0:00 Whenever I was seriously considering
0:02 Christianity for the first time in my
0:04 20s, there were several arguments that I
0:06 found quite persuasive by Protestants
0:09 actually. But I found that the Catholic
0:12 counterarguments were even more
0:13 persuasive. And then I found these five
0:16 arguments, these five Bible verses, and
0:19 I also found them very compelling. And I
0:21 found that the Protestant
0:23 counterarguments to these, they just
0:25 fell flat on their faces. So, in this
0:27 video, I'm going to show you my favorite
0:29 five Bible verses for proving that the
0:32 Catholic Church is the one true faith.
0:35 Maybe these are really good arguments,
0:36 maybe they're really bad arguments, but
0:38 these are five of my personal favorite
0:40 arguments that convicted me that the
0:42 Catholic Church is the one true faith
0:44 established by Jesus Christ, the son of
0:46 God, for the salvation of all men. So,
0:48 let's jump right in. The first one is
0:50 Luke 1:33.
0:53 This needs to be emphasized so much
0:56 more. The angel Gabriel in the beginning
0:58 of Luke's gospel comes to the blessed
1:00 virgin Mary and says that she's going to
1:03 have a son. His name's going to be
1:04 Jesus. And he says this, he will reign
1:07 over the house of Jacob forever. And of
1:09 his kingdom there will be no end. It's
1:12 quite obvious that whatever kingdom
1:15 Jesus
1:16 institutes, God himself through his
1:18 angel Gabriel says of his kingdom there
1:22 will be no end. So whatever kingdom
1:26 Jesus institutes, that's the kingdom
1:28 that's going to last until the end of
1:30 the world. That's the kingdom that you
1:32 and I should be a part of. So which
1:35 kingdom did Jesus establish? Which
1:38 church did he establish? How do we know
1:39 if we're in the kingdom of God? Well,
1:41 there's two options basically. You have
1:43 the Catholics and the Orthodox. Jesus
1:46 builds his church upon the foundation of
1:50 the apostles. Jesus Christ hands over
1:53 later in Luke's gospel in chapter 20, he
1:55 hands over the kingdom to the apostles.
1:59 He says, "I assign to you as my father
2:01 assigned to me a kingdom." So the
2:03 apostles, the apostles are essential
2:05 elements in the kingdom of God. And
2:08 after they die, does the kingdom of God
2:10 die? Well, no. Because the angel Gabriel
2:12 said, "Of his kingdom, there will be no
2:14 end." So, the kingdom that was given to
2:16 the apostles necessarily, unless God is
2:19 a liar, necessarily must be continued.
2:24 And how is it continued? Well, the early
2:26 church and Acts chapter 1 give us a very
2:29 clear, very clear indication that after
2:32 the death of the apostles, they selected
2:34 successors and those successors carried
2:37 on the mission of the apostles. So to
2:39 put it succinctly, the father gives to
2:42 the son an everlasting visible kingdom.
2:46 The son gives to the apostles an
2:49 everlasting visible kingdom. The
2:52 apostles then hand on to their
2:54 successors an everlasting visible
2:57 kingdom. Whichever kingdom Jesus
2:59 started, it has to be essentially the
3:01 same. It cannot be corrupted from the
3:03 year 33 AD all the way until the end of
3:06 the world. This is why I'm Catholic
3:09 because Jesus Christ created yes a
3:11 spiritual kingdom. But just because
3:13 something is spiritual does not mean
3:15 that it's not visible and hierarchical.
3:18 For example, I am a spiritual person. I
3:20 have a spirit. I pray. I ask God to help
3:23 me and God gives me his grace. But you
3:25 can see me, right? Like I'm not just
3:29 spiritual. Just because Jesus gave to
3:31 the apostles a spiritual kingdom and he
3:33 says to Pontius Pilate, "My kingdom is
3:35 not of this earth. if it were then my
3:37 servants would come and save me. Just
3:38 because something is spiritual does not
3:40 mean that it's also not visible and
3:43 ordered hierarchical. So that's the
3:45 first reason I saw this and I was like
3:47 okay well if the angel Gabriel is
3:49 speaking truly and if the kingdom of God
3:52 must last until the end of the world and
3:54 Jesus established it. Well, which
3:56 churches were around in 33 AD? Which
3:58 kingdoms of God so to speak were around
4:01 in 33 AD? Well, Luther wasn't born until
4:03 the 16th century. Calvin, same thing.
