#12539 Why Don’t Catholics believe in Sola Scriptura? Protestant Challenges - Karlo Broussard
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Why Don’t Catholics believe in Sola Scriptura?” This question opens a discussion on the foundations of Scripture and its authority, touching on related topics such as the Catholic understanding of Sola Scriptura and the sacrament of Confirmation in light of biblical spontaneity. Other questions include assessing the correctness of Catholicism versus Protestantism and the implications of indulgences in the context of original sin.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:40 – One Protestant challenge is that the sacrament of Confirmation conflicts with the Bible reveals about the spontaneity of the Spirit.
- 11:30 – How do I properly assess which Christian belief system is correct, Catholicism or Protestantism?
- 38:13 – Why don’t Catholics believe in Sola Scriptura?
- 49:40 – How can one be free of attachment to sin and receive a plenary indulgence when we are born with original sin?
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| 0:35.9 | Normally Jimmy this hour, and we probably even put it out that Jimmy would be here, but it wasn't feeling well. So Carlo Bursard graciously agreed to step in. And so what's your Protestant challenge is what we want to know today. And it doesn't have to be, you don't have to be Protestant, maybe a Catholic who's facing a Protestant challenge, or you might even be a Catholic who's |
| 0:54.6 | maybe somewhat convinced by a Protestant challenge, and you want to see, you want to test it out |
| 0:59.1 | on Carla, you can do that. But also, you know who has a lot of Protestant challenges for the |
| 1:03.1 | Catholic faith? Protestants? So maybe you are one of our brother or sister Christians who's like, |
| 1:09.4 | I want to challenge you on this or that aspect of the Catholic |
| 1:12.2 | practice, the Catholic faith. 8883187884 is the number. |
| 1:19.0 | 318788-884. |
| 1:22.7 | Dr. Carlo, that's what we're starting to call him around here, because Dr.carlo.com is his new Patreon page. |
| 1:29.3 | We announced that last week. |
| 1:31.0 | A big effort to, I shouldn't say, yeah, yeah, a big effort, a big effort to promote this new effort that he's undertaken to have his own podcast, YouTube channel, all that stuff, all the required things |
| 1:46.9 | for the modern apologies. Welcome, Carlo. |
| 1:50.6 | Side, Kellett. Thanks for having me, man. It's great to be on with you. I'm sorry for Jimmy |
| 1:55.1 | that he's under the weather. I know how he feels. I've been fighting that stuff for quite some time now myself, finally starting to |
| 2:03.0 | feel better. So I'm grateful to be on with you tonight, man. |
| 2:06.7 | Every, you know, we were at half strength all week in this department. |
| 2:11.5 | Oh, yeah. Right now we've got Jeff doing the, doing the audio. And Jeff actually has a job here. He has to run the computer systems here. |
| 2:20.4 | But we're like, sorry if the computer systems go down, buddy, you got to come in and do the audio, |
| 2:26.3 | and he's amenable. He does it. Yeah, everybody's sick all over the place. All right, |
| 2:31.4 | I'll give you a Protestant challenge to start out with. |
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