Top Ten Misconceptions About Catholics -- Part 2

[Immortalsouls]

Great video! And nicely presented! We need more videos like this so that people understand the truth of the Catholic faith and understand why us Catholics do what we do in the church.

They are all wrong about the Catholic church and it's great to see a video that will further cement what we're about so those who lie against Catholics are disrupted and come to realize that what they say is false.

God bless!!

[IRISHBUDDAFILTH]

thank you for the video's.I couldnt explain those 10 arguments very well but you did!!!thanks again!!!

[concord1775]

Excellent pair of vids and great Catholic Apologetics. 9/10. But you do lose 1 point for the questionable use of Matthew 18:20 in #6. Here I believe in it's full context that Jesus is referring to issues of internal church discipline, reminding those involved that when sorting out such a mess that when they gather to do so in his name, that HE is watching proceedings!

[aubhar]

6. you do this every sunday..its like as if Jesus saving you once is not good enough.

7.blasphemy... no one can come through the father but only through me and he never mentions a priest. He also said there is only one father who is in heaven...not a priest that is a heretic and a child molester. 8. sacraments are man made up traditions..it's all shit. 9. The bible does say full immersion in water...not sprinkle on the head and guess what you heathens do? 10. you twisted all the scriptures

[JD27076]

@aubhar I am Catholic, and my baptismal was full immersion. And we did not twist scripture. And for # 7, my comment on that is. The Priest can not absolve of sins, I go to confession and the priest doesn't absolve. Jesus absolves me THROUGH the priest. He says "I absolve you THROUGH Jesus Christ." Of course you could go to Jesus himself, but its more, honorable, if you get my jist. And #8, The sacraments are made up of biblical interpretation. Now, as a Catholic. I do not agree with all of them.

[JD27076]

@aubhar Oh, I am dreadfully sorry, my apologies. I was not fully immersed. Catholics do not sprinkle, but they pour water over them. Let me quote some scripture. John 7:38 "He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, 'OUT OF HIS HEART shall flow rivers of living water". Immersion is good. and I believe pouring works just fine. Sprinkling, eh, not so much in my mind.

[10cody73]

I amm not Catholic but i was confused about the beliefs. Thank you for the video, people should lay of the hate and false claims. I only fear that many Catholics may worship the images of mary and saints unknowing what they are doing. But the true Catholic faith is beautiful and im proud to be your brother in Christ.

[melodyschanzmeyer]

Regarding the misconception that Catholics believe only they go to Heaven, where does this quote come from?: "Those also can attain to salvation who thru no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ of His Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace strive by their deeds to do his will as it is known to them thru the dictates of conscience." I love it, but it's not referenced. Anybody know where it comes from?

[kickdrum182]

@melodyschanzmeyer

The MS MovieMaker didn't allow for space for a citation when I was typing it in, otherwise I would have definitely cited it! It's from paragraph 16 of Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (a.k.a. "Lumen Gentium"). Another similar passage can be found in par. 22 of Vatican II's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World ("Gaudium et Spes").

[TVWriterGuy]

I became a licensed evangelical-Protestant minister 25 yrs ago. Through a turn of events I became acquainted with a Catholic church ministry 7 yrs ago. To understand where they were coming from, I studied up on the Catholic practices and teachings, and had several discussions with priests, nuns, and parishioners. After what I've learned and WITNESSED, I am quite ashamed of the hateful accusations and preposterous assumptions evangelicals have held against Catholics: not one of them are true.

[kickdrum182]

@TVWriterGuy Thank you very much for your comment - I'm afraid many Catholics also, unfortunately, make equally unfair assumptions and accusations against evangelical Protestants. Hopefully we can all learn more about one another (and even from each other) as we try to move beyond these roadblocks, looking forward to the unity of God's Kingdom in the eschaton. God bless!

[TVWriterGuy]

@kickdrum182 It is difficult for many people to detach emotions from their beliefs in order to accurately compare doctrine. For evangelicals, the concept of "adoration of the Blessed Mother" is foreign and is misconstrued as worshiping. The majority of evangelicals deny historical fact that the Catholic church is the tree trunk and we are all offshoots. When someone calls the Catholic church "a cult" or "non-Christian", it is the same as one hurling insults at one's own mother. Great post.

[PInk77W1]

@TVWriterGuy r u now catholic?

[sherwinhangal]

thanks for uploading,

we Filipinos are the only roman catholic nation in south east asia..

[heartofmygod]

Thank you for these two great video's GBU:)

[proudtobleedblue]

Thanks for the great videos. I have always felt blessed to be a Roman Catholic and it's nice to know there are others out there who share that feeling. And go Irish, by the way.

[MrsMcCullough86]

How do you explain that the Apocrypha contains fabulous statements which not only contradict the "canonical" scriptures but themselves. For example, in the two Books of Maccabees, Antiochus Epiphanes is made to die three different deaths in three different places? Matthew 28:19

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

[kickdrum182]

If you're making objections like this, you'd better not consider that Acts 1:18 and Matt 27:5 describe two different ways of Judas dying (hanging and falling), or the many other situational discrepancies in both the OT and NT; I'd hate for you to discredit these as well!

20th c. biblical criticism has exposed multitudes of Scriptural anomalies which give biblical literalists fits; if you can somehow resolve these, you shouldn't have a problem with those in the deuterocanonicals either.

[MrsMcCullough86]

There's more than just that.None of the apocryphal writers laid claim to inspiration.

The apocryphal books were never acknowledged as sacred scriptures by the Jews, custodians of the Hebrew scriptures (the apocrypha was written prior to the New Testament). In fact, the Jewish people rejected and destroyed the apocrypha after the overthow of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

The apocryphal books were not permitted among the sacred books during the first four centuries of the real Christian church

[MrsMcCullough86]

It teaches immoral practices, such as lying, suicide, assasination and magical incantation.

