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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, October 6th, 2021. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we are talking about why Catholicism is the true version of Christianity. And today,

we are going to dive into one of the biggest

differences between the Catholic Church and many of the Protestant Christian churches.

And we are going to call this argument that Jesus left to church when he ascended back into heaven.

He did not just leave a Bible.

He left us a church.

Now, to understand why this argument is so important,

you need to know that for many Christian denominations,

they believe that the Bible, the written word of God, is the only authority,

just the Bible.

And for many of them, they believe that if you have a relationship with Jesus and if you're

reading the word, that you should come to any sort of truth or conclusions that you

might come to, that you should really just trust the Bible. But what I want you to realize

is that when Christ was here on earth, we see one little story where he writes in the sand in front of a woman that is about

to be stoned. But do we ever hear about him writing anything else? No. Of course, we have

Holy Scripture, which we value and should be reading often. But the one thing that Christ did before he went back up into heaven

is he trained and he commissioned a group of people who we know as the apostles.

In fact, one person in particular, St. Peter, he told him, quote, you are the rock upon which I

will build my church. He also gave Peter authority to teach, authority to lead and to teach.

So this is what Christ did. He founded a church. And that church started

with St. Peter and the apostles. What's interesting, he didn't say, go and write things down,

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