Same as me. Baptized as a baby in the UMC, my family stopped going to the UMC and went to a Presbyterian church, my parents stopped taking us around junior high, and then I "made a descision" for Christ when I was 17. It was a non denominational church, they told me my infant baptism wasnt valid, I believed them and sacrigilously got dunked when I was 18. So I stayed "non denominational" for two decades until our this year's Easter Vigil! I am now fully Catholic and finally home! Us non cradle Catholics are a special bunch, and working with our fellow cradle Catholics we can achieve BIG things for the Kingdom of Christ!
@@CatholicTruthOfficial the sacraments, the Eurharist especially. And really asking myself, were the first Christians really non denominational and or Protestant? I don't think so....
@@reverendcoffinsotherson5807you are on the path of sainthood. God Bless you and may God give you graces upon graces. Amen!🙏🏻 St John 6 is the ultimate test of faith. Either you believe in his words and you stay or you don’t believe in his words and you leave like those in St John 6:66.
@@Darth_Vader258 Hi, brother! If you renounce your own completely EVERY SINGLE DAY because your intention is to seek and do only God's will for you, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ANYMORE ABOUT YOUR LIFE or what will happen to your life because everything that will happen to you everyday whether good or bad including the most insignificant things or happenings in your life will be for your own good or will SURELY lead you to holiness, wisdom and salvation because God will fully control your life as long as you don't resist His will.
@@Darth_Vader258 Another spiritual and temporal benefit of practicing this virtue or devotion is you will not make a gravely bad decision that will ruin your life and give your great problems which will make you suffer much and which you will regret later because God is now the One who is controlling and directing your life and decision-making for ONLY God knows best. You see I have not made gravely bad decisions anymore since I have renounced my own will completely and started to seek and do only Gods will for me .... unlike before when I had not consulted God when I was making decisions but just following my own will and thinking because I thought my own decision was good and bedt for me but I was gravely wrong. My own will or my own (bad) decisions only had given me great problems, troubles and pure sufferings. My loved ones were greatly affected too by my bad decisions.
@@Darth_Vader258 Another great benefit of renouncing your own will and seeking and doing only Gods will for you is you will not make gravely bad decisions that will ruin your life and will give you great problems and pure sufferings in life which you will regret later because God is now the One controlling and directing your life and your decision-making because ONLY God knows best or whats best for you and us.
What Jesus are you talking about. Paul thinks in 2 Corinthians 11: 4 there are more Jesuses and they are not the one he knows.Catholics have a Jesus yes we can agree on that, but is it the Jesus the Bible speaks about.?
@@whathappening5323 Other than Catholic and Orthodox, the question is: what "Jesus" do Protestants believe in? Paul was CLEARLY prophesying Protestantism and its heretical teachings.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial That is a ridiculous statement. They know exactly the Jesus they are thinking about and it not the Jesus you are thinking about. How you then establish if the Jesuses that are put forward is different is where the argument that Paul put forward in 2 Cor 11. come from. We see no support that a church surrounded by the religious paraphernalia of the catholic church even existed in the first or second century. The pagans were busy attempting to silence the voice of the true Christian, and have continued throughout the centuries with that type of action.
@@HAL9000-su1mzI am more than happy to take up the gauntlet on this augment. But to present my evidence that the Jesus you proclaim is not represented by the teaching of the apostles. I would need to be able to speak freely in the comment section. Which is heavily policed by restrictions, which are control. Your Claims could be CLEARLY shown as untrue.
Yes I am revert. Brought up in The Church of England. Married a young American in the Military. Came to the U.S.A. In Oct 1969. His parents were Methodist. Very strict. I lived with them while he served in Vietnam. They made me go to their Church. As a teenager in England did not go to church. Long story. Became Catholic in 1978 then feel away for about 19yrs.2014 I made my journey back to the Catholic Church.
Converted this year as well. I’m a very intellectually driven person, so the more I started digging into my Baptist theology, the more confused I became. In addition, I started noticing truly how progressive the church I attended was. I decided to try to learn about Catholicism just to see how wrong it really was. The doctrine I had struggled with the most was Protestant justification, because it felt like it was deeply lacking something. The moment I heard a well formed explanation of Catholic justification, a lightbulb went off in my head. After that I consumed every bit of doctrine I could, and fell very in love with my Lord and his Church throughout the journey. Interesting to hear from someone who came into it from a more spiritual side! That would never have dawned on me 😂
Wow a one of many Chinese that believes in Jesus Christ One Holy Apostolic Catholic Christian Church of Traditional Teachings and Worship,I’d like to say this to Jesus Christ Shie Shie for drawing this person to your church and becoming a member in Jesus Body Alleluia Deo Gratis Amen Amen Amen 🙏
Just joined, Easter Vigil! The best decision. The pastors do dig at Catholicism. Especially around baptism. I insisted I being baptized and receiving the sacrament from holy water and consecrated hands, with a full understanding of what baptism actually is.
I think it’s extremely important to pray for people who have made us stumble in our faith. Pray that the sin is not held against them. Forgive them and pray for them.
The Catholic Church is really for the intellectual men and women who studied , know the history, that it is handed down by Jesus to his apostles and apostles to the apostolic fathers and apostolic fathers to the Church fathers. It's leadership from Peter to now totally up to 266 Popes
Amen! Cardinal Newman himself said that to be deep in history is to cease to be protestant. That was true enough in my case, and in countless other protestant converts.
