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Episode 4: "If you love me you will keep my commandments." · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. You know, after going kind of
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hardcore political and yesterday's show, it's kind of nice to just kind of back
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up and do a more I guess, religiously oriented show today. I was
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asked again this week to do the Thursday gospel reflection from Mizzio Day, and
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it's really kind of cool how this comes together. The gospel for today is,
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let's see, it's John fifteen nine through eleven, and it says Jesus
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said to his disciples, as the Father loves me, so I also love
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you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will
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remain in my love, just as I have kept my father's commandments and remain
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in his love. I told you this so that you might so that my
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joy might be in you and your joy might be complete. Now that's not
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really a message we here preach these days really in any denomination. Keep my
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commandments. You know, this is the era of non judgmental acceptments. And
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I know the portrait we get of Jesus these days in modern churches that seems
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a bit stern, doesn't it. Well, what else did Jesus say on
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the subject? Here? Just a few passages. This is just a handful
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of several Luke six forty six through forty nine. Why do you call me
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lord lord and not do what I say? Everyone who comes to me and
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listens to my word and acts on them, I will show you what a
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person is like. Such a person is like the man who, when he
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built a house, dug and dug deep, and laid the foundation on rock.
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When the river was in flood, it bore down that house, but
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could not shake it. It was well built. But someone who listens and
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does nothing is like the man who builds a house on soil with no foundation.
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As soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed, And
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what a ruined that house became? John twelve forty through fifty. If anyone
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hears my words and does not keep them faithfully, it is not I who
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shall judge such a person, since I have not come to judge the world,
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but to save the world. Anyone who rejects me and refuses my words
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has his judge already. The world is the word itself that I have spoken,
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will be his judge on the last day. For I have not spoken
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of my own accord, but the father who sent me commanded me what to
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say and what to speak, And I know that his command means eternal life.
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And therefore what the Father has told me is what I speak John fourteen
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fifteen through twenty four. If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me.
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And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall
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love him and reveal myself to him. So and he was asked by one
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of his disciples, the other Judas, not Judas Iscariot. He said to
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him, Lord, what has happened that you intend to show yourself to us
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and not to the world. Jesus replied, anyone who loves me will keep
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my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to
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him and make a home in him. Anyone who does not love me does
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not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not my own,
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It is the word of the Father who sent me. Jesus was pretty
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clear, and again this is just a few passages. He said it several
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times. He went on to say, of course, that he would give
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his full authority to the apostles under the leadership of Saint Peter, and whoever
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listened to them listened to him, and whoever rejected them rejected him. You
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know, it was I've been thinking a lot about my conversion, of course,
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having released my book on my conversion story this week, and that's really
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what brought everything to a head, what forced me to have to make the
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decision. You know, when I was at a major university, I began
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studying Christian doctrine, Protestant doctrine specifically as it compared to the words of the
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Bible. And what I found was that they were not keeping the word of
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God. They were not holding fast to that truth. I took a lot
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of study, and I began comparing the doctrines of various denominations to the Bible
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and to really the voluminous writings of the early Church Fathers. I mean the
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first few hundred years of the Church. I mean, I don't know,
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they're at least five thousand pages of writings from them, maybe the first two
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hundred years. I mean, I've been working through again, we started rereading
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the early Church Fathers. I'm on the first volume of the Anti Nicean Fathers,
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those that wrote before the Nicean creed, right and the first book is
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about a thousand pages long. I've been reading like two pages a day of
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it, and I mean I've barely gotten past Justin Martyr, Saint Justin Martyr.
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I'm up to Ironnais. You know, this is starting out with the
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very first popes, some of the first martyrs, and really you know the
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DK. We'll get into the DK many times. I'll reference it because that
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is the first manual stating what Christians believe and how and when they are to
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worship. Very important document. At least one of the Apostles was still alive
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and it was written probably two or three but we know, you know,
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Saint John was still alive. This book was written obviously with the leadership the
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authority of the Apostles. It was written before the Bible was even finished.
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The Book of Revelation, and probably the Gospel of John had not yet been
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written. This is one of the very earliest documents of the early Church.
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And if you read the DK, you're going to find one church agrees.
