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10 Differences between Catholics and Protestants · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: What is the difference between Catholicism and Protestantism.
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  Speaker 2: The examples of things that Catholics I'm Protestants, Stone Taven, common.
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  Speaker 3: Protestants are Richard Catholics of More Francos.
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  Speaker 1: We all remember the famous Simpson clip where Marge dies
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  Speaker 1: and goes to Protestant heaven and Homer and Bart go
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  Speaker 1: to Catholic heaven, which is way more fun.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Simpson, welcome to Protestant Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Where's Homer and Bart?
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  Speaker 1: But down here on earth? What are the differences between
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  Speaker 1: Protestantism and Catholicism. Well, it goes back to Martin Luther.
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  Speaker 1: Not that Martin Luther. I'm talking about the fat Augustinian
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  Speaker 1: German priest Martin Luther, who, like many in his day,
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  Speaker 1: noticed discrepancies and corruption in the Catholic Church in the
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth century, and instead of reforming the Catholic Church from
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  Speaker 1: the inside, Martin Luther wanted to formally change the structure,
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  Speaker 1: the theology, the sacraments, the liturgy, and created something entirely new,
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  Speaker 1: beginning in fifteen seventeen, which became Lutheranism, but then broke
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  Speaker 1: into many other pieces of what we call Protestantism. So
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  Speaker 1: today we'll go through the ten major theological differences between
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  Speaker 1: Catholicism and Prossism. The main difference, Number one that's so
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  Speaker 1: obvious to people is the Blessed Virgin Mary. And I
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  Speaker 1: started with this one because it's probably one of the
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  Speaker 1: most controversial for Catholics. The Blessed Virgin Mary is not
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  Speaker 1: only the mother of Jesus Christ, but she's also the
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  Speaker 1: mother of every Christian whoever lived. Catholics take this from
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of John. It's one of the seven last
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  Speaker 1: words of Jesus from the Cross when he says, Behold
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  Speaker 1: your Mother, and Catholics take those words literally. Whenever Catholics
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  Speaker 1: look up at Jesus on the cross, they believe Mary
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  Speaker 1: stands next to them as their spiritual mother. In every
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  Speaker 1: single encounter of Jesus Christ, Mary stands next to us
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus says, behold your mother.
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  Speaker 3: Catholics also believe that the.
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Mary is the new Eve and the new arc
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  Speaker 1: of the New Covenant, and they base all of this
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  Speaker 1: on the Book of Revelation chapter twelve, when we read
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  Speaker 1: about a woman clothed in the sun, standing on the
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  Speaker 1: moon with a crown of stars around her head and
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  Speaker 1: she's at war with Satan. Now, Protestants deny all of this.
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  Speaker 1: They say Mary was a good woman, she was normal,
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  Speaker 1: but she was sinful, just like the rest of us.
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  Speaker 1: But Catholics think this claim is blasphemous. They argue, if
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  Speaker 1: God preordained a special golden box, the Ark of the Covenant,
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  Speaker 1: to contain the Ten Commandments, why wouldn't he do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing for his divine son, Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mother,
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  Speaker 1: who would literally contain Jesus Christ. And this is why
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  Speaker 1: Catholics call Mary the Arc of the New Covenant Number two.
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  Speaker 1: The second difference is that Catholics and Protestants have different Bibles.
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  Speaker 1: And this makes it really difficult when you're having a
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  Speaker 1: discussion because they'll say, well, where's that in the Bible. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Catholic Bibles are different than Protestant bibles. Catholic Bibles have
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  Speaker 1: seventy two or seventy three books, depending on whether you
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  Speaker 1: count the Book of Baruk as part of the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Jeremiah, whereas Protestants have only sixty six books in
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  Speaker 1: their bibles. And so here are the books that are
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  Speaker 1: missing in Protestant Bibles that Catholics include. Tobit Judith Wisdom
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  Speaker 1: Ecclesiasticus also called sirac Baruk, First and Second Maccabees, and
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  Speaker 1: there's also extended texts in the Book of Daniel and
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of Esther. This makes Catholic Bibles much bigger.
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  Speaker 1: Number three is the structure of Christianity as perceived by
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  Speaker 1: Catholics versus Protestants. For Catholicism, the Church is a monarchy.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is the king, He's at the top, but
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  Speaker 1: he has delegated his authority on earth to Peter. Saint
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  Speaker 1: Peter one of the Twelve Apostles, and Catholics identify the
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  Speaker 1: successors of Peter throughout time over two thousand years. They
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  Speaker 1: call him the Papa in Latin, or in Greek or
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  Speaker 1: in Italian, which in English we call the Pope. Protestants
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  Speaker 1: see the Church more as a democracy. It's more we
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  Speaker 1: the people, and Martin Luther said, no more pope, no
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  Speaker 1: more cardinals, no more archb bishops, no more bishops, and
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  Speaker 1: no more even a class of clergy called priests. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: in Protestantism, clergy or pastors or reverends are more like
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  Speaker 1: authorized teachers and not actual leaders with divine binding authority
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  Speaker 1: over the laity, and that brings us to difference number four.