Lloyd de Jongh has done incredible in depth work on Luther and his personal life/character and oh boy, lot of things I was not aware of that man. Mad. Should be interesting to have him on here some day and talk about his findings and researches.
If only these non-catholics would discover the power of the 7 Sacraments of the Catholic Church on changing and transforming their lives, they would leave their man-made church and join the Catholic Church, the TRUE Church founded by Christ!
I would like to correct my error in faith. I said before if a person has love or supernatural love, he authomatically has hope and faith. (If a person has hope, he authomatically has faith but not necessarily love). MY STATEMENT INSIDE THE PARENTHESES IS WRONG AND HERETICAL. If a person is in the state of mortal sin, he has only dead faith. If a person has only dead faith, he has no living faith or he has no supernatural faith, no supernatural hope and no supernatural charity or love. If a person is in the state of grace, he has a living faith. If he has a living faith, it means he has supernatural faith, supernatural hope and supernatural charity or love or agape.
I have another error to be corrected by me. :) I believed before that the spirit of a saint lives in a blessed statue that represents him/her because there have been instances where sacred statues came to life, wept, bled, walked etc and God can multiply a saint or he/she can be present in many different places at the same time without leaving heaven. St. Therese said she will not just watch over her sisters from heaven once she gets there but will come down from heaven to personally guide them.
I was wrong. :). I remembered what I read about a happening in the life of St. John Bosco. One day, his former student St. Dominic Savio appeared to him and told him that he is in heaven. St. John Bosco asked him, "Are you really Dominic?". St. Dominic answered him. "What you see is just my semblance. My spirit is with God.". :)
I can still commit error in my judgement because I am not yet perfect or my spirit is not yet perfectly clean or totally free from sins and the spirits of the 7 deadly sins. I still have some impurities within me. I still have some spirit of pride, some spirit of sinful anger, spirit of sloth etc although by the grace of God through the Sacraments of the Catholic Church particularly the Sacraments of Confession and Eucharist, these bad spirits within me keep diminishing in me. Praise God.
The living saints or very holy people still commit error in their judgement but it seldom happens and their errors are not grave. Why? Because these very holy people are not yet totally holy but some or a few of them are already almost perfectly holy. The nearer a person is to spiritual perfection, the lesser error he commits in his judgment. The judgment of these very holy people is usually correct if not always correct. This is due to the very great purity of souls that they already acquired with the help of Gods grace.
I was a cradle Anglican but came into the Catholic Church at age 17. Smarter Protestants who are genuine often convert to Catholicism despite their obstacles.
Welcome home! It is true that the minute one takes that genuine deep dive into history and realizes that it is indeed Catholic all the way down can no longer participate in Protestantism.
I was wondering if you could address Good Fight Ministries since they have been attacking those who converted to Catholicism, particularly celebrities such as Shia Lebouf and Rob Schneider
What I continue to notice about anti Catholic Protestants who are “non-denominational” is their weakness in terms of authentic faith. I call them the “Lone Ranger” Evangelicals who are often out witnessing on the streets to others about their subjective experience of believing on Jesus… In itself, this does not sound like a bad thing. However, this is not the faith given to us by the Lord (Matthew 16: 18-19, Ephesians 2: 11-22, 1 Timothy 3: 15, Revelation 2: 1-29). Christianity is fundamentally a “public” religion with private meaning accompanied by sacramental grace. Jesus himself was a faithful member of the religion of Israel. He was a son of Abraham and of David. He said that not the smallest part of the Law of Moses would pass away until all was fulfilled. He called the Jewish Temple “my Father’s house.” He told his disciples to do whatever the religious leaders tell them because they sit in the seat of Moses, but to not do as they do personally. Jesus would found the Catholic Church with his chosen apostles to lead it. He gave his teaching (the Deposit of Faith) to those apostles and told Peter “Feed my sheep.” After His resurrection Jesus ascended back to his Father where he remains seated at God’s right hand until his Second Coming. Does all this sound like a “All I need is Jesus and my Bible” kind of Christianity? Sorry to disappoint Ray Comfort. 😊😊😊
Hello sir bryan, can you answer this question of what got questions ministries answered the question titled, "Is Catholicism a false religion?" Here is what got questions ministries answered: The most crucial problem with the Roman Catholic Church is its belief that faith alone in Christ is not sufficient for salvation. The Bible clearly and consistently states that receiving Jesus Christ as Savior, by grace through faith, grants salvation (John 1:12; 3:16,18,36; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9-10,13; Ephesians 2:8-9). The Roman Catholic Church rejects this. The official position of the Roman Catholic Church is that a person must believe in Jesus Christ AND be baptized AND receive the Eucharist along with the other sacraments AND obey the decrees of the Roman Catholic Church AND perform meritorious works AND not die with any mortal sins AND etc., etc., etc. Catholic divergence from the Bible on this most crucial of issues, salvation, means that yes, Catholicism is a false religion. If a person believes what the Catholic Church officially teaches, he/she will not be saved. Any claim that works or rituals must be added to faith in order for salvation to be achieved is a claim that Jesus’ death was not sufficient to fully purchase our salvation. While salvation by faith is the most crucial issue, in comparing Roman Catholicism with the Word of God, there are many other differences and contradictions as well. The Roman Catholic Church