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One church is still the early Church of the first Christians. We didn't do
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that in just a minute. But I mean, how I don't believe in
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coincidence. I believe everything happens for a reason. I mean, obviously here,
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I've just finished writing and just published my conversion story, and I didn't
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know what the gospel was going to be for today, and it just so
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happens. It's the very reason I was forced to convert. I had no
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decision because if I wanted to believe in what was true, and I wanted
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to believe in the Bible, I had to become Catholic. You know when
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I was, and I've told you before it wasn't easy. I mean I
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even just raised the issue that wait a minute, maybe Protestant doctrine, you
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know, starting with Martin Luther and up to the modern Baptist Church, you
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know, where I was or Methodist or whatever didn't agree with the Bible,
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and maybe the Catholic Church did well, was totally ostracized. I was asked
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to leave the school. I mean, you know, it was a major
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life change, very disruptive and painful, but totally worth it, Absolutely worth
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it. For instance, you know, Jesus said we must eat his body
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and drink his blood or we have no wife in us. He said,
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truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat of my body
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and drink my blood. He was so adamant, he said over and over
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and over that most of his followers left. But of course, no Protestant
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church actually believes that communion the bread and wine becomes spiritually the body and blood
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of Christ. No Protestant church believes it because they know they don't have the
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authority to do it. Only the Catholic Church, through the power to bind
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and loose given to Peter and the apostles given by them, through the power
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to bind and loose to every priest and bishop, and it came after them.
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Only the Catholic Church has the ability to turn physical bread and wine into
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the spiritual body and blood of Jesus. And even you know, even if
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you didn't believe that part I was taught in you know, the Baptist doctrine
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and before that of the Methodist doctrine. No, that's just symbolic, even
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though Jesus said specifically, look at all, this is not symbolism. I
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am totally serious. And you can't read you cannot read the Bible any of
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the way. He said it over and over and over, like I said,
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to the point that most of his followers abandoned him. They thought he
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was crazy. It's a hard it's a hard truth to accept to this day.
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But if you believe that God is God, God can do anything.
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And when he says, this is the blood of the New Covenant, do
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this in memory of me. This is his blood, this is his body.
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He said, if you don't have it, you have no life in
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you. And later in the Bible, reading through you know the various it
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is in an axe or maybe one of the letters to one of the churches,
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they said, the reason some of you are sick and even on the
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point of dying, is because you have eaten the body and blood of the
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Lord unworthily. Think about that. There was no doubt in the early Church
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of the meaning of the Eucharist. But that's not what the Protestant doctrine is
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we were taught. I mean, this is a big change in the past
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fifty years or so in the Baptist Church that divorce was acceptable. Of course,
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the entire Anglican Episcopal Church is founded on divorce. I mean King Henry
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the Church wouldn't let him have divorces anymore. And they said, you really
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need to cut quitn't cutting your wife's heads off, beheading them? And he
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decided to found his own church and make the King of England the head of
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that church, which is blasphemous. I mean, did you see King Charles
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is whatever is a nation? That's right word coronation a few days ago that
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was utter blasphemy. The head of the a Christian Church is not an inbred,
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adulterous British king. I mean, we can at least be glad he's
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not the one in the family who's a pedophile, right, who absolutely rejects
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brit I mean Catholic doctrine, who really embraces a neo pagan, environmentalist religion,
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who has no discernible morals or intelligence whatsoever. Just forget morals for a
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minute. He is literally like worshiped as a god on earth. You know
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what. The pope just feels an office. We respect the Pope, but
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he just feels an office that was established by Jesus when he gave that office
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to Saint Peter and said, upon this rock I found my church, and
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the gates of Hell will not prevail against it. In order to believe in
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the Anglican or the Episcopal Church, you have to believe the gates of Hell
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did prevail against Jesus's Church, that the office of Peter could be usurped by
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a like I said, an inbred get and that means Jesus lied, and
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Jesus isn't God. Okay, you cannot be both a traditional, fully believing
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Anglican and Episcopal and a Christian. I'm sorry, it's apostasy. And frankly,
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Martin Luther was once rightly called by the Catholic Church and antichrist because he
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tried to take away the authority of Peter and take it for himself, of
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the pope, and take it for himself. And in his own diaries he
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said that Jesus appeared to him and said, Luther, why do you seek
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my keys? My keys? I'm just paraphrasing. Now is Peter's tongue or
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the tongue of the Pope? I can't remember exactly what he said it?
