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What Catholic Apologetics Gets Wrong (Protestant Perspective) | Javier Perdomo

June 09, 2025 • Austin Suggs

In this video I'm joined by Javier Perdomo, a former Baptist pastor who became Lutheran and now creates videos about Protestantism on YouTube with special attention given to stories of people who chose traditional Protestantism over Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

You can check out his channel here: youtube.com/@javierperd2604
Javier's Substack: https://substack.com/@javierperd2604

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00:00 - Trends in Protestant Conversions
10:40 - Certainty, Unity, Rootedness
17:03 - Ecclesial Anxiety
27:35 - The Dangers of the Internet
34:00 - "Ecclesialist"
45:30 - Sola Ecclesia
49:20 - Inconsistency in RC apologetics
01:00:00 - Does History support Protestantism?
01:05:15 - Advice for Protestants

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