KingdomCraft: Are Catholics Christian?

For more info, I recommend a video from someone who is actually a Pastor and went to seminary unlike me. Here is a video from Dr. Jordan B. Cooper, a conservative Protestant pastor, on why Catholics are still brothers and sisters in Christ.

[Duke--mu]

As a Catholic in America, I have legit heard people say we aren’t Christian just similar 💀. God bless.

[johnsariego]

As a Catholic, I think what you said about priests not effectively communicating dogma in the church is true. I think we definitely have the correct Tradition, but it is poorly taught sometimes. Thank God I went to a school that taught me all of that lol.

[joshlb]

Based. And not just saying that because I'm Catholic lol. Also love the Cathedral, would love to see the finished product.

[timboslice]

I just converted this easter! I've been into apologetics for a decade was a hard-core calvinist but I was in an echo chamber. I had real relationships with baptists, methodists, pentacostals, and other presbys but never met a catholic. All I heard about them was the anti catholic stuff.... after a crazy dream I was compelled to research them and haven't stopped studying catholicism since. It's an infinitely deep well of wisdom and guidance and after a while... my protest felt like disobedience. I've honestly never been more into scripture, history, the fathers, my thirst for the lord has increased 10 fold! I pray all of you get the chance to feel so in love with your faith if you haven't already.

[gilbertotoledo]

You are very right in saying that the reformation helped the catholic church. And while I dont completely agree with protestantism, I do feel that in a way the reformation was a huge wakeup call for the Catholic Church to get its act together, and for the most part it did. The counter reformation was a huge revival of faith in the Catholic Church.

[jdotoz]

7:52 Purgatory has nothing to do with salvation. Everyone in Purgatory is irrevocably saved.

[cbeaudry]

TradCath here
Just found this gold mine of a channel
God Bless

[cosmicnomad]

Usually I refer to myself as a “Catholic Christian” to avoid confusion. It’s unfortunate that I would even have to do that, but sometimes I have to. I love your channel btw, don’t agree on everything but you always give valuable insights and are pretty entertaining!

[SlaveofGod]

based Cathedral you made right there! God bless you!
love from a Christian Cath

[zaneflournoy]

I’ve only ever heard Catholics are not Christian from Southern Baptists here in the southern US

[golvic]

Thank you. I am a Jewish Christian and you explained my view on Roman Catholicism right on the money. I will debate secondary issues till I am blue in the face (I’m Jewish, I cant help myself) but secondary does not touch salvation. I view the Nicene Creed as base line. You affirm it you are Christian. You reject it you are not. That simple.

[liquidboss]

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

James 2:24 says that man is not justified by faith alone, not saved. Justified can mean evidenced by, as in shown to be saved, testified about.

[jacopoarmini]

faith and works are inseparable, one cannot be truly salvific without the other.

[paulmualdeave]

The Catholic Church has not anathematize the Gospel. We just disagree on the verses that talk about faith. Protestantism reads the Bible and read “alone” after faith when they see it. The Bible just says faith. Adding “alone” changes the meaning behind a statement. Saying a car is red doesn’t mean all cars are red. We agree on faith. Catholicism does not teach works alone, which looks to actually be the accusation. Catholicism teaches faith and works. The problem with faith alone is the book of James. Read chapter two and answer this: who is the fool in verse 20? If faith alone is truth, how can faith be worthless without works? And don’t confuse works with works of the law. Catholicism doesn’t define works and works of the law as the same thing. Works of the law are found in the Old Testament and Jesus was clear we are no longer under the law. Thus the council of Jerusalem in Acts. Is verse calling someone that believes in faith alone a fool?

[CarlosAdrianAguirre-hpfv]

In Mexico there is this weird thing where since for most of our history the only branch of christianity was catholicism people stopped using the word "christian" and only catholic, and when protestantism started spreading over here they mostly reffered to themselves as christian instead of protestant or by their denomination, so there has been this weird phenomenon where people think "christian" means protestant and they don't really have any word for all of christianity, which I find very annoying.

[CorpusReformatorum]

When you said that if one believes homosexuality is right is not a heresy, you felt to the ground :)

[carlisophie]

Is this an US thing to wonder if Catholics are Christians? I’ve never witnessed even one European or Latin American person wonder about that. It’s just weird.

[LINUXLINUXLINUXLINUXLINUXLINUX]

A lot of healing will need to be done between our communities, but the future is a Catholic and Protestant in alliance for Christ. Catholics face the same problem of liberalizing of their theology btw.

[kingjimmycraftofcalderonia]

10:52
I find this interesting as a former Catholic who currently goes to an Evangelical church since there was a period after my conversion where I watched a few Catholic videos on YouTube. I found the topic interesting since I was never a true "traditional" Catholic since my parent's weren't strict Catholics either and never went to mass before. Base on my current and basic understanding of Catholic theology, what caught my attention is that like you said "on paper, " Catholics don't pray to the saints of the Virgin Mary, but they rather ask for the saints to pray to God on their behalf. As a Christian, I don't see this as necessarily as bad (although I don't practice it since I'm not Catholic) since it is technically the same as asking a brother/sister in Christ to pray to God on their behalf. Now here's a twist: for context, my mom is a former Catholic as well, and her father was a strict Catholic in Peru; according to my mom, she claims that he prays to the saints and to Mary as if they were "divine." Now although I don't know much about my dad's parents theology yet, who are still alive and are Catholic in the more conservative side; I have noted based on observation that besides prayer to Jesus, that they also seemed to "pray" to the Virgin of Guadalupe and somewhat suggest that she was divine. Of course, this is more of a speculation from observation and some interviewing, where I am uncertain how reliable the accounts I have taken are (and don't want to act on straw man fallacy), though I find it interesting of both the apparent differences between "standard" theology and the "local" theology in Catholicism; almost like you said that "...even on paper they (Catholics) they believe decent stuff, they don't communicate very well to ... their followers..."

[mmtoss]

Bro is running Minecraft on a toaster 💀