Biblical Scholar, Dr. John Bergsma, a former Protestant pastor who converted to Catholicism, tackles the most common Protestant objections to the Catholic faith from confession and icon veneration to sola scriptura, papal infallibility, and the development of doctrine, using Scripture, early Church history, and his own conversion story.

Ep. 583

📚 Resources Mentioned:

The Gospel of John with Dr. John Bergsma: https://StPaulCenter.com/pints

Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: https://stpaulcenter.com/store/ignatius-catholic-study-bible-old-and-new-testaments

Dr. Bergsma Bio: https://www.johnbergsma.com/biography

Theotokos Rosaries: https://dwplus.shop/TheotokosRosaries

It’s Last Call! Stephen Meyer is back to destroy the most common arguments for atheism.

Pints: Last Call Ep. 18

📚Resources Mentioned:

The Story of Everything: https://www.thestoryofeverything.film

Return of the God Hypothesis: https://a.co/d/0b7QUSqd

Mother Natalia is back and it’s her first visit to the new set. She shares her vocation story as well as insights into Byzantine spirituality, sin, suffering, and intimacy with God.

Ep. 582

📚 Resources Mentioned:

Christ The Bridegroom Monastery: https://www.christthebridegroom.org

What God Is Not Podcast: https://whatgodisnot.com

Working on an entire album of lofi music. Here's one of those songs. Album should drop next week. THEN, a couple of weeks after that we hope to have our 24/7 stream up and running.

THE ERROR OF ARIUS ABOUT THE INCARNATION

In their eagerness to proclaim the unity of God and man in Christ, some heretics went to the opposite extreme and taught that not only was there one person, but also a single nature, in God and man. This error took its rise from Arius. To defend his position that those scriptural passages where Christ is represented as being inferior to the Father, must refer to the Son of God Himself, regarded in His assuming nature, Arius taught that in Christ there is no other soul than the Word of God who, he maintained, took the place of the soul in Christ’s body. Thus when Christ says, in John 14:28, “The Father is greater than I,” or when He is introduced as praying or as being sad, such matters are to be referred to the very nature of the Son of God. If this were so, the union of God’s Son with man would be effected not only in the person, but also in the nature. For, as we know, the unity of human nature arises from the union of soul and body.

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RESTORATION OF MAN BY GOD THROUGH THE INCARNATION

We indicated above that the reparation of human nature could not be effected either by Adam or by any other purely human being. For no individual man ever occupied a position of pre-eminence over the whole of nature; nor can any mere man be the cause of grace. The same reasoning shows that not even an angel could be the author of man’s restoration. An angel cannot be the cause of grace, just as he cannot be man’s recompense with regard to the ultimate perfection of beatitude, to which man was to be recalled. In this matter of beatitude angels and men are on a footing of equality. Nothing remains, therefore, but that such restoration could be effected by God alone.

But if God had decided to restore man solely by an act of His will and power, the order of divine justice would not have been observed. justice demands satisfaction for sin. But God cannot render satisfaction, just as He cannot merit. Such a service pertains to one who ...

In the Jesse Ridgeway case where the youtubers murdered their unborn baby with Downs Syndrome, as people have spoken up against this, the vitriol and, frankly, evil reactions of the pro-abortion crowd has really amped up. I received some comments today that I decided not to reply to because I feel this settling in my spirit that I should not respond to the crazy arguments of demons (thank you Fr. Ripperger and Fr. Martins for that teaching).

It really does feel like we're telling Truths into the void. The prominent and openly accepted acts and words of evil these days is increasing, and if you keep looking at Sodom and Gomorrah you feel your hope, and others even faith and love dry up like a pillar of salt. Look up God. Eyes on Jesus

Today, we consecrate the United States and our local parishes and towns to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. We pray for graces to abound greater than the kindled anger of the Enemy who is more bold and brazen and reacts poorly to our zeal and faithful ...

I just prayed An Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus prayer that I found in my 1930 edition of A Manual of Prayers for the use of the Catholic Laity.

To Thee, O Sacred Heart of Jesus, do I devote my and offer up my life, my thoughts, my words, my actions, and my sufferings. May my whole being be no longer employed but in loving and serving and glorifying Thee. O Sacred Heart, be Thou henceforth the sole object of my love, the protector of my life, and pledge of my salvation, and my refuge at the our of my death. Please for me, O blessed and adorable Heart, at the bar of Divine Justice, and screen me from the anger which my sins deserve. Imprint Thyself like a seal upon my heart, that I may never be separated from Thee. May my name also be ever engraven upon Thee, and may I ever be consecrated to Thy Glory, ever burning with the flames of Thy Love, and entirely penetrated with it for all eternity. This is all my desire, to live in Thee. One thing have I sought of the ...

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