Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and the Problem of Certainty (Erick Ybarra)

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Erick Ybarra is a revert to the Catholic faith from Protestantism and has spent over a decade studying the doctrinal nature of the divisions that exist within Christendom, particularly between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, as well as Protestantism. He is a speaker that has appeared on various social media outlets, but is known most especially for his contribution as a co-host of Youtube's Reason and Theology and his own channel, Erick Ybarra. He resides in Central Florida with his wife, Victoria, and their 6 children.

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0:00.0	How far in the Bible do you have to go in history to find the book of Job?
0:04.3	It's like if you're trying to sell this epistemically satisfying version of Christianity on a shelf,
0:13.8	you're not going to put the book of Job at the beginning of world history.
0:19.1	I mean, so part of Christianity is that it has this just plain and utter difficulty.
0:27.7	And the book of Job, he's asking, why? Where's the cause of all this? You realize, yeah, he must
0:35.1	have been feeling what I'm feeling intellectually and physically and
0:38.8	and yet god comes and and doesn't say oh this is how i've mechanically worked it out so that
0:45.7	there's suffering no he just says who am i eric eric hey down i'm doing well how are you i'm Eric.
0:55.7	I'm doing well.
0:57.4	How are you?
0:58.0	I'm very well.
1:00.1	Yeah.
1:01.1	Good to have you.
1:02.5	Am I too high for him?
1:05.7	Josiah?
1:06.9	It's up to you.
1:13.8	There we go.
1:15.5	Is that better?
1:16.5	Yeah.
1:17.1	Now we're level.
1:18.3	This is so nice to have you.
1:20.5	You know, it's funny, we've been recording these in batches all week.
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