Well, greetings. I'm going to try to make this, let's not say as short as possible, and

I realized, wait, line, I'm going to try to be concise. Let's put that way. For those

who don't know me, we're going to put this out on our normal, on our normal feeds, but

I'm really hoping that this video will be viewed by a lot of folks that are not a normal part

of alpha and omega ministries, don't watch the dividing line. And so, let me just very,

very briefly, why would I provide a response to the discussion that took place between

George Farmer and Eli Bestucky in regards to Roman Catholicism and Protestantism? I

did my first formal moderated public debate with a group called Catholic Answers, well-known

Catholic apologists, apologetics organization. In August of 1990, St. Cyprian's Roman Catholic

Church in Long Beach, as I recall, I believe it was August 16, 1990. Since then, I've done

about 35 or 36 moderated public debates with Roman Catholic apologists, Jerry Matatix, Patrick

Medrid, Father Mitchell Paco, we've done five debates over the years, and written a number

of books on the subject, Roman Catholic controversy, and Bethany House publishers. So we've been dealing

with the subject for many decades. And everything in that discussion has been covered in the debates

we have done over the years. And these are not 45-minute debates. They are moderated public

debates. Some of them over three hours in length each. When Jerry Matatix and I debated

the papacy during the papal visit in 1993 in Denver, Colorado, we did three and a half hours

two nights in a row. So that was seven hours on the papacy just in that one particular context.

So I've been engaging the subject for a lengthy period of time. And as such, when I listened

to the conversation, I felt the need to minimally direct people to resources to where they could

maybe get a little more information. Every generation has to deal with these issues,

vast majority of so-called Protestants are Protestants of tradition and taste, not of conviction or

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