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  Speaker 1: The pope, the papa, the papacy. In Catholicism, the pope
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  Speaker 1: is so important. Now, what is a pope? According to Catholics,
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  Speaker 1: they believe that in Matthew chapter sixteen, Jesus transformed one
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  Speaker 1: of the apostles named Simon, into a pope and gave
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  Speaker 1: him a new name. So, according to Catholics, Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: changed Simon's name and gave him the name Cephus, which
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  Speaker 1: in Aramaic means rock. In Greek, the name is Petros,
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  Speaker 1: which is the Greek word for rock, and the word
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  Speaker 1: rock is a title for God in the Old Testa.
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  Speaker 1: Now this doesn't mean that Jesus turned Peter into God.
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  Speaker 1: That would be ridiculous, but it does mean that, according
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  Speaker 1: to Catholics, Jesus gave him a name that signified God
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  Speaker 1: so that Jesus could be a representative or a vicar
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  Speaker 1: of God on earth.
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  Speaker 3: Secondly, in Matthew sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ gave the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: to Saint Peter. The Protestants, on the other hand, reject
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  Speaker 1: this completely. They say, look, no one is infallible on earth.
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  Speaker 1: By being a sinner, you're not infallible, and they say
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  Speaker 1: you only go by the Bible. The Bible alone is infallible.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is a little bit controversial because technically it
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  Speaker 1: was a pope, Pope Damasis in the year three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty two that gave us the.
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  Speaker 3: Canon of the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: So even the Bible itself comes from the action of
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  Speaker 1: a pope. Number five is the Holy Eukraine. Catholics and
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  Speaker 1: Protestants disagree fundamentally on this mystery. For Catholics, the Eucharist
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  Speaker 1: is two things.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, the.
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  Speaker 1: Euchrist is really and truly the body and blood of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And they refer to this miracle or this mystery as transubstantiation.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big word with a lot of syllables.
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  Speaker 3: What does it mean.
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  Speaker 1: Transubstantiation is the belief that when the priest says, this
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  Speaker 1: is my body and this is the chalice of my blood,
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  Speaker 1: the bread and the wine actually transform into the essence
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  Speaker 1: the substance of Jesus's body and blood. It looks and
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  Speaker 1: smells and tastes like bread and wine, but in reality,
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  Speaker 1: when a person receives the Eucharist, they're actually receiving the
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  Speaker 1: true body and blood of Jesus Christ. Catholics also believe
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  Speaker 1: that the Eucharist is the holy sacrifice of the Mass.
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  Speaker 1: So when a priest does the Mass, what's happening is
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  Speaker 1: is the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross is being
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  Speaker 1: made present in our very time on the altars of
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church. That's the Catholic view. Now Protestants have
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  Speaker 1: a totally different view. Protestants believe that the communion they
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  Speaker 1: usually call it the Communion or Holy Communion, is just
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  Speaker 1: a memorial or a symbol of the body and blood
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. So they could take what they use
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  Speaker 1: in their service and they could recycle it or throw
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  Speaker 1: it in a trash because they believe it's still just
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  Speaker 1: bread and wine, whereas a Catholic literally believes it is
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And just like Catholics believe that the Mass
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  Speaker 1: is a sacrifice or putting us in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus on the Cross literally, Protestants believe that it's more
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  Speaker 1: of a remembrance ceremony, so we're all coming together and
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  Speaker 1: we're memorializing or remembering what Jesus did for us. But
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  Speaker 1: they don't believe that Jesus actually, in that moment, is
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  Speaker 1: presenting himself on the cross to the people. So that's
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  Speaker 1: the difference between Catholics and Protestants on the Eucharist.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So we're halfway through. That's the first five points.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're going to move on to the second five points.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So point number six between.
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  Speaker 1: Catholics and Protestants are the Saints, the idea of the Communion.
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  Speaker 3: Of the Saints.
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  Speaker 1: Catholics believe they can invoke people in heaven. So if
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  Speaker 1: they're traveling though, ask Saint Christopher to pray for them.
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  Speaker 1: If they lose their car keys, they'll pray to Saint Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: they can pray to Saint Peter, Saint Paul, Saint Mary Magdalen.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone in heaven is still connected to them through the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, and the Catholics on earth can ask intercession
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  Speaker 1: from anyone who is in heaven. Now, all of these
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  Speaker 1: intercessions ultimately go through Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: To God the Father.
