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Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Definition of purgatory: a place or state after death where souls are cleansed and pay for sin before entering heaven

Basic doctrinal overview of what the Catholic Church teaches about purgatory

purgatory temporal punishment purification
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

If the Catholic Church truly has Magisterial authority, the Bible is potentially dangerous since it sometimes competes with Catholic teaching

Following the logic of Magisterial authority to its conclusion

sola scriptura Magisterium church authority
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Mike's 'Refuting Catholicism' playlist on YouTube — recommended for the central issue of Church authority

Resource recommendation and self-reference

Catholic apologetics church authority papal authority
Mike Winger idea 2018-10-24

Q&A: Advice to someone leaving the Catholic Church — seek a Bible-teaching, verse-by-verse church

Viewer named Alana asks where to go after leaving Catholicism

Calvary Chapel Catholicism Church selection
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-19

Q&A: When did inclusivism/relativism become prevalent in the Catholic Church? Vatican II was deliberately vague

Answering viewer question from Michael Cato

Council of Trent Vatican II inclusivism
Mike Winger idea 2019-02-07

1 Corinthians 7: Singleness is better than marriage for kingdom service

Q&A on Christian celibacy and the Catholic Church sex scandal involving nuns.

1 Corinthians 7 calling 1 Corinthians 7 marriage
Mike Winger idea 2019-02-07

Catholic Church mandatory celibacy for priests and nuns is unbiblical

Mike addresses the Catholic sex abuse scandal as it relates to mandatory celibacy.

Catholic Church mandatory celibacy priestly celibacy
Mike Winger idea 2020-08-28

Catholic claim that marriage outside the Church is invalid is wrong — it is not sacramental but is still a real marriage; the Catholic doctrine of 7 sacraments is historically late

Question from Lindsey whose husband's Catholic family claims they are not really married because they were not married by the Catholic Church.

Roman Catholicism church history marriage
Mike Winger idea 2018-09-26

Catholic Church has the right Jesus but a distorted gospel — Mike recommends his Catholicism series

A viewer asks for discernment on the Catholic Church and how to know Jesus through it.

salvation gospel Catholicism
Mike Winger idea 2020-11-20

Early church creeds: authoritative insofar as they reflect Scripture, not equal to Scripture; beware anachronism

Question about the Athanasian Creed and whether it is biblical, specifically the implication that one must believe in the Trinity to be saved.

anachronism church history sola scriptura
Mike Winger idea 2021-01-29

Evangelism strategy for someone hurt by Christian abuse: separate Jesus from his misrepresenters

Question from Kenneth Kelly about reaching a Native American friend whose aunt was beaten to death by a Catholic nun.

Revelation 2-3 evangelism Revelation 2-3 Crusades
Mike Winger idea 2018-10-31

Mike shares a trivia fact about Reformation Day (October 31), explaining that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a church door as a culturally normal form of public announcement, not as an act of defacement.

Unprompted trivia shared by Mike about the Reformation anniversary

Martin Luther Catholic Church Reformation
Mike Winger idea 2021-02-19

Warning against making theological decisions based on aesthetics — beauty of Catholic churches and liturgy is irrelevant to truth

People in doctrinal confusion sometimes drift toward Catholic practice for aesthetic or experiential reasons rather than theological ones.

Matthew 23 apologetics Catholicism Pharisees
Mike Winger idea 2021-03-26

Jerome's Latin Vulgate mistranslated "mystery" (mysterion) as "sacrament" in Ephesians 5:32, contributing to the Roman Catholic doctrine of marriage as a sacrament.

Mark H asks about doctrinal changes Jerome introduced in the Vulgate around 400 AD.

Ephesians 5:32 Reformation Jerome Latin Vulgate
Mike Winger idea 2021-03-19

John 21:24-25 does not support Orthodox/Catholic oral tradition

Listener Adam Duarte's Orthodox friends cite John 21:24-25 as the Bible creating authoritative oral tradition.

John 21:24-25 Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy Sola Scriptura
Mike Winger idea 2023-05-26

The Origin of Sunday Worship: When is the earliest, in church history, that we see Christians worshiping on Sunday instead of the Sabbath? Did it begin with the Catholic Church, or was it before?

Q&A question: The Origin of Sunday Worship

Roman Catholicism worship
Mike Winger idea 2025-07-04

Historical Data: Biblical Christianity: Is there any historical data on biblical Christianity outside the Catholic Church before the Reformation?

Q&A question: Historical Data: Biblical Christianity

Roman Catholicism