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SHow 92: Sacred Tradition · The Uncensored Catholic

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The f A. Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. I hope
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everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Boy, I know I ate too much.
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Wow, Yeah, definitely. And then you follow Thanksgiving with the feast day
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of Christ the King, and yes, much turkey and gravy and etc.
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Was consumed. So I am going to try and keep today's show a little
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bit shorter. You know, I was running a little long a couple episodes
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last week. Ideally I'd like this show to be around thirty minutes, you
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know, I'd like it to not be I think it'd be convenient for you.
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So today I'm going to do my best to keep it a little bit
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shorter, and you know, we'll just see how it goes. Let's go
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ahead and start with a couple of questions and answers from radio replies, as
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we always did. That classic book from nineteen thirty one where anti Catholic and
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atheist and etcetera. People asked questions of two Catholic priests and they answered them
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on the radio. It turned into three volumes of some of the best works
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and apologetics there there is. And you know, this is good. This
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is good, you know, pre Vatican to classic let's just say they're not
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touchy feely. These priests are not They're not of the uh, I'm ok,
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you're okay persuasion. The person asks, can the infallible Catholic Church?
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They're being facetious, of course, give me the chemical equation of the reaction
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which took place when Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. They
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answered, the church does not exist to dispense chemical equations. But your question
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is not based upon reason. Probably Sodom and Gamarrow were destroyed by natural agencies
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set in movement by God with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Rock salt abounds in
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that region, and an upheaval of that material could easily have overwhelmed and embedded
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Lot's wife because of her delay, leaving a standing killock of salt as her
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memorial. Or it could have been completely allegorical. The you know, pillar
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of salt could have been a metaphor, or God could have just literally turned
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her in as salt. Who knows, but there is you know, from
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my readings, or has for a long time been just you know, sort
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of mound of salt that people have identified as you know, being the remains
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of Lot's wife in that region, who knows, you know, I had
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I would say, I am not a literalist. You know, God created
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the world, no doubt how he created I have no idea. Yeah,
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that's just me. Yeah, And everyone really can make their own vision on
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that. In fact, the Catechism says that when asked about the question of
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evolution, the Catechism says, you know, we basically do not believe that
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God that man evolved from apes, but we don't deny evolution, and how
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God made the world. We don't know, because things do certainly change of
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her time. I don't, I mean, they don't. The Chathola Church
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does not deny evolution as a scientific principle, but does not embrace it as
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the origin of the species. They really just kind of lead that up to
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the the individual's understanding, because no one knows how God does anything, the
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person says. Deuteronomy thirteen says that a husband should stone his own wife to
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death if she tried to persuade him to join her in idolatry. Well,
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now, says Ingersol, and you may remember Ingersol was a famous Agnostic.
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In late eighteen hundred, Ingersoll says, I hate a god of that kind
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and would not do it. Did God make a mistake? Or is Deuteronomy
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wrong? They answer, Ingersoll, as usual, makes many mistakes. Firstly,
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he forgot the theocratic nation nature of the nation of the Jews. At
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that time, God was the direct ruler of the Jews, and idolatry was
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going over the king to the king's enemies, and an act of treason even
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in the temporal order. And God had full rights over life and death.
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God has full rights over life and death. Secondly, if Ingersoll were a
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judge administering the law of the land, and his own relatives were criminals brought
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before him, he would have to act according to the law with impartial justice.
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He could not condemn others and exempt his relatives simply because they were his
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relatives. Thirdly, Almighty God took necessary precautions to bring home to the Jews
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the full matter, the full malice of a bashem of blasphemous idolatry. Ingersoll,
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with childish imagination, concentrates upon material detail, ignoring the vital reasons behind
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them. Ingersoll's mistakes are nearly as great as those of a man who takes
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him as a mental and religious guide. Regarding his every utterance as infallible.