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And his mouth is my key case. Jesus Christ himself told Martin Luther he
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had no right to do what he did. Martin Luther didn't stop it that
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he cut out books of the Bible that disagreed with his doctrine. He changed
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the very words of Jesus to say you're saved by faith alone and not set
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faith and works. That is not acceptable. That you cannot say I believe
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in the Bible alone and then change the Bible to fit your doctrine. That
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is truly the work of the Antichrist. That is the work of Satan,
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who said I won't worship God, I will set myself up as my own
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God. That's really I mean, we're not even scratching the surface. But
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yeah, we were told divorce was acceptable, even though Jesus expressly condemned divorce
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in all four Gospels. So are they keeping Jesus's words? Were they following
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what the Bible says? No? No, they said there's no role for
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the priest and forgiving sins. But what does it say in the Bible.
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Jesus says, as the Father sent me, so I am sending you.
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After saying this, he breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit.
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If you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven. If you retain anyone's
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sins, they are retained. Protestant churches know they don't have the power to
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bind and loose. A Protestant minister cannot forgive sins. A Catholic priest is
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authorized and not only authorized, but ordered by Jesus Christ himself to listen to
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confessions and forgive sinse You can like it or not, but that's what the
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Bible says. We were even taught in a Baptist college now that baptism was
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merely symbolic. What did Jesus say? He said, whoever believes and is
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baptized will be saved. They go around saying you must be born again.
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The rest of that sentence says you must be born again by water and the
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spirit. Baptism again absolutely ordered, mandated by God himself. Of course,
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we were taught that the one Holy Apostolic, one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church
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was wrong, okay, but that they'd like ten thousand Protestant denominations. Did
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you know that there are like ten thousand or more Protestant denominations, Every single
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one of them disagrees with each others on matters of doctrine and theology. But
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we were taught that the one Holy Catholic and Apstolic Church was wrong, but
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that thousands of denominations, all who disagree with each other, were equally right.
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What did Jesus say. Jesus said, consecrate them in the truth.
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Your word is the truth. As you sent me into the world, I
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have sent them into the world, and for their sake I consecrate myself,
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so that they too may be consecrate in truth. I pray not only for
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these, but for also those who, through their teaching, will come to
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believe in me. May they all be one, just as Father, you
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are in me and I am in you, so that they may also be
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in us, So that the world may believe it was you who sent me.
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I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may
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be one as we are, one with me and them and you and me.
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Maybe they be so perfected in unity that the world will recognize that it
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was you who sent me, and that you have loved them as you have
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loved me. There is only one truth. There is only one church that
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is in the Apostolic succession that was authorized by Jesus Christ. The unity of
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that truth is unchanging. There's only one church that teaches the fullness of the
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truth. There's only one church, as I said, that was founded by
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Jesus to which he gave his authority to bind in loose. I'm looking back
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in my article now if I'm repeating myself a little bit, there's only one
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church that has a valid ordination of priests, tracing back to the very Apostles,
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under the authority of the Pope who holds the office of Saint Peter.
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Yes, some of the original Anglican and Lutheran ministers had been Catholic priests.
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They lost the validity of their ordination when they severed themselves from the One Holy
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Catholic and Apostock Church under the authority of the Pope and lost all ability to
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provide valid sacraments. There's only one church that wrote in the New Testament and
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compiled the Bible. The Protestants who changed the words of Jesus and the Bible
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and who cut entire books from that Bible that did not agree with their new
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doctrines had no right or authority so to do. And as I said,
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that is really just scratching the surface. There's no church other than the Catholic
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Church that has any legitimate claim to be the Early Church of the Apostles,
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no church who's doctrine and practices other than the Catholic Church that agrees with the
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writings of the Early Church. Let's get back to the Dak. The Dak
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Loan should be enough to convince people that the early Church was the Catholic Church,
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and the Catholic Church today is the still the same as the Catholic Church
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of two thousand years ago. Looking at the dac which again was written before
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the Bible was even completed. Here's just one two experts excerpts. I'll give
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you two little passages at the Eucharist. The Eucharist the offering of the body
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and blood of Jesus what Protestants call communion, what it's been called communion by
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some Catholics before as well, But it's the Eucharist that is the official name
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of the sacrament. All through the Eucharistic prayer in this way, begin with
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the chalice, we give thanks to THEE Our Father for the holy vine of
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the Servant of David, of thy Servant David, which thou hast main known
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to us through thy Servant Jesus. Glory be to the world without end.
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Then over the broken bread, say we give thanks to THEE Our Father for
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the life and knowledge thou hast main known to us through the th Servant Jesus.
