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#307 - Is Wes Huff Right About Catholicism? My Honest Reaction · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Wes Huff just dropped a bombshell yesterday. He released a video of six reasons why I am not a Catholic.
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  I have wrestled with this myself.
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  I guess I lean more towards the Protestant side.
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  I've been reluctant to take any labels myself of that, because I think that
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  just pins you like everything is Catholic.
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  And if you're not Catholic, then you're Protestant.
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  But then it's like, well, there's Orthodox out there. There's so many branches.
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  I think we've confused a lot of things. But Westhoff gave a very strong reminder
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  of why he is not Catholic.
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  And we're going to dive into, I think, the strongest area is the area of justification.
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  How is a person made right with a holy God?
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  What I'm asking is the question, how am I made right with God?
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  How is God's work in moving a person from sin to a state of grace accomplished?
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  The fact is I have a problem. I have a problem because I'm a sinner.
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  And so as a sinner, I am confronted with a holy and righteous God who due to
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  his holiness and his righteousness, if I am to ever be in relationship with
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  him, my sin must be accounted for.
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  And so justification is the act by which God declares a sinner like me righteous.
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  And one of the main reasons, if not the main reason I am not Roman Catholic
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  is due to the answer to that question on justification.
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  When I read scripture, when I look at passages specifically addressing the topic
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  throughout the book of Galatians and Romans, Ephesians, Titus, 1 Corinthians,
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  and James, I see the clarity of the Protestant position compared to the discontinuity
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  of that of the gospel that Rome articulates.
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  But the divide between the Protestant and Roman Catholic perspective here hinges
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  on a crucial semantic and theological distinction about what the term itself means.
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  The Roman Catholic Church maintains that God will not declare a person just
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  until that person actually is just,
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  requiring the person to be just by definition so that when God examines and
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  defines that person, he finds genuine righteousness present.
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  In contrast, Protestants argue that a person can be justified only when something is added to them,
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  namely the righteousness of Christ, and that one must be covered by his righteousness
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  in order to be justified.
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  I think that it nails it on the head of why I could not become a Roman Catholic.
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  I've said many times on my videos I've posted, I've wanted to become Catholic,
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  and I've voiced that to my family, to friends of mine at points in my life because
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  I'm drawn to the Catholic Church.
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  But I think it is by the grace of God that I have not become Catholic.
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  Everything about them I like, and I think there's good things,
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  there's right things in the Catholic Church that Protestants don't have, but there's...
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  There's things that are very important, the issue of justification,
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  and it adds a lot of confusion of how a person can be saved.
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  It's adding levels, things that people are putting their trust in as opposed
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  to the simplicity of putting your faith in Jesus Christ.
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  Because that's where it gets down to, like, how was a person made right before
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  God? Is it by the works they do? Is it by becoming baptized?
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  Is it by being baptized? or is it like by taking the Lord's Supper,
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  going through elements of grace, or is it by simply trusting in Jesus?
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  I think all those other things can be good, but it adds layers of confusion
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  to somebody and they're putting their reliance on those things as opposed to
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  just trusting in Jesus. And that was the message of the gospel.
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  The simplicity that a child can understand and a child can be saved,
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  just put your trust in him. He's your father.
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  You trust in him with everything. I think that's the difference.
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  And if we add confusion to that, it can damage the reputation of the gospel.
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  It can damage people's just relationship with Christ and how they're going to
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  conduct Christian living.
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  I think that's the main issue, justification for me. There's a lot of other
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  things, but I do, I like a lot of things about Catholicism.
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  And these are just flavors, but I think we got to stay faithful to what the
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  text of the Bible says and Westhoff gave a very, very well summation of all
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  these different points of disagreements that we have.
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  So I'll leave it at that. Let me know what you think. Which side are you on?
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  I think if you trust in Christ, keep it at that and I think everything will
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  be good. All right. All right. Have a good day. Have a good weekend. See y'all.