teaches many doctrines that are in disagreement with what the Bible declares. These include apostolic succession, worship of saints or Mary, prayer to saints or Mary, the pope / papacy, infant baptism, transubstantiation, plenary indulgences, the sacramental system, and purgatory. While Catholics claim Scriptural support for these concepts, none of these teachings have any solid foundation in the clear teaching of Scripture. These concepts are based on Catholic tradition, not the Word of God. In fact, they all clearly contradict Biblical principles. In regards to the question “Are Catholics saved?”, this is a more difficult question to answer. It is impossible to give a universal statement on the salvation of all members of any denomination of Christianity. Not ALL Baptists are saved. Not ALL Presbyterians are saved. Not ALL Lutherans are saved. Salvation is determined by personal faith in Jesus alone for salvation, not by titles or denominational identification. Despite the unbiblical beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, there are genuine believers who attend Roman Catholic churches. There are many Roman Catholics who have genuinely placed their faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. However, these Catholic Christians are believers despite what the Catholic Church teaches, not because of what it teaches. To varying degrees, the Catholic Church teaches from the Bible and points people to Jesus Christ as the Savior. As a result, people are sometimes saved in Catholic churches. The Bible has an impact whenever it is proclaimed (Isaiah 55:11). Catholic Christians remain in the Catholic Church out of ignorance of what the Catholic Church truly stands for, out of family tradition and peer pressure, or out of a desire to reach other Catholics for Christ. At the same time, the Catholic Church also leads many people away from a genuine faith relationship with Christ. The unbiblical beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church have often given the enemies of Christ opportunity to blaspheme. The Roman Catholic Church is not the church that Jesus Christ established. It is not a church that is based on the teachings of the Apostles (as described in the Book of Acts and the New Testament epistles). While Jesus’ words in Mark 7:9 were directed towards the Pharisees, they accurately describe the Roman Catholic Church, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!” Reply to what got questions ministries answered and what will you say about this?
"Got questions ministries" is a protestant organization, so naturally, their comments are full of errors and misrepresentations of the Catholic Church. For instance, in the last paragraph, they claim that the words of Jesus in Mark 7:9 ("You set aside God's commands and you obey the traditions of men") applies to the Catholic Church. But in reality, this claim is NOT true. Just because the Catholic Church observes certain practices that are not explicitly written in the Bible doesn't mean that anyone can accuse the Catholic Church of "putting aside God's commands" and replacing them with the"traditions of men". When Jesus talked about "the traditions of men" in Mark 7:8, He was referring to teachings or practices that CONTRADICT the commands of God; He was not referring to teachings or practices that are NOT written IN the scriptures. There is actually a difference between saying that something is "not written IN the scriptures" and saying that something "CONTRADICTS the scriptures". The mere fact that a teaching is not IN the scriptures doesn't mean that it CONTRADICTS the scriptures. The reason why the pharisees had to put aside God's commands in order to obey "the traditions of men" was because they couldn't simultaneously obey BOTH of them. Why ? Because those "traditions of men" directly CONTRADICTED the commands of God, and so they had to pick one and abandon the other (For example, "You shall honour your father and mother" and "you shall dishonor your father and mother" are two commands that directly contradict each other. So it is practically impossible to obey both of them at the same time. You would have to set aside one of them in favor of the other). Therefore, the mere fact that a certain teaching or practice is not explicitly written IN the Bible doesn't make it a "tradition of men". It is only when such a teaching CONTRADICTS what is already written in the Bible that it can be called a "tradition of men"
@@jerome2642 I'm a Catholic and idk why protestants claim that the catholicism is a false religion and as I'm scrolling over yt videos, this video whick is the link ruclips.net/video/9yptbDYKmFc/видео.htmlsi=SIuqpIwIPla9rJ6M Idk why this video leads many catholics going to hell because of the teachings of the catholic church, and so I really need to find out why catholicism is a false religion and as u replied to my comments, thank u for that answering and can you actually explain the video of the link I sent here which u can see at the top explaining why catholicism leads people to hell? Can you reply to me again? I won't argue with u because I'm a catholic
Luther was already in deep regret even during the so-called reform of his lifetime; he got to witness the unending splintering of the church and complained about it often. I think he regretted what he did.
@darrellperez1029 I fear this too. I don't want to judge but I believe God would not be pleased with what has happened. I don't want to think of anyone being in hell. I truly want everyone to be with christ in heaven but I know that isn't true.
Hello Kakaragi! I think in that context it would be incredibly cost prohibitive for them to do that, besides being incredibly immoral. That would not be their only consequence at the time for doing that.
Grew up going to a roman Catholic grade school, going to church twice a week. Last time I went to church, it was a non denominational. I question some things in Catholicism.
Pray to the Holy Spirit to reveal to you the truth and His true Church and the true Faith ..... BUT BEFORE YOU DO THAT, PRAY FIRST TO GOD TO GIVE YOU THE GRACE OF PERFECT TRUE CONTRITION FOR ALL YOUR SINS. THEN, AFTER THAT, REPENT OF ALL YOUR SINS AND BEG GOD TO FORGIVE YOU FOR ALL YOUR SINS. AFTER THAT, ONLY YOU CAN PRAY TO THE HOLY SPIRIT TO REVEAL TO YOU THE TRUTH, THE TRUE FAITH AND THE TRUE CHURCH. GOD BLESS YOU.
