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Brian Holdsworth Doesn't Understand Either Protestantism or Catholicism

In this video, I respond to Brian Holdsworth's video "A Question Protestants Can't Answer" -- See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I05643Pbxo He argues that, for Catholics, God offers us a "peace treaty", in which, when we have faith, we are put in a "probationary period", in which we're put into a "probationary friendship" of God but there's a "residue of estrangement" still, and we have "suffering and death" left fully in tact as the consequence of sin. Why? "Because God's mercy does not exclude his justice"--which, Brian argues, is seen in suffering and death as instances of "some measure of estrangement from God." He says "if we're already saved and destined for heaven, why don't we go straight to heaven?" Here's the problem: the Catechism of the Catholic Church in paragraph 1263, *all punishments* of sin are taken away. While certain consequences remain, as Brian says, yet all of sin's punishments--temporal and eternal--are utterly wiped away. That sin's consequences (e.g. illness, death, suffering) remain even for the Baptized was never disputed by the Reformers or Protestants in general (since, obviously, Christians die). Thus, when you are Baptized, you are put into a state of *perfect* friendship with God even on the Roman Catholic view, contrary to what Brian says about a "probationary" period of friendship in which "the residue of alienation" remains. Brian also gets the Protestant view horribly wrong. I've covered it in other videos, and I do so again here. I hope this video and the description here is helpful to you! See also Gavin Ortlund's response here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf3EnFfIspk&t=60

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