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Weave the day night sounds. I gotta get to that
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start bugs, get some magic Bees'll be on my way
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when magic asma's We don't know.
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That today. Well, hello everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome
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to these times with Jeff and Steph. I'm doing pretty
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good out here in Colorado. Steph, I are things up
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there in Tennessee.
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Things are good. Things are rocking and rolling, and I'm
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tired of walking up and downstairs. But things are good.
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How's your day been going.
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It's been going kind of nice. I mean it's upper
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eighties and it's like, Okay, this is nice. You know,
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we're almost halfway through Septembers and upbradies, But then you
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get that, Okay, you enjoy this because it's gonna be
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hard to get up there again for the rest of
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the years. Oh.
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I know, I'm gonna make it a point to go
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swim again today because I did yesterday, just because I
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don't know how many nice warm days.
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We've got left exactly. So how's that new job going.
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It's going good. You know, We're we're recording this a
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little later because I had to work my ships today,
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but you know, God, it's good. He works in first
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of all. One of the guys I worked with, I
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forgot to I forgot to think about telling you this.
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He is a retired you meet the most interesting people there.
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He's a retired writer and producer from WSMV, which is
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a major network here in Nashville. I think it correspond
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corresponds to NBC, if I'm not mistaken. But he was
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interesting and I was telling him about our podcast. He
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was very interested in it, asked me a bunch of questions.
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And then another little guy. I meet new people every time,
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and this this young guy was working with. It was
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just God present a really cool moment for me to
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I guess, evangelize, but just to let him know really
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that Jesus loves him because he is a black guy,
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he's gay, and I don't know how we got on
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the subject really, but he just started, like God just
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does this with me right all the time. He just
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started kind of opening it up and telling me that he,
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you know, his grandmothers both had told him that God
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doesn't approve of what he does, or doesn't approve of
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him being gay and doesn't love him. And he said,
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I used to love going to church, but I find
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it hard to pray and I said, you just need
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to talk to Jesus like he's your best friend. And
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I'm telling you he loves you and he wants to
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be there for you, and you're going to see him
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show up in your life. And I guess I was
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sharing some of the ways he's been showing up in
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my life. That he hugged me twice. He gave me
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the biggest hug and almost cried. And he just said,
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you don't know how much I needed to hear that.
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And and I was like, you know, he goes and
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you know, without watering down the truth. I think I
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did a good job. I hope I did. I think
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the Holy Spirit helped me that. He was like, you know,
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they tell me that, you know, Jesus doesn't love me
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because of my lifestyle. And I said, well, well, let's
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just say, for argument's sake that it is a sin.
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I said, let's just say that it is a sin.
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I said, well, Jesus came for the sinners. He didn't
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come for the righteous, I said, first of all, and
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we're all. Second of all, we're all sinners. And I
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was like, you know, third of all, he said, I'm
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not here for people who are well I'm here for
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the sick. And then he tells us not to judge
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and not to condemn, or we're going to be judged
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and we're going to be condemned. And he made it
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really clear we're supposed to love each other, and I said, so,
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I think he just wants you to know he loves you.
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And that's that's when he hugged me, and I think
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he almost started crying, and he was just like, you're
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my new best friend. Oh, like, well, you're already my
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new best friend because I mentioned my birthdays next week
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and he's like how He's like, are you going to
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be thirty six? And he like, he seriously was. He's like,
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you look thirty six to thirty eight, he goes, and
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I'm pretty good at guessing, you know, women's ages. So
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I was like, you're already my new best friend.
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You know, I heard probably the best analogy I've ever
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heard about God in sesout forgiving it, you know, how
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everything's well, God will never forgive this sin and all
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that kind of stuff. How could he still love me
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after what I did? And the analogy was think of cancer. Now,
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if you know somebody who has cancer, you can hate
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the cancer. With all your might, you still love the
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person who has the cancer.
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Absolutely.
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That's a pretty good analogy about people with sin and
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all that kind of stuff. You can hate that sin
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more than anything, but you still love the person who
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has it.
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So exactly. And sin was not God's plan for us,
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you know, just like cancer was not his plan for us.
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It's not something he wanted us to have or to
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deal with. But that's why he came, right, That's why
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he suffered.
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Yeah, exactly. Now today we're gonna kind of have some fun,
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not really fun, and we're not going to do it
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in the mean way. We have another podcast, it's sister
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podcast is called Catholic one on one, where we'll be
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kind of for the people who've kind of forgotten, you know, things,
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you know, they just go to Catholic jurchy every every
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week and then they don't really pay attention and then
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that kind of stuff, and then after about twenty years
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you kind of forget, Oh yeah, what is that?
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Or right?
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I can't remember that, you know, and why is the
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priest wearing that color? And so we're going to it's
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this basic Catholic one oh one. We're going to talk
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about the Saints and we're going to talk about the popes,
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just the basic one hundred level class and you know
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we're not going to get into deep discussion, it's just informative.
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But to start it off, we were thinking, you know,
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what would be the what is a Catholic Well, obviously
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there's basically two Christian domination. You're the Catholic, you're prout
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istant most likely, So what is the difference between them?
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And we know that the Catholic Church it was formed
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in the Bible when Jesus told Peter that, hey, upon
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this rock, I am found in the church for you.
