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@IndianaBrunner Claiming the Church just recognized Scripture is like saying a jury didn’t judge innocence, it just noticed it. The Church testified which writings were inspired. Without that oral tradition, “Scripture alone” wouldn’t even know its own table of contents.

The claim often made by Catholics and Orthodox that “the canon is oral tradition” completely collapses under scrutiny. The Scriptures were not preserved as whispers passed down in the dark through a line of succession. They were written documents. Real, physical texts authored by the apostles and prophets, copied, WIDELY circulated, and examined across the early church. They are historical artifacts. That is not the same category as “oral tradition.” We do not accept the canon because of an infallible chain of storytelling. We recognize it because these writings bear the marks of authenticity: • Apostolic origin • Consistency across manuscripts • Widespread and early usage in the churches, allowing discrepancies to be identified and examined through historical analysis and textual criticism • Doctrinal coherence • Verifiable historical authenticity These are historic realities, not blind appeals to oral tradition. You can hold the manuscripts in your hand. You can compare them. You can test them, just as the Bereans tested the testimony of the apostles in Acts 17:11. That’s the point. Recognition is not the same as creation. The church did not make Scripture authoritative, but recognized what already was. So no, appealing to the canon is not secretly appealing to “oral tradition” as the ultimate authority. It is acknowledging that God preserved His word through written revelation, not an evolving stream of unverifiable claims. And that is why the believer can rest in Scripture alone as the God breathed, infallible standard.

@DavidMoralesPVD If you had any decency you’d resign in disgrace

Not to exploit the death of a refugee to push an agenda centered around fear and division. My values, like many of our neighbors in Providence, is to protect our immigrant neighbors from ICE’s state-sanctioned violence and supporting our refugee neighbors with authentic care.

@IndianaBrunner @CapturingChrist @javierperd2604 Guy whose been ducking from @How2BeChristian challenge to him for 2+ years thinks his opinion on debates matters 😂

There is no debate. Scripture clearly teaches that miracles are not the deciding factor when determining truth. Satan disguises himself as an angel of light and can deceive “with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception.” Your moldy crackers aren’t really mighty wonders anyway 😂

I'm actively looking for a Protestant that is willing to debate a Catholic on Eucharistic Miracles. The Catholic is Ethan Muse. Tag a Protestant in the comments. (No need to tag @javierperd2604--he's not willing to do it.)

@ScottWi23694014 @conservmillen As a Protestant you can still agree she’s violating 1 Timothy 2:12 whether it’s the Pope or not.

@marvard17 @conservmillen As a Protestant…neither does the pope.

Very strange to highlight a random job I had after college to try to discount my argument, but ok! If you were good at this at all, you would know that’s an authority fallacy used by people who are too intellectually insecure to contend with the substance of someone’s argument. Also, you’re a Democrat, Christopher. You believe in legally killing babies. You don’t have any authority when it comes to matters of Christianity or in matters of Catholicism. Stay in your lane.

@ScottWi23694014 @conservmillen No, her authority is her subjective interpretation of scripture. She has zero authority on any theological matter.

@marvard17 @conservmillen She never claimed to. Her authority is scripture, the only authority that matters.

@WWUTTcom Using “Roman Catholic” and “papist” interchangeably while not capitalizing the “p” in Papist made this post as incoherent as your theology.

Uh, yeah. It ain't true. There 4 times more Roman Catholics becoming Protestant than those becoming papists. And there are still more Protestants than papists among Gen Z. Furthermore, the Roman Catholic "church" has had its lampstand removed. The Holy Spirit ain't there.

@erikdtaylor @WWUTTcom Wow. You didn’t know a thing about God, Christ, or the Holy Spirit before converting to Protestantism? Or the Bible? Sounds like you took your Catholic faith very seriously!

@WWUTTcom 99% of my Reformed church (including myself) were once pagan Romanists who didn’t know a thing about the God, Christ, and Holy Spirit of the Bible. Thank the Lord we were rescued from the broad road! We implore all Romanists to do leave now!

@Truth_matters20 This is exactly how we got the Bible

@ryanburge The Good Lord is calling his flock home 🙏 nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/…

Among Gen Z, Catholics don't outnumber Protestants. That wasn't true in 2023. The estimates were not statistically different. The share of Gen Z who were Catholic the last few years: 2022: 15% 2023: 21% 2024: 16% 2025: 19% It's a very noisy sequence. No clear trend.

Pope Leo XIV to His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco: "You are among the few countries in the world to have the Catholic faith as a state religion. This faith places us before the sovereignty of Jesus, who calls Christians to become in the world a kingdom of brothers and sisters – a presence that does not cast down but raises up, that does not separate but connects, always ready to protect every human life with love, at any time and in any condition, so that no one is ever excluded from the table of fraternity."

@TartanLutheran @Q4w5e6r7 Keep coping protty 😂

Rome is schismatic. The Augsburg Reformers are the continuation of the western catholic church. The Lutheran liturgy is not only older but closer to the Pre-Reformation liturgy than any other western church. The “other Protestants” are not divisions from the Augsburg Reformation but are separate, later schisms from Rome. It is we who have the history my friend. The Tridentine church is a modern affectation. The fruit of how far they’ve fallen and how they have continued to splinter are clear indicators of the mess they made in their persistence toward error.

Debating Roman Catholics on X.

@sourpatchlyds @ryanburge 😭 Protestants really don’t like when you point out that all of their denominations were explicitly pro-abortion for many decades, either. Maybe the scripture changed in the 1970s? Lots of illogical scrambling.

@ryanburge 😭 They really don't like when you point out how many of them are pro-abortion, either. Lot of illogical scrabbling.

Catholics are just as likely to use birth control as the general population.

@TexasPreacher Wow- you refer to Catholics as Papists & you refuse to capitalize the P in Papist? So cool!

12% of people who were papists at age 16 and are now Protestant. 3% of people who were Protestant at age 16 are now papists. Source: General Social Survey, 2022-2024

@TexasPreacher Poorly catechized Catholics become Protestants? Wow, never heard that before. Shocking news

In any given Protestant church, you'll find scores of people, astronomically so in fact, who were once papists. Their conversion was rarely complicated or dramatic. They just started reading their Bible.

@taco_talks Boring 🥱

Plot twist: the Roman Catholic Church is not the church that Jesus established which means that by a false preposition you are worshiping a man-made Institute filled with idolatry while bathing in your Stockholm syndrome

Friends, in recent years, the Church has seen a surge in conversions to the Catholic faith. Praise God for the movement of the Holy Spirit in the hearts and minds of many—especially in young adults, who seem to be leading the charge! foxnews.com/video/63917767…

@yohra_unit_4S Your post is like the exact inverse of this quote lol

I will come to Rome after it changes every single doctrine that I disagree with,lol

@RobertBluey I sincerely admire your courage Rob! God bless you and welcome home!

As one of those soon-to-be Catholic converts, I’m overjoyed to be coming home. Thanks be to God!