4:06 Their kingdoms of God that they started
4:08 are false, counterfeit, ersats,
4:10 deplorable, evil, wicked. They did not
4:14 start the kingdom of God. They started a
4:16 counter kingdom and then called it the
4:18 kingdom of God. If you want to be a part
4:21 of the kingdom that Jesus Christ
4:23 instituted that he received from his
4:26 father and gave to the apostles and then
4:28 the apostles gave that to their
4:29 successors. If you want to be a part of
4:30 that kingdom, you need to be Catholic.
4:32 you need to be in union with the
4:34 apostles and their successors. That
4:37 argument, no Protestant has adequately
4:40 or sufficiently explained how to get
4:42 around that. They have to either say the
4:44 church is invisible or some other stuff
4:45 that I just think is absolutely absurd.
4:48 Anyway, that's not the point. Let's go
4:50 on to the second Bible verse that
4:52 Protestants do not have a sufficient
4:54 answer for that convicted me that Jesus
4:55 Christ started the Catholic Church, and
4:57 that is Mark 16:17. It says this, "And
5:01 these signs will accompany those who
5:02 believe in my name. They will cast out
5:04 demons. They will speak in new
5:06 languages." So the fact that the
5:09 Catholic Church has a specific office
5:12 called exorcist and that these exorcists
5:15 literally as a day job go around and
5:18 beat up demons and get them the heck out
5:21 of people that are struggling with that.
5:23 That's an indication to me that whoever
5:25 these exorcists are, they have real
5:29 spiritual authority. They have the
5:31 ability in Jesus's name to cast out
5:34 demons, showing me that they are those
5:37 who believe in Jesus's name, like our
5:39 Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is talking
5:41 about here in Mark 16. And I know I am
5:44 well aware I have had friends tell me
5:46 stories who have gone through some
5:48 things that certain Protestant pastors
5:50 do have the ability to cast out demons
5:53 in the name of Jesus. That doesn't
5:55 really work as far as countering my
5:58 argument because yes, anybody who
6:00 believes in the name of Jesus, anybody
6:02 who uses the name of Jesus in such a way
6:05 has the ability sometimes to cast out
6:07 certain demons. However, from my
6:10 experience once again, these Protestant
6:13 pastors who are casting out demons in
6:15 the name of Jesus, if they struggle and
6:17 if they're incapable of getting a
6:19 certain demon out, where do they send
6:21 them to get liberated? They send them to
6:24 the Catholic Church. That's where all
6:27 the hard cases end up. So, it seems to
6:29 me that yes, anybody, any believer,
6:32 anybody baptized in the name of Jesus
6:35 has the ability to cast out demons. And
6:37 we see this in Mark's gospel. John sees
6:39 a couple people casting out demons, but
6:40 they're not in union with the apostles.
6:42 John says, "What should we do?" Jesus
6:44 says, "Leave them alone. Nobody who does
6:46 a mighty work in my name will soon after
6:48 be able to speak evil of me." So, it's
6:49 fine that people who aren't in union
6:51 with the apostles have the ability, the
6:53 capacity to cast out demons in the holy
6:55 name of Jesus Christ, our savior. That's
6:58 fine. However, we also see in the book
7:01 of Acts several people who are not in
7:03 union with the apostles trying to cast
7:05 out a demon. and the demon strips them
7:07 naked, beats them, and then chases them
7:09 out of the house. So things can go ary
7:11 very quickly if you're not in union with
7:13 the apostles. So in order for that type
7:15 of demon to be cast out, the more
7:17 difficult one, what do you need? You
7:19 need the church. You need the authority
7:22 of a Catholic priest and of a Catholic
7:25 exorcist. That's what's going on. Also,
7:28 side note, exorcists are awesome. They
7:30 tell the coolest stories. If you haven't
7:32 seen the Exorcist Files, one of my
7:34 friends helped contribute to that. Check
7:36 it out. It's a great podcast or anything
7:37 by Father Riper is just gold. It's
7:39 great. It's fantastic. Number three,
7:41 this one does not get talked about
7:43 enough, but it's really, really
7:44 compelling. Isaiah 66:21 says this, and
7:49 some of them also I will take for
7:51 priests and for Levites, says the Lord.
