45:38 As a former Protestant who converted to the Catholic Faith I can answer how I (and others I've talked to) would deal with 'knowing' I was saved. For me it wasn't just building up the internal feelings again. Maybe some do this in the 'praise and worship' services but I didn't. I would find passages in the Holy Scriptures like, "For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Rom. 10:9 and say to myself, I've done all of this, I'm relying on the Word of God, therefore I believe in the promise contained in this passage. It says, "thou shalt be saved" so I must be "saved". A well grounded Protestant will be relying on the objective truth of the Holy Scriptures. Of course the problem is that we were relying on our interpretation of a few select passages instead of the interpretation of the 2000 yr. old Magisterium of the Catholic Church. When I started to see (by the grace of God) that Protestants reading the same Holy Bible kept coming up with different interpretations and then not fellowshipping with each other, the gig was up. Reading the Church Fathers who lived in the centuries just after the apostles opened my eyes as well. Hope this helps to understand how some Protestants think.

Fr Wiseman is my Priest He is AWESOME...Very Holy Knight of the Immaculate

It’s so interesting and sheds a lot of light on how we ended up in a modernist era. Modernism has so many manifestations. Many we have seen , and many yet to be seen unfortunately. Great podcast, Father.

Nominalism is alive and well today. Not only can one define their own gender and force everyone else to recognize that as reality, we must all comply with the declared program and agenda and recognize the reality of the narrative regarding all things public health. In fact, even when the given orthodoxy changes and the dictates and whims of given health czars contradict themselves, it doesn’t matter; there is no past; there is no reason or objective standard of truth; there is only a perpetual present where the Party is always right.

This is a brilliant series. Please continue these videos (along with other series like 'Time with Father' from the Kansas Parish and 'True Heroes'). Brilliant work.

This is a wonderful series! I didn't realize that these ideas had happened so early in our history. This is where this idea of gender fluid and how you feel what you are has come from. The more they are allowed to believe this way, the harder it is to bring the World back to Christ. God Bless the SSPX! Thank you for all that you do to provide for your faithful and help teach the TRUTH!

Thank you, Father Wiseman. You make this subject so clear. I enjoyed this immensely and look forward to future podcasts..

Thank you Fr Wiseman for the breakdown of these two “ism” to be able to understand

Great show! God bless Fr. Wiseman.

Great seeing Father Wiseman again.

Thank you for this series. As a heretic and recovering Catholic, it really helps me understand the differences between my views and the orthodox Catholic doctrines. I can start clarifying where and how my alternative views were mistaken. (I grew up in Novus Ordo culture, dad involved with ministry and charismatic movement, hosted in our home for long periods Protestants, and I read the history of philosophy and also um, telepathically communicated with spirits. I first ended up choosing agnosticism to avoid full-blown schizophrenia 😂 and my story doesn't even end there. Prior to my return to Catholicism my favorite spiritual paradigm explains spiritual reality in scientific terms. My playlist "My Heart of Hearts" shows some snippets of it. I returned home because I recognize the value of the sacrament of Reconciliation.)

Listened to a lecture given by a respected, well known Catholic Priest who teaches in seminaries and has a German background and I think able to read German. Most books on Luther are in German and not available in English. From the Priest's studies on Luther he stated Luther murdered his friend and then fled into the Catholic monastery in order to not be caught and arrested. This may be the true reason for his anxiety and scrupulosity. He entered the monastery for the wrong reason therefore never had a calling from God to be a monk let alone Priest.

Commenting on "My Religious Experience" explanation, my thoughts went immediately to Pilate, responding to Christ, saying "What is truth?" when he was standing before Truth Incarnate. Like in today's world, everyone had "their own truth" or should I say, their own version of truth. Touchy feely-ism.

This material is very helpful to me. Thank you Father.

This was so good! I did not think it to be too high or complicated like some of the other comments, but on the contrary, quite clear and helpful to understand Lutheranism :)

Thank you, Father Wiseman! Good show!

