@Coffeegolf44780 @pontificatormax@JaySusan I believe it's a video series and I don't think Anthony has watched it. He is most likely basing his opinion off the title but If I'm wrong he can correct me.
@alivo22_vo@goldenkey112@presbyrista I see Catholics posting replies defending their faith tobprotestant attacks and also positively promoting their faith. I see none out right attack protestants like I see protestants attack Catholics. They may be out there but I don't see them.
@Pastor_Gabe If you go into a "church" and the pastor spends hours on X bashing other Christians and consumed by his hate for them instead of serving and leading his flock, leave. That is not a church.
All I and other Catholics (including many converts) have asked protestants like Gabriel (which is not all protestants, but unfortunately probably most) to do is dive into their ancient Christian Fathers.
If they do so, they will discover their doctrine of salvation simply isn’t there. And what they will find has been maintained in the Catholic Church to this day.
But since their novel doctrine of salvation isn’t there, that means the cost of asserting it necessarily means all Christians were wrong for at least 1,500 years ON SALVATION.
If you want to make that exchange, fine. But if you do, it fundamentally draws into question Christ’s promises to be the Good Shepherd, to be with His Church to the end, to guide it into all truth, to make it a city on a hill that cannot be hidden, to prevent it from ever being defeated by Hell, etc.
If all Christians were wrong about HOW TO BE SAVED for at least 1,500 years, those promises are no longer credible, and thus, Christ Himself becomes a questionable figure.
Gabriel and others like him would likely assert the “true gospel” has been available in one form or another the last 500 years (since the protestant revolt).
But if that’s true, that means what Christ Himself established in the first century was so weak and fragile that it fell apart virtually immediately (despite the heroic Christian virtue of the martyrs who were willing to die for it), while what a large group of contradicting “reformers” established 500 years ago has been available ever since, and thus far more enduring.
Again, if you are willing to make that exchange, fine. But the cost to do so is enormous. I would argue it is the credibility of Christianity itself.
Which is why I’m Catholic. I love and believe Jesus, and have seen His protecting and guiding hand amidst endless difficulties in history thanks to the testimony of my Christian Fathers.
Praise be Jesus Christ, now and forever.