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  Speaker 1: I know that's a lot of theology there, but they
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  Speaker 1: believe that they have a connection and just like you
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  Speaker 1: could ask someone on earth, hey pray for me, I
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  Speaker 1: have a toothache, you could pray to someone in heaven
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  Speaker 1: say hey, pray for me, I have a toothache, and
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  Speaker 1: it all works.
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  Speaker 3: Together through the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Protestants, on the other hand, say, late that is too complicated.
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  Speaker 1: It obscures the priestly power of Jesus. We're only going
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  Speaker 1: to pray to or through Jesus, and you shouldn't ever
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  Speaker 1: talk to anyone who's a saint. So that's another major difference.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why if you go into a Catholic church,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see statues or icons commemorating all these great Christians
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  Speaker 1: who lived over the past two thousand years martyrs, where
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  Speaker 1: as if you go into a Protestant church, you likely
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  Speaker 1: won't see statues or images or icons of saints. Because
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  Speaker 1: that's a fundamental difference between the two.
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  Speaker 3: What should we have there is a difference.
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  Speaker 1: Number seven is the difference on authority. So Protestants, following
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  Speaker 1: Martin Luther, say we go by sola scriptur, which is
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  Speaker 1: Latin for scripture alone. If it's not in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: we don't believe it. Catholics have a different viewpoint Catholics say,
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  Speaker 1: we follow scripture and tradition, and this is obviously going
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  Speaker 1: to make for a lot of differences, because if you
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  Speaker 1: can't find the Bible, a Protestant won't accept it, whereas
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  Speaker 1: a Catholic will say, yes, we follow the Bible. But
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  Speaker 1: there are also traditions that come down over time. For example,
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  Speaker 1: making the sign of the cross is a tradition, and
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  Speaker 1: other things like electing a pope, and liturgy and sacraments
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  Speaker 1: and all these things that come down through tradition, and
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  Speaker 1: we accept those things also, And that kind of brings
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  Speaker 1: us to the eighth difference, and that is the number
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  Speaker 1: of sacraments. Catholics say that Jesus Christ, while he was
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  Speaker 1: on earth, instituted seven sacraments. What's a sacrament? A sacrament
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  Speaker 1: is an outward sign instituted by Christ that confers interior grace.
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  Speaker 1: So you can think of the seven sacraments as like
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  Speaker 1: instruments that God uses to give people down here on
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  Speaker 1: earth more and more grace to save them. Catholics say
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  Speaker 1: there are seven sacraments, and they are baptism, confirmation, Holy Eucharus,
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  Speaker 1: which we already talked about, penance or confession, anointing of
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  Speaker 1: the sick, also called extreme unction, holy orders, which is
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  Speaker 1: the ordination of a man to a deacon or a priest,
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  Speaker 1: and then matrimony. These are the seven sacraments, and they're
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  Speaker 1: very holy in Catholic life, and piety and devotion revolve
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  Speaker 1: around the reception of these seven sacraments, which you can
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  Speaker 1: find in the Gospels and in the New Testament. Protestants, however,
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  Speaker 1: following Martin Luther, following John Calvin, Thomas Kramner, the whole
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  Speaker 1: original cast of prosent Reformers, they say, no, there's not
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  Speaker 1: seven sacraments. There's only two sacraments. And they say that
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  Speaker 1: the only two sacraments are baptism and communion or eucharists.
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  Speaker 1: So they say, for example, matrimony is not a sacrament,
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  Speaker 1: whereas Catholics believe it is a sacrament. So Catholics will
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  Speaker 1: have things like confirmation, matrimony, ordination, these are all major
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  Speaker 1: events in the Catholic Church, whereas for Protestants, it's really
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  Speaker 1: just about baptism and communion. Number nine, and that is
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  Speaker 1: how are you saved? Are you saved? Have you been saved?
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  Speaker 1: Protestants believe, following Martin Luther, in justification by faith alone,
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  Speaker 1: sola fide. They believe if you just go to Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and you say, Lord, Jesus Christ, I believe in you instantaneously,
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  Speaker 1: you are justified, you are redeemed, and you are born
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  Speaker 1: again in that moment. Now, some Protestants believe you can't
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  Speaker 1: lose your salvation. Some Protestants believe you can lose your salvation.
