#12628 Where Do We See the Mass in Acts? Baptism and Confession - Tom Nash
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Where do we see the Mass in Acts of the Apostles?” This question opens a discussion on the early Church’s practices, alongside topics like defending infant baptism against claims of its necessity, and the significance of Jesus’ addition of “mind” in Mark 12:30. The conversation also touches on the reasons behind reluctance to go to confession and the implications of the papacy’s location.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:20 – Where do we see the Mass in Acts of the Apostles?
- 09:38 – How do we defend the baptism of infants? My co-worker says you just need faith and it’s not necessary to baptize babies.
- 17:52 – In Mark 12:30 Jesus quotes the great shema. In Deuteronomy it says to love God with your whole heart, soul, and strength. Why does Mark add the word “mind” to that?
- 22:15 – Why do some people feel reluctant to go to confession?
- 28:39 – Is the papacy so tied to Rome that it could never be somewhere else? If Islam took over Europe could the pope be based somewhere else?
- 31:58 – Why isn’t the book of Maccabees in the King James Bible? I’m trying to talk about the faith with my Seventh Day Adventist family members.
- 41:00 – Mt 10:3 calls James son of Alpheus, and Mk 2:14-17 calls Levi the son of Alpheus. Could they be brothers?
- 44:17 – My grown children think we are living in a simulation. How can I counter this?
- 50:13 – You said the King James did not translate the deuterocan books. But I have two KJV Bibles that include the deuterocanonical books.
- 52:01 – I’ve been getting along with my new coworkers because they are Christian. But today Mary came up and they really attacked Catholic teaching on Mary. What can I say to them?
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| 1:23.6 | If Catholics are right about the mass being there since the very beginning, then shouldn't we see the Mass in Acts of the Apostles? Do we find it there? |
| 1:33.6 | We see it in Acts, the Apostles. We see it elsewhere. People wonder about, for example, in Acts chapter 2, verse 42, it speaks about, and they steadfastfastly they held stepfastly to the apostles |
| 1:47.6 | teaching see so identified with jesus teaching with the apostles that they could call the |
| 1:52.0 | apostles teaching which points to magisterium the teaching authority founded by god and fellowship |
| 1:58.0 | to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers. |
| 2:01.7 | The breaking of the bread is a synonym for the sacrifice of the mass. |
| 2:07.5 | People might say, well, how is that? |
| 2:09.4 | Well, we can look, for example, in Luke chapter 24 on the road to Amas. |
| 2:13.6 | And remember how Jesus, you see the two-fold template of the liturgy of the Mass, that is the |
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