#12566 How Do I Prove the Catholic Church Was Founded by God? - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How do I prove the Catholic Church was founded by God?” This question opens a discussion on the Church’s divine origins, addressing challenges such as converting from Oneness Pentecostalism to Catholicism and responding to Protestant friends seeking biblical evidence for Catholic claims. Other topics include the removal of books from the Bible and the doctrine of the papacy.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:25 – How would one convert from Oneness Pentecostalism to Catholicism given how far apart they are from each other?
- 21:30 – My two friends who are protestants. I told them that Catholicism was the only Church founded by God. They asked me to prove it through the bible. How do I respond?
- 29:35 – Why did the reforms feel like they needed to remove books from the bible?
- 37:14 – My Protestant friend asked this: Did Raphael lie to Tobit?
- 49:51 – How do I prove the doctrine of the papacy?
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| 0:17.7 | I'm going right back to the phones. |
| 0:20.3 | We've got six people. We got six lines full of people who called to tell us why they're not Catholic. So we want to help, or not so much help, but we would like to have those conversations. We asked non-Catholics to call. They were good enough to do it. Joe Heschmeier is our guest, |
| 0:38.2 | so we'll get him right on the line with them. Joe's the author of a whole lot of books, including |
| 0:42.3 | a man named Joseph. He's the author of the early church was the Catholic Church. He's the author |
| 0:49.4 | of Pope Peter, of the Eucharist is Really Jesus. Check out all his stuff online. Oh, he's also the guy |
| 0:58.4 | behind Shameless Popery, which is becoming one of the most popular, I'm not, isn't popular |
| 1:06.6 | is the wrong word, one of the most beloved Catholic podcasts in the world. And I think you should |
| 1:13.9 | check it out. If you haven't, Joe has a, there's nobody does quite what Joe does. Now, I'm not |
| 1:20.0 | talking about the puns either. That you, that's, you, you, yeah, sometimes you're grateful that |
| 1:24.7 | I'm the only one who does this. You, you, right, the puns. Right. The puns is not, that's not a selling point. |
| 1:28.8 | It's the really intelligent and engaging way Joe gets into the Catholic stuff with Catholics and non-Catholics. |
| 1:36.8 | So check out shameless popery. |
| 1:38.3 | Please check out shameless popery. |
| 1:40.6 | All right, Joe, I have built you up enough. |
| 1:43.2 | Let's see if you can follow through by talking good. |
| 1:48.6 | Alex, Alex is in Miami, Florida. |
| 1:50.7 | Are all of the calls coming from warm states today just to make everybody else feel bad? |
| 1:54.8 | Everybody else's phones are frozen? |
| 1:56.3 | Yeah, like are the lines frozen? |
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