What is the Apocrypha Project?

 

What is the Apocrypha Project?

            Since the Protestant reformation, a minority of Christians no longer accept the canon of certain books that have, until then, with the exception of Jerome, been considered canon since the canon was determined.

            Who is the Apocrypha Project for?

            Everyone, but mainly Protestants that would otherwise be unfamiliar with these books.

            What are you going to do?

        Record the entire Deuterocanon on my Rumble account.  Although, ideally, I’d prefer the whole Bible.

        How did you come up with this idea?

            From Gary Michuta, who runs the YouTube Channel, “Apocrypha Apocalypse”.

        Where can I listen to these books?

        https://rumble.com/user/AdamCSC

        That being said, it’s not going to be a book every week, so be sure to subscribe!

Who's choice?

 

                                    Who’s choice?

“Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil.”-Deuteronomy 30:15

            One of the things we Christians are often accused of is believing a God that sends people to hell.  Not so.  God doesn’t send people to hell, as hell is a choice.  One goes to hell by turning away from God (Matthew 7:21-23).  But, with the recent Dobbs ruling and the overturning of the injustice that is Roe v. Wade, I’ve been thinking.  What do these people mean when they say choice?

            “My body, my choice”, they cry.  Okay, so, why did they choose to have sex?  (Contrary to popular belief, very few abortions are the result of rape).  Could they not have chosen to abstain?  It is possible to live without sex.  I’ve been doing it for a while, now. 

            And, what, exactly, do they mean by “MY BODY”?  How can a separate human being with its own DNA be your body?  If you really believed “My body, my choice”, you’d have abstained from the act that lead to that child’s conception. 

            The baby doesn’t get a choice.  I read that Iceland aborts 100% of Down Syndrome babies. 

            And this is something leftists rejoice in?  Killing disabled children.

            This is personal to me, as I have a diagnosed autism spectrum disorder (and I am not the only one in my family).  Some years ago, there were calls to abort autistic children. 

            Autism is not a physical thing, so, you can’t really tell if someone is autistic until after they're born.  I think there are, sadly, people who want to change that.  It’s nice to know that one of my aunts would be okay with murdering me.

            And that’s what it boils down to.  Just because the law books don’t say it, yet, abortion is murder, if not worse.

             “And the king, answering, shall say to them; Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these least my brethren, you did it to me”-Matthew 25:40

Yes, Pope Francis is the Pope

        Yes, Pope Francis is the Pope

                    It has recently come to my attention that there is a small (but loud), contingent of Catholics that do not think Francis is the Pope.

            And those people are wrong. 

            First of all, Benedict the 16^th himself has no desire to be Pope.

            It has become increasingly common in TLM circles to claim that he’s still the Pope.  If that’s so, he’s the only Anti-Pope in history with no desire to be the Pope. 

            Simply Pope, a bad Pope, or, for that fact, even a heretical Pope, is still the Pope. Remember, Peter denied Jesus three times before the cockcrow (Mt 26:69-75,Mk 14:66-72, Lk 22:59-62, John 18:15,18, 25-27).  Not only did the first Pope deny knowing Jesus, in essence, he denied being his follower.

            I do not believe the gates of Hell prevailed against the Church (Matthew 16:13-19), to do so would be to call Jesus a liar.  Pater, and, by extension, his successors, was told by Our Lord, to feed his lambs and tend his sheep, and even told Peter he was going to die for it (John 21:15-19)

            When my dad fathered me, he gave me his last name (which you probably pronounce wrong).  In a sense I am my father’s successor.  I carry on his name even after his death.  It is not a perfect analogy, but I am just trying to give you a sense of it. 

            So, then, the successors of Peter pass on his office.  All his rights, privileges, etc of the office of the papacy. 

            Francis was validly elected Pope, by his brother bishops, in accord with current Church law on the election of the Pope.  If you PREFER Benedict, that is fine.  But, he voluntarily resigned his papacy.  Nothing Taylor Marshall says is going to change that.  

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The problem of circular reasoning in apologetics

The problem of circular reasoning in apologetics

            You ever been in conversations where someone tries to prove their argument simply by stating their argument?

“The Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon”, the Baptist preacher may say.  And then give you Bible verses that he thinks support that.  However, if a Catholic doubts their faith, or, someone is a member of his congregation, these people may be predisposed to believe this. 

I think another good example of this is when the Mormons (stop calling me a “Roman” Catholic, and I’ll stop calling you Mormon), is when the LDS missionary at your door tries to prove Mormonism by claiming that his testimony is from the Holy Ghost.  If you know Mormon theology, you’d know that the Holy Ghost isn’t considered omnipresent.  (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/doctrines-of-the-gospel-student-manual/5-the-holy-ghost?lang=eng), so, how exactly can the Holy Ghost testify to your Mormon missionary when he’s busy testifying to other Mormon missionaries thousands of miles away in different time zones?

And, it’s not like we Catholics don’t have this problem, too.  A good example is the Radical Catholic Reactionaries, who think we should only go to the Latin Mass.  NOW, I have nothing wrong with the Latin Mass, but, it being “ancient”, is, one, both, not true, and, two, the modern Latin Mass is actually a revision.  TLM doesn’t stand for Traditional Latin Mass, it stands for TRIDENTINE Latin Mass.  As in, the Council of Trent.  It’s actually not entirely possible to know what the oldest liturgy is (I personally believe it’s some variation of the Syriac Rite), but, “it’s old, therefore, it’s better”, is not a good argument.  Neither is the inverse. 

One last one, is the canon of scripture.  The Bible doesn’t list which books are in The Bible, but, sometimes you will hear that you can figure out which books are in scripture by reading other books in scripture.  But, we don’t know which books are scripture, by definition.  Confused?  Me too. 

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