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#216 Why Isn’t the Bible Enough for Catholics? - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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How can Catholics Church teach “Sacred Tradition” when Jesus teaches that the Bible is the only authority? And how can the Catholic Church teach that good works play a role in our justification when Paul insists that we’re not justified by works? Cy: Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host, delighted to be joined again by Karlo Broussard, apologist here at Catholic Answers, and the author of a wonderful new book, Meeting The Protestant Challenge: How to Answer 50 Biblical Objections to Catholic Beliefs. I say it’s wonderful in part because it’…

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Does the Catholic Church contradict Jesus and Paul on tradition and works?

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Carla Broussard next?

0:09.3

Hello and welcome again to Catholic answers.

0:12.1

Focus, I am Cy Kellett your host

0:14.1

delighted to be joined again by Carlo Broussard apologist here at Catholic answers and the

0:18.5

author of a wonderful new book Meeting the Protestant Challenge how to answer 50 biblical objections to Catholic beliefs.

0:26.0

I say it's wonderful in part because it's the usual lucidity that Carlo gives us, but also

0:30.4

because it's a respectful response to objections that are perfectly legitimate,

0:37.2

that are raised by our Protestant interlocutors.

0:41.6

You said last time, there are two different types of objections

0:44.3

that might be raised regarding the Bible and Cali's you want to just review those two

0:47.8

real quick and almost... Sure yeah two different kinds of challenges. Yeah right.

0:50.9

So the first kind is sort of the older Protestant challenge that was at the center of the resurgence of the modern Catholic apologetics movement within the area of Catholic Protestant dialogue, where's that in the Bible?

1:04.0

Right?

1:04.7

And we have scores of Catholic books and responses to that question,

1:10.2

giving positive biblical evidence to support a variety of Catholic beliefs and doctrine.

1:15.0

However, the challenge that I address in my book is,

1:20.0

how can the Catholic Church teach X when the Bible says Y?

1:25.8

So it's an alleged claim, it's a claim

1:29.0

that a particular Catholic belief contradicts the Bible. Unlike the older challenge, where a Catholic

1:36.4

wasn't necessarily required to meet it because it operates on solar scripture and

1:40.9

that's not a principle we operate on, this challenge demands that a Catholic meet it.

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