The One Question that Unravels Protestantism

Joe Heschmeyer exposes one fatal flaw in Protestantism that unravels the whole movement.

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[jpb]

Sadly, the most unity among the Protestants that I’ve witnessed is their opposition to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

[daviddabrowski]

I don’t know which is more 🔥, the arguments Joe proposes or the shirt. Let’s👏🏻go👏🏻

[humble_prairie_homestead]

I have listened to this twice through today and plan to give it another round tomorrow. As a life long protestant, who has been learning about catholicism for approximately a year now, this video has almost sealed the deal. I've been praying and searching and really think the Lord is showing me the way. I never would have imagined!

[stooch]

I do appreciate Mike Winger’s intellectual humility about what is essential to him. It is funny, however, how little intellectual humility he and other protestants have when telling us exactly where the Catholic Church is wrong. They have 100% certainty on that.

[wes]

My fellow Catholics, please, could you pray for my family?

My mother's beyond conversion, at least by my persuasion. See, we were originally LDS, and when we left, she's completely foregone the idea of a singular unified Church with Eclesial authority. Even though I've managed to convince her that I don't worship Mary, that my prayers to the saints are requests and honor to God, and that I don't believe the Pope is literally talking to God or always infallible like the LDS prophet, she won't even say the "I believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church" portion of the Niscene creed because of the word. She's an independent evangelical now. She's also married to a man who isn't my father, but because my parents were married by a secular woman judge in her backyard at a Halloween party, and my step father by a minister, I pray that she's only had a single legitimate marriage. If anyone can provide me some more clarity about this, it would truly soothe my conscious.

My father's a nominal, non practicing Christian. He taught me the "now I lay me down to sleep" prayer. He takes God seriously, and I remember his baptism in the Shenandoah River. But he doesn't go to Church and spends little time reading the Bible.

I have two younger sisters, the youngest was baptized with my mother last year, not much for practicing but too young to remember being LDS outside of recognizing a Moroni statue once on a car trip. The middle hasn't been baptized since we left yet, but she's adiment about her belief in Jesus Christ and the Bible. She has nothing against Catholicism because I'm a Catholic, and says she wants to be ready for her baptism. I entirely understand, even I took a few years of practicing before I was baptized. She's going to graduate Highschool soon (so not ready 😢) and she was open and firm enough with her boyfriend who is atheist, but she loves very much, to not disrespect her faith and even soften his views, though he still doesn't believe. She's a perfect reflection of beautiful grace, even if the goth makeup doesn't look like it.

I know they all love Jesus. I know they're also flawed sinners just like me. I can't help but be terrified while having faith in their faith and in our common god. Please, pray for them. And please pray for my remaining LDS family, my Aunt, her daughter, and my grandmother. My grandmother isn't particularly old but has never been in peak health. I fear she may only have a few years left to live and she's just moved away to Utah with her scummy money grubbing boyfriend. Please pray for them. I beseech you, I fear my prayers are not enough.

[ryderisboss]

So I converted to Christianity at 26 after being non religious and basically uneducated about Christianity my whole life.

I started asking about Christianity and doing research online. Going on the internet to ask Protestants about what is essential to Christianity is total anarchy. Just trying to get a general understanding of what happens when a Christian commits a serious sin was a complete gong show.

"Don't worry about it bro, if you've accepted Jesus then all sins are nailed to the cross. Just do you but consider not doing that" "You're still saved but only if you stop doing that" "You are currently not saved and need to repent and say the sinners prayer and then you'll be saved and you'll never lose your salvation" "What the last guy said except you definitely can lose your salvation" "You've done that? You won't be saved" "You're probably predestined to not be saved and it doesn't really matter what you do" what a total mess.

As a guy with no dog in the race just looking at Christianity from the outside without anyone tugging at me to join their faction, Catholicism was easily the most logical. Got a question about essentials? Look it up in the Catechism and see what the Saints taught. Done

[BoksCar]

Listened to this video and being a re-turning Catholic from forty years in the Protestantism world it would seem to me that Protestants view that Jesus founded a Luby's cafeteria rather than a Church. In a cafeteria a person would go down the line choosing what they prefer and at the end of the line they would call it, my church. The person behind them would have different items on their tray and call it, my church resulting in a finger f pointing exercise as to who has the best tray of choices. While in the protestant world my wife and I did a lot of church hoping looking for the next best preacher, or latest teaching. We wandered thru the prosperity gospel, which was and still is a disaster financially. With various preachers warning us not to listen brother so-n-so because he or she wasn't preaching the truth. I found Protestantism very confusing which explains the church hoping exercise we practiced for many years. Said all this to say I made it back home and come to two conclusions, I will NEVER venture off to the protestant world again, nor will I EVER leave the Catholic Church again.

[lightbread]

Joe you are such a gift to Catholics and to Protestants who are seeking the truth. You are the reason I was able to work through all my Protestant hangups and come into the Catholic Church and bring my family into the Church as well

[CatholicSaintslayIncorrupt]

My Conversion to Catholicism was totally based upon hearing that Jesus Christ, true God true Man, is Truly Really Present within the Host consecrated upon that heavenly alter!
That was it for me!
Thankyou Jesus for bringing me Home! ❤

[Anthony-fkzu]

The inability to point out essential doctrines and agree on them despite many Protestants using Sola Scriptura was part of my conversion from Protestantism.

[danielletracyann]

Leaving this here to let you know that you are an excellent teacher and very charitable where Protestants are concerned.

[MathAdam]

It’s fascinating to listen to these guys confidently and authoritatively contradict each other.

[patrickbrinkman]

Me: This shouldn’t take long, it’s only one question!
Video: Bahahha, I’m over an hour!

[treydean]

Joe: You Protestants don’t know what the essentials are and can’t agree on them.

Joe’s Pope: All religions are a different path to God

😂😂😂

[jacobhilderman]

I knew I had to become Catholic when I was only 40% sure it was true. I came from a charismatic background but I was baptized Lutheran. I once saw John MacArthur say blasphemy of the Holy Spirit changed, it is no longer attributing to Satan the works of God, it is attributing to God the works of Satan. In my opinion, he was attributing to Satan the works of God because he was attributing the miracles in charismatic churches to Satan. My Lutheran family believed baptism saves you, whereas some protestants were saying that if you think baptism saves you, you are not saved. I found if Protestant was true, there was approximately a 25% chance that I could go to heaven in an ordinary way. I did not want to judge what the essentials of the Christian faith were to myself, so I was drawn to Catholicism and I was received at Easter vigil this year. Thanks for this video 😊

[gregwhisenhunt]

Joe is such a baller. I’m going to be him when I grow up.

[RuslanKD]

Me being in this thumbnail is essential 😂😂😂

In all serious, I have this conversation all the time. Trent horn actually gave me great language: “the main things are the plain things and the plain things are the main things” there I fixed it for you 😂😂😂

[Joker]

WLC's standard is circular! "If it would affect Christianity too much to remove it, then it's essential". That's exactly what we're trying to determine! He basically just said "If it's essential, it's essential!" How does a man with as much philosophy knowledge as him not see that?

[BryceCarmony]

Cool shirt Joe looks good. Thanks for the great video

[AdriannieBio]

The mental gymnastics required to scream sola scriptoria and then deny the necessity of baptism is mind blowing to me….