Dr. John Bergsma

The biblical principles of the kind of Protestantism that I was raised in led me inevitably into the Catholic Church.

So you can make a strong case for the Catholic faith based on the principles of a high view of Scripture and a docility to the Word of God that you find among evangelical Protestants.

So my evangelical convictions, you know, kind of eventually drove me into the Catholic Church to find fulfillment of them there.

What was it like the...

What was that experience of terror like?

Yeah, so I had a Catholic friend, Michael, Michael Dauphiney,

at the University of Notre Dame, who was a couple years ahead of me in the theology department.

And we were getting together to talk about, you know, Catholic versus Protestant theology.

And he was making a lot of headway.

because when I would object to the Catholic faith, he responded a way that I initially felt was extremely unfair.

Yeah?

He quoted scripture.

Okay, yeah.

And I was like, you can't do that.

Oh, cool.

You can't quote scripture to defend the Catholic faith.

Like, who does that?

That's against the rules, you know?

I'm the Protestant, you're the Catholic, I quote scripture, you gotta quote the books.

Yeah, you know?