Welcome back to Shemis Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And this is the first episode I've recorded since I did my debate with Ryan from needgod.net on Sunday. So I wanted to cover a few of the things. Anytime you do a debate, there's always like some stuff where afterwards you say, oh, I wish I'd spent more time on that or I wish there'd been more time to cover this topic. And this was no different.

I think the debate went really well. I still think there were some things I would have liked

to cover in greater depth, partly because I was under the impression we were going to debate

the resolution about whether baptism saves, whereas Ryan seemed to want to debate faith alone

instead. And I understand there's a connection between baptism saving you and

faith alone. And I want to explore that and then explore a few of the other areas. And I'm not going to

cover everything. So, you know, for example, one of the notable moments was when Ryan denied

that the latter half of Mark 16 was actually part of the Bible.

Mark 1660, do you think it should be taken out of the Bible?

Well, it's just not in the Bible.

And I think there's a really powerful case to be made there that he's showing the problem with Seles Scriptura.

I've been told for like a year now after pointing out that, you know, the church having infallible authority

is really important for determining the canon of Scripture that this is a ridiculous Catholic argument

and we can know this, you know, the canon from Scripture alone.

And here I go debating the canon and saying, hey, look, here's what Jesus says about belief in baptism in

Mark 1616, and he just says, you know, modern secular scholars don't accept it as valid,

so not part of the Bible. And I would just suggest there's probably more to be said about that.

But I'm not going to cover that other than what you've just heard. Here, I'm going to

instead look primarily at the arguments that he makes about justification, because, again, this was

not the point of the debate. But I want to cover that as well as this idea of whether baptism is

a work, which is closely related, of course, and then pitting faith against baptism, maybe some tools about how

we misread scripture sometime, and then the arguments from silence. And we'll get into all of that

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