Unrepentant sins of men esp pride prevent God from revealing His truth, the true faith and the true Church to unrepentant people. These unrepentant people pray to the Holy Spirit to reveal to them His truth. But since they are unrepentant, the Holy Spirit does not hear their prayers. So because they are unrepentant, it's the bad spirits that answer their prayer and give or reveal to them the untruth not the truth.
Protestants say they pray to the Holy Spirit to know the truth of God but they themselves don't agree perfectly with their fellow prots on how to interpret the Bible thats why they have tens of thousands prot denominations. ONE THING FOR SURE, It's NOT the real Holy Spirit who answers their prayers but bad spirits or the enemy of God.
Protestants say they pray to the Holy Spirit to know the truth of God but they themselves don't agree perfectly with their fellow prots on how to interpret the Bible thats why they have tens of thousands prot denominations. ONE THING FOR SURE, It's NOT the real Holy Spirit who answers their prayers but bad spirit.
Protestants say they pray to the Holy Spirit to know the truth of God but they themselves don't agree perfectly with their fellow prots on how to interpret the Bible thats why they have tens of thousands prot denominations. ONE THING FOR SURE, It's NOT the real Holy Spirit who answers their prayers
Listening to all the various protestant self made up intrepretations, fanciful history no two proestant can agree about bible verses. I thank Jesus that I am a cradle Catholic from a Catholic family for generations and for centuries.
Non denominational reminds me of Calvary chapel and most of them don’t like Catholics I use to listen to their station until I realize how much dislike they have for the catholic faith
This is unfortunately true, although I have met plenty of attendees and pastors of Calvary Chapel who have a decent grasp of Church History and do not malign Catholicism as many other Protestants I have seen. I still pray for their reunification to the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic church, however.
It's a very unfortunate thing to see, because in the entire history of the church it has been affirmed as the body and blood of Jesus Christ in a real presence, with the exception of heretical views. It wasn't until the 1500's that this idea of a lesser presence began to be promulgated.
So the scorpion from the bottomless pit has gotten another one who has fallen away from God's truth! Nothing new under the sun, you haven't caught God by surprise as before the foundation of the world he already chose who will be part of his family and his family is far from universal it's only for those he has chosen that will enter at the narrow gate for the universal religions enter at the wide gate because they make their God to conform to their own image! Isaiah 55:8-9 KJV ¶For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. But you have a problem believing God because he is not your Father!
Actually God is our Father. The Bible says so. And he's a wonderful, faithful, saving Father. And the father sent the son into the world. And the Messiah, Christ, started the Catholic church. So praise God that this man has come home to the true church.
Hebrews 12:9 9 "Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?"
@@r.c4914 If God is their Father, then why is it they listen to others? Romans 8:28-34 KJV And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial I see, you pick and choose what you like and that because you don't understand what was meant! Romans 9:21-23 KJV Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, If God were your Father you would not bee follows NY there beast which makes you a scorpion from the bottomless pit, and you have no idea what that means , do you!
@@CatholicTruthOfficial Being Gods child was never universal! It was God that chose them even though they were just like all other nations! Guess you never learned anything from scripture!
Same as me. Baptized as a baby in the UMC, my family stopped going to the UMC and went to a Presbyterian church, my parents stopped taking us around junior high, and then I "made a descision" for Christ when I was 17. It was a non denominational church, they told me my infant baptism wasnt valid, I believed them and sacrigilously got dunked when I was 18. So I stayed "non denominational" for two decades until our this year's Easter Vigil! I am now fully Catholic and finally home! Us non cradle Catholics are a special bunch, and working with our fellow cradle Catholics we can achieve BIG things for the Kingdom of Christ!
Heyyy! Welcome home! So glad to hear it. Thank you for sharing! What things led you to the Catholic Church?
@@CatholicTruthOfficial the sacraments, the Eurharist especially. And really asking myself, were the first Christians really non denominational and or Protestant? I don't think so....
@@reverendcoffinsotherson5807you are on the path of sainthood. God Bless you and may God give you graces upon graces. Amen!🙏🏻
St John 6 is the ultimate test of faith.
Either you believe in his words and you stay or you don’t believe in his words and you leave like those in St John 6:66.
Me too baptize in the UMC as an infant and converted in 2011
@@mrsandmom5947 nice!
I also converted to the Church this year!!! Glory to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!!!
Welcome! Praise be to God! 🙌
Did you feel like the Holy Spirit was leading you to Catholicism?
God is bringing everyone to the one flock as he said he would.
Welcome home!!!
@@JWellsUp YEAHHHH
Alleluia
I asked my friend in China to go to the local Catholic cathedral and pray for me. He said there was no space and the church was packed with converts.
WOW! Amazing!
Welcome home brother 🤩Thank you for your great testimony 😍
Also a former non-denominational! 17 years Catholic!
Whooo! Amazing! So glad to hear it!❤️🙏🏻
@@CatholicTruthOfficial 28 years as a cradle Catholic and have never left the faith.
@@Darth_Vader258 Hi, brother! If you renounce your own completely EVERY SINGLE DAY because your intention is to seek and do only God's will for you, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ANYMORE ABOUT YOUR LIFE or what will happen to your life because everything that will happen to you everyday whether good or bad including the most insignificant things or happenings in your life will be for your own good or will SURELY lead you to holiness, wisdom and salvation because God will fully control your life as long as you don't resist His will.
