Big fan of the channel and Protestant considering Catholicism. I use Logos/Verbum as well, it is so useful.

Cooperate with His Grace ❤

This was so beautifully presented! The Catholic doctrines are so awfully misconstrued, grateful to God he led you to speak so boldly about the faith! Praise God 🤲🏾🔥

That intro was fire tho! 🔥🤣 Great video! Cant wait to see one on intersesion of the saints. Just recenltly had to defend the fact that it's not necromancy.

This helps a lot. I will have to watch 9 more times to prepare myself. Thank you!

I believe in works based salvation: God working through His Body the Church to reconcile the world to Himself.

Thanks for teaching what real teachings of the church are

The easiest way to criticize protestant Christians. Who don't understand our Roman Catholic Faith. Just ask them Do You Read Scripture To Attain Salvation? And they never respond when asked this ❤

WELL DONE & Explained. INITIAL JUSTIFICATION + ONGOING SANCTIFICATION = HOPE for GLORIFICATION OR We were saved yesterday (via initial justification). We are being saved daily (via ongoing sanctification) We hope to be saved tomorrow (at judgment)

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Excellent explanation! Thank you so much. This way you put it, it's easy to understand what the Church really teaches, how it is clearly taught in Scriptures and it makes perfect sense. To be fair as a cradle Catholic I think we sometimes really do misunderstand our faith because the grace aspect is not always emphasized enough - at least that is my experience, but that may also be coming from a culture that emhasizes effort and becoming someone, getting somewhere etc. (and I'm not American but Central European). So sometimes we end up in legalistic thinking without understanding that it is not what our faith teaches. After all, I do remember being taught about grace in Catechism classes as a child. I think I didn't understand it properly though up until recently and it was Protestants that challenged me to adjust my mindset. So I'm grateful to them. They made me go back and study my faith better. I have seen Protestant Pastors falling into the trap of this phrase about works based salvation- when they try to address the importance of works in Christian life they always need to make disclaimers and say that works as in James 2 don't have anything to do with salvation, only with rewards in heaven, closer friendship with God (or a similar explanation) when James 2 seems to be very clear that it has to do with justification. I have had a hard time understanding these theological views, they seem so foreign and confusing to me.

God opening up Heaven for Mankind was a free gift, but your degree of Glory in Heaven is determined by your good works.

Thank you for this video. Your explanation of Justification seems more similar to the Reformed understanding rather than the Tridentine understanding. As a gentle challenge what are your sources for the understanding you gave in this video?

Great talking points. I believe the bible (as well as other scriptures) emphasize both faith & works (as works are an indication of faith). Grace is a component too and is for all (even non believers) will take part in some salvation! (because God is just and merciful) "Every man and women will confess Jesus is the Christ" (if not now - in the afterlife). So yes we need the following (Faith + Works) with Grace being the blanket (or 3rd part over all)! Father, Son, Holy Ghost!

This is so great. I have a good friend whos just found christ in a non denom church. They teach sola fide and bad anticatholic positions. Working for salvation is the big one, i hope he watches it. Have you heard of reformed zoomer? I think of you guys as two sides of the same coin in a lot of ways.

I would like to know how life long Protestants learn about Catholics to the extend they accost Catholics here and there. As as an old dog catholic with severe mass attendance, classes for catholic adults, etc I have never heard any one teach or mention to us Catholics how Protestants are in error.

What about the argument that God created angels to be good yet 1/3 of them fell. Similar to how God can make us new/good, but we can fall away or be cut off. We can also be grafted back onto the vine (ie grace, confession) as scripture says.

This is commendable effort. Nevertheless, there is something inherently problematic within Catholicism that whether it's in the US or in Asia, most Catholics get this wrong. As Dr Scott Hahn notes in his Romans commentary p 55, a staggering number of ill-catechised Catholics think and act as if one can reach heaven simply by being a good person. I've once advised a Protestant to break up with her 'Catholic' boyfriend because he couldn't accept this basic doctrine.

So just to make sure I understand this correctly: Through bapstism we are saved, freely from the grace of God from what Lord Jesus did. However, it is our duty as Christians to maintain faith, and obey His Commandments. If we don’t bear fruit, then we aren’t on the vine that is Christ. Our works don’t save us, but they are evidence that we’ve been saved, and we must continue in them, in obedience, in order to stay in that state of grace that has freely been given to us?