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In other words, the only person that gets things more wrong than Ingersoll were
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those who believed in Ingersoll. He was actually quite influential, quite influential in
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America a lot. He had a big effect on what we would call now
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the progressive movement, certainly the Masonic Order. He was a Mason. I
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read he was a Mason. I assume that is true. I won't have
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proof of it. I haven't seen the man at a picture from nineteen hundred
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wearing an apron and a Masonic ring, but I believe he was the person
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goes on. Ingersoll says God taught polygamy. I had denounce it as the
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infamy of infamies. Well, they answer, God did not teach polygamy.
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He permitted it because of men's weakness and frailty without the help of Christianity,
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and because it was not opposed to the primary end of the natural law.
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Ingersoll may constitute himself the supreme dictator of moral law and give his irrevocable decisions,
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but the fact remains that his deliberate distortions of the truth are far more
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guilty than the frailty of men owing to their bodily passions, and again the
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person says, well, let's see they have two questions here about Jacob's Well,
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just not goes up. God blessed Jacob to who robbed his brother Esau
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and lied to his father, They answered, God did not rob Esau.
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Esau sold his birthright to Jacob, and Jacob obtained blessings which belonged not to
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Esau but himself. When Isaac asks, argue, my son, Esau,
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he really wished to know whether he was speaking to the son to whom he
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should give the blessing. Jacob, knowing that he was the son who should
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receive it, replied in the affirmative. Even if we were to accuse Jacob
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of a lie, that sin would not destroy the right to the blessing,
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or his right to the blessing, I should say, because Esau had traded
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it. In this case, God did not inspire the lie which was Jacob's
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sin. God did inspire the right of the Sacred book to describe the event
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just as it happened. Of course, God ratified Jacob's right to the blessing.
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And the person says, how could Jacob wrestle with an angel? And
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the answer an angel receive power from God to employ physical force, as did
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the angel who rolled away the stone from the sepulture of Christ. Jacob was
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detained against his will in a given place, and naturally described his vain efforts
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as struggling with an angel. In other words, they're saying that's allegorical.
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No, there may have been an actual angel that he struggled with, but
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he was detained in the place again aainst his will and described it as struggling
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with an angel, as they say Saint paul I speaks of an angel to
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buffet him when alluding to physical trials. All right, let's get on to
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Father Spirago's book, The Exhaustive Explanation of the Catechism, which is so delightfully
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written it's certainly not exhausting to read, even if it is an exhaustive explanation
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of the subject. And this is again we're still discussing the difference between the
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Catholic belief of sacred tradition. The Apostles, having written the Bible, the
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New Testament, compiled the Bible, authorized the Bible, the oral tradition of
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the Church combined with the Bible, is the authority we follow as to as
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opposed to the belief of Protestants in the Bible alone. Somehow, they kind
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of seem to think the Bible existed before the Church, when the Bible actually
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wasn't published until the Church had been around for some three hundred years. It's
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longer than America's even existed. There was a church before there was a Bible.
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I mean, were there no church, there'd be no Bible. Where
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there no Bible, there'd still be the oral traditions of the Church and written,
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you know, just written in books other than the Bible. The teachings
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that Jesus gave to his apostles that aren't written in the Bible, those teachings
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which gave birth to the Bible. But the Bible itself says it's not complete,
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you know. The Protestant argument literally makes no sense. If the Bible
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alone is the sole authority, then one cannot be a Christian without a Bible.
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And yet well over three hundred years there was no Christian Bible. It
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was being written and compiled and then translated by Saint Jerome, and then for
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a thousand years after that, plus most people couldn't read the Bible because they
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were illiterate and that's really well, that's really why a lot of Protestant churches
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were founded, because the preacher could stand up there and say this is what
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the Bible means and what he was saying, like you know Martin Luther when
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he changed the words of Jesus to faith alone instead of faith and works,
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when he cooked cut books he didn't like out of the Bible. Preachers could
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stand before illiterate people and say absolutely false things. Heretical teachings. And those
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people could not read the Bible, they were illiterate. Their only authority was
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the preacher standing before them in the pulpit. And that's why. I mean,
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they're fifty thousand Protestant denominations, depending on how you count them. You
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know, some people say five thousand. But then you know you have Old
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Lutherans and Reformed Lutherans, and you know, Southern Baptists and Regular Baptists.