@@Darth_Vader258 Another spiritual and temporal benefit of practicing this virtue or devotion is you will not make a gravely bad decision that will ruin your life and give your great problems which will make you suffer much and which you will regret later because God is now the One who is controlling and directing your life and decision-making for ONLY God knows best. You see I have not made gravely bad decisions anymore since I have renounced my own will completely and started to seek and do only Gods will for me .... unlike before when I had not consulted God when I was making decisions but just following my own will and thinking because I thought my own decision was good and bedt for me but I was gravely wrong. My own will or my own (bad) decisions only had given me great problems, troubles and pure sufferings. My loved ones were greatly affected too by my bad decisions.
@@Darth_Vader258 Another great benefit of renouncing your own will and seeking and doing only Gods will for you is you will not make gravely bad decisions that will ruin your life and will give you great problems and pure sufferings in life which you will regret later because God is now the One controlling and directing your life and your decision-making because ONLY God knows best or whats best for you and us.
It's amazing how so many are converting to the TRUE Church of Jesus Christ ✝️ the Catholic Church.
What Jesus are you talking about. Paul thinks in 2 Corinthians 11: 4 there are more Jesuses and they are not the one he knows.Catholics have a Jesus yes we can agree on that, but is it the Jesus the Bible speaks about.?
100%. Obviously. Protestants can't even agree on Jesus or what he taught.
@@whathappening5323 Other than Catholic and Orthodox, the question is: what "Jesus" do Protestants believe in? Paul was CLEARLY prophesying Protestantism and its heretical teachings.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial That is a ridiculous statement. They know exactly the Jesus they are thinking about and it not the Jesus you are thinking about.
How you then establish if the Jesuses that are put forward is different is where the argument that Paul put forward in 2 Cor 11. come from.
We see no support that a church surrounded by the religious paraphernalia of the catholic church even existed in the first or second century.
The pagans were busy attempting to silence the voice of the true Christian, and have continued throughout the centuries with that type of action.
@@HAL9000-su1mzI am more than happy to take up the gauntlet on this augment. But to present my evidence that the Jesus you proclaim is not represented by the teaching of the apostles. I would need to be able to speak freely in the comment section. Which is heavily policed by restrictions, which are control.
Your Claims could be CLEARLY shown as untrue.
Yes I am revert. Brought up in The Church of England. Married a young American in the Military. Came to the U.S.A. In Oct 1969. His parents were Methodist. Very strict. I lived with them while he served in Vietnam. They made me go to their Church. As a teenager in England did not go to church. Long story. Became Catholic in 1978 then feel away for about 19yrs.2014 I made my journey back to the Catholic Church.
What a journey! So glad you came back! Welcome home.
@@CatholicTruthOfficial Thank you so much. I am so blessed to be back in our beautiful Catholic Church.❤️
Welcome home!
As a cradle Catholic I can honestly say that I have learnt more from Catholic converts than anyone else.
What is cradle? I keep seeing this word
@@DarkAngel-cj6sxA cradle Catholic is someone who was raised in the Catholic faith since their birth. Hope this helps
Converted this year as well. I’m a very intellectually driven person, so the more I started digging into my Baptist theology, the more confused I became. In addition, I started noticing truly how progressive the church I attended was. I decided to try to learn about Catholicism just to see how wrong it really was. The doctrine I had struggled with the most was Protestant justification, because it felt like it was deeply lacking something. The moment I heard a well formed explanation of Catholic justification, a lightbulb went off in my head. After that I consumed every bit of doctrine I could, and fell very in love with my Lord and his Church throughout the journey. Interesting to hear from someone who came into it from a more spiritual side! That would never have dawned on me 😂
Well said! Welcome home! So glad God graced you!🙏🏻🙌
Thanks for having me on! Great conversation
I love these kind of stories.. Way to go Boss Bryan Mercier..
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Wow a one of many Chinese that believes in Jesus Christ One Holy Apostolic Catholic Christian Church of Traditional Teachings and Worship,I’d like to say this to Jesus Christ Shie Shie for drawing this person to your church and becoming a member in Jesus Body Alleluia Deo Gratis Amen Amen Amen 🙏
Same here too in one family convert to Catholic from protestan, thank you so much Bryan for sharing this great vidio ,GBU always Bryan🙏🙏🙏 ❤❤❤❤
I always hit like before I even watch Bryan's videos. 😂 Best Catholic content. Never disappoints
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Amen😊 welcome come to Catholic bro
Just joined, Easter Vigil! The best decision. The pastors do dig at Catholicism. Especially around baptism. I insisted I being baptized and receiving the sacrament from holy water and consecrated hands, with a full understanding of what baptism actually is.
I think it’s extremely important to pray for people who have made us stumble in our faith. Pray that the sin is not held against them. Forgive them and pray for them.
Welcome home brother. 🙏🏻🙌🏻🕊🌹
God bless you all🙏🏽 This is very valuable insight that I needed thank you very much.
Welcome home Joshua. I'm sure angels in heaven are rejoicing for your return to the faith...
Well I’m glad I’m not the only ex-nondenominational that converted to Catholicism.
There are a bunch here in this comment section. So you are not alone.
A lot of hyphens in your faith history! No hyphens needed now!