Leave the title of the series. Fun and your text fonts are clever.

it is important to note the Church has NEVER summarized her soteriology as "faith plus works"

The Infallibility of the Pope Since 1870, with Pope Pius IX, the Catholic Church has taught the doctrine of Papal Infallibility. The Vatican Council then declared that The Vatican Council has defined as "a divinely revealed dogma" that "the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra -- that is, when in the exercise of his office as pastor and teacher of all Christians he defines, by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority, a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the whole Church -- is, by reason of the Divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer wished His Church to be endowed in defining doctrines of faith and morals; and consequently that such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of their own nature (ex sese) and not by reason of the Church's consent" (Catholic Encyclopedia) On June 20, 1894, Pope Leo XIII was bold enough to claim that the Popes “hold upon the earth the place of God Almighty” Of course, this was nothing new because the Vatican Council of 1870 had already proclaimed that: The Pope is Christ in office, Christ in jurisdiction and power...we bow down before thy voice, O Pius, as before the voice of Christ, the God of truth; in clinging to thee, we cling to Christ. (Babylon Mystery Religion, p. 103). The first being to ever liken himself to God was Lucifer (Isa. 14:12-15), and the last will be Antichrist (II Ths. 2:3-4), so the Pope isn't in very good company. King Herod, who also followed the Roman religion, was killed by God for allowing people to credit him with infallibility (Acts 12:21-23). God's word is the only infallible Authority in Christianity. No man is infallible. The Bible record is quite clear about that: God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar..." (Rom. 3:4) To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." (Isa. 8:20) Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." (Psa. 62:9) Friend, who will you believe, God's word or the Catholic Church?

I love how Protestants have labeled this because it’s like they admit their faiths are for the spiritually lazy. Anyone who falls for this rhetoric doesn’t understand the Catholic faith, to which I urge them to grab the Catechism of the Catholic Church and a Bible. Read them together, and you will see this church is the true church.

AMAZING INTRO 😂

How do we understand religious Jews who pursue righteousness but reject Jesus as the incarnate Lord? Would that be a form of Pelagianism? Or could they be saved by faith similar to the way Abraham and the OT saints were saved? If they are saved, it would still be by the graces merited by Christ. But do they reject the graces when they don’t believe Jesus was God?

Beloved, have you discerned a call into the priesthood yet? I’ll be praying for you.

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Sounds like baptism

Do you have any recommended reading that you think has been the most beneficial to your growth in everything Catholic? Perhaps you just have a naturally super spongey brain that soaks up knowledge. I'm blown away out how much you know after 1 year, and I feel like I'm learning at such a slow pace. While I'm all caught up on the Catechism in a Year podcast, and listen to people like yourself, Trent Horn, and Matt Fradd non stop, and have begun going through the Bible, I still feel like I know very little in many ways. I feel a tremendous growth in faith, but in actual knowledge that I could show in a conversation, or present in a KZfaq video? not so much...

Funny intro!

Brayden you said we can’t keep his commandments unless we are connected to him. So someone taking RCIA and going to be baptized on Easter Vigil in a month is not connected to Christ, so they aren’t able to keep the commandments right? So the church is guilty of this individual failure to keep his commandments by not baptizing when he first trusts in Jesus. I bet you find this canon problematic because it contradicts scripture on salvation. Can. 856 Although baptism can be celebrated on any day, it is nevertheless recommended that it be celebrated ordinarily on Sunday or, if possible, at the Easter Vigil. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 2 Corinthians 6:2

​​@The-Beau-Ultimatum the God of Islam is not the god of Christianity. The bible clearly states the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ and not to worship false gods/idols (Islam). If you've been made aware of Jesus and you deny He is Lord, you do NOT go to heaven. If you've never been given the gospel yet you have a pure heart, catholic catechism/church teaches those people still may go to heaven based upon Gods judgement. Refusing Jesus is what is a definite path to hell. Ignorance of the Gospel doesn't necessarily damn someone to hell. Most christians, Catholics, protestants, etc. Aren't aware of this teaching from the One True church. You can look it up in the catechism. We have a written rule book, unlike all other Christian spin-off churches.

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The promise of the New Covenant is for Israel. Don’t claim what is not yours. It was not promised to the church, the body of Christ as revealed unto Paul. Jeremiah 31:31 (KJV) Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Make a New Covenant with WHO? Church tradition has led many astray!