Awesome work. Covering things everyone should know but doesn't. Thanks!

Great and very enlightening discussion.

I LOVE this so much! It is truly an answer to prayer, I have been asking God why do people make everything subjective? Why can’t we have discussions of abstract ideas and come to objective conclusions? I came into the Church because I was told there was incontrovertible doctrinal and traditional Truth and a magisterial authority to protect it. But, Catholics have as many different religions as there are people just like all the other religions I’ve tried. This helps so much, I guess being raised without religion or philosophy was actually a blessing. God bless you, I am loving this series much more than I had expected, frankly I have despaired of ever getting beyond feelings and the fad belief of the moment to a discussion of objective truth and objective reality, without which we are just floating on separate rafts in an infinite sea.

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Thank you and Deo gratias for this series and the series on the sacraments!

This was fantastic thank you!!🎉❤

Thank you for the clarity and the thoroughness and the plain truths ..and all of the expressions of virtue that so bless me in this series .

Brilliant presentation thank you!

Occam, yes simplest explanation is the best, should apply this in future lectures.

Ideas can be powerfully dangerous.

I think it would really be helpful if dioceses offered classes on this, and not just basic RCIA or introduction to RC life. It would really help us who are inclined to wander. It could be part of our penance as heretics. Lol.

Dear Andrew, Oh, Father! To be honest, the Protestantism I have experienced wouldn't even consider the idea of being saved or not being saved because there is nothing to be saved from! In the local Church of England church services we have known before being SSPX Catholics, there was no mention of sin or of Hell or of being saved but they did sing 'By Faith Alone', and the vicar told jokes in sermons about meeting "Peter at the Pearly Gates" but, I can't remember the joke. The vicar also on arrival at his new post in the hamlet here, made jokes in his maiden sermon about the word Repent. Basically, they make fun of the words: Hell, sin, evil and repentance. They truly believe that they are already 100% saved, simply because they believe that Jesus is God. I used to cry, especially as I walked home after a 'service'. Praise God He lead us to the great SSPX! Praise God. We have catechism instruction at the SSPX Priory at Preston given by Father H. It is so glorious to become a true Catholic and learn to be a better Catholic than we are today. Praise God! Thank you, God! Mrs Darley SSPX choir Manchester UK

Thank you for making this so understandable! Satan has been playing a very long game. I've just started this series but already feel blessed by it. Prayers for your outreach 🙏

wow, we learned about Luther in 7th grade in my California public school, and we never touched upon any of this. Our teacher painted him as some sort of hero... Listening to this episode was so educating, thank you so much for all you do!

Thank you.

Thank you Fr.Wiseman. Very good explanation on nominalism and luther's philosophy .. One of the argument we catholic get from protestant is that Luther was opposing the church teaching on indulgences at those times .. Can you please explain on how we catholic can confront this arguments ?

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Great lecture. Notice that the nominalist issue is not yet fully solved -from the philosophical standpoint, even if from the human, common sense viewpoint it is crystal clear.

“We can give a theme to these things” GERMAN

Circa 45:00. Speaking of trusting something objective, my remedy for scrupulosity would be The 6 Precepts of The Church. A baptized soul need not fear damnation should he be following those Rules. RFGA, Ph.D.

I am curious - is that chart shown in the background in the beginning, is it on the web? where can I find it.

Fr. Wiseman makes me wonder whether Luther agreed with Calvin when Calvin taught that after someone accepts Christ as his Lord and Savior, no matter what sin he commits, he'll still go to heaven. The idea seems to me that since salvation is a gift, you can't earn it. Since you can't earn it. you can't lose it. You can't even say, "Lord Jesus, thank you for the present. But I don't want it." Some people commit what philosophers call the "no true Scotsman fallacy." They'll try to explain away evidence against what they believe. For example, after I accept Christ, someone might say that a real Christian wouldn't do anything like that. So I might think, "Oh, no, I accepted Christ, but he didn't accept me. I better accept him again." The once-saved-always-saved doctrine prevents the certainty it's meant to give a Christian.

