Matt Slick and the Apostles

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I think I was the one he was answering when he said that
 
Slick Matt hates the Catholic Church. No more complicated than that. He makes his millions selling hatred and division, not unity. He is mediocre at best. There are others far better than him - but they are still 100% wrong.

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Jesus Christ says that those who believe and are baptized will be saved. Slick Matt replies: “Did Jesus say that? No! You do not need baptism. Just believe…”

Since Slick Matt directly opposes both the scriptures and our Lord Jesus, who on earth should listen to him?
 
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(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) is this not Matt Slick??
 
StRaphaelPray4Us said:
You have the opportunity to watch YouTube videos by Bishop Robert Barron, Fr Mike Schmitz, and Professor Scott Hahn- spend your online time learning from them instead of watching anti-Catholic videos. Proverbs 1:5 comes to mind- “The wise by hearing them will advance in learning, the intelligent will gain sound guidance”.
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I have to agree, especially since the OP’s past threads show a pattern of seeking out non-Catholic or even anti-Catholic sources and then coming back here and asking what Catholics think of them.

There’s not much we can say about anti-Catholic material coming from some Youtube video poster saying the same old criticisms and misinformation. There are many CAF threads, apologetics articles, etc already posted answering and refuting his claims. Matt Slick is not somehow special or making new and unanswered arguments. He’s just more of the same tired old stuff.
 
Hope, stop doing this to yourself. It’ seems to me it’s becoming an obsession for you to seak out the most anti-Catholic things and then worry about them.

“For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.” Phil 4:8 ----- Search out the good stuff not the hateful stuff. Posters above have given you many good ideas.
 
Camehome4john6 said:
Hope, stop doing this to yourself. It’ seems to me it’s becoming an obsession for you to seak out the most anti-Catholic things and then worry about them.
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I’ve made this very petition to the OP to no avail. She has a very clear pattern and constantly returning here for reassurance is not helping.
 
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Have you read the life of St John Paul II? He performed numerous miracles AND he was confident that his prayers would cause miracles and they did many times.

Pope Francis has laid hands on a few people who have been healed as well.
 
Hope1960 said:
I was watching part of a YouTube video today with Matt Slick. He said something about that if our Pope is a successor to the Apostles and the Apostles could perform signs and miracles, then our Pope should be able to perform signs and miracles. His reasoning is that since he can’t, he’s not really their successor. What is the answer to that assertion?
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The Holy Father is deeply invested in the miracle of the Eucharist every day.

However, I would say that it is a miracle that the Popes continue to love our separated brethren, despite their maligning and disparaging remarks, and pray for the conversion and unity of the Church daily.

There are no accounts of Matthias, Timothy, and Titus, who are recorded in the New Testament as successors to the Apostles, working any miracles. That does not mean it did not happen. Such an argument is a classic argumentum ad ignorantiam (an appeal to ignorance) in which ignorance represents “a lack of contrary evidence”. This argument is a logical fallacy since a negative cannot be proven, or disproven. One cannot “prove” anything when evidence is lacking.

Therefore, although the New Testament clearly states that Matthias, Timothy, and Titus are successors of the Apostles, since there is no evidence that they performed any miracles, then it must be a false claim.

The other logical fallacy is that miracles are “proof” of Apostolic succession. Scripture clearly states that the Holy Spirit moves as He will, and therefore, no person has any claim or right to expect that the Holy Spirit provide such “proof” by demand of Matt Slick, or anyone else.
 
GospelOfMatthew said:
This is disgusting similar to Matthew 12:38

”Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

Also John 6:30

”So they asked him, "What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?”
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And I would add to this:

“But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” Matthew 12:39

Why does Matt want to be in league with an evil and adulterous generation?
 
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There is no reasoning with people like Slick, or Chick.

Any serious theological question brought up by the Protestant reformers has been answered already.

Much—most?—of the ‘new’ attacks against the Catholic Church, in the YouTube ‘look at me, I have a channel and therefore a voice’ community, totally ignore history.

Meaning, they think that their fundamentalist and non-denomination sects have always existed, when in reality, they were born in 1517 at the earliest.
 
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MiserereMei25 said:
You have petitioned this I am in agreement.
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I would like to add my petition!

@Hope1960 Looking for anti-Catholic rhetoric and bringing it to CAF is not conducive to spiritual growth.
Hope1960 said:
I’m sure your question was rhetorical but he thinks he knows all and on his show, begs people to argue with him.
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Well, if you want to feed into it, perhaps you can go to one of his media outlets, instead of bringing the argument here?
 
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There is no reasoning with people like Slick, or Chick.

Any serious theological question brought up by the Protestant reformers has been answered already.

Much—most?—of the ‘new’ attacks against the Catholic Church, in the YouTube ‘look at me, I have a channel and therefore a voice’ community, totally ignore history.
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He even said that making the sign of the cross is superstition. Now, I don’t know why we do it, but since I’ve been doing it practically my whole life, praying without making a sign of the cross seems empty, like something important is missing.
 
guanophore said:
I would like to add my petition!

@Hope1960 Looking for anti-Catholic rhetoric and bringing it to CAF is not conducive to spiritual growth.
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I would like to charitably also add my petition.

Hope1960, we all would like to see you stay a Catholic. This running around checking out all kinds of non-Catholic/ anti-Catholic this and that and asking us what we think is going nowhere though. It’s not helpful to you, spiritually, and we have nothing new to add to what we’ve already said.
 
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