Did Jesus Preach the Cross for Salvation? Paul explains the preaching of the cross as it was given to him by Christ: “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”- 1 Cor 1:17-18 Although we now know that the redemptive work of Christ’s death and resurrection is the crux of our message of salvation for today, we must be careful not to read into Jesus’ ministry what is not there. No preaching of the cross in the ministry of Jesus and the disciples in Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. Gospel of the kingdom Jesus did not preach his redemptive work on the cross for salvation during his ministry on earth. Jesus taught the gospel of the coming kingdom (Mark 1:14-15). This gospel consisted of repentance from sin, doing the comm, and seeking first the kingdom (Matt 5:19; Matt 6:33). these ideas are good and Biblical ideas, but none of them include faith in the redemptive work of Christ on the cross. It was the specific message of the gospel of the kingdom that Jesus limited his ministry: “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. “ - Matthew 4:23 Jesus even taught the disciples the same gospel of the kingdom and told them to tell others to prepare for its coming. As a sign, he gave them power to heal the sick: “Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. “ - Luke 9:1-2 The first mention of the cross When Peter revealed Jesus as the Christ, Jesus told how he would give him the keys of the kingdom. Having spent months teaching and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, Peter would be one of the most qualified for this leadership position. However, it was not until that day that Jesus first spoke about his death, and it was a private teaching. “From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. “ - Matthew 16:21 Even more interesting, the same Peter to whom God revealed that Jesus was the Christ was kept from the meaning of the cross. Jesus reprimanded Peter for his rebuke with the famous exclamation, ‘Get thee behind me Satan’ (Matthew 16:23). It is evident that if Christ did not first mention his death and resurrection until more than half-way through his ministry, and even then his chief disciples were ignorant about it, that Jesus was not preaching the redemptive work of the cross for salvation. Eternal life according to Jesus It may be supposed that although Jesus talked a lot about the kingdom, that he still taught faith in his death on the cross for justification unto life. However, again, the Scriptures show us otherwise. When asked how to get eternal life, Jesus responded that commandment keeping would gain righteousness worthy of life eternal in the kingdom. “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. “ - Matthew 19:17 In another instance John records Jesus’ words about attaining favor with God: “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” - John 14:21 During his Sermon on the Mount Jesus taught a conditional forgiveness where men could receive God’s forgiveness. “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” - Matthew 6:14-15 Instead of free justification based upon the redemptive shed blood of Christ at the cross, Jesus seems to be preaching a different message than what was revealed to Paul. Jesus’ exclusive ministry Instead of coming to preach the cross of Christ as Paul was sent to do (1 Cor 1:17), Paul said that Jesus came for a specific purpose - to confirm the OT promises. “Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers” - Romans 15:8 Jesus came to a specific people, to preach a specific message, and to die a specific death. What can not be found in his exclusive ministry is salvation from the preaching of the cross. Where Jesus sent his disciples preaching the kingdom and baptizing for admittance, Paul was sent not to baptize but to preach the cross (John 4:1, Matt 28:19, 1 Cor 1:17). Where Jesus went to a specific people, the circumcision, Paul’s ministry included every man despite their nationality or status with God. Although we have further information about the cross of Christ, and free justification through the blood of Jesus, we must be careful not to read doctrine into Jesus earthly ministry that was not clearly revealed until later. Even though Paul presents the gospel of Christ as the‘power of God unto salvation’, we must remember that the gospel that Paul preached was given by revelation of Jesus after Christ’s death and resurrection (Rom 1:16, Gal 1:11-12). GRACE and Mercy

Interesting question to ask is who get the salvation? Is Muslim person staying in Islam faith his whole life has any hope to actually be saved when he dies? When you ask Catholics this question there will be difficulty in answering because of what the scripture says and what Catholic Rome says.

What would happen to that kid who died before the age og accountability? If he didn't deserve heaven, would he go to hell? Really?

The Authority of the Written Word The Roman Catholic Church has given tradition much weight when establishing and practicing her beliefs, yet the Bible clearly warns against this. In Matthew 15:3, the Lord Jesus Christ says, "Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?" Paul says, in Colossians 2:8, "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." Catholic writings are filled with phrases like "the Church teaches" or "tradition teaches" or "the Church has traditionally taught". In light of the above Scripture, shouldn't true Christian writings be filled with phrases like "the Bible says" or "according to the Scriptures"? Friend, are you following God's pure words or are you following man's tradition? Perhaps you're thinking, "This is anti-Catholic hate literature!" No, actually, this tract is based on God’s word. If you doubt it, please check the references for yourself. What have you got to lose? Even when Rome professes to believe the Bible, we must remember that the Catholic bible is very different from the written word of God. The Catholic Church includes several books in their Old Testament that are not God's word. The Catholic Council of Trent of 1541 placed a curse upon everyone who does not accept the Apocrypha as inspired Old Testament Scripture (See Catholic Encyclopedia). In doing so, the famous council pronounced a curse upon Jesus Christ and the New Testament writers! In Matthew 23:35, Jesus said that the Old Testament began with Abel (The Book of Genesis) and ended with Zecharias (II Chronicles). Since the Hebrew Old Testament ends with II Chronicles, there is no room left for the Apocryphal books. This explains why the Lord Jesus and the New Testament writers never refer to the Apocrypha or quote it. These writings were not accepted as Scripture. So Jesus, Peter, James, Paul, John, Luke, and the rest are officially cursed by the Roman Catholic Church. Lest someone claim that this is no longer a Catholic belief, we refer the reader to page 61 of the Catholic publication, Faith of Our Fathers, by Cardinal Gibbons: If only one instance could be given in which the Church ceased to teach a doctrine which had been previously held, that single instance would be the death blow of her infallibility. So there is no absolute Final Authority in the Catholic Church. There are dual authorities: tradition and the Catholic bible, which is entirely unscriptural (Isa. 8:20, Mat. 4:4, Col. 2:8, Mat. 15:3). God's word alone should be the Final Authority of any Christian institution.

