Hey everyone, in today's episode, I'll be responding to West Huff's recent video on why he isn't Catholic.

And from the outset, it'll be easy for me to say, I appreciate West Huff's work defending the

foundations of Christianity because I featured him in my previous episode, along with Father

Mike Schmitz, as being the best public witnesses of Christianity today based on holiness,

boldness, and reach of influence. That said, I strongly disagree with his

criticisms of Catholicism. No surprise there. So I'll be addressing those in today's episode,

and to make sure I didn't misunderstand anything in its original video, I sent this script to Wes

for review. Now, he's a very busy guy, so you can only briefly look it over, but it did help in shaping the final episode.

Now, Wes's original video was divided into various sections, so I'll divide my response into three

sections to help us navigate the flow of the conversation. Let's start with part one, the sufficiency

of Scripture. West said Scripture is unique because it's the direct speech of God.

And because of that, scripture has unique authority among believers.

And because of this unique authority, scripture is sufficient to give Christians what God intends to reveal to them.

Now, Wes's view of the sufficiency of scripture is similar to what we might find in the 1689 London Baptist Confession,

which isn't surprising given that Wes is an historic Baptist himself. The confession says,

The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation,

faith and life is either expressly set down or necessarily contained in the Holy Scripture.

Now here's where I disagree with

Wes's argument. First, just because something is unique, that doesn't mean it has supreme authority or even

authority in general. West would agree the church is unique. And scripture says the church is the

pillar and foundation of truth. But West does not believe that because of this, the church is capable of acting

in an infallible way. Now, West may respond by saying that's because while the church is the

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