Church Fathers

I Read The Oldest Christian Manual from 100 A.D….. Let’s Test It Against Modern Christianity – Sean Hiller

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The Didache is the Oldest Church Manual we have. What it says SHOULD impact how we approach the worship of Our Lord. It seems, we have forgotten what this text says. Let’s re-examine this ancient document and see how it applies to Christianity today. CHAPTERS 0:00 How I Found This2:39 What Is the Didache?4:29 First

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The Church Fathers Debunked Protestantism (and no one noticed) – Cameron Riecker

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Understand the history of the Eucharist and how early church teachings address modern questions about the faith. Kevin from the channel Since 33 AD joins me to examine what the ancient community believed about the sacrament. We look past common arguments to see how the historical record informs our current understanding, specifically for those wrestling

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Protestant Says the Apostles Weren’t Catholic—Then Sam Shamoun Shows Him THIS – More Sam Shamoun

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Were Jesus and the apostles Catholic? In this powerful confrontation, a Protestant challenges Sam Shamoun on Catholicism, the Roman Empire, Church tradition, the Bible, confession, the Rosary, the Eucharist, and whether the early Christians actually identified themselves as Catholic. Sam Shamoun begins by challenging the assumption that the Catholic Church came from the Roman Empire.

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Protestant ATTACKS Catholicism… Then ONE Question DESTROYED His Entire Argument | Sam Shamoun

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How do we know the Bible is inspired—and who gave Protestants the authority to interpret Scripture apart from the historic Church? In this powerful dialogue, Sam Shamoun challenges a non-denominational Christian who questions whether Catholic doctrine can truly claim continuity with the apostles Peter and Paul. Sam Shamoun exposes the assumption behind the argument: before

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Wes Huff Skipped the Verse That Explains the Papacy | ACT LIVE 9-2-2 – Joe McClane

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Wes Huff’s “6 Reasons Why I’m Not Roman Catholic” has 1.3 million views. His case against the papacy never mentions the Old Testament text that Matthew 16 is quoting. Isaiah 22, the Key of David, and every dated witness to Peter’s chair before A.D. 256. The full answer, plus a free 5-page cheat sheet. Seven

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This 1st Century Letter Tells Us How Christians Viewed “Starting Your Own Church” – Sean Hiller

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A.D. 96, the Epistle of Clement to the Church in Corinth. The first Christian letter written (that we have) outside of the New Testament… And it was a Command. Stop the rebellion, and come back to the Church. That is the message spoken in as a plea. This is the Letter of Pope Saint Clement

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He Hated the Catholic Church—Then Matthew 16:18 Forced Him to Choose | Sam Shamoun Answers

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Video Description:He hated the Catholic Church and described himself as a staunch, vehement, militant anti-Catholic. Then he confronted the promise of Jesus Christ in Matthew 16:18—and realized he had to make a choice. After coming to Christ, studying Scripture and reading the early Church Fathers—including St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Irenaeus and St. Polycarp—he began

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Wes Huff’s Canon Dilemma pt 4: Enoch, Jude, Papias, Justin Martyr, Eusebius – SHAMOUNIAN

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I finish off my series on the Achilles’ heel of Protestantism in respect to Sola Scriptura, which is the issue of the Canon. I show how Jude’s referencing sources such as Enoch poses problems for Huff and others, I then look at the statements made by Christian writers like Eusebius concerning th debates over the

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Why Be Catholic and Not Just Christian? – Brian Holdsworth

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“How do you know what the Christian faith is? How do you know what doctrines and practices are admissible and which should be excluded? Did Jesus appoint you with the authority needed to make those kinds of decisions? Or did he set you under a particular authority to reveal that to you? Almost all Christians

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Why a Lutheran Became a Catholic Priest (Fr. Brad Elliott) | Ep. 82 – Eternal Christendom (with Joshua Charles)

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In this episode, we interview Fr. Brad Elliott, OP, a priest of the Dominican Order who converted to the Catholic Faith from Lutheranism. In addition to sharing his conversion story, he also shares prescient warnings about how modern people relate to technology. Fr. Elliott is an Assistant Professor of Theology at the Dominican School of

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The early church was Catholic. Not Baptist or Protestant. – I Miss Christendom

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History tells us that there was one church for the first 1000 years of Christianity, and then that Church split into 2. The Eastern church is called Orthodox, and the western church is called Catholic. Then about 500 years later several groups broke off from the Catholic church and divided into thousands of denominations. this

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The Sacraments, Apostolic Succession, and Early Church | Brian Davila Interviews Sam Shamoun

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In this powerful interview on Brian Davila’s channel, Sam Shamoun opens up about salvation, Protestantism, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, the ancient church, the sacraments, and why studying church history changed the way he understood Christianity. Brian Davila asks Sam Shamoun deep questions about whether Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and even people outside the visible boundaries of the

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In 96 AD, the Apostle John was still alive.

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Yet when a crisis erupted in Corinth, the church that wrote to fix it was in Rome. That detail should stop every Protestant cold. A thread. The Corinthian church had deposed its legitimate elders. A faction had seized control. Clement of Rome intervened. Not with a pastoral suggestion. With authority. He wrote: “If anyone disobey

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Eucharist Snapshot: 1st Century Catholic Worship in the “Didache” | Ep. 78 – Eternal Christendom (with Joshua Charles)

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Today we are inaugurating a new mini-series: the “Eucharist Snapshot.” Like the “Papal Snapshot,” the Eucharist Snapshot will go document-by-document to prove the ancient roots of Catholic belief about the Eucharist. This first “Eucharist Snapshot” will cover the Didache, perhaps the most ancient Christian document outside the Bible, and the incredibly Catholic things it says

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How This Church Father “Red Pilled” Me on the Catholic Church, Part 1 & 2 – Eternal Christendom (with Joshua Charles)

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Part 1: In this episode, we finally dive into the writings of the Church Father who “red pilled” me on the Catholic Church while I was still a protestant: St. Ignatius of Antioch. He was ordained by the Apostles, and barely 70 years after Christ’s Ascension wrote astoundingly Catholic things about: the Real Presence of

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The Church Fathers SHATTERED My Protestant Faith – Joshua Charles

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Catholic convert Joshua Charles reveals how Scripture, history, and the Church Fathers led him out of Protestantism and into the Catholic Church. He breaks down the core contradictions he found in sola scriptura, how early Christian writings confirmed the truth of the Eucharist and apostolic succession, and why the modern Church crisis was foretold long

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How the Earliest Christians Worshiped (In their own words) – Inquietum Corda

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In this video, we examine writings of the early Christians from C. 50AD to C. 155 AD to ask: How did they worship? What were some of their practices? and How were their churches structured? After a brief look at some of the New Testament books, we dive into non-biblical writings of other ancient Christians.

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