Welcome back to Samus Bopery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And today, I want to look at a video recently made by Ashley Hayes critiquing what she claims Catholicism teaches. If you're not familiar with her, she's got more than 100,000 followers on YouTube, more than 300,000 on Instagram, more than 600,000 followers on TikTok. And she's using each of those platforms to preach the same message, namely that Catholicism is a false

religion. And she's clear that she's doing this because she wants Catholics to be saved

and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now, as a Catholic, I share that desire. I also

want Catholics and everybody else to have the fullness of the faith and to hold on to the

truth about Jesus Christ and about his church.

So I thought it might be worthwhile to take a closer look at some of her claims.

Now, some of those claims are common objections.

The idea that Catholic teachings on the papacy, Mary, justification, and purgatory are unbiblical.

Those have all been answered many times before.

So while I'll touch on them a little bit, I'm not going to spend as much time on those arguments. Instead, I want to focus on the arguments that Ashley,

I hope it's so capable of that, makes that you might not have heard before. Because she doesn't just think that Catholics are wrong. She claims that Catholicism is a system that is formed

intentionally to keep the masses living in sin away from what saves

them, you know, and all the while feeling religious and saved.

So her argument is that Catholics don't just interpret the Bible differently than she does,

but that we do this because we've been duped by a system that intentionally leads people to hell.

Now, she claims the distinctive features of Catholicism are due to the Emperor Constantine

and to ancient Babylonian mystery religions.

So, what is the truth?

And do the Catholic doctrines that she's talking about really contradict the Word of God as she claims?

Let's start with her foundational claim.

Her insistence that all of our doctrines must come from Scripture and from Scripture alone.

Our doctrine should come from the Scriptures, nothing else. Not what man teaches, not what

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