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