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You know, you got on the list, and you can count out to
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about fifty thousand denominations, all of whom disagree with each other on doctrine and
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theology, and each of whom disagree with the Catholic Church. Where does that
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come from? Well, if there was one, there's only one truth,
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right, Well, if there only been one Bible, you know, ninety
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percent of those churches wouldn't exist because Martin Luther took the Bible and changed it,
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and since then many people have changed the Bible. I mean, the
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King James version is incredibly flawed and totally incomplete, but it's nothing compared to
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like the Good News Bible of the seventies, you know what sounded like Cheech
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and Chong wrote it. I mean, we could go on down the list
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to some of the awful Seven Day Adventist Bibles that were written by They were
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taken from the original Greek translated by people who didn't speak Greek, so they
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were literally just had a dictionary, you know that translates one word to another,
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a word in Greek to a word in English, and it doesn't put
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things in context, and it doesn't make grammatical sense. And there's like,
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you know, there's darkness moving over the waters, and the darkness was in
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the darkness, and I mean it's crazy stuff because they're not using the original
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Bible because they reject the authority of the Catholic Church who authored it. I
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mean, yeah, God's the author of the Bible, but he speaks from
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men. The men had to write. The Holy Spirit inspired the apostles who
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either wrote or dictated the books of the Bible of the New Testament, and
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then guided them in choosing the divinely inspired books of the Old Testament. There
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are many, many, many, and I mean I've got a whole collection
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of it, of books that didn't make it into the final cut. Through
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the power of the Holy Spirit, the Church had the authorities say that book's
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not divinely inspired, it's just a Jewish historical book, you know. Or
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this one's actually you know, false, it's heretical, like you know,
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the Gnostics in I guess about two hundred maybe even a little earlier, wrote
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a book called the Gospel of Judas. It was purely I mean, not
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only heretical, it was demon inspired. I mean it presented Judas as the
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hero, you know, and absolutely in opposition to Christian teaching. So of
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course there was one authority on earth that could say that's not sacred scripture,
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and that was the Catholic Church. And I don't think any Protestant churches ever
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were fooled by that one either. But why not, Well, because they
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inherited a Bible in which you know, the council, and I see it
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was an I see it. No anyway, it doesn't matter. But the
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Holy Catholic Church said, these are the books that are holy, divinely inspired.
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You know, this is the words of God. These aren't, and
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we don't have anything to do with them. And some of them are actually
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false and evil. And I think it was Saint Jerome that said a false
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translation of the Bible was essentially the work of Satan. So all these Protestant
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Bibles, well, what would Saint Jerome say about him? I mean he
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said specifically, you know, a bad translation of the Bible is worse than
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no Bible at all, but that these false translations were actually the work of
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the devil. So what do I say. I mean, someone literally like
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worships the King James Bible like an idol, you know, say this is
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the word of God. Actually know the Dewey Rams, which was written about
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the same time, published about the same time. I guess I should say,
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is a far more accurate tradition. You want to the word of God,
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read the Dewey Rams that was once respected by Protestants, and I mean
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by Catholics and Protestants alike. You could walk into a Presbyterian Methist church,
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especially Methodists. We always had the dewey Rams. When I was being confirmed
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into the Methodist Church at the age of ten, it was a reference that
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was used. We had more modern Bibles, we had the dewy Raams.
