Welcome back to Seamus Bopery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And on Thursday, Wes Huff released a video called Six Reasons Why I'm Not Roman Catholic. Now, I am grateful to him for making the video for a few different reasons. First, despite our theological differences, I think West does a lot of good, and I think that he's a man of goodwill who has a desire to serve the Lord. Second, as he points out, he's never really done a video directly addressing Catholic

Protestant issues except on the canon of scripture of video I've responded to previously.

So it's nice to hear his thinking laid out in a more nuanced and straightforward manner.

And third, in my own subjective opinion, Wes' video is one of the best why I'm not Catholic-type

videos. And for a really specific reason, he's engaging

with Catholic teaching in a thoughtful and a charitable way. His video is a good model for how to

disagree charitably. I suspect there are going to be a lot of reaction videos to Wes's video from

other Catholics. Sean Hiller has already done a point-by-point response. I'm going to link that

in the description. And I know that my friend and Catholic answer's colleague, Trent Horn, is planning on responding at some point.

Now, having been on the other side of things, having made videos which produce a lot of replies, I know that can feel overwhelming at times.

Now, I suspect I speak for a lot, maybe most Catholics, in saying we really do appreciate Wes's

kind, thoughtful, charitable engagement. And so my own hope and prayer is that Catholics,

both in videos and in comments, will respond with that same Christian spirit. Now, ultimately,

Wes points to two major reasons for being what he calls a convictional Protestant.

But I wanted to take the time and

stipulate why I'm a Protestant, why I am not a Roman Catholic in particular, because I get a lot

of comments that say things like Wes, I can't believe with all of your study of scripture and church

history, you still remain Protestant.

And so I wanted to lay out the reasons why that is. The short answer is that it's because

of my study of scripture and church history that I am a convictional Protestant. But there's

obviously things that need to be teased out there.

He then lays out his major reasons for not being Catholic.

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