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account of some heinous sin he commits with physical death. But the punishment is not going to be spiritual death. Therefore, it's non-deadly because he's already born again and he's secure in his salvation. But notice that's an assumption in the text and that's an assumption that we would challenge

uld you pray for uh Pope Francis?" And I've I've seen people make that, you know, gotcha over and over again. I actually I genuinely worry about that. Like, if if you're a Protestant saying this, are you telling me you don't pray for the people set in authority over you in your church, and your deno

h whatever back flips you want, but that passage is quite clearly about people who come to know Christ are ransomed by him. They are washed. They are brought into knowledge of the truth. They are, in other words, saved. And then they end up worse than before they ever got saved because they've rejec

until the end of the world. Those are the sorts of question Igore that you can invite your friend to begin entertaining and then walk with him and trying to answer those questions. And of course, we have all of the resources at catholic.com for free online. And then we have our Catholicansers bookst

know those texts, but but that the understanding of those texts was universally understood by Protestants and Catholics to be simply the second coming. But the bottom line is John, I think the the key is understanding this began as a misunderstanding of a relatively few biblical texts that talk abou

ange, right? This side of the veil. We just cannot uh fully comprehend what is exactly going to happen. I I like the way John says it in 1 John 3:es 1 and 2. He says, "Brethren, we do not yet know what we shall be, but we know this. We will be like him, for we will see him as he is." In other words,

unsatisfied with your answer because you didn't mention the the kind of the household baptisms from the Acts of the Apostles. So, I want to give you a minute on that. Like, are those do those have value apologetically? that that fact that whole households were baptized uh I think on two occasions or

s to be at home with my wife and five kids? No, it does not because you got to drive home. You might have to stop for gas. Absolutely. I might have to go to Walmart or something groceries because Jacqueline says, "Hey, I need you to go pick up these things at this grocery store." It just means you p

got to say something so the world hears. No, we don't buy that. >> Amen, Dave. I'm with you 100% on that point, brother. >> Yeah, probably a lot of our audience. >> And here's the beauty of being Catholic, Dave, is that we have official church teaching as it sees as it teaches the revelation of Jesu

of in the place that you've been planted and with the tools that you've been given. And so, part of that is going to include knowing like, well, which areas do you just not know well enough or have the desire interest to kind of go down those those rabbit holes. So, I'd say this. Number one, everyon