7:55 Now, to give you a little context about
7:56 this Bible verse, this is talking about
7:58 after God establishes the kingdom of God
8:01 on earth, or in other words, after the
8:03 coming of Christ. And this Bible verse
8:05 says that after Jesus establishes his
8:07 kingdom, he will take some of them to be
8:10 priests and Levites. For anyone who
8:13 doesn't know, in the early church, the
8:15 words Levite and deacon were more or
8:17 less interchangeable. So in the Old
8:19 Testament, you had Aaron, the high
8:20 priest, who's like the bishop. Then you
8:22 had Aaron's sons, which would be the
8:25 priests, which would correspond to our
8:26 priests. Then you had the Levites which
8:29 were the lowest rank of the clergy and
8:32 they were corresponding to deacons. So
8:34 in the early church you'll see sometimes
8:36 that the church fathers will say that
8:37 the Levites did this or that. And what
8:39 they mean by that is the deacons because
8:42 Levites and deacons they mean the same
8:43 thing in the early church. So in Isaiah
8:46 66:21 it says, "I will take some of them
8:49 for priests and Levites." What do
8:52 Protestants believe? Well, generally
8:54 they believe in the priesthood of all
8:56 believers. which Catholics do too. I am
8:58 because of my baptism in a certain sense
9:01 a priest. I have the ability to bless
9:03 and to offer sacrifice which is what
9:04 priests do. But just because I am a
9:07 priest and if you're baptized, you are a
9:09 priest. My children who are baptized are
9:11 priests in that universal sense. That
9:13 does not preclude the possibility that
9:15 Jesus mentions here that God from the
9:18 Old Testament mentions here is that he
9:20 says I will take some of them to be
9:24 priests. What does that mean? It means
9:26 among God's people, it's prophesied that
9:28 in addition to this universal
9:30 priesthood, there will be some men who
9:33 are taken and selected to be priests.
9:37 So, we have the universal priesthood.
9:39 Yes, 100%. But we also have a
9:42 hierarchical instituted ministerial
9:45 priesthood. And those are the people
9:47 that you and I call father. That's
9:50 what's going on. So if your religion
9:52 does not have a ministerial priesthood,
9:55 the office of rank of priest and Levite
9:58 or deacon, then your religion is not the
10:00 one that the Old Testament prophesies.
10:02 It's just not. And Bible verse number
10:04 four, which is one of my favorites, John
10:07 20 23, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
10:10 the son of God, says this, "If you
10:13 forgive the sins of any, they are
10:15 forgiven. If you retain the sins of any,
10:18 they are retained." This ties back into
10:21 point number one. The kingdom of God in
10:24 all of its essential characteristics has
10:27 to be the same. The kingdom of God that
10:29 Jesus established in 33 AD cannot be
10:32 corrupted. Nothing that's an essential
10:33 element of the church of the kingdom of
10:36 God can go away from the year 33 AD
10:38 until the end of the world. The angel
10:40 Gabriel said that of his kingdom there
10:42 shall be no end. What is one of the
10:44 essential things that happens in the
10:47 kingdom of God? That is the forgiveness
10:49 of sins. So our Lord and Savior Jesus
10:52 Christ, he gives the kingdom to the
10:54 apostles in Luke chapter 20, he gives
10:56 them the authority to forgive sins here
10:59 in John chapter 20. So where does this
11:02 authority to forgive sins go? If I were
11:04 a sinner in the day of the apostles, I
11:07 would go up to my confirmation saint,
11:09 arguably my favorite apostle, St. John,
11:11 and I would say, "St. John, I have
11:12 sinned. This is what I did. Please
11:14 forgive me." And St. John then would
11:16 have the authority the authority vested
11:18 by Jesus Christ the son of God himself
11:20 to forgive my sins. But what happens in
11:24 about the year let's say 90 AD when John
11:26 is an old man on the island of Patmos
11:29 where he was exiled for his belief in
11:31 Christ. What happens after he dies? Is
11:34 it no longer the case that I can go to a
11:36 man and have my sins forgiven? Well, the
11:39 early church very clearly says that you
11:42 can have your sins forgiven in the same
11:44 way the apostles did. You can have your
11:46 sins forgiven by a man who's been
11:49 elevated to this role of priest by the
11:53 successors of the apostles. These
11:57 priests that are only some of the
11:59 population, these priests have the
12:01 authority to forgive sins. It's
12:03 testified quite clearly in the early
12:06 church and even referenced in the
12:07 scriptures in James 5. This is awesome.
