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🗓️ 9 December 2025
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“Is unwritten apostolic teaching unreliable?” This question opens a discussion on the reliability of oral traditions in the Catholic faith. The conversation also touches on uncontested apostolic beliefs beyond Scripture and whether all oral traditions eventually became part of Scripture, providing a comprehensive look at the role of tradition in Catholic teaching.
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| 0:33.2 | So we're talking about Solar Scriptura. |
| 0:36.1 | This is a big one. |
| 0:42.2 | Where you come down on Solar Scriptura pretty much tells you which seat you'll be sitting in on Sunday. |
| 0:49.9 | If you're going to be sitting a seat at the Catholic Church, you're going to come down against Soliscriptura or in the Orthodox churches. |
| 0:55.2 | But if you come down in favor, you're probably be sitting in a Protestant pew on Sunday. |
| 0:57.6 | So we've got to keep talking about this one. |
| 1:05.1 | We've got to keep working through our arguments and our dialogue and hoping to come to some clarity with one another on these things. |
| 1:07.2 | We did a lot of them already. |
| 1:09.6 | I've really enjoyed this conversation. |
| 1:13.2 | It's fascinating to get into it. And so I have to say, sometimes I like the way that you answer sometimes you're like, well, it's like here's |
| 1:18.6 | the caricature of the Protestant position, but the Protestant position is actually more subtle |
| 1:22.7 | than that. I think that's something Catholics need to get in the habit of. Don't make a caricature of a Protestant. |
| 1:30.2 | Try to understand what they're actually saying. |
| 1:32.8 | Yeah, I agree 100%. |
| 1:34.5 | And I think this is due to sort of a pop Catholic apologetics to where Catholics are informed as to what Protestants think and believe based upon what Catholic |
| 1:47.3 | apologists are saying. And I've been guilty of this. We just take for granted, right? Like, |
| 1:52.8 | that's what a Protestant believes. But then when you go and actually read Protestant apologists |
| 1:58.0 | and what they say and how they counter Catholic arguments, you come to realize that many times their positions, as you stated, are more subtle than what we have been led on to think. |
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