Wait a minute... Catholics don't do in mass and discuss other Christian beliefs. What would be the point of that? We're not protesting anyone except sin.

Do you follow the 10 commandments to ATTAIN salvation (1 of 3 prescribed rules) as prescribed by the RCC? Works? And the justified man is OBLIGATED to keep the 10 commandments? Read your playbook and see what it instructs!

The Worship of Mary The Bible says in I Timothy 2:5, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." Yet, the Catholic Church teaches that Mary is to be honored as the great "Mother of God" St. Bernard stated that she was crowned "Queen of Heaven" by God the Father, and that she currently sits upon a throne in Heaven making intercession for Christians. Mary worship actually began in the fifth century A.D. when the term "Mother of God" was applied to her in the Council of Ephesus. In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Immaculate Conception of Mary by stating that she was "preserved exempt from all stain of original sin". Romans 3:23 says that "all have sinned", which includes Mary. We know it includes Mary, because she was commanded to offer a sacrifice of atonement for her sinsin Luke 2:24 fullfillig Old Testament prophecy Leviticus 12:8, and she spoke of needing a "Saviour" in Luke 1:47, sinless perfect people don't need saving. It is taught in the Catholic Church that Mary remained a perpetual virgin after Jesus was born, but Matthew 1:25 says that Jesus was only her "firstborn" son. That is, there were others born later. Matthew 13:55 tells us that James, Joses, Simon, and Judas (not Iscariot) were brothers of Jesus. Galatians 1:19 speaks of James the Lord's brother, and Psalm 69:8 also speaks of Mary's other children. According to God's word, she did not remain a virgin, and she is not a virgin today. There is no such person as the Virgin Mary. Notice in Luke 11:27 a woman cries out to Jesus and says, "Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked." Does Jesus commend her for these words? No, he is very quick to keep the emphasis off of Mary. He replies in verse 28 with, "Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." Jesus had a perfect opportunity to praise and exalt Mary, but he chose not to do so The Catholics make much of Luke 1:42 where Mary is said to be blessed "among women", but in Judges 5:24, Jael is said to be blessed "above" women. So, if there were a Queen of Heaven, Jael would make a far better candidate than Mary. The idea of a female deity is nothing new. Most all pagan societies worshipped female goddess long before Mary was born, and many of them also believed in immaculate conceptions. The Scandinavians worshipped Disa; the Druids worshipped the Virgo-Patitura as the "Mother of God"; the Germans worshipped Hertha; the Greeks worshipped Aphrodite; the Egyptians worshipped Isis, and the Romans worshipped Venus and Fortuna. In the Bible, we find that pagan goddesses are very common also. The Ephesians worshipped Diana (Acts 17:27). As early as Judges 2:13 (about 1400 B.C.), we find the worship of a goddess named "Ashtaroth". Throughout God's word, the Israelites would wander after these false goddesses and bring God's wrath upon their nation (Jud. 10:6, I Sam. 7:3-4, 12:10, I Kgs. 11:5, II Kgs. 23:13, etc.) The term "queen of heaven" is a common Catholic term for Mary, but the avid Bible student will notice that this was really a false goddess (Jer. 44:16-25)! Can't you see how deceitful Satan has been? This heathen goddess was gradually brought into the Catholic Church under the name of "Mary" in order to attract the pagans to the new Roman system, the "Holy Roman Empire". In reality, it's the same old pagan worship that God has forbidden for centuries! Should we pray to Mary? No, because no one in the Bible ever prays to Mary. In fact, the last time we read of Mary in the Bible she is praying along with the disciples (Acts 1:14), not being prayed to by them Mary never allowed anyone to exalt her in the Bible, and she never assumes a position of authority over other Christians. In fact, Mary gives only one command in the whole Bible. This is a command which should be noted and remembered by all professing Christians the world over. In John 2:5, Mary the mother of Jesus says, "Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it." Mary didn't say to follow her or pray to her. She said to obey the Lord Jesus Christ! Friend, Mary worship is totally pagan and totally forbidden in God's word.

After committing a mortal sin,are works of satisfaction necessary to be restored to justification? Do the works of satisfaction produce congruous merit according to the Catholic Church?