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  *Click on the links of the times below to skip to that topic 0:00 Introduction: Why I'm making this video 2:30 Why this video? Responding to a local anti-Catholic Protestant friend 5:20 Detachment in apologetics 5:50 Predestination 7:10 Start of the topic: Catholic Tradition 10:00 Why practice apologetics and evangelization? 12:30 Teach and think with the Church; Vincentian Canon 14:30 Church vs sola scriptura and the Reformation 18:15 What do I need to KNOW, what do I need to DO, as a Christian? 19:45 How can I understand what I'm reading in the Scriptures, unless someone who KNOWS, teaches me? 21:00 Standing on the shoulders of giants 22:10 Interpreting the Bible in the context of 2000 years of ancient Christian belief and practice 23:25 When you listen to the interpretation of your pastor you aren't accepting the "Bible Alone", you are subscribing to some form of "tradition" 25:25 Catholic Tradition or Protestant Tradition, take your...

Preface: I've studied apologetics for many years after returning to Catholicism in the early 2000's. I wrote blogs, and responded to possibly hundreds of questions for the years I was an active apologist on Xanga . I haven't really kept up with the practice for over ten years. The exchange below is a discussion I've found myself in as I have been publishing more videos on Youtube as of late, and this has sparked a resurgence of comments in my once "practically defunct" Youtube channel. Reformed Baptist James White has accused Catholics of "sola ecclesia" for many years in response to the Catholic critique of the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura . In a debate on the issue of scripture between three Catholics and three Protestants, Patrick Madrid used the argument of " prima Scriptura " as a way of explaining the MO of the Catholic. I asked the other debater on the team, Robert Sungenis , on his view of "prima Scriptura" used...