No apocryphal book is referred to in the New Testament whereas the Old Testament is referred to hundreds of times.

[kickdrum182]

This last argument assumes that every part of the Protestant OT is cited in the NT!!

The Greek-speaking Jews among the first Christians used the Septuagint, a translation of the OT which included these books in question. Blah blah blah, you can find exchanges between Catholics and non-Catholics similar the one you've riled up here all over the Internet; they go both ways and never end.

I didn't even mention these books in the video; you've just come here attacking. This convo is done.

[martalog121]

so in Acts 2:38 was Peter talking to babies or grown ups? does a child have any idea what repentance is? this is not a misconception,your church teaches unbiblical dogmas there is no way around it...nice try though !!!

[kickdrum182]

I agree with you on some points: an infant doesn't know what repentance is, and Peter was probably not talking directly to infants. I'll even admit that the Bible doesn't explicitly mention baptizing infants (so if this is what you mean by "unbiblical", that's fine). But the Bible doesn't explicitly mention the Trinity either, and I would contend that neither contradict the Bible.

The "misconception" is that those baptized as infants aren't real Christians, and Peter says nothing about that...

[martalog121]

i do not think that your comparison between baptism and the trinity is fair...the Bible very very clearly defines 3 different persons as being GOD,you either accept that or you do not,the baptism in Acts is very clear (from the context)referring to grown ups NOT children,again you either accept that or you do not...stop calling it 'misconception'

[martalog121]

cont.

as one 'theologian' put it ,"GOD has NO grandchildren"

[kickdrum182]

In order for you to draw the conclusion that such people are not real Christians, Peter would have had to have said, "The only valid way to be a Christian is to repent and then be baptized". He says nothing of this sort. He is talking to adults, so it's no surprise that he connects repentance and baptism for them. He doesn't universally necessitate repentance of the baptized prior to baptism. The passage mandating baptism for salvation (Jn 3:5) does not exclude infants at all.

[goclarinets]

Thanks for the good scripture and explanations. I still think catholics are teaching more mysticism than relationships with Jesus, but that's not your fault. That's the luke-warmness and lack of substance behind the tradition of many churches and their members.

[kickdrum182]

I agree that Catholic catechesis in general needs to more heavily emphasize the person of Christ (far too often he is seen as just a moral exemplar). However, the Catholic tradition has a very rich christology and soteriology, so I strongly disagree with your comment about a "lack of substance".

[WCScum]

STOP! YOU'RE EXPOSING US AS NOT BEING EVIL BABY EATING JOB STEALING CATHOLICS! WE'LL NEVER RULE THE WORLD NOW!

We must toss you in to the pit of full of Protestant babies pickling for the next feast.

PROTESTANT BABIES! NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM

[nightcrwlr01]

this is some gooood stuff my friend. thank you very much for taking the time to answer so many of these questions and make it available for the public.

[benaggreyfynn]

Wow! This is the basic Truth. Simple yet very true. Very informative and thought-provoking. Thanks for sharing.

God bless †

[martalog121]

"basic Truth" are you joking?have you taken the time to read the Bible?there are NO "priests" needed or mentioned in the Bible as your church defines them today...

[kickdrum182]

There are many things defined today which are not mentioned in the Bible... This is not grounds for rejecting or dissociating oneself from them! If it is, I certainly won't expect a reply from you since that would require logging into YouTube, which is not mentioned in the Bible.

And following up on your comment on the Trinity, no part of the Bible "clearly defines" 3 different "persons" as being God. This happened in the 4th century (Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople).

[martalog121]

"And following up on your comment on the Trinity, no part of the Bible "clearly defines" 3 different "persons" as being God. This happened in the 4th century"

it seems that you do not know the Bible very well...in there(the Bible) you find 3 diff. persons defined as GOD,the 4th century council has NOT made that reality(trinity) !!!The trinity has been in the Bible all along! and about your "This is not grounds for rejecting or dissociating oneself from them"i reject EVERYTHING that's pagan

[martalog121]

cont.

and you have to admit in RCC you have the "mother of all" when it comes to paganism,you may start with one of the titles that your pope has today:"pontificus maximus"(a title that the pagan "priests" used to have, until the papacy took it for itself....

[kickdrum182]

Statements like this just reveal historical ignorance. The Greeks & Romans were highly influential in the development of Western culture, so yes, Latin titles & Greek philosophical categories are going to be used by the Catholic Church, especially since it's so old that it was at one time contemporary with these cultures!!

Also, Unless you've never dated a check "August" or "July" or never referred to a weekday as "Thursday" or "Saturday", I'm going to have a hard time taking you seriously.

[MrsMcCullough86]

How about the fact that none of the writers claimed God's inspiration? Why do the teachings go against the rest of scripture, like magic? The apocrypha books are not referenced ANYWHERE in scripture, not once. So how can you explain that? I'm not saying everything in the OT is in the NT, but there sure is a whole lot. You can run from my questions, but you can't run from God's.

[kickdrum182]

Any more disrespectful or inflammatory comments like the one's you've posted up to this point will be deleted.

"The apocrypha books are not referenced ANYWHERE in scripture, not once" -- Cross check Heb 11:35 and 2Macc 7. There are others as well.

[MrsMcCullough86]

If you are following a practice or tradition that is not in the bible into worship, then its wrong and against scripture. You're depending on a group of sinners to tell you what to believe instead of the infallible word of God, the only thing or person that is infallible.

[wodinthor]

great and very informative. hope our non-catholic friends view it too. so many of them attack a catholic church which a product of their misconceptions.

[tri3unity]

Thank you very much for these videos.