Mike Silva

@sola_chad This is what happens when people have no biblical worship, have no biblical altar, have no biblical sacrifice. They simply invent notions of worship to fill their own lack of understanding, and then rush off to their fainting couches and have a swoon.

Modern-day equivalent of Moses coming down from the mountain and seeing what evil the people had committed.

@ChristandGuitar So just look through all of the early Christian writings and decide for yourself which ones belong in the bible. Requiring an infallible determination on the canon of God's Word is an insult to God Himself.

Requiring an infallible interpreter of God’s Word is an insult to God Himself. He gave us His Word, the Holy Spirit, and minds to understand it. Handing over our responsibility to a third party for interpretation is ridiculous. How do we even know we’re understanding that interpreter correctly? Should we get an interpreter for the interpreter? That leads to an infinite regress.

@BibleInContext1 "Even Catholicism admits development of doctrine, which means many teachings were formulated centuries later." Clarified and elaborated, yes. Just like a great many doctrines you believe. An honest Protestant will admit this.

The Catholic Church, as we know it today, has historically been recognized as the Roman Church, or the Roman Catholic Church. This Roman church, with its traditions and later-developed teachings, is not the same church we see beginning in the book of Acts. Even Catholicism admits “development of doctrine,” which means many teachings were formulated centuries later. Roman Catholicism is an apostate counterfeit Christianity that operates like a cult and incorporates the occult and Babylonian paganism!

@faithwillwinall Every heretic said many things to justify their heresies. So what else is new?

Every Reformer agreed that the papacy is the seat of the Antichrist...

@BibleInContext1 If it is just bread then why is it offered upon an altar (Hebrews 13)? If it were just bread offered upon an altar that would be entirely pagan. Was the early Church pagan? BTW, where is the altar in your church? What's that you say, you don't have an altar?

In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul says, “as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup.” Even in the warning passage, the element is still called bread. Catholicism says the substance is no longer bread. Paul’s language naturally fits a sacred memorial meal, not a change of substance. If Paul wanted to teach that the bread was no longer bread, why does he continue calling it bread in the very passage Catholics cite?

@CSavedByGrace18 @BillArnoldTeach So you completely approve of asking the angels to pray for you, right? RIGHT?

@BillArnoldTeach Nope ALIVE ones!!! Jesus says in his word the dead don’t hear you, they have no idea and you speaking to dead is called witchcraft and a sin

When Jesus prayed and showed us how to pray did he say “Hail Mary” or did he say “our father who art in heaven”? Yeah, I thought so

@Catholic_bro Or, on the flip side, who decides what parts of the bible are non-essential? And if non-essential, why are they even there to cause confusion?

Who decides which doctrines are “essential”?

@De_gr8t001 You just described the Cafeteria Catholic, the bane of Catholicism.

I am a Catholic IVF is not wrong. I am a Catholic surrogacy is not wrong. I am a Catholic I support contraceptives. I am a Catholic I will do hallelujah Challenge during lent. I am a Catholic I don't like some of the church teaching. No, you are a modern day heretic.

@MrCasey62 So now conveying the fact that "They have no more wine" is an order? The anti-Catholic version of Protestantism truly never ceases to amaze me.

Just FYI: At Cana, Mary never “forced” Jesus to do anything.

@_jonbowlin Countless millions of images of Jesus exist in the Protestant world, and yet we Catholics don't stroke out over that. More proof that some Protestants spend their lives looking to find evil in Catholicism (and now Orthodoxy - I hadn't seen THAT coming!)

Roman Catholics have a remarkable ability to violate the 2nd commandment

@TheBibleIsJesus Best troll of the day, Mr. Bible is Jesus. You WERE trolling, right?

Catholics are their own god

@alethia__23 History could not be more clear: there were never 66-book bibles before 1517. Every time any pope or council listed the books of the bible, they listed 73 books. One example of "To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant."

I can't seem to understand sola scriptura. If it is the be-all and end-all, why remove 7 books? Doesn't that contradict the meaning itself?

@discarn8 @Bible_Doctrines Samuel, being a servant of God, will do exactly what God calls him to do. And God called him to appear to Saul and to tell Saul of God's judgement against him. You amaze me to think that God uses demons to reveal his words to his servants. Utterly bizarre.