Am on the journey 🎉🎉
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Welcome back home brother in Christ ❤❤
The Catholic Church is really for the intellectual men and women who studied , know the history, that it is handed down by Jesus to his apostles and apostles to the apostolic fathers and apostolic fathers to the Church fathers. It's leadership from Peter to now totally up to 266 Popes
Amen! Cardinal Newman himself said that to be deep in history is to cease to be protestant. That was true enough in my case, and in countless other protestant converts.
Welcome home!! 🙌
Lloyd de Jongh has done incredible in depth work on Luther and his personal life/character and oh boy, lot of things I was not aware of that man. Mad. Should be interesting to have him on here some day and talk about his findings and researches.
If you could send us his info, that would be great. Bryan@catholictruth.org
Welcome home brother !
If only these non-catholics would discover the power of the 7 Sacraments of the Catholic Church on changing and transforming their lives, they would leave their man-made church and join the Catholic Church, the TRUE Church founded by Christ!
I would like to correct my error in faith. I said before if a person has love or supernatural love, he authomatically has hope and faith. (If a person has hope, he authomatically has faith but not necessarily love). MY STATEMENT INSIDE THE PARENTHESES IS WRONG AND HERETICAL. If a person is in the state of mortal sin, he has only dead faith. If a person has only dead faith, he has no living faith or he has no supernatural faith, no supernatural hope and no supernatural charity or love. If a person is in the state of grace, he has a living faith. If he has a living faith, it means he has supernatural faith, supernatural hope and supernatural charity or love or agape.
I have another error to be corrected by me. :) I believed before that the spirit of a saint lives in a blessed statue that represents him/her because there have been instances where sacred statues came to life, wept, bled, walked etc and God can multiply a saint or he/she can be present in many different places at the same time without leaving heaven. St. Therese said she will not just watch over her sisters from heaven once she gets there but will come down from heaven to personally guide them.
I was wrong. :). I remembered what I read about a happening in the life of St. John Bosco. One day, his former student St. Dominic Savio appeared to him and told him that he is in heaven. St. John Bosco asked him, "Are you really Dominic?". St. Dominic answered him. "What you see is just my semblance. My spirit is with God.". :)
I can still commit error in my judgement because I am not yet perfect or my spirit is not yet perfectly clean or totally free from sins and the spirits of the 7 deadly sins. I still have some impurities within me. I still have some spirit of pride, some spirit of sinful anger, spirit of sloth etc although by the grace of God through the Sacraments of the Catholic Church particularly the Sacraments of Confession and Eucharist, these bad spirits within me keep diminishing in me. Praise God.
The living saints or very holy people still commit error in their judgement but it seldom happens and their errors are not grave. Why? Because these very holy people are not yet totally holy but some or a few of them are already almost perfectly holy. The nearer a person is to spiritual perfection, the lesser error he commits in his judgment. The judgment of these very holy people is usually correct if not always correct. This is due to the very great purity of souls that they already acquired with the help of Gods grace.
Another wonderful video! Thank you Bryan!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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I was a cradle Anglican but came into the Catholic Church at age 17.
Smarter Protestants who are genuine often convert to Catholicism despite their obstacles.
Welcome home! It is true that the minute one takes that genuine deep dive into history and realizes that it is indeed Catholic all the way down can no longer participate in Protestantism.
well spoken young man
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I was wondering if you could address Good Fight Ministries since they have been attacking those who converted to Catholicism, particularly celebrities such as Shia Lebouf and Rob Schneider
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What I continue to notice about anti Catholic Protestants who are “non-denominational” is their weakness in terms of authentic faith. I call them the “Lone Ranger” Evangelicals who are often out witnessing on the streets to others about their subjective experience of believing on Jesus… In itself, this does not sound like a bad thing. However, this is not the faith given to us by the Lord (Matthew 16: 18-19, Ephesians 2: 11-22, 1 Timothy 3: 15, Revelation 2: 1-29). Christianity is fundamentally a “public” religion with private meaning accompanied by sacramental grace. Jesus himself was a faithful member of the religion of Israel. He was a son of Abraham and of David. He said that not the smallest part of the Law of Moses would pass away until all was fulfilled. He called the Jewish Temple “my Father’s house.” He told his disciples to do whatever the religious leaders tell them because they sit in the seat of Moses, but to not do as they do personally. Jesus would found the Catholic Church with his chosen apostles to lead it. He gave his teaching (the Deposit of Faith) to those apostles and told Peter “Feed my sheep.” After His resurrection Jesus ascended back to his Father where he remains seated at God’s right hand until his Second Coming. Does all this sound like a “All I need is Jesus and my Bible” kind of Christianity? Sorry to disappoint Ray Comfort. 😊😊😊
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Hello sir bryan, can you answer this question of what got questions ministries answered the question titled, "Is Catholicism a false religion?"
Here is what got questions ministries answered:
The most crucial problem with the Roman Catholic Church is its belief that faith alone in Christ is not sufficient for salvation. The Bible clearly and consistently states that receiving Jesus Christ as Savior, by grace through faith, grants salvation (John 1:12; 3:16,18,36; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9-10,13; Ephesians 2:8-9). The Roman Catholic Church rejects this. The official position of the Roman Catholic Church is that a person must believe in Jesus Christ AND be baptized AND receive the Eucharist along with the other sacraments AND obey the decrees of the Roman Catholic Church AND perform meritorious works AND not die with any mortal sins AND etc., etc., etc. Catholic divergence from the Bible on this most crucial of issues, salvation, means that yes, Catholicism is a false religion. If a person believes what the Catholic Church officially teaches, he/she will not be saved. Any claim that works or rituals must be added to faith in order for salvation to be achieved is a claim that Jesus’ death was not sufficient to fully purchase our salvation.