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No one said, that's a Catholic Bible, don't read it. But somehow
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in like the I don't know, just really the last few decades, especially
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Baptists, are like, the King James is the authority. Well no,
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I mean, it's just a Bible that was approved by an English guy,
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you know, believe it or not. Jesus Christ was not English, and
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neither were any of his apostles. So anyway, and it's been revised some
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thirty some times because of errors that even they admit are in it. So,
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I mean, if you can't, if you don't want to for some
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reason, read the original Bible, is you know, translated by Saint Jerome
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Biblio Sacra volgada, the Bible of the Common Language, which was Latin at
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the time, read the dewey Rams, which is essentially a word for word
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translation using the rules of grammar, which is actually quite important. So and
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then you know, they're more modern Bibles. The one I reference the most
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is the Revised Standard Edition. It's a great Bible, gosh, compared to
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the NIV, the New inter National Version, the NIV, that's not a
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good Bible at all at all. Not only is it incomplete, but it's
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inaccurate. So you know, get a good Bible, and that means a
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Catholic Bible if you really want to know what the Apostles taught. I mean,
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you know, Martin Luther to start cut now the Book of Maccabees because
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he didn't like the idea of people praying for the dead, and he didn't
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like the teaching of purgatory. Prods say, where's the Bible tell you about
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purgatory? Well, it actually was in there. You know, Martin Luther
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tore it out. He didn't like it. So you don't know it because
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you know, five hundred years ago approximately, some you know, jackass Loser
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cut up the Bible, and that's the Bible you have. So when prodests
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say where does it say it in the Bible, Well, the first thing
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you say to him is where does the Bible say that all Jesus taught was
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in the Bible? It doesn't. It actually says the opposite. It says
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that all he did, wouldn't feel, would feel more books than there were
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in the entire world. But no, you don't have a complete Bible,
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I mean seriously, and even the parts that you do have you deny.
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Like where Jesus said to his apostles, those who sends you forgive, they
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are forgiven. Those who sends you retain, they are retained. I mean,
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Catholics believe that, Or when he said, you know this, truly,
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truly, this is my body. This bread is my body, This
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wine is my blood. Unless you eat of it and drink of it,
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you have no life in you. You know. He said it over and
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over and over, and I mean like every single grammatical context he made as
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perfectly clear as he possibly could in Aramaic, just as he did when he
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just said that Saint Peter would well Simon bar Jonah, Simon's son of Jonah
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would be Peter the rock Petris that Cephas in Aramaic. He made it as
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perfectly clear as possible, and people turn themselves inside out trying to deny it.
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But beyond that, don't you just want a Bible that was the actual
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Bible used by the apostles, you know, I mean they were writing it,
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they were compiling it there. You know, I have going to be
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a couple of generations before people would actually have that Bible, but they were
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working to put it together. And it said in the Ranks of the Church
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Fathers that the Gospels as they were recorded by the Apostles were read aloud in
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every Catholic church every Sunday, the proper day for Christians to go to church,
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as explained in the d do Ka and the Ranks of the early Church
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Fathers, without the complete Bible. I mean, look, the Protestant Bible
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did not exist for the first fifteen hundred or so years of the Church.
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Don't you want to see what maybe your ancestors were reading a thousand years ago,
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or having read to them if they were not literate people. I would,
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if I was looking for the truth, I mean, you know,
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I would actually want to know what was in the Bible before Martin Luther started
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cutting it up and changing it. If you don't, hey, that's up
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to you, right Well, Father's for August says the truth of divine revelation
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which have not been written down in the pages of holy scripture, but have
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been transmitted by word of mouth are called tradition. The apostles received, and
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he made a great point, you know, listening to last week's show.
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He gave us a church. He didn't give us a book. Jesus founded
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a church. He didn't give us a book. The church gave us the
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book. The apostles received from our Lord the command to preach, not to
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write. Their writings were concerned more with the doings than the teachings of Christ.
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Hence their instructions on points of doctrine are very incomplete. They themselves say
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there's much that they have delivered to the faithful by word of mouth. Dad,
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you can reference Second John, chapter twelve, First Corinthians, Second John
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twenty one twenty five, and different translations of the Bible do number verses differently,
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So look for that in that approximately the approximate area. Accordingly, we
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refer to tradition. It is by tradition that we know that our Lord institute
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the seven sacraments. It is by tradition that we are taught that there is
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purgatory, that Sunday is to be kept holy, and that infants are to
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be baptized. All those things I just said. Baptists are now standing on
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their heads screaming they don't believe in infant Baptist can't tell you why. Really,
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the Bible says that the jailer and his whole household were baptized. Didn't
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say his whole household except the infants, the small children. You know,
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there was never that distinction made in anywhere in the New Testaments to acts anything.