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Glory be to the world without end. As this broken bread, once
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dispersed over the hills, was brought together and became one loaf. So may
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the Church be brought together from the ends of earth into Thy Kingdom. Thine
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is the glory and the power, through Jesus Christ, forever and ever no
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one. This is what the Didak says. No one is to eat or
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drink of your Eucharist, but those who have been baptized in the name of
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the Lord. For the Lord's own saying applies here, give not that which
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is wholly unto dogs. And it goes on to say, as symbol on
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the Lord's Day, you know how seven day adventie to or observe Christians,
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etc. Etc. Say that the Catholic Church just led the world astray,
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totally apostate because we go church on Sunday and don't keep the Jewish Sabbath.
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The Early Christian Church makes absolutely clear Christians go to church on Sunday to differentiate
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themselves from Jewish tradition, and because it's the day the Lord rose, therefore
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it's called the Lord's Day. It's also the day of the Pentecost, when
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the Holy Spirit came a symbol on the Lord's Day and break bread and offer
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the Euchrist, but first make a confession of your faults, so that your
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sacrifice may be a pure one. In other words, you have to go
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to confession before you receive the Euchrist. If you receive the Euchrist unworthily,
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as it says in the Bible, you will get sick and die, or
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actually you commit a mortal sin, which is making your soul sick unto death.
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You know, another thing we were taught in the Protestant churches was all
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sin is equal for God, and once saved, always saved. What did
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Jesus say, Not all sins are equal, Not all sins carry within the
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penalty of death. And there are such unforgivable sins, such as the sin
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against the Holy Spirit. And what did Saint Paul say, I continue to
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work out my salvation and pain and suffering and many other things along that way.
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He said, if he finished the race, he absolutely was telling people
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you can lose your salvation. And Jesus said, those who hear and don't
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do would exactly lose their salvation. And what he told them to do was
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confessor sins be baptized, well, be baptist. Confessor SAIDs to receive the
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Eucharist be confirmed into the Holy Catholic Church. For one thing. Anyway,
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it goes on to say, okay, I said anyone, okay, so
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that your sacrifice may be a pure one, anyone who has a difference with
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his fellow and is not to take part with you until they have been reconciled,
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so as to avoid any profanation of your sacrifice. For this is the
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offering of the Lord, which he has said everywhere, and always bring me
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a sacrifice that is undefiled. For I am a great king, says the
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Lord. And my name is the wonder of nations. I mean, the
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dak alone would have been enough to force me to convert along with the Bible.
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Then I went on to read you know, Pope say Clement, and
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polycarp and Saint Jerome, and you know Saint Ignatius. Saint Ignatius was very
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clear on the authority that the bishops had over the churches and how they could
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have no division and people had to be obedient to the Church, and yes,
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it take part in the sacraments of the Church. I mean, after
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I came to realize this, I could not in good conscience remain Protestant or
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even join a denomination that went through the motions of traditional literatury and sacraments.
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Like the Anglicans, Jesus prayed that all Christians be one, one body,
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united of one minded belief. Saint Paul said that division within the Church was
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crucifizing Jesus Again, the Bible states that the Church is the pillar and foundation,
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not an individual's interpretation of the Bible. Protestant beliefs centers around sola fide
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soul of scripture, faith alone, and the Bible way. Jesus Christ himself
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said faith was not enough. Nowhere in the Bible does the Bible say the
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Bible alone. The Bible says that all scriptures good for instruction, but it
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says the Church is the pillar and foundation. And later on, when the
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apostles are instructing the churches, they say, if there's someone among you that's
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causing trouble, approached them privately, then approached them a couple of elders,
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then take them to the church, to the full church, and if the
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church finds against him, let them be to you. As a pagan,
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I think it was Saint Paul who even said, deliver that man unto Satan.
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That means have him excommunicated. There was a absolute church that worked as
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a body under the authority of the apostles and the successors of the apostles,
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that had the full authority. How much authority did it have? When two
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new Christians had had promise, had pledged to sell some property and donate the
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money to the church, they didn't give it all right, So they went
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before Saint Peter, and Saint Peter said to one of them that came separately,
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why didn't you give all the money to the church? I can't remember
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some man of the woman. One of them lied and was struck dead.
