy to know this is all bull because he simply makes assertions without citations.
Any person here who wants to deny that Mary is Theotokos (mother of God or more literally God bearer) will necessarily fall into the Nestorian heresy. Either she is the mother of the person of Jesus Christ or she isn't. And either Jesus was always God or he wasn't. There is no wiggle room there.
Here is a simple syllogism for them to contend with. Jesus is God, Mary is Jesus' Mother therefore Mary is the mother of God.
Edit to reorder my comment
The Catholic Church teaches that Mary was assumed into heaven, not that she ascended to heaven.
Mr. Gendron makes too many incorrect statements. I wish he knew what he is talking about.
When he quotes Luke 5:21, he is not quoting Jesus or his disciples, but the scribes and the Pharisees. I don't base anything on their statements.
The Pope is only infallible under certain circumstances, and there are requirements to be met. There have been only two or three times this has happened.
He does not know the difference between infallibility and impeccability, which is the inability to sin. We all sin, and the Pope goes to confession to another priest regularly.
He said he had to do his penance - in his case prayers - to be forgiven in Confession. No, again he is wrong. His sins were forgiven in Confession. If he fails to do his penance, he is still forgiven.
You can be brought into the Kingdom of God without baptism. The thief on the cross is a good example.
Mistranslated Bibles were banned, but translations copied out meticulously by hand were available in the churches, chained to a pillar or small podium to prevent theft. (Can you imagine how hard they would be to replace?) Catholic Bibles always contain a statement of the graces people receive from reading Scripture.
I am sure he is sincere, just mistaken. This is just one misleading statement after another.
I am giving up after 30 minutes - I can't take any more of this ignorance of the Catholic faith.
Absolutely. At first I wondered if he really had ever been a Catholic. But he seemed so sincere that I finally believed he really believes those lies he tells. Maybe he really is a fake - I just can't understand why he has his facts so wrong if he ever was Catholic.