Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I'm Cy Kelle at your host.

Thank you so much for being with us today in studio with Carla Bousard, the author of a couple of books including Meeting the Protestant

challenge and we take some challenges from that book today.

Hello, Carla.

Hey, Sine.

So these are challenges just to reset for folks who may not be familiar with the book.

These are challenges that Protestants make that we as Catholics are obliged to answer

because they come from scripture and we agree with

Protestants that you can't be teaching things that contradict scripture.

Amen. The challenge takes the form of how can the church teach X when the Bible says Y.

So our Protestant friends are appealing to certain biblical passages that they think undermine or contradict what we teach or to state it differently

appealing to certain teachings that we profess that we teach as Catholics and

beliefs that we hold to that seem to contradict some biblical passage.

And that's a challenge that we are required to meet

as Catholics, because if we're going to believe anything,

it at least can't contradict sacred scripture.

Because we do believe the Bible is the inspired word of God.

Which is not the same as saying the Bible is the sole rule of faith.

We're just saying that nothing can contradict the Bible because it is a things that we know that. of faith yeah right it's a means of transmitting God's divine revelation

all right so let me give you the challenge how can the Catholic church teach that we

need a magisterium a living teaching authority. When John says in the first letter of St. John, 1 John chapter 2

verse 27 that we have no need for a man to teach us since the Holy Spirit will teach us.

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