Great contribution.

42:29 relativism. It’s pervasive in modern culture across the board, and is at the heart of crises both within and without of Mother Church.

We see this very real with the present transgender ideology.

Fr Wiseman...why is it that you pivot to the OBJECTIVE stream rather than the OBJECTIVE. . It is early days yet and I may ask another question as the Series unfolds.

If a person can't know something - how does that person know that they can't know ???

SORY SORRY CORRECTION .... Fr Wiseman...why is it that you pivot to the SUBJECTIVE stream rather than the OBJECTIVE. . It is early days yet and I may ask another question as the Series unfolds.

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Sounds like Romans chapter 1 picking up around verse 18

Great video. Thank you Fr. Wiseman for speaking. Is there a possible link to that flow chart at the beginning?

I like this but how do we approach it when someone says our religion is subjective or just one of many? What answers do we give to them? Do we reason with them or is it not even up for debate?

Fr Wiseman....granted that..as you say.. it will depend on the person himself. So what about the person who is inclined to be OBJECTIVE, rather than being SUBJECTIVE. It would seem you have, when you say that it would depend on the person himself, you have wrapped everyone into the SUBJECTIVE category and ignored those that are naturally inclined to be OBJECTIVE.

Isn't Nominalism just solipsism?

Maybe I’m unintelligent but I just can’t take it anymore, hopefully you can explain this later without so much detail and in a way that simple people can understand

Huh…. This explanation of scrupulousness fits my daily routine to a T….

Nominalism in Philosophy is Narcissism in Psychology.

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Interesting. It’s a different read of the words of Paul. Is there an SSPX guide - or a recommended commentary - to the Epistle? License to sin is insanity. I recall the quote, but Luther was not a proponent of that kind of hyper-Grace in his writings. I wonder if that was a hyperbolic statement as his theology evolved. There are Word Faith heretics to this day who ascribe to hyper-grace, but they trace their new age theology, wrapped in Christian lingo, more to E.W. Kenyon via Hagin. They’re out there, alone.

Where can I read Luther's writings and things that would display his "spirit of the earth" confrontation and his disgusting mind? Everything I can find is only second hand and I want to read the man's own writing (yes, to confirm my own bias that he was horrible)?

Luther’s father was a monster. Many of Luther’s neuroses are partially his fault.

The Church also did NOT want to go after Frederick the Wise. They wanted to make a hard example of a nobody-monk, in order to shut down criticism on Tetzel and his notorious abuse of indulgence selling. Frederic the Wise had some wealth, influence and land, and he also had a big mouth. It was Luther’s bad luck that the printing press was around. Someone saw his thesis, printed and distributed them. Had that not happened, I wonder if Hus would have had a strong follow-up in Luther, or someone else. Providence was in full force.

Can it be correct to say that the abhorrent behaviour of Adolph Hitler can be understood through the lens of history because he claimed to be a follower of Martin Luther?

I once heard a Protestant pastor say, "I didn't trade in the Pope on Martin Luther. I traded in the Pope on the Bible.' It would be interesting to hear Sola Scriptura (the Bible as the only infallible rule of faith) connected to modernism. Perhaps via Calvin, to sidestep Luther's personal quirks.

Can't you say "Society of St. Pius the Tenth"? You can't assume that everyone knows what sspx means. And "X" is the Roman Numeral for "ten". It is not a letter.

Luther was pestered and manipulated by demons. Just say it.

It seems like the father hasn't read any of Luther's writings, in which case he shouldn't be teaching on the subject If he had read On the bondage of the will, or The Babylonian captivity of the Church or Luther's large catechism or better still The book of concord, he would know he's talking nonsense. I hope it's he just doesn't know and it's not that he's lying

Trying to listen to this is so annoying I’m trying to learn and using my patience but this sounds like so much nonsense I could scream