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Everyone in a family was baptized. And the reason is because baptism opens
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one of the Holy Spirit and protects one from demonic possession. A baptized person
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cannot be demon possessed against their will and joins one into the body of Christ.
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It's actually a mortal sin for a Catholic parent not to have their child
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baptized at the first possible opportunity in order to save their soul. Protestants don't
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really believe in the efficacy of the sacraments. They say baptism is just symbolic.
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Well, okay, take that position. If it's just symbolic, why
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wouldn't you let children be baptised, why wouldn't you letfant baptize? I mean,
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what's the problem, right? You can't have it both ways? They
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say someone shouldn't be baptized until they can understand and profess their faith in God.
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Okay, but if it's just symbolic, what matters? What difference does
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it make? Why are you criticizing Catholics for baptizing infants. You cannot have
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it both ways. Either it's real, in which case you need to get
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your children baptized right away, or it's false, in which case it doesn't
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matter. But by their reasoning, if one had to have full understanding in
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order to have faith in God, what if the mentally handicapped? Seriously,
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are they going to Hell? I tell you absolutely or not? They're like,
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you know, the most angelic of humans on earth. A retarded child
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is the sweetest thing you ever encounter. But I mean, what of the
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Protestant argument that one cannot be baptized until one can understand fully and have that
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belief in God. That's part of solifide through faith alone. Faith comes through
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understanding. Faith comes through belief. So they say one cannot be baptized as
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an infant, Well, did they just damn all retarded people, mentally handicapped
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people for eternity? I mean, you know, take their teaching out to
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its logical end, and it falls apart every single time. See accordingly we
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refer to tradition. I just said that it is tradition which teaches us what
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books belong the Holy Scripture. As it just said, it is the Church
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who decide what books would be in the Bible through tradition that comes through the
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Apostles, through the authority given them through Jesus Christ when he said, those
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who hear you hear me, and those who reject you reject him who sent
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me. Tradition comes down to us from the time of the Apostles, just
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as those who follow the course of a stream gradually drawn near to the fountain
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head, and thus discover how far the water flows. So we can search
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out the historical sources of the teaching of the earliest centuries of the Church and
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arrive at her true doctrine. Every doctrine has always been believed in by the
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Universal Church, and comes down to us from the Apostles. If therefore,
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there is any doctrine of the Church we do not find Holy Scripture, we
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shall find it in the stream of tradition, and shall be able to trace
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it up to the first ages of Christianity. Very true you know, get
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a book of the early Church fathers. You know, read Pope's sake,
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Clement the first who was taught by the Apostles himself, Saint Barnabas. Maybe
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they haven't ever actually been able to verify that Barnabas from the Bible could have
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been one of his students, but will tell you exactly what Christians thought in
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the first century. But they have been able to verify its age and its
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authenticity, just not its authorship. Saint Ignatius, certainly, and another one
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who was taught by the Apostles himself, Saint Polycarp, Saint Justin Martyr,
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Saint Ironaeus. Get the d dot a the Teachings of the Twelve Apostles is
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literally what that means if you want to know what the early Church actually did
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and thought and believed in practiced. The chief the chief sources of tradition are
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the writings of the fathers, the decrees of the councils, and the creeds
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and prayers of the Church. The followers of the Church, those who were
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distinguished in the early ages of the Church by their great learning and holiness,
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such as Saint Justin, Saint Justin Martyr, philosopher and jealous defender of the
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Christian religion. Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, Saint Cyprian, Bishop of
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Carthage. Many of these were disciples of the Apostles and are termed Apostolic fathers,
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such as Saint Ignacious, Bishop of Antioch eighty one oh seven. I
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was probably should give you the years these guys were around, right, They're
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all in the first you know, one hundred years of the church. Seriously,
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they learned directly from the Apostles. The doctors of the church were those
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who in later times were distinguished, distinguished for their learned writings and their sanctity.
