Welcome back to Shemis Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. Many of you may be familiar with the Instagram account,

Bible and Context. It's run by a guy by the name of Patrick O'Brien, and he's built a large following attacking Catholic teaching. He's called the Rosary Demos, said praying to saints is communicating with demons, and even called the Eucharist blasphemy. So needless to say, no fan of Catholicism.

He also recently shared a tweet praising a video made by Mike Jendron, a prominent ex-Catholic.

Now, I've in the past pointed out where I think Jendron is being dishonest, both in his personal testimony and in false claims he's made about Catholic teaching. And I'll link to the two videos I've made in the description below, as well as the end of this video. But today I want to focus on something else. Patrick has actually responded to some of my

videos and I want to focus on something else.

Patrick has actually responded to some of my videos, and I wanted to respond to three of his

replies.

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So with that said, let's look at the first of the three topics, baptism. I've pointed out before

that when Jesus says in John 3, that we must be born of water in the spirit, the earliest Christians

rightly recognize this as a reference to baptism.

But Patrick claims this is just proof of my indoctrination.

The reason Roman Catholics think that way is because they have been indoctrinated by different

commentary books like this one, where it says things like this.

The Council of Trent declared in 1547 that John 3-5 refers to baptism.

There it is, it settled. But Everett Ferguson, a non-Catholic scholar, has pointed out in his book

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