#233 Christ’s Virgin Birth Isn’t a Pagan Invention
Joe debunks common belief that Jesus’s virgin birth was borrowed from pagan sources across the ancient world. Check out the article on the topic by Jon Sorensen here: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/cleaning-up-the-horus-manure
Transcript:
Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and as Christians prepare to celebrate the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, many non-Christians are preparing to tell their Christian friends and neighbors that actually the virgin birth is a pagan story that Christianity stole.
CLIP:
Does it ever bother you that the story of...
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#232 C.S. Lewis’s Argument for the Papacy (sort of)
Joe examines C.S. Lewis’s argument for male-headship, and how that applies to Christianity and the Papacy.
Transcript:
Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to share a fascinating argument that CS Lewis made one that I agree with and one that I think points to the truth about the Catholic church and particularly about the papacy in ways that even he didn’t recognize at the time. Now many of Lewis as the author of works like the Chronicles of Narnia and his space trilogy, in which he presents Christian themes through the lens of fiction. But he...
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#231 Being “Left Behind” In The Rapture Is Good Actually…(I’m Serious)
Joe explains how common misconceptions about final judgement and the end times make people misinterpret what it means to be “left behind.”
Transcript:
Joe:
Welcome, back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and today I want to talk about the end of the world and specifically the idea of the rapture. Now, if you’re part of a church or denomination that celebrates Advent, you may know that this time of year we look forward to the coming. That’s what Adventist means, the coming of Christ, both at Christmas but also at the end of the world.
But many people, partic...
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#230 Tim Gordon’s Strawman Crusade for “Masculinity”
Joe answers Tim Gordon responding to his last video on male-headship.
Transcript:
Joe:
Welcome To Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to especially welcome Tim Gordon fans. So if you’re looking for the episode that Tim Gordon and Joe Enders recently critiqued on their live stream yesterday, I’m going to link to it at the end and in the description, but I have to warn you, if you watch it, you might realize it doesn’t say anything like what they falsely claim it said and that those guys are just using clickbait to draw attention to themselves. Now, you might ...
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#229 What Is Biblical Male-Headship (and what it’s not…)
Joe breaks down Ephesians 5 and some common errors people interpret from the text. He explains what authentic Catholic male-headship looks like.
Transcript:
Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and for many people one of the hardest biblical teachings to know what to do with is this idea of male headship. When the Bible talks with the husband as the head of his wife, what does an authentic biblical headship look like? How should we not understand these passages and how can a proper understanding of headship actually improve your marriage? I think the best place to s...
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