#12656 How Can I Believe in the Trinity? Why Aren’t You Catholic? - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How can I believe in the Trinity?” This question opens a discussion on the complexities of faith, including concerns about conversion from Protestantism and the potential conflict with family beliefs. Other topics include the challenges of Catholic practices versus dogma and the significance of adoration in the conversion process.
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Questions Covered:
- 07:28 – I need help believing in the Trinity.
- 18:44 – I was raised Protestant and my parents are anti-Catholic. Would it be dishonoring my parents to convert?
- 29:02 – I’m not Catholic because of how Catholicism is practiced and not necessarily about dogma.
- 35:07 – My one hang up to convert is adoration.
- 50:07 – Is there any connection between Matthew 7:24-27 and Matthew 16:18?
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| 0:32.3 | Catholic Answers live, Joe Heschmeyer, our guest, Why aren't you Catholic? |
| 0:36.6 | That is what we are asking, |
| 0:38.5 | and a bunch of people have called to tell us there's one line open. So you could be one of those |
| 0:43.2 | people if you're not a Catholic, 888-3187-884. Joe, the thing I was trying to tell you at the break, |
| 0:50.4 | I told Joe I'll tell them this on the air because I didn't have time time to tell during the |
| 0:54.4 | break. Our supercomputer genius here, Luke, he has somehow programmed, I swear, this is not a joke. |
| 1:03.5 | I'm not joking you. This is not an April Fool's or something. He has programmed his computer |
| 1:09.6 | to search through every episode ever made of Catholic Answers Live and to find any instance in which Joe made a pun. And the computer is— Are you serious? This is amazing. The computer is cranking away at this. I don't even know if I was supposed to tell you that. He'll probably go, why did you tell him? There's going to be a surprise. I was so excited about that. This is the best April. But he's such a genius, this Luke. And I shouldn't say that because we'll lose him. Somebody will take, but he can get the computer to do it. Like he can. Oh, no. I mean, if they meet Luke, they'll understand why a man of his level of talent still works with us. The only reason Luke works with us |
| 1:44.8 | is that he loves Jesus |
| 1:46.6 | because he's got a mind his level of talent still works with us. The only reason Luke works with us is that he loves Jesus, |
| 1:46.9 | because he's got a mind that he could just, you know, |
| 1:50.0 | he could just go to Silicon Valley and buy us, |
| 1:52.3 | but he loves Jesus, so he works here, |
| 1:54.6 | and how he is programming his... |
| 1:57.0 | That is a very funny... |
| 2:00.0 | This is, look, guys, when you're wanting to donate Remember, we're using your hard-term dollars Do you program a computer? I don't think we are using hard, dude. I think Luke just does this stuff for fun. And then he's going to make, he's going to make reels of you with your puns. He's going to make pun wheels. Yeah, I'll be reeling. All right. |
| 2:18.3 | Sye is up in, or over in Shelby County, Illinois. |
| 2:22.3 | You know what? Speaking of bad puns, you made a remark that I think should be shared, that his name is Josiah, and he chose to go by Sye rather than Joe, and you felt like this meant something. |
| 2:32.3 | Well, I, I, I, well, I just, oh, that was Edgar. It's probably, it's probably, I'm not saying it's hero worship, but you know what I'm saying. I'm not saying that, but I'm not, size 17 years old. I've never had a collar hang up on the host, but I'm curious. Oh's going to be Oh, I have. I have collars hang up on the host. |
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