In today's episode I'll be responding to Protestant apologist Alan PAR's video,

the Catholic Church is promoting the seven dangerous false teachings. I'm not going to respond to the

entire video because in several cases par claims Catholic teaching is

false because it isn't explicitly found in scripture but that assumes sola scriptura

is true and since sola scriptura is not explicitly found in scripture, we can ignore those objections.

Instead, I'm going to focus on the parts of PAR's video where he says Catholic doctrine contradicts scripture,

or where he makes positive arguments against Catholicism.

So let's get started.

First, here's an objection he offers to the practice of seeking the intercession of the Saints.

The first problem is this implies that some people's prayers are more powerful than other people's prayers

or more powerful than other people's prayers.

And I personally don't think that the Bible makes the distinction and says, okay, you know what, if you can get a dead saint like Peter or Paul or Mary to pray or intercede for you, then that person's prayer is somehow stronger.

This says in James Chapter 5, verse 16,

confess your sins to each other and pray for each other

so that you may be healed.

And notice it says this,

the earnest prayer of a saint,

no, the earnest prayer of a senior pastor,

no, it says the earnest prayer of a righteous person

has great power and produces wonderful results.

So any person, whether they are the senior pastor

or they are a deacon or whoever they are,

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