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There are four great Greek doctors. Saint ath Nauseus. I think it's
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the way he pronounced that, Saint Bazore Basil, Saint Gregory the Great,
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Saint John Christostom, and for Latin Saint Saint andrews Ambrose. I'm at say,
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Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome, and Pope Gregory. That's Gregory the Great,
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the two Gregory's. I just realize that anyway, he makes the distinction
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that Pope Gregory the Latin one was called Gregory the Great. I guess I've
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actually been confusing those two. Over time in the Middle Ages, there were
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four other great doctors of the church. Saint Anselom, Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Hey, you English, y'all that worshiped the King James Bible, just because
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it comes from the English. Why not look to see what Saint Anselm Anselom,
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Archbishop of Canterbury, actually wrote you to find out the Christian religion was
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very Catholic. Saint Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Saint
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Bonaventure. Bonaventure, I guess among the most distinguished doctors of later times was
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Saint Francis to Sell And yeah, he's absolutely one of my favorites. Actually
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he was Bishop of Geneva, and Saint alfonsis another favorite. We shall speak
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hereafter of the decrees of councils and creeds and the sources of tradition. The
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prayers of the Church are to be found primarily in the Missile, but also
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in other books used in the administration of the sacraments and rites of the Church,
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such as the d d KA for instance. Thus we find in the
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Missile Prayers. Thus we find in the Missile prayers for the dead, whence
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it follows that the Church teaches their efficacy. Yes, the Church has prayed
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for the dead from the very beginning of the Church. We believe in purgatory,
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and we believe in the commune of Saints, which means the prayers of
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Christians on earth benefits the souls in purgatory, and the prayers of those in
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heaven benefit the Christians on earth. We are all one part of the body
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of Christ. And again, even if you totally rejected every thing outside of
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the Bible, like all Catholic tradition from the d do k to the earliest
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writings of the early Church fathers to the modern missile, if you just had
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a complete Bible that included the two books of Maccabees, well one, you
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know why Jews celebrate Hanukkah that that's actually the story of the Maccabees. But
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do incredible books as well. You've see incredible martyrs for their faith. I
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mean, yeah, I honestly, I think Martin Luther was one of the
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motives perhaps for him taking him out was it was a bit anti Semitic and
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he did not want to show Jews in being in that light of having a
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strong faith and sacrificing and dying and being tortured for their faith under the Greeks.
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Maybe, but it says in I guess it's second Maccabees, prayers for
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the dead are very efficacious. Prayers for the dead are efficacious. Praying for
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the dead does it helps their eternal souls? Christians, all Christians, not
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a single one doubted that or deny it for fifteen hundred years. And then
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Martin Muser's like, yeah, I don't like that part. I'm just gonna
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rip it out. And so you don't have that in your Bible if you're
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Protestant, and that's the only reason you doubt the church is teaching the Catholic
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Church. You know, if you just had a complete Bible, you might
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be amazed what you'd find. I know, I was boy Hoti. I
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was absolutely angry. I grew up on the NIV and the King James.
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We did that, Like I said, we had the duey Riam. So
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I was aware there were other books in the Bible, but they were like
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never, never taught from, never spoken of. And I guess the Bible
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I was given when I became Methodists and actually also had like legends in it.
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About dragons and all kinds of weird stuff. I don't get that.
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I mean, that was in there, but the actual books of the original
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Catholic Bible were not. Yeah, I remember being kind of confused by that.
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But yeah, when I was like, you know, early twenties and
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I started, I found out that my Bible wasn't complete and it was inaccurate.