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So Peter was basically the first pope, and they wonder
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what the pope is, Well, now, Pope Leo, he is
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a current human who has actually the living person who
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has taken over the papal. I guess we would call
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it papacy from Peter, as every pope down the line
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has gotten through. So then in the fifteen hundreds of
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Catholic priests his name is Martin Luther, he didn't like
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what the way the Catholics Church is doing. And it
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wasn't all rainbows and unicorns and the Catholic Church too,
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you know, there was just like any big organization. There
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is corruption and all kinds of stuff, but he wanted
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to go against it, so he tried to break away
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from the Catholic Church. But the Catholic Church, it actually
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was so ingrained, especially in Europe, between the kingdoms and
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all that kind of stuff. You know, the kings would
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rely on the Church, and the Church would health the kings,
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and the kings would help the Catholic Church and all
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this kind of stuff. So it just caused a whole mess.
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And that's where you got the Protestant Revolution. And what
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you got there was basically the northern half of Europe
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they became the Protestants, and the southern half of Europe
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they became they remained Catholics. So that's when you hear
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the divide. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna
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talk about what's the difference between Catholics and Protestants. Now,
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I wouldn't be when we're not gonna judge you. Protestants,
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don't worry just because we're a Catholic. We're not gonna
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say hah, we're not gonna teach you. But we have
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a pretty good perception because I grew up Catholic and
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so that's all I know. But when I grew up,
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my parents weren't really I guess, you say, where if
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like your friends had something going on at their church,
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you know, they had no problem sending you with their
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parents and all that kind of stuff. And I even
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married a Holy roller. Yes she was charismatic or that
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a charismatic prison for excuture. So yeah, so I mean
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I've had experience. But Steph who is a lot more
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I guess you would say devout Catholic than I am.
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But she actually started out Protestant.
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Yeah, well, you know my mom. My mom was raised
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Greek Orthodox, my dad was raised Pentecostal. I think that's
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a pretty cool combination because you've got the history, and
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the Orthodox Church recognizes the Apostolic secession. That's probably the
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main difference. So the Catholic Church has Apostolics succession, and
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I think it's it's really interesting that what is Pope
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Leo today, Like he's only the two hundred and twenty
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first or twenty second pope, you know what number? He is, No,
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not off him, it's but it's not that much if
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you think about it. It's not like we've had thousands
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of popes. It's not that hard to trace back two
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hundred and something years of popes. There's been two hundred
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and something popes, and every single priest that's been ordained,
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a priest has had hands laid on them in prayers
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and gone through an ordination process by a bishop. You
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can trace back to another bishop. You can trace back
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to another bishop who literally, you know, was made bishop
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by these popes. And it's only two hundred and something
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of them, so to sixty six. Okay, there you go.
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So the Catholic Church has apostolic succession and that's real
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and you can't argue it or debate it. It's there.
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And I think a lot of the divide between Protestants
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and Catholics is just just lack of information or just
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ignorance about But you know, there was a show on
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EWT in called The Journey Home that I thought was awesome,
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and there was every single time a lot of people
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would convert. When they would they would just decide that
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they hate it the Catholic Church, and they would go
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to disprove it. One woman was literally an astrophysicist or
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what was it, she was a rocket scientist. You know,
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there's that old saying like what are you a rocket scientist?
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You think you're smarter than everybody. She was a rocket
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scientist for NASA. She hated the church, but she had
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you know, I think there's demons against religion, there's demons
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against authority. She had been involved with a married man
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that brings that opens the door to a lot of
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demonic stuff. She was on the verge of suicide and
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she wanted to and you know, the God overcame her
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Holy Spirit overcamer and she realized there is a God.
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But then she was like, okay, then what's the truth?
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And she set out to disprove the Catholic Church. And
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by the time she researched it for a few weeks
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to write this paper, she decided she needed to convert
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become Catholic.
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That's pretty cool. I think a lot of the divide
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between Catholics and prosiscent Catholics you just kind of I
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think I'm speaking generally, but I think most of them
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don't really care. You know, if you're a Catholic colt,
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you know that you're with us. But if you want
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to be Baptist or Lutheran, or you just do your
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own little thing, okay, whatever. We're the Protestants, the Lutheran's Evangelicals,
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the Presbyterians. If you're a Catholic, then they judge you.
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They're very judgment.
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We'll judge you. But you know, it doesn't work both ways.
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I mean, granted, everybody thinks that people handle snakes in it,
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so at least we have one thing in common, right Well.
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Where just you know, I want to point out, Satan's
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the accuser, the liar, he comes to steal, killing the story.
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Who you know, where does judgmental and has.
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Come from that kind of thing. It's almost like you
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had that one high school growing up that was out
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had the rich high school. You know, they had all
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the money and they were good in sports and all
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that kind of stuff academically, and so everybody just you
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were so envious. You just hated that school. I kind
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of think that's the Catholic Church style about, you know,
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it's the one that they just can't beat, right.
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And I've heard I think Jordan Peterson has said it.
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He's a he's a big apologist. He said, just the
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fact that the Catholic Church has not changed and withstood
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time for two thousand years. It proves when Jesus said, no,
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you know on on this rock, I will build my church.
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In the case of hell will not prevail against it.
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You know, Protestant churches haven't been around that long, and
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they're constantly schiszming and breaking apart and breaking off and
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they can't they can't agree on this or that or
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this teaching or that teaching. Well, the Catholic Church has
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never broke apart. It has stayed the same. Teaching is
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the same, doctrine sometimes gets defined and deepened, but it's
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never changed. And like I said earlier, like there's I've