#12122 Why Should I Take the Church Fathers Seriously If They’re Not Scripture? - Karlo Broussard
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
If the writings of the Church Fathers aren’t part of the Bible, why do they matter? We explore their authority and role in understanding the faith, plus tackle questions about God’s omniscience, Eucharistic miracles, and why Mary doesn’t appear more often in Scripture.
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Questions Covered:
- 04:15 – I constantly hear that God knows everything that’s going to happen, but in the Old Testament He changed His mind. It sounds like a contradiction.
- 10:02 – How seriously should I take the ancient church fathers given that they are not sacred scripture?
- 13:50 – How do I get atheists/agnostics to recognize the bible as a legitimate source?
- 16:00 – On the assumption that God is all-powerful, merciful, etc. Then why would he make us if he knew we were going to go through all this suffering and anguish?
- 22:52 – Is heaven empty until Jesus returns? If not, then how can Catholics believe that we all go to sleep and enter heaven until the second coming?
- 30:59 – In the Our Father, what is the true meaning of” thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven?”
- 35:14 – How is it possible for Satan to stand in the presence of God in Job if evil can’t withstand the presence of God?
- 41:00 – Why doesn’t Mary appear more in the Bible for all the reverence we give her?
- 46:01 – Debating with a Christian who claims Eucharistic miracles are demonic; how do I respond to them?
- 51:46 – Why should I care if there is a God?
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| 0:32.3 | I am Cy Kellett, your host. |
| 0:34.2 | Dr. Carla Roussard is our guest. |
| 0:36.3 | He's the author of a whole bunch of books, |
| 0:42.6 | including Meeting the Protestant Challenge, Meeting the Protestant Response, Purgatory is for real, and his most recent book, The Saints Pray for You. You should get it. The Saints Pray |
| 0:47.6 | for You. It's about how saints in heaven, they really like us, and they're praying for us. |
| 0:54.1 | And there's good reason. |
| 0:55.0 | And the other thing that's about, I would say, it's about you have good reason to accept that |
| 1:01.3 | and believe that. There's very, very good reason for that. Is that fair to say, Carlo? |
| 1:05.5 | Absolutely. That's why I wrote the book, to try to provide those reasons and lead somebody to the |
| 1:09.8 | truth, to assent to the truth |
| 1:12.2 | that the saints in heaven do indeed pray for us. And that is good and fitting and appropriate for us |
| 1:18.2 | as Christians to invoke them, to ask them for their prayers. And that is also good and holy for us |
| 1:25.5 | to venerate them. That is to honor them, and even honor them in specific |
| 1:29.3 | ways, like honoring them with relics and honoring them with religious statuary and images, et cetera. |
| 1:37.4 | Yep, it's not just some kind of—I don't know why this is one where people always use the word pagan. |
| 1:42.6 | Oh, that's just Catholic pagan superstition. It doesn't have any—I mean, I don't—I don't know why this is one where people always use the word pagan. Oh, that's just Catholic pagan superstition. |
| 1:45.3 | It doesn't have any... |
| 1:47.0 | I mean, I don't get that part, but it's not. |
| 1:49.8 | It's very, very, very, very Christian. |
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