Shameless Popery

Joe looks at the position of Sabbitarians, and their claim that Emperor Constantine instituted worship on Sundays.
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JOE:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And why do Christians worship on Sunday? Is it because of something that Jesus did or because of something that Constantine did? In other words, was Sunday chosen because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ or was it chosen as a way of compromising with Roman pagans in the fourth century? You might be convinced you already know the answer to this question, but I hope you’ll give me the opportunity t...

Joe looks at three takeaways from Rhett McLaughlin’s deconstruction.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to do something a little bit different today. If you are like me, there’s a good chance that in the good old days of YouTube you watched a fair amount of Rhett and link, and one of the things about Rhett and Link is that both of them, they kind of oozed evangelical Christianity. It was pretty obvious even though they weren’t super open about it, that these were people who came from a Christian background. And sure enough,...

Joe looks at several ways Protestants try to justify their canon and Scripture, and how these standards contradict their canon.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. How do we know which books belong in the Bible? After all, there are seven Old Testament books that are in Catholic and Orthodox bibles that aren’t in Protestant bibles. So how do we know which Bible is right? One solution I’ve heard goes something like this. We know which books belong in the Old Testament by looking at which books Jesus treated his scripture. In the New Testament...

Joe explains how many apologists from different perspectives fall into the trap of what he coins the “Counterfeit Argument.” Learn how to spot and disarm this common logical fallacy.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I want to answer a kind of argument that I hear used to argue against Catholicism, to argue against church councils and the Pope, to argue against Christianity itself, to argue against the Bible, to argue against even the existence of God. And you’ll hear this argument in different forms, sometimes by Protestants, so...

Joe counters the common Protestant objection to the Catholic Eucharist, citing that Paul calls the Eucharist “bread,” so the meal must only be bread.
1 Corinthians 10:16-17
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And while Catholics and Orthodox believe that the bread and wine in the Eucharist become the body and blood of Jesus Christ, many Protestants argue that the Lord’s supper is symbolic and the bread and wine remain bread and wine. And for many Protestants in this second camp, they’re going to point to the words of St. Paul in ...