A Baptist Pastor’s 30-Year Quest for the Church of the Bible (w/ Scott Oakland)

As a son, grandson, nephew and cousin of sincere and faithful Baptist Pastors, I also became a Catholic after reading and studying the Church Fathers.

Wonderful testimony of Gods faithfulness God bless you all 🙏💕

I’m so taken with gladness holy contentment when I listen to convert stories to the One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of Traditional Teachings and Worship All Glories of Glories All Exaltation of Exaltations and High Praises to the All Holy Trinity yeah Amen 🙏

As a Christian, the further we get from our roots eventually our roots are a long way from our Christian. Jesus only left us one Church, He called it, “My Church”. He placed leaders and teachers and it was given the keys to the Kingdom, the power to loosen and to bind and to forgive sins. It took 300 years for its adherents to reach a time when world leaders stopped killing them and it has come into today intact, real, and committed today as it was in the beginning to its founder, Jesus Christ, who is still the leader of His Church. Protestants and Satanists fear it and even hate it. Catholics love it because we love Jesus and His Mother and the fact that it is His Church.

It always strikes me as a form of hysterical ludicrous irony when I hear Prots clatter on about the evils of following men. The whole Protestant premise is following the decrees of men using piecemealed tidbits of scripture separated from their context and used to spread division amoung Christians. The Protestants actually see the Catholic Church as a “Mission Field”. We need to make them see a “Welcome Home Field”.

Another book for my book list.... Great guest, many thanks!

Much respect for this gentleman and his ability to approach life with an open mind. One of the earliest written lists of the Bishops of Rome that i know of “Against Heresy” book 3 chapter 3 by Ireneaus about 180 AD. The only written scripture that I know of regarding the king’s “Al Habayit” who is over the house and holds the keys to the king’s household is in Isaiah 22 and Matt 16.

There is a Baptist preacher convert to the Faith that became a priest that would be a great guest for your show. I went to Birmingham AL for an INDYCAR race and attended the Mass at St Theresa in Leeds. It is in the top two new masses I’ve ever been too. Fr Bean is his name and I think you could find his contact at the parish website.

Catholics who grew up after the 1970 were and are very poorly educated in the faith. The church never should have done away with The Baltimore Catechism. It was a very effective way to teach . It had questions and answers. Unfortunately, the church now uses a very shallow, feel good educational material.

I was drawn to this video by the guest's journey, because he spent some time in the LCMS and I am an LCMS Lutheran. I have journeyed from Catholicism (till 28 years old, now 68) and been non-denominational, Methodist, E-Free, Presbyterian, and now Lutheran("real" Lutheran, not "fake" Lutheranism, i.e. ECLA). About 1/4 of my current congregation was Catholic. I know many have gone the opposite direction. This video inspired some questions. If you or some viewers want to respectfully respond, I'd appreciate it. I won't argue with anyone. The early Church Fathers and church are referred to as Catholic. Also, the Bible is reportedly the result of the Catholic church. I find in the LCMS a lot of acceptance of the church Fathers and church councils from prior to the East/West schism. Excluding heretical groups, there was only one church as best I can figure. Orthodoxy and my Lutheranism believe the Fathers and early church are my spiritual ancestry as much as they are Catholicism's. Am I missing something?

Saying there is no evidence for sola Scriptura in the early Church is not an argument from silence; that's just pointing out a lack of evidence. Saying there was no bishop of Rome merely because Ignatius of Antioch doesn't mention a bishop by name is an argument from silence (and against the evidence we do have from Ignatius, Irenaeus, etc.).

What about the heterodox Fiducia Suplicans edict? Why is the RCC hierarchy silencing conservative Catholic priests who publicly repudiate the Fiducia Suplicans edict?

More questions. I would like to know about the other sources of God's truth in addition to God's Word? If there is oral truth that was/is handed down, where is that found today? Everything that comes from the Magisterium and Councils isn't written down? Do the church Fathers totally agree with everything that is Catholic today? Or can Fathers be found that contradict some of Catholicism?

My understanding is that every Bishop is given a list of who directly ordained them all back to their specific Apostle.

St. Ignatius an apostle of St. John: (107 A.D.) “Where there is Jesus Christ there is the CATHOLIC church.” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans 8:2) (110 A.D.) “Repent and return into the unity of the church, follows a SCHISM he shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.” (Avoid Schismatics 3:2, 3:3, 4:1, 4) (412 A.D.) St. Augustine: “Whoever is separated from this Catholic Church the wrath of God rests upon him.” (Letters 141:5)

What gets written down is more important. That's why the Tradition got written down early by the apostolic fathers and their early successors. We got to stop deemphasizing the written as Catholics. Don't let Protestants think Catholic teachings only got written down centuries later.

Always HAVING NOT THE SPIRIT!

The further I get into this video, the more questions. The guest speaks of the Godly Orthodox and the Godly people he knew and knows of in his Baptist background. Are they saved outside of the Catholic church? As an ex-Catholic who is a Christian, I've been told repeatedly that I am almost certainly damned because I am not Catholic and not invincibly ignorant. Is my orthodox faith of no value without the Catholic church?

I think it's part of the protestant culture, not necessarily the American culture. The cultural essence of protestantism is distinctly rebellious.

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 KJV For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14. For the body is not one member, but many. 15. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16. And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18. But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19. And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20. But now are they many members, yet but one body. 21. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: 23. And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. 24. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: 25. That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 26. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. 27. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.