@Bible_Doctrines But let's pretend Samuel COULD hear and COULD respond from the dead Do you, honestly, think Samuel is going to go against God and the living prophets? And speak to Saul? Knowing GOOD and WELL that it was against the will of God?

Oh, Lord... Have mercy. This clown job is using a demonic spirit as proof the Bible supports necromancy? The whole PURPOSE of that chapter is to denounce contacting the dead. 🤦‍♂️

@ChristandGuitar "The constant appeal to church fathers over Scripture..." Meaning, the constant appeal to those who were close in time and language to the Apostles, over those who presume (unlike the wise Ethiopian) that they can understand scripture on their own 2000 years later.

I've been following David Wood's dive into Eastern Orthodoxy and just finished watching his video with Orthodox Ethos. I have to be honest: It was extremely unconvincing as a positive case for EO. The constant appeal to church fathers over Scripture was a huge red flag. The main argument boiled down to: "This is how Christianity has always been, God wouldn't abandon His church, we're right, so join our church." The most interesting part was about Christians outside the church. OE argued that those outside of EO may "follow" Christ in a sense, but do not have Christ in them for His healing. This clashes with Acts 10: Acts 10:44-45, 47-48a While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. "Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. These Gentiles were filled with the Holy Spirit after simply hearing and believing the Gospel - *before* baptism. This makes it tough to argue that baptism is required for salvation, let alone for God's spirit to indwell someone. This also undermines EO's claim of "this is what the Church has always taught."

@YeFutureSaint Run the race and trust in God.

If Once Saved Always Saved (OSAS) is false, how can any believer ever have real assurance of salvation?

@IsTruth86582 Correct, Jesus is not a loaf of bread. Any more stupid things you'd like to post?

Jesus is not a loaf of bread you eat every SUN-day.

@BibleInContext1 Three exclamation points!!! Now I'm really afraid!!!

Breaking my silence and exposing the Catholic cult! Watch my powerfully revealing conversation with Lauren!! youtu.be/nrEfgUM3trc?si…

@IsTruth86582 They think that anti-Catholic ankle biter "arguments" that may have worked on illiterate 16th century peasants are still effective today. Just embarrassing.

This is Lucifer/Sun worship. Leave your churches right now. I am not kidding.

@LizzieMarbach @Fr_RonPG @JPuncut @Acts17David The prophets performed miracles. The Father performed miracles. The Son performed miracles. The Holy Spirit performed miracles. And now you've cast doubt on all of them. In your hatred for the Catholic Church you have moved halfway to atheism and you don't even realize it.

@Fr_RonPG @JPuncut @Acts17David @truthcartel816 Many pagans practice this and experience “miracles” too. It isn’t proof that it’s biblical.

Watching the stream with @JPuncut, @Acts17David, & @truthcartel816, and of course the EO guy is making the typical "the saints are alive in heaven" strawman. 🤦‍♀️ When protestants respond to praying to the saints with, "saints cannot hear you in heaven, they are dead," this is not a denial of them being alive in Christ in heaven. We ALL recognize that Christians are alive in heaven. I'll say it again: Protestants do not deny that we are alive in the afterlife. So, to respond to this rebuttal with "bUt GoD iS tHe GoD oF tHe LiViNg, NoT tHe DeAd" is a dishonest framing of the argument. It is a complete strawman. No one is arguing against this. When we say, "they are dead," we simply are speaking of their status here on earth. They are dead and gone from this earth, which is something that we all understand. Which is why Francis is no longer the pope, or why we have funerals for loved ones, or why we cry when someone dies. Death is real for christians and non-christians alike. We ALL understand the concept of death and understand that even Christians die from this earth. So please, PLEASE, stop making this strawman argument when defending the intercession of the saints. PLEASE engage with our actual positions and stop pretending that we deny eternal life in heaven.

@nathancoxey So pagans infallibly gave you the canon of the Christian bible? I have to put that on my vast list of Strange Things That Protestants Believe. BTW, those pagans produced a 73-book bible not a 66-book bible. That is an historical fact not in dispute.

Cyrus was a Persian king who worshipped pagan gods. God used him to return the Israelites to the land. They didn’t condone his pagan practices. God can use anyone to fulfill His will. This is how I feel about the people that canonized the Bible.