Catholics and Protestants disagree on some theological issues, but there's one issue that it absolutely

boggles my mind that we disagree about because Catholics are correct. Now, what is that issue?

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I mean, how can you disagree with that, even if you're not Catholic? But in all seriousness, I did a poll recently,

and I asked the viewers of this channel what religion they belong to, and 30% of the 43,000 respondents were non-Catholic Christians, most of whom I assume are Protestant. So I'm glad that all of you

watch this channel and for your support that makes it possible. It's why I want to be as fair as

possible in giving my reasons for why I'm not Protestant.

So the doctrine I'll talk about in today's episode is so obviously true

that many of my Protestant audience members probably agree with,

but it also seems like a fair number of Protestants don't agree with it.

And that is the teaching on the inequality of sin.

Some sins are worse than others and have worse effects on our relationship with God.

In Catholic theology, we make a distinction between venial sin that harms our relationship with God

and mortal sin that severs this relationship.

Lutherans also believe in mortal sin. They just have a more

ambiguous concept of which particular sins are mortal, as Lutheran scholar Jordan Cooper explains.

Yes, Lutherans do actually believe in mortal sin. Scripture is very clear that there is the

possibility of being cut off from Christ and removing yourself from Christ by living in unrepentantant.

When we talk about mortal sin, we are speaking about sin that is continual and unrepentant

that drives out faith. And so, yes, it is certainly the case that there are certain sins that you

give in to that are more likely to do that. But we don't give an exact list of what sins are mortal and what sins are venial. Many Protestants don't believe in

the concept of mortal sin, but they probably believe there are two types of sin, little sins

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