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  Speaker 1: But they generally agree with Martin Luther that you are
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  Speaker 1: justified by faith alone in the moment you have belief
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  Speaker 1: in your heart. And they'll often point to the thief
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  Speaker 1: on the cross who is hanging next to Jesus, who
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  Speaker 1: expressed his belief in Jesus, and Jesus said to him
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  Speaker 1: today you will be with me in Paradise. Now, the Catholics,
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  Speaker 1: they point to the Epistle of Saint James, who says
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  Speaker 1: we are justified by faith and works. In fact, James
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  Speaker 1: says we are not justified by faith alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: faith and works. Now, Catholics don't believe in salvation by
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  Speaker 1: works alone. A lot of Protestants wrongly think, oh, you
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  Speaker 1: just are saved by works. Now, faith is the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: and then working together like in a synergy, are faith
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  Speaker 1: and actions. And so they'll point to words in teachings
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus like if you love me, you'll keep my commandments.
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  Speaker 1: So they're saying, look, if you if you believe in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and you love Jesus, you're going to obey the
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  Speaker 1: commandments and your faith in your works are going to
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  Speaker 1: work together. They're going to cooperate to And this means
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  Speaker 1: that Catholics understand salvation more as a process and Protestants
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  Speaker 1: understand salvation more as an instantaneous event.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the main difference.
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  Speaker 1: So a Protestant will say I was saved or I
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  Speaker 1: was saved five years ago at such and such a time,
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  Speaker 1: at such and such a date, whereas Catholics will say
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  Speaker 1: I've been saved. I'm being saved in the moment through
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  Speaker 1: the sacraments and my good works and my faith in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and my love for God and my neighbor. And
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  Speaker 1: then I hope to be saved on my deathbed through
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  Speaker 1: last rites, extreme unction and so on. So that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the main difference. It's instantaneous verse a process that
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  Speaker 1: unrolls over a person's life, and then that kind of
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  Speaker 1: brings us to the last one number ten life after death, Protestants,
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  Speaker 1: it's very simple. It's very binarya you either go to
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  Speaker 1: heaven or you go to Hell. That's it. Two destinies,
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  Speaker 1: very clean when you die, Heaven or Hell. Catholicism, just
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  Speaker 1: as they see salvation as a process that's unfolding. Catholicism
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  Speaker 1: has heaven and it has Hell, which they identify with
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  Speaker 1: the word Jesus uses in the Gospel Gehennah. But then
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  Speaker 1: they also have in the afterlife purgatory and limbo. And
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  Speaker 1: this is something that Martin Luther rejected and all Protestants reject.
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  Speaker 1: They don't believe in a complicated life after death. It's
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  Speaker 1: just heaven or Hell. Whereas catholic will say, look, if
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  Speaker 1: you believed in Jesus, you loved God, you loved your neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: But in your life you didn't fully repent, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: fully understand the gravity of your sin. How you hurt people,
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  Speaker 1: how you hurt God, how you hurt yourself. You're kind
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  Speaker 1: of still muddy, You're still dirty. You're saved, like in
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  Speaker 1: First Corinthians three, you're saved, but as through fire. And
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  Speaker 1: then there's the idea of limbo, and Catholics believe limbo
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  Speaker 1: is the place in the Old Testament where Adam, Eve, Abraham, Sarah, Esther, Daniel, Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: all the good and righteous people who believed in God.
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  Speaker 1: Until Jesus died on the cross, they couldn't go to heaven,
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  Speaker 1: so they were in the underworld, also called Abraham's bosom.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus talks about that, and they waited. It was paradise,
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  Speaker 1: it was nice, but it wasn't heaven until Jesus died
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  Speaker 1: on the cross. And when Jesus died on the cross,
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  Speaker 1: he descended into Hell, into the nether world, into limbo,
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  Speaker 1: and he brought all those Old Testament people into heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Limbo is also used for babies or young people, and
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  Speaker 1: if you read Dante's Inferno, he puts righteous pagans in there,
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  Speaker 1: though that's kind of the debated. And this is where
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  Speaker 1: the un baptized go who aren't aren't saved. They can't
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  Speaker 1: go to heaven, but they don't they never believe, they.
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  Speaker 3: Never were baptized.
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  Speaker 1: They aren't equipped to go, so they're not punished in
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  Speaker 1: the fires of hell, but they're still excluded from heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And that's called limbo, which is from the Latin word limbus,
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  Speaker 1: which means edge, like you're on the edge. You're neither
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  Speaker 1: in heaven, you're neither in hell. You're in the limbo
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  Speaker 1: where you get waiting in limbo and in limbo. So
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  Speaker 1: Protestants and Catholics have a different understanding of life after death.
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  Speaker 1: For Catholics, it's very dynamic with different terrain, different geography,
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  Speaker 1: different departments, whereas Protestants have it clean heaven and hell.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there are ten differences between Catholics and Protestants.
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  Speaker 1: Did I miss anything? Leave a comment below. I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to hearing your comments and let's continue the discussion
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  Speaker 1: between Catholics and Protestants. And I'd also like to hear
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