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And the first thing I did was get the Revised Standard I'm looking at
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it right now. This is my original Bible. When I became Catholic at
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age twenty four, the Ignacious Holy Bible, Revised Standard Edition, the Revised
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Standard Version, Catholic Edition. And I read the Book of Wisdom and it
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blew me away. I read Sirac, I read Tobit. You know,
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the angel in Tobait heard the righteous man's prayers, took him to God.
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God sent him to earth to do something, you know, to help the
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man. That's Catholic teaching. It used to be all Christian teaching. Maccabees
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though, And I think Scott han said the same thing when he first read
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Macabee's I was angry that this book had not been included in my Bible.
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And he said the same thing, and he's a much more mild manner man,
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doctor Scott Han than I am. If you read that, it will
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make you so angry that these heroes of the faith. These, I mean,
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every child needs a hero, right and what better hero than a saint
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who charges into battle or who gives him his life for his faith. These
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were taken from us and really in their place, especially in Germany. And
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let's not forget that Martin Luther was German. A lot of anti Semitism,
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a lot of hatred of Jews was sung. You know, at least when
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those books were still in the Bible, we could say, yeah, you
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know what, Christians and Jews haven't always gotten along. Obviously, in the
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early years of the Church, the Jews really persecuted and tried to kill the
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Christians. And then there were a backlashed a couple of times where Christians tried
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to kill Jews, and then people, you know, pretty much figured out
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how to live together a little mutual respect. You know. Actually, Christians
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and Jews were living right side by side in the Holy Land, you know,
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Bethlehem and such, until the Muslims came in and that kind of started
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the crusades. But you take out those heroes of the Bible, those proud
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Jews of the Maccabees, who would die and and betroy their children, tortured
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to death, tongues ripped out, skin, built off, burned alive because
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they would not worship Greek gods and abandon Judaism. Frankly, without those those
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two books, you cannot understand why there was such a division. You know,
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why the Jews were so up set by Jesus teaching. I mean,
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he said I basically said I am God, and by saying that he was
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a blasphemer under Mosaic law and had to be killed. I mean, now
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anyway, it's just it is, it is so wrong that what Martin Luther
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and others did you need a complete Bible. I don't care if you're a
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Protestant who hates every word I've said, Okay, if you believe that Christianity
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is more than five hundred years old, you know, obviously Jesus, you
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know, died and rose again about two thousand years ago, and there was
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there were Christians for a good fifteen hundred years in between, and they had
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one complete Bible, one accurate Bible. All other false Bibles were condemned from
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the time of the successors of the Apostles, you know who wrote down what
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they said and you know, actually were can translate and finally publish the whole
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Bible, you know, about three hundred years if Jesus was resurrected, Just
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get a real Bible, Get the Bible that was used a thousand years ago.
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You know, obviously a lot of these new Bibles are really bad translations.
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You can't say a Bible as a Bible as a Bible, right If
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you think the King James version is just like the ultimate authority, well why
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not just get a Bible that was published two hundred years before it and just
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compare the two or five hundred years before it, or a thousand years before
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it, or like I said, get a Dewey of Rings which was once
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respected by both Catholics and Protestants, and just see. You know what am
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I missing? What do you got to lose? I mean, if you
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believe the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit, why wouldn't you want the
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books that were tossed out by Martin Luther? Get the original? You know,
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goe to the source. That's what we do, I mean anything when
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we're researching history, the original source is always the most accurate anyway, y'all.
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I don't know how I can say it any more clearly. And I
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know most you know, Protestants who listen to this, You'll you'll have Mormons
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who will say, oh, the book you know, a Book of Mormon
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is superior to the Bible. That's other heresy, that's absolute, you know,
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apostate heresy. And you'll still have Baptists will say, though I don't
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believe anything outside of the King James. Well, I mean, if you're
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going to remain in ignorance, you're going to remain in ignorance. But you
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know, if the King James had been accurate, it wouldn't have been revised
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so many times. They wouldn't keep finding errors in it anyway. You know,
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I don't know what more to say. Just pray, hope, and
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don't worry in the words of Saint Padre Pio, and I'll talk to you
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next time.