12:12 If you read all throughout the Old
12:13 Testament, there is the confession of
12:15 sins to the priest and the priest offers
12:18 the sacrifice. What do we have in the
12:19 New Testament? What was being
12:21 foreshadowed in the Old Testament? Well,
12:24 now we have a priest who offers the
12:26 sacrifice, the lamb of God, to God the
12:28 Father in the name of Jesus. and he
12:31 hears my confession and then offers
12:33 sacrifice on my behalf. This is what's
12:36 being foreshadowed for thousands of
12:37 years in the Old Testament with the
12:39 scapegoat, with the Passover lamb, with
12:41 all these sacrifices that the Jews are
12:44 offering. It's ultimately signifying,
12:47 foreshadowing Christ and his bride, the
12:50 church. That's it. And the last one, and
12:53 this is so important, and you probably
12:55 may be able to guess what it is, but
12:57 it's John 6:53. Our Lord and Savior
13:00 Jesus Christ, the truth incarnate, says,
13:02 "Amen. Amen. I say to you, unless you
13:04 eat the flesh of the son of man and
13:06 drink his blood, you have no life within
13:10 you." So, who has, and this is so
13:12 important, this is really important. Who
13:14 has the authority to consecrate the
13:18 Eucharist? And where does that authority
13:21 come from? Whenever you are reading the
13:23 scriptures here and it says you have to
13:25 consume the flesh of the son of god in
13:28 order to be saved. Amen. Amen. I say to
13:30 you unless you eat the flesh of the son
13:31 of god and drink his blood you have no
13:33 life within you. Clearly in context it's
13:36 talking about spiritual life. Spiritual
13:39 life. So if you want to be spiritually
13:40 alive you have to eat the flesh of
13:42 Jesus. That is quite clear in John
13:45 chapter 6. It's not a metaphor. None of
13:48 the church fathers thought it was a
13:49 metaphor. None of them. Absolutely zero.
13:52 None of the reformers thought it was a
13:54 metaphor. None of them. Zero. They
13:57 thought that Christ was really present
13:59 in the bread in some way. So anyone who
14:02 says that it's just a symbol, that's a
14:04 brand new teaching that popped up within
14:07 500 years ago, absolutely unbiblical,
14:10 absolutely not petristic, absolutely no
14:14 rooting, no foundation in reality. It's
14:17 an absurd belief that needs to be
14:20 stopped and stymied immediately. If you
14:22 believe that, go back and read the
14:25 fathers. Go back and read the reformers.
14:27 Go back and read the pertinent scripture
14:29 verses. Nowhere in the scriptures,
14:32 nowhere in the fathers, and nowhere even
14:34 in the reformers can you find that the
14:36 eucharist is merely symbolic. It has
14:39 symbolic elements certainly, of course,
14:41 but it's not merely symbolic. That is
14:45 silly. So, back to the main point. Where
14:48 can I get the flesh of God? Where can I
14:50 get it? Who has it? Because I have to
14:52 eat it to be saved. So, who has it?
14:55 Well, the church fathers make it so
14:57 clear that the bishop and the priests
15:01 that the bishop has ordained have the
15:04 authority to consecrate the eukarist.
15:08 Only bishops can do ordinations
15:10 according to the fathers, according to
15:12 hippolitus, according to others. Only
15:14 the bishop can do ordinations. Jerome
15:18 says that as well. And only the bishop
15:21 and the priests that the bishop has
15:23 ordained can offer the mass, the lord's
15:27 supper, the eukarist. So I ask this
15:30 question, where can I get the flesh of
15:31 the son of god? And the church fathers
15:34 answer resoundingly with the same voice
15:36 and they say in the catholic church. St.
15:41 Cyprien says, "Only in the Catholic
15:42 Church can the Eucharist be rightly
15:44 taken." St. Ignatius says, "The church
15:46 in Rome presides in love over love."
15:50 Which, if you know what the Greek is,
15:51 means agape, which is a reference
15:53 probably to the Eucharist. St. Jerome
15:56 says, "Only in the Catholic Church can
15:58 the Pascal lamb be rightly eaten." Over
16:01 and over again in the fathers, we see if
16:03 you want the flesh of the son of God,
16:05 you have to turn to the church. So,
16:08 these are my favorite five Bible verses
16:11 that convinced me that Catholicism was
16:13 100% true. Let me know in the comments
16:15 what your favorite apologetic Bible
16:17 verse is. And if you want to see a video
16:19 I made about the church father that
16:20 Protestants fear the most, then check
16:22 out this video
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