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Immediately he said, you have lied to the Holy Spirit. When they lied
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to Saint Peter, they said that the shadow or handkerchiefs of the apostles healed
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people miraculously. They had power and authority that you will not find in any
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other church other than the Catholic Church, where to this day, to this
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very day, miracles happen. And I cannot wait to share with you some
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of those incredible miracles that still happen. But everyone knows of such things as
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lords where people go and are healed miraculously, the miracles at Fatima, I
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mean I could go on and on. I mean, there have been so
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many instances where the priest actually holds up the eucharistic wafer, you know,
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the bread, and it turns into flesh and blood in his very hands.
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And saints who have died, whose bodies don't decompose but smell of roses.
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And this isn't you know, it shouldn't be unbelievable to Protestants, because in
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the Old Testament, was it Alicia or Elijah one of them? I know,
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one was taken up into heaven, but the other one was buried right,
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And when a body of another person who had recently been deceased was buried
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in the same grave, and that person, the dead person, touched the
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bones of that great prophet, they came back to life. These are miracles
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that still take place in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. So that's
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what really, that's really what led me to convert. And just as each
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person must examine the evidence and consider the arguments for and against Christianity in order
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to have an informed faith, each person should consider the historical evidence of Catholicism
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against the claims of Protestant denominations. All too often Protestant protests so called are
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really just scurreless lies and myths that are disproved with only a brief look at
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secular historical documents. I mean, they'll talk about the Inquisition and all that,
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and if you believe their claims, you would have to believe that ninety
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percent of Europe was slaughtered, right, It turns out it was just a
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very few people in Spain. I mean nothing, I mean not good.
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Certainly, you know, you don't want bad things to happen. Any institution
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made up of human beings is going to have in it some bad guys.
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I mean, even among the twelve Disciples Jesus, hand pick one with Judas.
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Okay, human nature has fallen, no matter how holy the Church is.
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But can hair the so called horrors of the Inquisition to the mass slaughter
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the basically almost genocide committed by England when they wiped out most of their Catholics,
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forcing them to convert to Anglicanism and swear to the King or be beheaded,
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have their properties stripped from them there, I mean everything taken or the
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true genocide by England against Catholics in Ireland. Okay, sure we can do
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what a bautism. But a lot of the stuff that Protestants say is just
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pure myth. It just never happened. It's kind of hard to disprove something
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that never happened. But literally, when they're saying, you know, Catholics
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killed all these millions of people, no, it didn't happen. The graves
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don't exist. I mean when they say that there was always this church that
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existed before the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church didn't exist until like four
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hundred a d. When you know Holy Roman emperors and all that, Well,
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show me historic evidence of another church that wasn't Catholic. You can't find
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one. There are these incredible churches in Turkey and Syria, in caves with
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Catholic icons and paintings all over the walls that go back to the time of
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the Apostles. You won't find a Protestant church in the ancient world. I
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can go on and on and that about that, but I'm running along anyway.
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Basically, when it comes to doctrine and theology, the only way to
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know what is true is to compare it to the words of the Bible and
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the writings of the early Church. It's not just enough to adopt the denomination
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of your parents. Just as I said yesterday, you know, you shouldn't
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just vote Democrat because your parents love John Kennedy. You shouldn't just be a
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member of a denomination just because that's what your parents were. You got to
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look at the evidence and make your own decisions. You know, many,
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especially well most Protestants, make the claim that all it is necessary is to
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believe in Jesus, that believe that Jesus is Lord. But what did Jesus
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actually say, Since we're talking about holding to Jesus's world keeping his word?
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He said, not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord, will enter
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the Kingdom of Heaven, but only the one who does the will of my
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Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord Lord,
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did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons
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in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name? Then
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I will declare to them solemnly, I never knew you depart from me,
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evil doers. That's Matthew seven twenty one through twenty three. And if you'd
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like to read more about my conversion story and about how I defend Catholic doctrine
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and theology and everything practice in using the words of the Bible and the Early
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Church. My book is Confirmation, Autobio, Grief Information and Autobiography of Faith.
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It's available on paperback from Amazon, or you can get it directly from
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me if you go to Southern Appalachian Herbs dot blogspot dot com. That's why
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that's my overall blog for all my work through herbal medicine. I don't have
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a separate one for Catholic books yet. Maybe I will at some point.
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Or you can go to Judsoncarell dot com and that's my sub stack and you'll
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find the same information there. But you know, I actually think the blog
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is a little easier to navigate. So y'all have a great day, and
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we'll talk tomorrow. Maybe we'll get a little bit more back into politics and
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culture, or maybe we'll stick on religion. I don't know. We'll see
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how the day goes. Anyway, y'all have a good one.