While salvation by faith is the most crucial issue, in comparing Roman Catholicism with the Word of God, there are many other differences and contradictions as well. The Roman Catholic Church teaches many doctrines that are in disagreement with what the Bible declares. These include apostolic succession, worship of saints or Mary, prayer to saints or Mary, the pope / papacy, infant baptism, transubstantiation, plenary indulgences, the sacramental system, and purgatory. While Catholics claim Scriptural support for these concepts, none of these teachings have any solid foundation in the clear teaching of Scripture. These concepts are based on Catholic tradition, not the Word of God. In fact, they all clearly contradict Biblical principles.
In regards to the question “Are Catholics saved?”, this is a more difficult question to answer. It is impossible to give a universal statement on the salvation of all members of any denomination of Christianity. Not ALL Baptists are saved. Not ALL Presbyterians are saved. Not ALL Lutherans are saved. Salvation is determined by personal faith in Jesus alone for salvation, not by titles or denominational identification. Despite the unbiblical beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, there are genuine believers who attend Roman Catholic churches. There are many Roman Catholics who have genuinely placed their faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. However, these Catholic Christians are believers despite what the Catholic Church teaches, not because of what it teaches. To varying degrees, the Catholic Church teaches from the Bible and points people to Jesus Christ as the Savior. As a result, people are sometimes saved in Catholic churches. The Bible has an impact whenever it is proclaimed (Isaiah 55:11). Catholic Christians remain in the Catholic Church out of ignorance of what the Catholic Church truly stands for, out of family tradition and peer pressure, or out of a desire to reach other Catholics for Christ.
At the same time, the Catholic Church also leads many people away from a genuine faith relationship with Christ. The unbiblical beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church have often given the enemies of Christ opportunity to blaspheme. The Roman Catholic Church is not the church that Jesus Christ established. It is not a church that is based on the teachings of the Apostles (as described in the Book of Acts and the New Testament epistles). While Jesus’ words in Mark 7:9 were directed towards the Pharisees, they accurately describe the Roman Catholic Church, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!”
Reply to what got questions ministries answered and what will you say about this?
"Got questions ministries" is a protestant organization, so naturally, their comments are full of errors and misrepresentations of the Catholic Church.
For instance, in the last paragraph, they claim that the words of Jesus in Mark 7:9 ("You set aside God's commands and you obey the traditions of men") applies to the Catholic Church. But in reality, this claim is NOT true.
Just because the Catholic Church observes certain practices that are not explicitly written in the Bible doesn't mean that anyone can accuse the Catholic Church of "putting aside God's commands" and replacing them with the"traditions of men".
When Jesus talked about "the traditions of men" in Mark 7:8, He was referring to teachings or practices that CONTRADICT the commands of God; He was not referring to teachings or practices that are NOT written IN the scriptures. There is actually a difference between saying that something is "not written IN the scriptures" and saying that something "CONTRADICTS the scriptures". The mere fact that a teaching is not IN the scriptures doesn't mean that it CONTRADICTS the scriptures.
The reason why the pharisees had to put aside God's commands in order to obey "the traditions of men" was because they couldn't simultaneously obey BOTH of them. Why ? Because those "traditions of men" directly CONTRADICTED the commands of God, and so they had to pick one and abandon the other (For example, "You shall honour your father and mother" and "you shall dishonor your father and mother" are two commands that directly contradict each other. So it is practically impossible to obey both of them at the same time. You would have to set aside one of them in favor of the other).
Therefore, the mere fact that a certain teaching or practice is not explicitly written IN the Bible doesn't make it a "tradition of men". It is only when such a teaching CONTRADICTS what is already written in the Bible that it can be called a "tradition of men"
@@jerome2642 I'm a Catholic and idk why protestants claim that the catholicism is a false religion and as I'm scrolling over yt videos, this video whick is the link
ruclips.net/video/9yptbDYKmFc/видео.htmlsi=SIuqpIwIPla9rJ6M
Idk why this video leads many catholics going to hell because of the teachings of the catholic church, and so I really need to find out why catholicism is a false religion and as u replied to my comments, thank u for that answering and can you actually explain the video of the link I sent here which u can see at the top explaining why catholicism leads people to hell? Can you reply to me again? I won't argue with u because I'm a catholic
faith alone in Christ is not sufficient for salvation show me faith alone in scripture
The theology of 16th century men is unreliable.
I need an answer, if anyone could answer. Can the laity kiss the Alter, I was under the impression that only the Priest can do that. 🙏✝️❤️
I'm not sure, but I would also assume that only the priest can.
If Luther could see the results of his Protestant “reformation” he would be rolling over in his grave. We should pray for his soul.
No need. He is in hell.
Luther was already in deep regret even during the so-called reform of his lifetime; he got to witness the unending splintering of the church and complained about it often. I think he regretted what he did.
@darrellperez1029 I fear this too. I don't want to judge but I believe God would not be pleased with what has happened. I don't want to think of anyone being in hell. I truly want everyone to be with christ in heaven but I know that isn't true.
@@Catholiclady3 the bible tells us the judgement when done righteous is appropriate .
With Deuteronomy 22:28-29, what would be keeping somebody in 1200 BC from abusing that law to create a harem for himself?
