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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ZZjfMSWKc Transubstantiation is the doctrine or belief in which the elements of communion or the Lord's Supper or the Lord's table supernaturally transform into the real physical body and blood of Jesus Christ during Mass. This view is uniquely held by the Roman Catholic Church but some form of “real presence” - as it's called - is held by Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans and some Anglican churches. The Calvinist reformed tradition believes in a real spiritual presence but not one of substance so most of the remaining Protestant traditions don't believe in any real presence at all, either spiritual or physical, but they believe that the Eucharist is a memorial and a proclamation of Christ's work on the cross.  In 1545 AD, the Roman Catholic Council of Trent at Session 8…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqb4xoF14Sg Tonight, both sides will present the evidence for and against the practice of confession. John’s guests are Fr. Mitchell Pacwa, an ordained Roman Catholic Priest who is a member of the Society of Jesus—a Jesuit. He has an earned Doctor of Philosophy degree and is currently a professor at Loyola University in Chicago. John’s second guest is Protestant scholar Dr. Walter Martin, Director and Founder of the Christian Research Institute in California.  Ankerberg: We’re talking about some of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, and specifically, “How can your sins be forgiven?” After a Roman Catholic has been baptized and come into the Roman Catholic Church, if he commits a mortal sin, he must come back and regain his salvation—his justifying grace that was obliterated when he committed…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4qcm_Y47w Let me read you another thing because this really bothers me: Indulgences are dispensed from “a treasury entrusted by Christ to the blessed Peter and his successors Christ vicars on earth, to distribute to the faithful for their salvation.” Volume 1 page 70 That says that when Christ left the earth, he gave Peter this treasury of merits of the saints and Peter could dispense that couple by couple to worthy people and thus “distribute to the faithful for their salvation”. Where does stuff get into that treasury from? In case we didn't know, they explain that the treasury includes the prayers and good works of the blessed Virgin Mary plus the prayers and good works of all the saints who attained their own salvation. The bible says we…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNwijQ3g90 Today's topic is penance and works. Do we earn forgiveness or eternal life? Our Roman Catholic friends believe that we need to do an act or acts of  penance to have our sins forgiven. In an excerpt from the Catholic catechism, under the Sacrament of Penance, it says “There remains, however, some indebtedness to divine justice which must be canceled here or hereafter. In order to have it canceled here, the pennant receives from his confessor what is usually called his “penance”, usually in the form of certain prayers which is he is to say or to do certain actions which are be performed such as visits to a church, the stations of the cross, alms deeds, fasting, prayer are the chief means of satisfaction, but other penitential works…