Father Mike's Bible Claim FALLS APART | Live Free with Josh Howerton
5/6/202637 min
Who decided which books are in your Bible? Pastor Paul Cunningham responds to Father Mike Schmitz's case for the Apocrypha, walking through the historical record, early church fathers, and the canon that Jesus himself recognized and quoted. This isn't an attack, it's a careful, evidence-based conversation about one of the most consequential questions in all of Christianity: which books are truly the Word of God? From Jerome's own doubts about the books he translated, to what the Dead Sea Scrolls actually reveal, to the stunning detail hidden in Matthew 23, this episode gives you the biblical and historical confidence to know why the 66 books of the Protestant Bible are simply THE Bible. In this episode, you'll learn: What the Apocrypha is and why Catholics and Protestants have different Bibles Why the earliest Christians (centuries before Martin Luther) debated the Apocrypha What Jesus actually quoted as Scripture and why it matters enormously Why even Jerome, the man who translated the Catholic Bible, rejected the Apocrypha as authoritative How to have gracious, informed conversations with Catholic friends about the canon Stand firm. Think biblically. Live free. 🧢 Want a Live Free hat of your own? Visit LiveFree.shop 📲 Looking to grow deeper in your faith? Check out the Lakepointe App to access our Discipleship Guide, daily Bible reading plan, and more. Text APP to 20411 to download
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First 90 secondsPaul Cunningham· Guest0:00
I don't wanna presume to say, "Thus saith the Lord," if the Lord has not in fact thus saith. If I get it wrong, I'm gonna end up believing things and living in ways that God doesn't want me to. So the stakes are actually pretty high, and I believe that's what happens with the Apocrypha.
Josh Howerton· Host0:14
Hey, Live Free Nation. Uh, this is an introduction to a bonus episode. Um, by the way, if you find these bonus episodes helpful, this is a bit of a test drive, so if you find them helpful, if you would head over to YouTube and comment on this, very frankly, that lets us know that this is helpful and it makes us go, "Oh, we should keep doing this." Um, here's what's gonna happen. I'm introducing Chad G. Paulcy, who is gonna be responding to Father Mike, whose podcast we can never beat, yet, uh, uh, on the difference between the Protestant and the Catholic Bible. This is not to inflame, uh, tension or division or hatred between Protestants and Catholics. This is simply a question that we receive so frequently about something that is very foundational to our faith. Why does the Catholic Bible have seven more books in it than the Protestant Bible? And what you're about to hear is Father Mike explaining the, uh, a lot of the Catholic reasons for that, and Chad G. Paulcy gently and systematically deconstructing those things. Without further ado, Chad G. Paulcy.
Paul Cunningham· Guest1:18
What's up, Live Free Nation? Well, hey, piggybacking on what Pastor Josh just said, like, for my Catholic friends out there, this is not in any way an attack. Um, it's a response to a question we get all the time