Hello Kakaragi! I think in that context it would be incredibly cost prohibitive for them to do that, besides being incredibly immoral. That would not be their only consequence at the time for doing that.
Grew up going to a roman Catholic grade school, going to church twice a week. Last time I went to church, it was a non denominational. I question some things in Catholicism.
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What do saints have anything to do with JESUS ??@@CatholicTruthOfficial
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I've heard something about Francis selling the Papacy to the Anglican church, is this true? What exactly is happening?
Were you watching Taylor Marshall?
@@lukebrown5395 I've only seen thumbnails and titles
@@Kakaragi He’s way too into conspiracies like that.
@@lukebrown5395 There's also the channel "Return to Tradition"
Of course it's not true. Anyone who says it is, you should stop listening to immediately forever. They are not worthy of even being listened to.
God bless you brother. Please read Mt. 16;13-19. The Catholic Church is founded by Jesus Christ. Non Catholics churches are man made who are sinners.
Im so lost both arguments made by catholics & protestants are so convincing. I dont know who to believe
Pray to the Holy Spirit to reveal to you the truth and His true Church and the true Faith ..... BUT BEFORE YOU DO THAT, PRAY FIRST TO GOD TO GIVE YOU THE GRACE OF PERFECT TRUE CONTRITION FOR ALL YOUR SINS. THEN, AFTER THAT, REPENT OF ALL YOUR SINS AND BEG GOD TO FORGIVE YOU FOR ALL YOUR SINS. AFTER THAT, ONLY YOU CAN PRAY TO THE HOLY SPIRIT TO REVEAL TO YOU THE TRUTH, THE TRUE FAITH AND THE TRUE CHURCH. GOD BLESS YOU.
Unrepentant sins of men esp pride prevent God from revealing His truth, the true faith and the true Church to unrepentant people. These unrepentant people pray to the Holy Spirit to reveal to them His truth. But since they are unrepentant, the Holy Spirit does not hear their prayers. So because they are unrepentant, it's the bad spirits that answer their prayer and give or reveal to them the untruth not the truth.
Protestants say they pray to the Holy Spirit to know the truth of God but they themselves don't agree perfectly with their fellow prots on how to interpret the Bible thats why they have tens of thousands prot denominations. ONE THING FOR SURE, It's NOT the real Holy Spirit who answers their prayers but bad spirits or the enemy of God.
Protestants say they pray to the Holy Spirit to know the truth of God but they themselves don't agree perfectly with their fellow prots on how to interpret the Bible thats why they have tens of thousands prot denominations. ONE THING FOR SURE, It's NOT the real Holy Spirit who answers their prayers but bad spirit.
Protestants say they pray to the Holy Spirit to know the truth of God but they themselves don't agree perfectly with their fellow prots on how to interpret the Bible thats why they have tens of thousands prot denominations. ONE THING FOR SURE, It's NOT the real Holy Spirit who answers their prayers
Listening to all the various protestant self made up intrepretations, fanciful history no two proestant can agree about bible verses. I thank Jesus that I am a cradle Catholic from a Catholic family for generations and for centuries.
Non denominational reminds me of Calvary chapel and most of them don’t like Catholics I use to listen to their station until I realize how much dislike they have for the catholic faith
This is unfortunately true, although I have met plenty of attendees and pastors of Calvary Chapel who have a decent grasp of Church History and do not malign Catholicism as many other Protestants I have seen. I still pray for their reunification to the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic church, however.
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I'm not sure you saw my question, but can Catholics laugh a jokes that are made at the expense of characters in a story?
Hi Kakaragi! I responded to this question from your last comment on the previous video! Hope to keep seeing you in the comments, brother!
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Hello! Could you please clarify what you mean by this?
@@catholictruthreplies ya , do you read lumen gentium 16 before?
@@tonitrua4711 I have, I am trying to see what you mean by this.
Funniest one i heard today. "The bread and wine were a metaphor. Jesus didnt do that transubstantiation literally."🤦🏾♂️
It's a very unfortunate thing to see, because in the entire history of the church it has been affirmed as the body and blood of Jesus Christ in a real presence, with the exception of heretical views. It wasn't until the 1500's that this idea of a lesser presence began to be promulgated.
Do as they say, not as what they do.😂
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So the scorpion from the bottomless pit has gotten another one who has fallen away from God's truth! Nothing new under the sun, you haven't caught God by surprise as before the foundation of the world he already chose who will be part of his family and his family is far from universal it's only for those he has chosen that will enter at the narrow gate for the universal religions enter at the wide gate because they make their God to conform to their own image!
Isaiah 55:8-9 KJV ¶For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
But you have a problem believing God because he is not your Father!
Actually God is our Father. The Bible says so. And he's a wonderful, faithful, saving Father. And the father sent the son into the world. And the Messiah, Christ, started the Catholic church. So praise God that this man has come home to the true church.
Hebrews 12:9
9 "Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?"
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If God is their Father, then why is it they listen to others?
Romans 8:28-34 KJV And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
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I see, you pick and choose what you like and that because you don't understand what was meant!
Romans 9:21-23 KJV Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
If God were your Father you would not bee follows NY there beast which makes you a scorpion from the bottomless pit, and you have no idea what that means , do you!
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Being Gods child was never universal! It was God that chose them even though they were just like all other nations! Guess you never learned anything from scripture!